“With health IT, there’s a lot more that’s promised than becomes reality,” says Phillip L. Polakoff, MD, the senior managing director and chief medical executive of FTI Consulting, a global consulting ...

Technology is advancing at a quicker rate than at any other time in history. Since the Industrial Revolution, innovation has sparked a rapid pattern of inventions and updates, leaving the rest of the ...

The cloud and big data hold tremendous promise for healthcare providers, life sciences companies and patients. From precision medicine to patient-centered care – there is the potential for better care ...

Bryan Knight talks about how he has found success juggling a full-time job at a life-science startup and his work in the MSIT program. Bryan Knight (MSIT ‘24) started a new job in April 2022 at ...

As technology applications in healthcare continue to grow, electronic health records are maturing, interoperability is developing, and patient-facing technology use is expanding. Although the EHR ...

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed many of the glaring weaknesses in our health care system, while at the same time highlighting many of its strengths, such as our leadership in medical research, ...

While at dinner with a fellow proptech firm a few weeks ago, one of their team members said, “We have clients paying for our product, but they haven’t invested the time to implement and use it.” ...

What is the best way to develop a cybersecurity strategy? Students in Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) program learn that and more in Todd Fitzgerald's ...

ABSTRACT Project failure in the information technology area is a costly problem, and troubled projects are not uncommon. In many cases, these projects seem to take on a life of their own, continuing ...