The United States Government Accountability Office has released a 320 page report (PDF) admitting that "DHS has made limited progress in the areas of emergency preparedness and response."
The rise of composite applications - also known as custom applications, portals or complex applications = arrives together with enterprises’ adoption of SOAs and their embrace of the Web as the prime channel for customer communication.
The European Commission has released a new set of quality criteria for public and private websites providing health information to EU citizens, reports IAN CUDDY
The people coming into hospital management today have grown up with computers and are comfortable with the new technologies and their role in delivering quality healthcare; the result is a burgeoning market for IT in hospital healthcare, 5 November 2001