Grazed from HealthTech Zone.  Author: Stephanie Mosca.

The cloud has come to medical school. Cloud computing, of course, where organizations can store and manage data over the Internet. 

It’s coming now to the University of Southern California (USC)’s Keck School of Medicine through a partnership with iChartsMD, which will provide its cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) software for the school and its medical students, according to a story by Steve Campbell.

USC will have the ability to integrate a Drummond ONC- ATCB certified solution into its curriculum as well as the software tools the medical students will need to incorporate into their medial futures. The Drummond solution helps organizations develop and use electronic health records and then demonstrate “meaningful use” to qualify for federal financial incentives…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Matt Wallace.

IT managers at enterprises of all sizes are exploring cloud computing and virtualization as a way to address conflicting demands within their organizations. These mounting pressures include a lack of internal resources, mandates from the CFO to lower costs, and the struggle to complete key initiatives while also performing mundane server maintenance and application storage tasks. These same IT professionals are also being asked to build and implement battle-tested disaster recovery and business continuity plans that not only reduce data loss and downtime, but present a recovery time objective that prevents the organization from further interruption in the wake of an outage.

You may have read some controversial articles in the early days of cloud computing stating that there is no such thing as ROI for cloud computing. These early cloud pundits believed that buying into cloud services is not an investment, but an avoidance in an investment – therefore, ROI cannot be measured…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Linda Musthaler.

In the Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study published by Network Instruments in March 2012, 74% of the survey respondents indicate that their top concern about cloud computing is "security for corporate data." This survey is consistent with many others that always seem to identify data security concerns as a leading inhibitor to the adoption of cloud computing.

Actually, I think "security" is a catch-all phrase that also encompasses concerns about data residency (i.e., where is the data?) and data privacy (i.e., who can see our personally identifiable information, or PII?). Many organizations are fearful of or prohibited from placing data in the cloud due to restrictions on access to data or compliance with government or industry regulations…

Grazed from Bloomberg BNA.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The states are reacting to the growing use of new technologies such as cloud computing by adopting disparate nexus tax policies, Bloomberg BNA’s 12th annual Survey of State Tax Departments shows.

The survey this year focuses on how the states are taxing the new technologies and transactions that have emerged as the U.S. economy continues to shift from bricks and mortar of Main Street to the web-based world, which mostly operates independent of state or local borders. Most of the questions in the annual survey aim to clarify each state’s positions on the gray areas of corporate income and sales and use tax administration. Every state, except Alaska, participated in the survey…

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