Matt Kelly

As director of critical care services at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., Dr. Steve Matchett knows that he faces a chronic manpower shortage and must marshal his resources wisely to maintain quality health care. He just marshals them virtually. Since 2004, Lehigh has operated the Advanced ICU. Patients are monitored by machine, with software […]

Cingular Wireless is based nowhere near Las Vegas or Atlantic City, N.J. Still, Thaddeus Arroyo, Cingulars CIO, spends a fair amount of his time every day making bets. Some of his gambles are no-brainers. Its a sure thing that hackers will attack Cingulars network, so Arroyo spends money on firewalls. Odds are that a server […]

Ask Don Linn to describe the state of IT at Consortium Book & Sales Distribution Inc. when he acquired the company in 2001 and he gives a tart three-word answer. It was, he said, “a whole morass.” Thats apparently quite an understatement. As the nations largest distributor of independent book publishers, Consortium, of St. Paul, […]

Whats an application service provider to do when its staff is overworked, its network strained and its ability to deliver promised services endangered? Call an ASP, of course. Susan Hartsock found herself in that predicament earlier this year. As IT manager of Mountain West Financial Inc., her job is to ensure that the Redlands, Calif., […]

Finance and IT executives at government agencies across the country are about to get their own dose of some very unpleasant private-sector medicine: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. With the start of fiscal 2006 this month, the federal government has adopted drastic new standards for internal controls on finance and operations, much like SarbOx and its requirement […]

Ask Don Linn to describe the state of IT at Consortium Book & Sales Distribution Inc. when he acquired the company in 2001 and he gives a tart three-word answer. It was, he said, “a whole morass.” Thats apparently quite an understatement. As the nations largest distributor of independent book publishers, Consortium, of St. Paul, […]