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3D Scanners Are Getting Cheap So Fast, The Age Of 3D Piracy Could Soon Be Upon Us
[...MakerBot], the leading maker of desktop 3D printers, is launching its own 3D scanner next week, and Signe Brewster at GigaOM is betting it will cost just $500. Read More »
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Roambi Named 2013 Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award Winner
Leading Research Firm Selects Roambi as a Visionary and Transformative Technology Pioneer in Business Intelligence Read More »
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions Using Data Science And A Social Twist
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center uses patient's social setting to improve adherence Read More »
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Continua Lauds FDA's Medical Device Interoperability Standards
Reviewing media coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement that it will recognize standards for medical device interoperability could give a misleading impression that the measure is of little importance. [...] Read More »
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Google Trends Data Highlights Medical and Healthcare App Growth
Google Search continues to be the dominant internet search engine. Trends in internet keyword searches over time monitor the growth (and waning) of products and topics. Google provides a keyword search tool called Google Trends that allows users to map relative keyword searches over time and compare multiple keyword search trends. I recently examined the trends related to the search term medical app on Google Trends. I found some expected and unexpected findings in this analysis. This is the first post in a series highlighting interesting insights from this untapped source...
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Why Open Source Isn't The Same As Free
In this week's letters, the science lead at Open Source Malaria explains the semantics of collaborative drug discovery Read More »
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ONC Shows Path To Stage 2 Meaningful Use Via Blue Button
Things may be changing at the top spot in the Office of the National Coordinator, but one thing staying the same is the department’s commitment to patient engagement through its support of the Blue Button, the tool which gives patients the ability to download their electronic medical record with the press of a button. Read More »
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The Door Revolves Again: The Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes To Private Equity Firm Looking For Investments Created By Health Reform
It appears that Ms Nancy DeParle, formerly a White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and before then, from 2009 - 2011, the Director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform, has gone through the revolving door again. Read More »
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Why This Year's Gulf Dead Zone Is Twice As Big As Last Year's
[...] This year's "biological desert" (NOAA's phrase) is much bigger than last year's, below, which was relatively tiny because Midwestern droughts limited the amount of runoff that made it into the Gulf. At about 2,900 square miles, the 2012 edition measured up to be about a third as large as Delaware. Read More »
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Google Glass And Other Devices Presenting New Crop Of Privacy Risks
Scarcely a day passes when we don’t hear about some new electronic gadget designed to make our lives more productive, convenient, healthy, or entertaining. Read More »
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ForgeRock Summit At French Chateau Draws International Identity Experts, Analysts And Community
ForgeRock, the leading commercial open source provider of identity and access management (IAM) security solutions, will hold its first European Open Identity Stack Summit, October 14-16 at Domaine de Béhoust in the Yvelines region of France, near Paris. Read More »
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AAFP Asks For Meaningful Use Stage 2 Delay
The American Academy of Family Physicians has appealed to CMS to delay the meaningful use Stage 2 timeline by one year. Read More »
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Aaron Swartz's 'Guerilla Open Access Manifesto'
“Information is power,” reads the first sentence of the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, written by Aaron Swartz and other free information activists. Read More »
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NASA IG Reports Fundamental Challenges With Agency’s Cloud Adoption
As a pioneer in cloud computing, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established its Nebula cloud computing data center at Ames Research Center in 2009. Despite the agency’s position as an early adopter of cloud technology, a recent report from NASA’s Inspector General (IG) highlights fundamental governance and risk management issues that will impair the effectiveness of future cloud efforts. Read More »
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Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves Of NSA Surveillance
Larry Ellison is exceedingly rich and powerful. He is the third-most-wealthy person in the United States and runs Oracle, the database giant. And yet somehow, as he revealed during an interview on CBS Tuesday morning, he is hopelessly uninformed on the ramifications of NSA surveillance. Or, perhaps willfully uninformed. After all, the NSA is an Oracle client, which CBS didn't mention. Read More »
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