Dawn Marie Yankeelov is attending the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in NYC this week. Here is her first report. From the packed show floor of the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in NYC earlier this week (24,000+), retail IT is bursting with exciting challenges from global payments to the right middleware for trusted exchanges. Read more about Retail IT: Scan and swipe not enough[…]

As the commercial real estate market moves slowly toward recovery in some cities, so does the interest in software-as-a-service that allows for fast tracking of its management, sale, and financial overseeing.  Not surprising, the marketplace has a broad spectrum of products, headed for consolidation, that try to fill this gap for property managers, brokers, real Read more about No more pencils or books: Real estate transaction management software[…]

The wave of healthcare reform has fed the need for healthcare IT services, but in ways that extend far beyond the electronic medical record.  It stands to reason if you can comparison shop for toys this season, why can’t you comparison shop for healthcare procedures and physician services?  In fact, the rollouts of these types Read more about New transparency IT tools help with health[…]

Takeaway: Half of all online media marketing campaigns fail. Mostly this is because marketing and IT teams are often perplexed by relevance to their company’s big picture. More than three-fourths of all companies operate under some form of a social media strategy, according to Hubspot, and Junta 42 surveys, so we would expect to see Read more about Why 50 percent of online social media marketing campaigns fail[…]

Takeaway: With applications for top-level domains expected to soar with ICANN’s application process starting this week, you wonder if this is the Wild West of the Internet or just another route to board the congested subway system for the next stop dropoff? The ICANN application opens in less than 90 days, and new generic Top Read more about Is the ICANN delegation process offering stability or just more questions?[…]

Takeaway: The ICANN San Francisco meeting approaches next week with the promise of new gTLDs (generic top level domains) by the end of the year. The ICANN San Francisco meeting (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approaches next week with the promise of new gTLDs (generic top level domains) by the end of the Read more about New gTLDs expected by year end, including .shop[…]

First there was the buzz last year about the funding of health information exchanges state-by-state, and in recent weeks we have heard about even more funding for health insurance exchanges. Both require tremendous IT efforts in interoperability, meaningful use distinctions and execution, data analysis, privacy, and security. Both will then be integrated. It is repeated as gospel Read more about Health information exchanges and health insurance exchanges make for complexity and excitement[…]

Takeaway: Healthcare IT managers and administrators have a lot of questions and concerns about how to integrate with revenue cycle management. In this blog, we go over those questions. CTO Chris Schremser of Zirmed has spent 11 years listening to the questions and concerns of healthcare IT managers and administrators wondering how to integrate with Read more about Revenue cycle management: The myths and musings[…]