On Second Thoughts, Africa’s Tablet Computing Boom is Inevitable

Clinton Mutambo | Techzim | October 7, 2011

The proliferation of mobile based internet access and the evolution of traditional broadband services from niched to mainstream products, is transforming developing economies and their place in the knowledge economy. Read More »

Number of Open Source Users Continue to Climb

According to a recent article in eWEEK Europe, their readers have given a resounding thumbs-up to open source software. In a poll they conducted, nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of the respondents use open source to some extent, with fifty percent of them using it in major production systems or wherever possible. Read More »

Eli Lilly Uses Web To Broaden Drug Research Reach

Charles Babcock | Information Week | September 14, 2011

The pharmaceutical company uses technology to bring new openness -- and efficiency -- to lifesaving research. One in a series of profiles of InformationWeek 500 innovators. Read More »

“Globalization of Innovation: China, India, and US Pharmaceutical Markets” Symposium

James J. Gillespie, Ph.D., J.D. | Center for Healthcare Innovation | August 17, 2011

We invite you to attend the “Globalization of Innovation: China, India, and US Pharmaceutical Markets” symposium on October 7, 2011. Read More »

The Evidence Matrix for Decision Making

Brian C. Glibkowski, MBA, PhD, and James J. Gillespie, PhD, JD | PharmaThought | September 11, 2011

We see evidence-based management as directly related to the growing use of business analytics by life science companies and consultants. Our FAIR framework provides a potentially useful lens through which pharmaceutical executives can view the interaction between data, evidence, faith, and intuition. Read More »

Open Development Gives the Power Back to Citizens

Suzane Muhereza | ONE | October 4, 2011

To coincide with its Annual Meetings, the World Bank recently published a report on Open Development, an idea whose time has come. Read More »

The 4 Lessons Gleaned from SSA's NwHIN Project

Gerard Reeder | Government Health IT | October 5, 2011

One of the most high-profile ARRA NHIN contracts, the Social Security Administration's (SSA) effort to gather medical evidence in support of disability claims over the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) and expand the Exchange's Participant list to a more national coverage is finally realizing tangible results as a number of contractors have moved their systems into go-live productio Read More »

Hackteria: Give your old devices new life

Lori Mehen | OpenSource.com | October 5, 2011

An abundance of high tech devices--year-old mobile phones abandoned for the latest iPhone release, low-pixel digital cameras, too-slow gaming devices and other consumer electronics--get tossed into our local landfills every day. Most people don't realize that these tossed aside 'black boxes' have real potential. Read More »

Provider EHR Incentive Registrations Exceed 100,000

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 5, 2011

The number of physicians and hospitals that have registered for the Medicare or Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive program has surpassed 100,000, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Read More »

Direct Project Reaches Consensus on Trust Framework

David Kibbe | Government Health IT | October 3, 2011

On Friday September 22, 2011, members of the Direct Project Rules of the Road workgroup reached consensus on a key component of the trust framework necessary to make Direct exchange expand nationally and be available to more users. Read More »