News Clips

Designing A Better Hospital Room

Staff Writer | Bolidt Booster | August 9, 2013

American architect Michael Graves has little patience for bad design. He also dislikes the ugly things he sees in hospitals. When he stayed at a rehabilitation center recovering from a rare, life-threatening infection, Graves eyed the magenta-and-green floral sheets on his bed... Read More »

CSIR, Royal Society Of Chemistry Team Up To Support OSDD Efforts: Minister

Staff Writer | Pharmabiz.com | August 9, 2013

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)  had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Royal Society of Chemistry of London to support  drug discovery efforts through the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) , the Parliament has been told. Read More »

3 HHS Oversight Programs Threatened By Sequestration

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | August 9, 2013

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General is reducing staff by about 400 this year, as it implements a 20 percent budget reduction from Congress’ continuing federal funding resolution, sequestration. Read More »

Global Health IT Outsourcing Market To Reach $50.4 Billion By 2018

Susan D. Hall | Fierce Health IT | August 8, 2013

The U.S. and Canada lead in the global healthcare IT outsourcing market, with North America accounting for the largest share at 72 percent, according to a new report from RnRMarketResearch.com...

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How To Choose Your Open Source Hardware License

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | August 8, 2013

It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public... Read More »

Why EHRs Are Not (Yet) Disruptive

Ben Wanamaker and Devin Bean | Clayton Christensen Institute | August 8, 2013

[...] EHRs are not unsuccessful because of health care providers’ ineptness. Rather, they are a potentially disruptive technology that got caught in a legacy business model that can only prioritize sustaining innovations. Read More »

What Is The Future Of The Library? Bright When Digital!

Mercedes Bunz | Hybrid Publishing Lab | August 8, 2013

To sum it up: while all those libraries define their role quite differently, one thing is certain: digital technology is getting more and more important. This is what their plans are... Read More »

F1000 Prime And Public Library Of Science Collaborating On Article-Level Metrics

Press Release | Faculty of 1000 (F1000), Public Library of Science (PLOS) | August 8, 2013

Faculty of 1000’s F1000Prime (http://f1000.com/prime) article recommendation service has partnered with Public Library of Science (PLOS), to provide enhanced information to researchers on the impact of their published articles. Read More »

Wounded Soldiers Languished 540 Days In Fort Riley Transition System

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 8, 2013

Soldiers in the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Riley, Kan., spent an average of a year and half -- 540 days -- working their way through a system that is supposed to determine their fitness for duty within a year, the Defense Department Inspector General reported yesterday. Read More »

NASA's Massive Free E-Book Collection

Alexis C. Madrigal | The Atlantic | August 8, 2013

Who could resist Exploring Space With a Camera? Or Rockets and People, the autobiography of rocket designer Boris Chertok? Read More »

HIE, Interoperability Still Center Stage

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | August 8, 2013

As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, his office and  the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the future and plotting long-term information exchange and interoperability policy strategies. Read More »

As EHR User Fee Idea Dies, Certification Questions Linger

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | August 8, 2013

The health information technology user fee proposed in the Department of Health and Human Service’s 2014 budget request is incredibly unlikely to pass Congress — so unlikely it’s a little odd Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, defended it. Read More »

mHMtaani: US-Supported Program Empowers Community Health Workers Through Mobile Technology

Jonathan Rucks | Frontline Health Workers Coalition | August 8, 2013

In places like the Deep Sea Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the dangers associated with pregnancy and child birth are not to be taken lightly. Read More »

Top 4 Open-Source PCs

Agam Shah | PC World | August 8, 2013

Single board or “open-source” PCs have become a hot market, with the Raspberry Pi selling in the millions and competitors getting in on the act, including Intel’s recently announced MinnowBoard. Read More »

US Firms Worry Edward Snowden Is Wrecking Their Business, But The Patriot Act Was Already Doing That

Leo Mirani | Quartz | August 7, 2013

Shortly after a meeting of an EU-sponsored program to push European cloud-computing capabilities in Estonia last month, a high-ranking EC official noted that the biggest losers from Edward Snowden’s revelation about US surveillance would be US businesses: Read More »