News Clips

The Race To Manage Government Records Begins

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | July 22, 2013

As federal agencies crawl toward deadlines to permanently store their records in digital formats, the National Archives and Records Administration is bringing together vendors that want a piece of that business. Read More »

The NSA And Big Data: What IT Can Learn

Kurt Marko | InformationWeek | July 22, 2013

Enterprises can put the tools Big Brother uses to analyze our online activities to productive use. Here's how. Read More »

Rep. Welch Pushes Electronic Records Bill To Improve Veterans’ Health Care

Andrew Stein | VTDigger.org | July 22, 2013

Rep. Peter Welch visited the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Montpelier Monday to champion a bill aimed at improving access to health care for military veterans. And the Vermont congressman is not alone in his support of the measure. Read More »

5 Civic Projects Aim To Make Data Useful

J. Nathan Matias | PBS.org | July 22, 2013

How can we use data to improve our lives, our communities, and the world at large? At the recent Microsoft Design Expo, students from eight universities showcased design projects along the theme of “making data useful.” Read More »

Using EHR, HIE To Share Vaccine Data Improves Public Health

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 22, 2013

EHRs are an effective tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Automated immunization reporting using EHR data helped speed the collection of vaccine data and allowed public health agencies to assemble a clearer picture of at-risk populations. Read More »

Policy And IT Challenges To Achieving Big Data Outcomes, Part 2

John Loonsk | Government Health IT | July 22, 2013

In part one of this series we provided a loose definition of Big Data, described some of the ways that Big Data tools can be used in health, and identified the high degree of alignment of Big Data capabilities with quality and efficiency analytics as well as observational health research... Read More »

Intel, Samsung Back Tizen Developer Contest For Open Source Apps

DH Kass | The VAR Guy | July 22, 2013

Intel and Samsung are behind a recently launched a $4.04 million application development contest called the Tizen App Challenge to gain apps for the alternative open source platform. Read More »

Health IT M&A Very Active In First Half Of 2013

Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | July 22, 2013

During the first six months of 2013, health information technology was the "most active market segment" of the healthcare/pharma/IT industry for mergers and acquisitions, according to investment bank Berkery Noyes. Read More »

Health IT M&A Highly 'Active' Through First Half Of 2013

Ashley Gold | FierceHealthIT | July 22, 2013

For the first half of 2013, health information technology saw more action in mergers and acquisitions than segments like healthcare business services, consumer health and pharma IT, according to a new report from New York-based investment bank Berkery Noyes. Read More »

Your Creative, Open Hackathon Is Ripe For Ownership Disputes

Scott Popma and Scott Allen | Wired | July 22, 2013

NASA’s Space Apps Challenge recently became the world’s largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries. Meanwhile, many of the features many of us use every day — sometimes more than once a day — such as Facebook’s Like button and Timeline, debuted at closed (internal, employee-only) hackathon events. Read More »

Vt.'s US Rep. Says Vets Need Better Health Records

Wilson Ring | Boston.com | July 22, 2013

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch said Monday he is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department to find a better way to share health information so veterans can have better access to their military health records. Read More »

Using GitHub As A Repository For Machine-Readable Scholarly Articles

Press Release | Pensoft Publishers | July 22, 2013

Inspired by eLife, Pensoft now deposits article XMLs on GitHub Read More »

The FOIA Machine: Software Saves Reporters From Government Hell

Klint Finley | Wired | July 22, 2013

They say freedom isn’t free. And that’s certainly true of FOIA requests. Read More »

The Coming Push For Open Source Everything

Paul Venezia | InfoWorld | July 22, 2013

When we can no longer trust proprietary hardware or software, open source becomes the only option Read More »

Telehealth, Blue Button Boost VA To “Most Wired” List