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The Homeland Security Department plans to acquire an electronic health record system to improve the quality and efficiency of its health care for illegal aliens and other foreign fugitives detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. DHS clinicians and staff at 22 locations will use the electronic health record (EHR) to replace the current manual and stand-alone automated sy Read More »

Federal agency information technology programs[...]will face cuts ranging from minor to significant in the presumptive fiscal 2011 budget, introduced April 11 into the House as H.R. 1473.

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The three organizations leading this event have a vision to create the world’s preeminent annual conference focused specifically on the interface between life sciences industry and diverse communities.  Our goals include (i) connecting and networking leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical executives, entrepreneurs, policy officials, researchers, scientists, technologists, academics, and service providers, (ii) creating a collaborative setting for discussing challenges and opportunities of conducting clinical trials with diverse communities, and (iii) exchanging best practices in the life science industries.

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Google Health is approaching its second birthday, and according to some, also near death. I can't help but speculate that if it is indeed shuffling off the digital coil, that its demise has something to do with a general unwillingness to hand over such sensitive information to a company that already knows so much about us as individuals. (Although I should note that their privacy policy does explicitly state that your Google Health profile would not be linked to information from other Google services you use). Read More »

The Tech Awards is a prestigious Silicon Valley-based international awards program that honours innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. In 2009, FrontlineSMS was the recipient of a Tech Award in the “Equality” category. Read More »

The more than 600 public-health laboratories in the U.S. gather and report critical data on disease outbreaks and threats to national security, but data collection and IT infrastructure largely have been specific to a single public-health program such as HIV prevention or tuberculosis treatment. Read More »

Slowly but surely, biology and biotechnology efforts that follow open source principles are improving, and as they mature, they could have a profound effect on healthcare, longevity, disease control, and much more.

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