Features Region: Northeast

In today’s corporate healthcare environment, there is usually a hierarchy between the doctors and the management, but in the case of Christie Clinic your doctor also happens to own the place. Christie Clinic is a physician-owned medical practice with 17 locations in east-central Illinois. The clinics provide primary care services as well as a multitude […]

Depending on whom you ask, a college degree is either an overpriced piece of paper—a ticket to 20 years of hemorrhaging salary to pay down student loans—or an absolute must, without which professional success is near-unattainable. As the narratives surrounding higher education become ever more muddied, millions of would-be undergrads are left searching for clarity; […]

As far as Sean Moriarty is concerned, it takes a village to create a digital campus. As chief technology officer at the State University of New York at Oswego, he leads just that type of village, his door open to suggestions and his staff willing to lend its expertise to other educational institutions in need […]

Having guiding principles is key to achieving goals—and Robert Heinrich follows an established, tried-and-true set of them. On a daily basis, the chief information officer at Stockton University stresses what he says are the four crucial values: service excellence, reliability, innovation and security. Those values become ever more essential with each passing day, he says, […]

More than half of all businesses experienced a data breach at some point in the last year, according to a study released in 2017 by Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm. Even so, many companies aren’t insured against this common risk that can cost them anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of dollars, even […]

Let’s say a grade school student is given a 30-question practice test and only gets half the questions correct, just 15 of them. In the past, the instructor would have indicated which questions he or she got wrong. The student would get a failing grade and it was off to the next lesson and test. […]

When University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst IT asked students to help improve their information security messaging, the students had a ready answer. In focus groups, they said: “Stop giving us the same old posters. Stop giving us campaigns that you created. We’re a generation that wants to build with you and you need to make […]

The pioneering American educator, Horace Mann, called education “a great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.” More than a century later, that still holds true. But today, education has its own equalizer: technology. In order to produce college- and career-ready students, schools must have access to modern, real-world technology. […]

In 2012, Walmart started building its first ever Data CAFÉ for its Sam’s Club subsidiary. Located inside of the company’s Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters, the CAFÉ wouldn’t be a place for a cup of java so much as Java, the programming language. Equipped with world-class visualization and analytics software, it was designed to serve as an […]

When something is done well, it looks easy. Such is the case when logistics company, Distribution Management, receives, packs and delivers an order in one or two days, shipping to anywhere in the U.S. The company reaches coast to coast and border to border, all from only five centers in Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri and […]