Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:37 pm

Computer based e-Rx reduces prescribing errors

Canberra (ip-192.com): Medication prescribing errors can be reduced by as much as 66 percent with the introduction of electronic prescribing technology in hospitals, new a study from Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) shows. Electronic prescribing or e-prescribing (e-Rx) refers to computer-based transmission and filling of a prescription instead of written or faxed prescriptions. [...]

Security threat management: Mitigate malicious network traffic

Framingham (ip-192.com): A continually evolving breed of unknown, persistent, targeted, and adaptive security threats is driving the expansion of the security services threat intelligence market. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), this emerging predictive security market is forecast to grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014 as organizations [...]

Cloud computing: SaaS used to augment business intelligence

Stamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17 percent of organizations have replaced or plan to [...]

U.K. offers highly developed cross-channel shopping experience

Stamford (ip-192.com): Customers expect their cross-channel shopping experience to be seamless, contiguous and consistent, but retailers are struggling to make multichannel retailing “business as usual,” information technology research and advisory firm Gartner says. “The success of the e-commerce channel will be enhanced by a multichannel approach, where retailers leverage the store to make the e-commerce [...]