Features Region: Southeast

The evolving nature of health care has some very informed people predicting that the role of the radiologist will be phased out as the full extent of artificial intelligence is realized. Matt Dewey, the CIO at Wake Radiology, isn’t so certain about the impending demise of a profession he holds in such high regard. He’s […]

Vince Scheivert laughs as he recalls how his early interest in info-tech was partially awakened by him and some high school buddies attempting a computer program to predict the outcome of 1988’s March Madness. The then 15-year-olds thought they were fairly advanced with computers, and by the standards of three decades ago they may well […]

From door to door, the drive will take less than five minutes. Once inside the urgent care center, it’ll be no more than 10 before a doctor is ready to see your son—a few stiches, he’s good as new. That should leave plenty of time to check out the healthy lifestyle center down the hall. […]

Newly hired in June 2017 as chief operating officer at Jackson Parish Hospital in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Dr. Jason A. Thomas gave the CEO a compelling reason to put him in charge of info-tech as well. “I emphasized IT’s evolving role in health care and that it would be best for me to negotiate the contracts […]

By the time you finish reading this sentence, Amazon will have delivered 100 packages to mailboxes and doorsteps throughout the United States. That’s 1.6 million packages per day, or nearly 5 billion every year—all opened with faith the wares inside are as good as advertised. Yet even in this digital age, there are products that […]

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 […]

Turning paper manufacturing by-products into “green” products; transforming sawdust from furniture manufacturing into activated carbon to help reduce car emissions. Ten years ago, such advances would’ve seemed the stuff of science fiction. For Michael Mullis, they’re the reason he comes to work every day. And why, after more than 20 years working for some of […]

It’s early June, and in hundreds of high-school classrooms throughout Georgia’s Bibb County School District (BCSD), students are rapidly tapping and scrolling on their laptops. An air of focus fills the room, so quiet you can practically hear the hands of the clock. To an observer, the attendant task seems like a standard class assignment—a […]

It’s the last week in July, and at Pickens Elementary in Pickens, South Carolina, dozens of students are filing off the bus and into the modest brick school. Over the next four hours, instructors will conduct a series of reading lessons via newly issued iPads. Once the day’s learning is done, the buses will return […]

In Florida, end-of-year grades can be just as nerve-wracking for schools as they are for the students. Each spring, districts throughout the state are given an accountability report, complete with letter grades for every school. Available to the public, these reports can make or break a system’s reputation—and future funding. So when Joe Amato arrived […]