In conversation: Transitioning to more meaningful outsourcing metrics
Henry Fellow and business analyst Katie Gove set up Trellis five years ago to address [...]
Beyond content: the increasing role of “idea magnets”
One change which we’re all seeing to some extent is perhaps an increasing recognition that [...]
Cities need to prepare for more demanding customers
A recent report published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, makes some familiar [...]
In conversation: Research and analysis become open and social
Henry Fellow, Rainmakers contributor and distinguished analyst Martin Hingley set up ITCandor three years ago [...]
How does your dashboard glow?
The use of dashboards is a topic which we visit and revisit from time to [...]
The Competence Cycle of Learning
Have you ever stopped to think about how you learn a new skill? Probably not. [...]
Lessons from FlexITy
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already having an impact on healthcare, and is likely [...]
Online Open Government
Does ‘online open government’ sound like a tautology or, worse, a myth? As private citizens, [...]
In conversation: A new kind of content marketing
As the global economy continues to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, it is clear [...]
Can wearable technologies change healthcare?
Wearable technologies are suddenly on everyone’s minds. And if you’re thinking Gore-Tex®, or perhaps LYCRA®, [...]
Event review – TEDCity2.0
TEDCity2.0 was a day-long event which took place on 20th September 2013. It brought together [...]
Report review: Showrooming less of a threat than browsing at home
Retailers are increasingly concerned about shoppers who are ‘just looking’. The electronics chain Best Buy, [...]
Research review: McKinsey on digital strategies
It’s always good to have data to back up thinking about trends or challenges. So [...]
Smart Cities: a progress report building on Bilbao
In November 2005, a World Summit of Local Authorities on the Information Society was held [...]
How the Internet of Things is helping healthcare
We’ve written on PublicTechViews.com about how the Internet of Things(IoT) can improve sustainability, but surely [...]
Kanban for thought leadership
You may have heard of kanban. It’s a Japanese word meaning ‘signal card’, made famous [...]
The Inevitable tension between organic and planned growth
Most CIOs will relate to the tension between user demand-driven technology deployment, and top-down implementation [...]
Disrupting the health ecosystem: how pharmacists can take pressure off GPs
It’s an increasingly urgent problem in many countries: the number of junior doctors going into [...]
Machine to machine (M2M) connectivity – thought leaders yet to emerge
As an integral part of the Internet of Things, we believe machine to machine (M2M) [...]
Will the Internet of Things(IoT) drive greater sustainability?
We believe that one of the most interesting ideas emerging from discussions about sustainable cities [...]
How one hospital turned its website into a consumer magnet
Many hospitals are sceptical about whether digital marketing can really work for them. Yes, they [...]
Changing the mechanics of government
We’ve been writing recently about how both central and local government is starting to use [...]
Accelrys, BT and IBM show progress on hospital data management
We’ve written before about why hospitals need to get better at using data. In this [...]
Why e-health in an aging world is no longer an optional nice-to-have
Most people will probably be aware of phrases like the ‘demographic timebomb’, and ‘aging population’. [...]
App spotlight: Abriiz
Abriiz is an innovative mobile chronic health management platform developed by Ideomed, Inc. It connects [...]
Seoul leads again
Seoul recently topped our ranking of tech-enabled cities, and we’re not the first to give [...]
Event review: eHealth week
This week saw the the seventh World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition in Dublin [...]
How technology is enabling more cost-effective city administration
We hear a lot about how technology can help individuals and businesses to manage better, [...]
Research review: How our shopping habits are changing the retail landscape
No one would argue that the retail landscape is not changing. Retailing is now ‘well-and-truly’ [...]
Project review: ranking intelligent communities
Intelligent communities? An odd term perhaps, but one which is becoming increasingly relevant, particularly in [...]
The future is cities
The future lies in cities. There are very few people who would argue with that, [...]
Why should hospitals get better at using data?
Around the world, hospitals and healthcare systems face increasing financial pressure. In the UK, the [...]
20 Of The Best Cities In The World For Telecommuting
Why do telecommuting professionals choose to live in some of the most expensive cities in [...]
Seoul tops our ranking of tech-enabled cities
Over the past six months, we have been gathering data on how cities and towns [...]
The Web Index and the challenge of censorship
It’s by no means an easy task, which is perhaps why it has taken until [...]
Open source software maturity in public services
One of our key research objectives is to open a dialogue with government and business [...]
Should Healthcare Organisations Embrace Social Media?
Social media has taken the world by storm. Facebook, one of the most widely known [...]
Managing employees in a changing world
The changes to resourcing over the last few years have led to some interesting challenges [...]
The Current Healthcare Ecosystem is Broken
Although our main focus is to review IT in healthcare, it is also important to [...]
Open source is ready for prime time. Are government IT policies?
As we discuss open source policy with a number of government officials, a remarkable pattern [...]
European Government is Failing to Effectively Utilise OSS
A report published in October 2011 by the London School of Economics for the UK [...]
The Four Commandments of Cities
Eduardo Paes, the mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, believes that mayors really [...]
Cluetrain Manifesto: the importance of being human
Here’s a question for a quiet ten minutes in the office, or when you feel [...]
App Spotlight: SwiftPayMD
We estimate that globally physicians and/or their practices lose $10 Bn in charges due to [...]
Law enforcement must keep up with social media tactics
Throughout 2012 police forces around the world have started embracing social media to mostly positive [...]
Research review: Will asset intelligence drive the next crushing wave of information overload?
In a reflective report, Deloitte Consulting focuses corporate attention on the subject of ‘asset intelligence’. [...]
Improving patient experience in the doctor’s office
Social media is transforming the way patients and care providers engage, monitor and review progress. [...]
Connected City Index
Most discussions about IT in government have revolved around the big issues, usually impacting federal [...]
Does WordPress for cities re-align the benchmark?
Last November, WordPress launched WordPress.com/cities as the one-stop solution to start a site for cities [...]
App Spotlight: MedSpeak
Positioned as “critical companion for practicing physicians, medical trainees, nurses and paramedics” QxMD Software’s MedSpeak [...]
App Spotlight: Isabel Healthcare
Isabel Healthcare‘s 10-year-old diagnosis decision-support system, now available as an iPhone, iPad, and iPod app, [...]
A Tweet a Day Keeps the Doctors Away
Courtesy of: Allied Health World [...]
Award spotlight: Excellence in eGovernment
Australia’s Excellence in eGovernment Awards recognise the most outstanding initiatives in eGovernment across five ICT [...]
What’s next for e-government?
We are looking for 100 government practitioners to join our panel to provide feedback on [...]
App Spotlight: Mayo Clinic Patient App
The Mayo Clinic Patient App provides patients with a range of tools to help them [...]
Putting patients in the driving seat: the policy perspective
On December 7th, the European Commission unveiled its most recent action plan to address barriers [...]
Why public sector line managers need to understand APIs
Conversations with public sector line managers over the past few weeks have highlighted the huge [...]
Event preview: Clinical Outsourcing World
Over the years of training has gathered momentum as drug developers see to shorten the [...]
Will Salesforce.com’s presence on G-Cloud alter buying dynamics?
Six weeks ago, Salesforce.com joined the UK government’s G-Cloud. This initiative allows government agencies to [...]
What do public agencies expect from cloud computing?
Cloud technology constitutes a change in computing and knowledge management, with hosted IT services delivered [...]
Spotlight on Code for America
We are big fans of TEDTalks. If you have not visited the site, it works [...]
Award spotlight: 2012 City 2.0 from TED
While it is normal for tech awards to focus on the achievements of IT teams, [...]
App spotlight: iBGStar
Sanofi’s iBGStar is positioned as the first blood glucose monitor to sync with the iPhone [...]
Healthcare Analytics
While Big Data has been capturing headlines during 2012, the more enduring value will be [...]
App spotlight: drawMD
drawMD is the flagship product of Visible Health of Austin, TX. Conceived and launched by [...]
2012 Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook
The backbone of our research and analysis is the Digital City Index. As part of [...]
A new symbiosis: humans and machines in cooperation
Almost twenty years ago, Garry Kasparov was beaten at chess by a computer. People started [...]
Award spotlight: KLISS
Kansas Legislative Information System and Services was the recipient of the 2012 NASCIO Award for [...]
Case review: Transforming IT at Bundesagentur für Arbeit
Transitioning from legacy systems to an infrastructure that can support the way work needs to [...]
About
Digital Health emerged from work back in 2007, on IT governance. We were working with [...]
WEF Global Competiveness Report
As we start constructing our ranking of public sector productivity gains, existing analyses of the [...]
“We’re not going to fix government until we fix citizenship”
Watching saved TED talks is now among the most productive things on can do when [...]
Clay Shirky on Transparency in government
Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not [...]
CohesiveFT Cloud containers for Software Defined Networking
CohesiveFT is firmly allied with movements towards Software Defined Networks (SDN), which have been much [...]
Widening array of mobility providers woo health care providers
Mobility is one of the hottest trends in the healthcare sector, and for that reason [...]
Trends driving our research agenda
Faced with budget constraints, governments at all levels are taking a hard look at how [...]
Why local health providers should pay attention to globalization
Globalisation or the growth of a market through worldwide relations is currently leading to [...]
X-IO creates hybrid solid state and hard drives for high performance storage
X-IO's range of storage systems is based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE), which ditches [...]
Hadoop on massive clusters drive social business
Apache Hadoop itself is a ‘software library is a framework that allows for the distributed [...]
Aggregators expand addressable market
Since we introduced the notion of aggregators as the fastest growing customer segment for technology [...]
Druva adds sharing and collaboration to enterprise BYOD management
Druva has launched its software – a peer-to-peer application allowing users to share files. While [...]
The provision of the cloud immaturity on both sides
Outages at cloud providers appear regularly in the news and the reporting frequently unveils a [...]
HP stretches across the information management spectrum
Information optimisation is one of three streams that represent HP’s go-to-market leads, the others are [...]
Red Hat Gluster scale-out storage without directory nodes
Red Hat has announced Storage 2.0 - the first commercial offering based on its acquisition [...]
Services in the ‘new economics’ paradigm
Since March, we have been exploring the new economics driving storage investment decisions, and specifically [...]
HP and storage hypervisors
HP has a heritage of meeting storage demands on various platforms and with a choice [...]
Nicira and Citrix promote Open vSwitch for Open network virtualisation
As in other areas of virtualisation VMware got there first and many suppliers, aggregators and [...]
The attraction of tape
IT decision makers are being enticed by new exciting innovations in virtualised storage such as [...]
Dell strengthens infrastructure management portfolio with Quest acquisition
This week, Dell announced definitive agreement to acquire Quest, an IT and systems management software [...]
Red Hat goes after the Enterprise with Cloud and virtualisation
Red Hat has succeeded in becoming a $1 billion software company, with an Open Source [...]
NetApp at twenty
NetApp ran its annual industry analyst event last week at its HQ, and in this [...]
Second look: TIBCO has a few surprises up its sleeve
Under the umbrella of its event enabled enterprise portfolio branding, TIBCO is charging ahead with [...]
Dell Kace system appliances address cultural and business virtualisation needs
Kace takes a mid-market design point for its systems management appliances and has grown significantly [...]
Scality Object Storage catering for the aggregators
Scality is 4 year old company delivering new ways of serving up storage via object [...]
T-Systems joins vCloud aggregator line-up
Last week, T-Systems and VMware announced their strategic partnership at the VMware vForum 2012 in [...]
Equinix is worth watching for several reasons
Case study interviews for our storage hypervisor study are in full swing now, and we [...]
Which server virtualisation platform is best for storage hypervisor attachment?
Virtualisation changes everything and the road to the 4-pool vision of utility computing has to [...]
Debriefing Software delivering storage management as SaaS
A good start for a business idea is to spot a good niche. One such [...]
Why Object Storage unites vendors
The term object storage is increasingly entering the debate about how data is and should [...]
Vyatta Pioneers Software-Based Networking But Is This Hypervising?
Networking is the last of the 4 broad data centre equipment types to be virtualised [...]