Nathan Eddy

By the end of 2019, two-thirds of U.S. health systems will offer self-scheduling tools for patients to book, change or cancel their appointments online, according to a report from Accenture.In addition, roughly two-in-three patients (64 percent) are expected to book medical appointments online by the end of 2019, generating $3.2 billion in added value or […]

Online marketing specialist ReachLocal announced that it has added a third-party campaign result measurement and multi-location alert and reporting capabilities to its total digital marketing system.The features build on the solution’s already lead measurement and alert support that give local businesses transparency into return on investment (ROI) from all their online marketing sources, including organic […]

Application protection solutions specialist Arxan Technologies announced it has enhanced Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) capabilities as part of its application protection technology to further protect the integrity and confidentiality of mobile, embedded, desktop and server applications.Building on other runtime application self-protection capabilities, Arxan now offers additional protections, which provide runtime tamper detection capabilities for […]

10 Offbeat Gadgets to Give This Holiday Season by Nathan Eddy Tooks Makes Hats You Can Hear ($20) Tired of shoving your headphones under your winter hat or awkwardly wrapping them around your noggin protector? Tooks solves the problem by integrating headphones right into its line of beanies, headbands and sportbands, so you can go […]

IT industry association CompTIA announced the latest addition to its CompTIA CertMaster portfolio, a learning course for CompTIA IT Fundamentals, the association’s newest certification. The course covers a range of IT topics and provides a grounding in the basics of computing technology. The certification is relevant for organizations that want to promote and verify basic […]

IT organizations need to change as trends such as consumerization and the emergence of new strategies on improving the customer experience will play a major role in IT’s evolution in the coming years, according to a SysAid Technologies survey.Only 3.6 percent of respondents said they think there will no longer be corporate IT departments, and […]

Bank applications have room for improvement, as across all institutions the average rating was 3.8 out of 5.0, with traditional banks averaging 3.7, online direct banks best at 4.0, and credit unions at 3.9, according to a survey by MagnifyMoney. From an operating system (OS) standpoint, the report indicated Google Android users are more satisfied. […]

Health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.6 percent in 2013 to $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person, an increase slower than the 4.1 percent growth in 2012, according to analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).The slow growth rate continued […]

More than two-thirds of senior executives surveyed (67 percent) say data analytics are important to their companies, a number that includes 69 percent of senior executives and business decision-makers in the United States and 65 percent in Europe, a study by BSA The Software Alliance found.The survey found 61 percent of senior executives in the […]

American consumers are becoming increasingly obsessed with their devices – nearly 90 percent check their phone in the first hour of being awake and 23 percent look at their device up to 50 times a day, according to a Deloitte survey on mobile consumer trends. As a corollary to their device addiction, consumers also are […]

IT performance management software specialist SolarWinds introduced integration between the company’s Web Help Desk and DameWare Remote Support in an effort to provide more direct IT incident support and reduce overall end-user performance disruption. The integration allows IT professionals to remotely access and control end users’ Windows, Linux and Mac OS devices and address their […]

Cloud-based recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) specialist Axcient announced the latest version of Business Recovery Cloud, providing faster system replication and recovery for physical and virtual environments, and accelerated file and folder recovery with the addition of drag-and-drop support.The company’s latest release is currently in beta and will be rolled out for new and existing customers at no […]