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Bernie Sanders Introduces Anti-Pharma-Patent Bill, Aims to Replace Drug Monopolies with Prizes
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced legislation in the US Senate that would use prizes to reward medical R&D, and eliminate all drug monopolies. It includes an open source dividend of $4 billion per year.
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Senator Sanders Introduces Two Medical Innovation Prize Bills in U.S. Senate to De-link R&D Costs From Drug Prices
On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced two bills in the United States Senate that would de-link R&D costs from drug prices.
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Semantic 'Lego': an Information Framework to Drive Drug Discovery.
A new consortium of European organisations unite to support next generation drug discovery by providing a single view across data sources, bringing the semantic web to drug discovery. Read More »
Medical Societies Paid To Do Corporate Public Relations
So all the organizations which ought to have upheld health care professionals' values against the onslaught of laissez faire commercialized medicine, now medical societies as well as academic medical centers, medical schools and their parent universities, and medical and health care foundations, seem to have been systematically sold out to big health care corporations' marketers and public relations flacks. Read More »
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Government Performance Website May Not Meet Congressional Requirements
Without additional funding, the Office of Management and Budget may be unable to meet the October 2012 deadline Congress gave it for producing an easily searchable public website detailing the performance of all government programs, an administration official said. Read More »
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New Releases of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify
We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.15.Since the 4.0.12 release, we have introduced several new features and enhancements to make implementation and administration of iHRIS easier. Read More »
Defense, VA Ehoose e-health Record Graphical User Interface
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have selected a key component of the their joint electronic health record -- the graphical user interface, which clinicians will use to access records and radiological imagery, Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer, told a press briefing Friday. Read More »
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Connecting Mobile Devices With EMRs
Coming on the heels of news that the patient monitoring system market will reach $9.3 billion in 2014, IBM has announced it's expanding its Health Analytics Solution Center in Dallas. Company officials say teams there are working to help physicians connect smart phones, tablets and other devices to electronic medical records, while also helping healthcare providers build new solutions for remote patient monitoring. Read More »
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An Interesting Idea to Lower Drug Costs
Jamie Love sez, “Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced legislation in the US Senate that would use prizes to reward medical R&D, and eliminate all drug monopolies. It includes an open source dividend of $4 billion per year.” Read More »
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Concern Grows Over ‘Epidemic' Veteran Suicide Rate
With veterans now accounting for one of every five suicides in the nation, the Department of Veterans Affairs is under pressure from both the courts and Congress to fix its mental-health services in an attempt to curb the death toll. Read More »
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The Role of Digital Technologies in Africa
At an event held at the Royal Geographic Society, a diverse panel came together to discuss 21st Century Challenges with respect to digital technology in Africa, approaching the question: can technology offer realistic educational, economic and sustainable opportunities? Read More »
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VISTA Planning & Management Part 1: Complexity
When VISTA projects fail, it is almost always for one reason - a gross underestimation of the complexity involved.
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VA's Baker talks VistA goals
Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information technology at the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department, said the VA is committed completely to pursuing an open-source model for modernization of its VistA electronic health-record system. Read More »
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Collaborative pushes for EHR data use in clinical research
Electronic health record systems are not designed to generate data for clinical research, and providers engaged in clinical trials may be using a number of different, incompatible EHRs.
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U.S. Considers Open-Source Software for Cybersecurity
Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees such software, which anyone can tinker with, as a possible tool for defending government networks from both online thieves and professional cyberspies.
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