Too often, prescribing errors occur due to programming errors or poor design and have less to do with the health workers using the system.
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Affected businesses will naturally now be asking who is legally responsible, and whether there’ll be any compensation. These are important questions, but legally, the answers will be complex.
Many big companies hate thinking about and preparing for so-called ‘black swan’ events –major catastrophies that are hard to predict. That isn’t a wise approach.
We don’t yet know the full cost and scale of the damage, or how long it will take supply chains to fully recover.
A new study finds that women improve cyber risk management by bringing new perspectives and skills to the decision-making process of company boards.
Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
An inexperienced senior executive may defer to inappropriate sources for advice, treating technical disagreements as personality conflicts or interference.
Accessing the right information in a timely manner is essential, but difficult for newly arrived refugees. Information varies, plus there are language barriers and geographical complications.
From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.
Canadian firms say there’s a dire shortage of skilled workers. But recent studies suggest they’re not investing in training, apparently expecting universities to train their employees for them.
Clowns were even scarier when you were young.
Large numbers of veterans hold misconceptions about IT work that discourage them from pursuing careers in the field.
When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
When a system is as complex as that of Medicare’s, it is going to be extremely expensive to rebuild and it is not possible to simply “retrofit” an off-the-shelf product from another company.
How we see the purpose of communication limits our approach to designing technology that makes it possible.
Many professionals risk the wrath of their governing body if they act against any code of ethics. But not so the IT industry. Is it time for that to change?
Computer coding should be thought of as teaching children another language. If they get the basics right at an early age, who knows where their new-found language skills can take them.
Malcolm Turnbull has drawn on his experience in the IT industry to create a new vision of ‘agile’ government.
The way IT is taught in schools means girls are less likely to continue on to further study. When you take the boys out of class and direct teaching to the girls, interest in IT increases.
A KPMG report warned last year that the next systemic shock to UK banking could come from an as yet unforeseen event, such as a massive payment outage or a cyber attack. Since the IT systems in most banks…
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