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Qualms Arise Over Outsourcing Of Electronic Medical Records

Amol Sharma, Ben Worthen November 8, 2010
Digitizing health records improves care, reduces errors and saves money in redundant testing or treatment. In an effort to reduce costs, the US health care reform law includes incentives, with billions in government funding, for providers and hospitals to rely on electronic medical records. Only 20 percent of US hospitals now rely on electronic records. Analysts anticipate that hospitals will not...

The Third Revolution

Nayan Chanda November 1, 2010
US citizens are angry about high unemployment rates, and candidates for political office rail about outsourcing to China or India. But blaming Asia is shortsighted, explains Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal editor in his column for Businessworld, and can't ease consumers' desire for inexpensive products. A third industrial revolution is underway, as digital technology allows companies to easily...

China Set to Claim Supercomputing Crown

Joseph Milton October 28, 2010
For solving the world's biggest problems in defense, energy, finance or physics, China could have a new edge. The nation is poised to take the world's top spot in supercomputers, bypassing the United States. The Tianhe-A1 computer – developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology – is 2.5 petaflops, significantly faster than the fastest US computer with 2.3 petaflops...

Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

Wayne Arnold October 15, 2010
Rather than invest in expensive equipment for a specific event, businesses and governments can lease computer services for a limited time. Singapore has emerged as a regional center for such operations, and the Youth Olympic Games – managing more than 20,000 participants and 350,000 spectators – served as “a showcase for cloud computing in Asia: software, data storage, networking and even...

Google, Skype Targeted in India Security Crackdown

Erika Kinetz September 3, 2010
India is asking all companies that provide encrypted communications to place servers inside its borders so security officials can monitor user data. Increasingly, countries make demands on foreign firms producing goods and services desired by their citizens. “India seems to be gaining confidence in its own attractiveness as a market, taking a tougher stance with international companies, not just...

Silicon Valley Expats Spur Innovation in India

Sean Randolph September 2, 2010
As the US tech industry saw rapid growth during the 1990s, immigrating students and workers from Asia heeded innovation’s call. Engineers and programmers from India settled in Silicon Valley and enjoyed immediate success. About one out of six tech startups was launched by immigrants from India. Now some of these tech workers return to India, explains author and trade specialist Sean Randolph....

Is Europe Building Big Brother?

Jason Walsh August 30, 2010
As technology increases in speed and variety, governments seek easy access to citizens' electronic data for security purposes. The United Arab Emirates is banning BlackBerry encryption capability and the US proposes greater access to citizen browser histories and e-mail addresses without judicial oversight. One EU proposal would require Google to retain information on millions of users. Yet...