Now that I work in an good size IT department, articles like these from TechRepublic catch my attention. I’ve been a longtime fan of Google and find myself using them more and more in my personal and small business computing. My Firefox home page is set to iGoogle, I am always on Gmail and get my Tweets get sent directly to Google Talk. I use Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Analytics and the list goes on. If and when Google Health was available I would definitely use that. Google is everywhere and as this article points out sits “on the biggest pile of information that has ever been collected in the world.” Enough so that Gartner has classified Google as a disruptive technology. It’s not hard to imagine IT services being outsourced to Google, if not in whole, certainly in parts. It is clear that any IT shop unable to quantify and communicate its value will get outsourced. Hold onto your seats as another paradigm shift is about to occur.
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1 pbr // May 2, 2008 at 10:56 am
difficult to outsource IT in healthcare insurance–they’d have to learn the langugage, laws and business–which all tend to build on knowing the business first–good luck,
2 pbr // May 22, 2008 at 11:21 pm
should have read the attachment first–hey, Burt–having worked there for almost two months maybe you know this–there are a lot of legal types involved in privacy and compliance regarding health care–the closer Google gets to healthcare IT the more likely it will be targeted–your job should be okay for a while–
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