Cost, Training Among Biggest ICD-10 Hurdles for Hospital Execs
Hospital executives are finally starting to grapple with the challenge of converting to the ICD-10 diagnostic code set in 2013, according to an article in Healthcare Informatics. CIOs agree that the biggest barrier is not technical, but is related to training physicians and billing staff to cope with the increased complexity of ICD-10. Read More »
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Unlocking Big Data with R
The explosion of big data has caused far-reaching ripples in the enterprise. Organizations today are faced with unprecedented challenges in sorting, processing and analyzing their data, which has in turn given rise to a new generation of technologies. Read More »
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Open Source Development at NASA
NASA has a special association with the principles of openness and transparency characteristic of the open source software movement. Signed into law on July 29, 1958 by President Eisenhower, the National Aeronautics and Space Act created NASA and charged it with, among other things, providing for the wides Read More »
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NSA's open-source project aims for secure, large-scale storage
The National Security Agency is looking for help from the developer community in contributing to a label-based storage software that could be enable secure, granular access to data in large storage systems. Read More »
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NSA open sources Google database mimic
The US National Security Agency is open sourcing a distributed "NoSQL" database based on Google's proprietary BigTable platform.
Known as Accumulo, the platform has been in development at the NSA for over three years, and it's built atop Hadoop, the open source distributed file system and distributed number-crunching platform that mimics Google's internal infrastructure.
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NSA Extends Label-based Security to Big Data Stores
The National Security Agency has submitted new label-based data store software, called Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation, in hopes that other parties will further develop the technology for use in secure systems. Read More »
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$3 Trillion Problem: Three Best Practices for Today's Dirty Data Pandemic
In survey after survey, about half of IT executives consistently agree that data quality and data consistency is one of the biggest roadblocks to them getting full value from their data. This has been consistently true all since the Chinese invented the abacus. I suspect it will be true long after quantum computing has solved every other problem that humanity faces. Read More »
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Overview of Nursing Informatics & 'Open' Health IT Solutions
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According to Dr. Susan Hamer, the Director of Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health professionals at NHS, implementing new health information technology (IT) systems often has a huge impact on clinical practices and in the past managers had underestimated the effort and expense needed to support nurses through this change. "While there is a small group of nurses that is taking on the informatics challenge, there are too few of them at the moment," she said. "Nurses need to take a better grip of the health informatics agenda, both to secure the technologies that the profession needs to improve operations while also enhancing quality of care." Read More »
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Department of Veteran Affairs joins W.P. Carey consortium
In an effort to find ways to reduce spending on health care while maintaining coverage for veterans, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs recently joined a research consortium put together by ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business.
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Mobile Technology: Developing Africa?
The ICT4D community has often turned its head towards the potential role of mobile in African development. But a challenge posed by the Royal African Society at an event at London’s School of African and Oriental Studies last week was: “Are the claims that mobiles are aiding development as clear as they seem?” Read More »
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