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PRISM Could Put The Kibosh On US Trade Abroad
Europeans are not taking revelations about the U.S. government's PRISM surveillance program in stride, and that could be exceedingly bad for U.S. businesses. One sector that's already seeing cause for alarm is cloud services. Read More »
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Potential For Open-Source Car Customization Showcased On Ford Mustang Using Openxc Platform
An important part of the total gaming experience for hardcore video gamers is getting physical feedback through the controller as they keep their eyes on the screen. It’s called haptic feedback. For drivers of performance cars like Ford Mustang, feedback is just as important to understanding how the car is behaving. Read More »
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Launching With Social Coding 4 Good @OSCON
We are proud to announce that Ushahidi has begun a partnership with Social Coding 4 Good to build our developer community. Read More »
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Infographic: 15 Ways Your Smartphone Can Influence Health Outcomes
Can your smartphone serve as a behavior change agent to influence positive health outcomes? This infographic created by Mobiquity highlights 15 ways your smartphone can help monitor, motivate, and influence health outcomes by delivering the right message, at the right time, in the right place. Read More »
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IBM Joins Pivotal's Open-Source Cloud Foundry Project
IBM made another move in the open-source-cloud space this week by joining Cloud Foundry, the open-source cloud-platform project kicked off and overseen by Pivotal, a cloud-platform spin-off owned by EMC, VMware and GE and led by VMware's former CEO Paul Maritz. Read More »
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How Firefox OS Could Sneak Into The Smartphone Chicken Coop
With the mobile industry now so heavily dominated by Android and iOS, is there possibly room for another contender? That remains to be seen, of course, but Firefox OS has several advantages to set it apart. Read More »
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Hospitals Having Trouble Using EHRs To Report Quality Measures, AHA Study Shows
Hospitals—even those with loads of experience using health information technology—are still having a tough time using electronic health-record systems to gather and report clinical quality measures, according to a new report summarizing a study by the American Hospital Association. Read More »
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Effort Aims To Protect Patients In Telemedicine Practices
If a patient in Wyoming has a complaint about a doctor in Colorado he is seeing via teleconference, it's unclear which state's medical licensing board would investigate. Read More »
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Axial Exchange Raises $5M, Adds Enhancements To Hospital App Platform
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Axial Exchange, a mobile app developer, raised just under $5 million from undisclosed investors, according to an SEC filing. Axial Exchange is backed by a syndicate of venture capital firms, led by Canaan Partners. Read More »
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5 Problematic HIT Projects Costing The Government Billions
Cost overruns and missed deadlines for several federal agency health technology projects are costing the government "billions of dollars," according to a Government Accountability Office report focusing on the inefficiency of agency IT initiatives published Thursday. Read More »
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3 Ways Remote Care Helps Patients, Docs
Given the steady stream of new devices entering the healthcare market, it might be easy to start thinking improvements in healthcare can come from technological advances alone. But it's more complicated than that. Read More »
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Scientists Discover What’s Killing The Bees And It’s Worse Than You Thought
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought. Read More »
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Health Checks Via Smartphones, Tablets On The Way
A new cloud-based system could deliver real-time health monitoring and alerts to healthcare professionals. Read More »
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LOINC And SNOMED CT Codes To Be Linked
Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, which owns the LOINC terminology of codes for identifying laboratory and clinical observations, and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation in Copenhagen, which owns the SNOMED Clinical Terms set of codes, will link the terminologies. Read More »
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Windows 'Open Java' Implementation Coming To Microsoft's Azure Cloud
Microsoft customers that want to run an open source implementation of Java in its Azure cloud will have a new OpenJDK for Windows Server on Azure to choose from. Read More »
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