Features November 2018

And you thought you had a busy summer. Every summer for the last four years, Tim Klan has led the technology component, as Livonia Public Schools has undertaken not one school building renovation project, but five to six buildings for a total of 23 so far. From a tech perspective, that’s meant installing new everything—servers, […]

In Mexico, where a growing economy has made securing a loan more arduous—and competitive—than ever, Chief Technology Director  Daniel Colin and his team aren’t merely improving the business loan process; they’re taking it to another level at Union de Credito Concreces (UCC). “The tools we have allow us to be much faster and more efficient […]

In the past, a patient might go days—even weeks—before knowing the results of their scan. At Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Health, the clinical team are using a specific kind of machine learning, known as tensor flow, to take a deeper, on-the-spot dive into radiology scans—deep enough to notice things they weren’t even looking for. If a tumor […]

What does it mean to be a patient-centric hospital? For Pam Banchy, registered nurse and chief information officer at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, it means combining her skills and experience on the clinical side with her expertise in deploying technology to better serve patients. Since Banchy first spoke with Toggle in January […]

While our college experiences are in many ways defined by buildings themselves—the gothic brick and modernist concrete, the teeming dorms and chock-full lecture halls—the technological infrastructures can be equally evocative. Without reliable internet, those memories can be colored quite differently. And not in sunny hues, either. Looking at the modern, arched opening of Ozarks Technical […]

The simple idea of situational awareness—literally being aware of our surroundings and using that information to help make decisions and calculated predictions—has been around for nearly as long as human life itself; historians and scientists point to it as one of our most enduring survival advantages. In today’s technology-driven world, the concept has been amped-up […]

“Don’t follow the sheep,” Garth Nel advises when asked what he’d tell young people pursuing a technical career. “Make sure you’re visible, drive change and engage with the business.” With info-tech being such an essential and evolving industry, Nel warns it’s no place for its practitioners to stand still. Nel sure hasn’t stayed stationary, beginning […]

Info-tech expertise can open doors in any industry, but combine it with a finely tuned business mind and people skills and there may be no limit how high one can climb. It’s working out that way for Mark Serwinowski, whose title may be chief information officer at Digital Bridge Holdings in Boca Raton, Florida, but […]

No offense to the Cornhusker State, but Nebraska isn’t known for its innovation. As Derek Sailors quips of its remote and rural quality, “our email still comes in via pony express.” Or consider the fact that the state recently adopted the self-deprecating tourism slogan, “Honestly, it’s not for everyone!” But Community Hospital in McCook is […]

William Tran wants to be known as a transformational leader, and in his book that calls for collaborating with and challenging his team and extending due credit when it carries out a mission. Thus, he’ll take a modest bow for the way he’s been modernizing info-tech at Berkley Risk since coming aboard as CIO in […]