It is no surprise to anyone how much healthcare costs these days. Well, maybe it is still a surprise, but not in a pleasant one. The US spends far more per capita on healthcare than any other developed country -- $7,538 per person, compared to $3,129 in the UK, $4,079 in Canada, and $5,003 in Norway (the second-biggest spender), according to 2008 totals compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
RiseSmart has been named "Innovative Company of the Year" at the 3rd Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards. This provider of next generation outplacement services was honored as the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, along with eight other winners, including such names as Apple and Twitter.
SAIC-Frederick Inc. and RemedyMD are merging efforts to implement RemedyMD’s Investigate Integrated Research Management System software at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advanced Technology Program. NCI researchers will be abel to manage and analyze large amounts of research data for a very worthy cause.
Kyield and its founder/CEO Mark Montgomery has received an artificial intelligence patent titled “Modular System for Optimizing Knowledge Yield In the Digital Workplace” from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
A new and more accurate measure of the reading difficulty of texts has been created. The Pearson Reading Maturity Metric was developed by scientists at Pearson’s Knowledge Technologies group and measures how close individual students' reading abilities are to what they will need to succeed in college and careers.
New features for SAS Social Media Analytics have been released, which include social scorecards. This new competitive intelligence functionality provides social community managers the ability to view activity over time and ascertain the effectiveness of online and social programs.
Just like art and beauty being in the eye of the beholder, the usability of SharePoint in your enterprise system seems to have different opinions. One writer/user/analyst shares their experiences/perceptions with SharePoint in the real-world applications.
HealthMash has released an upgrade to their search feature for the iPhone and Android based upon customers’ feedback. Part of the upgrades includes better visual appearance and some tweaking of the spelling correction feature.