We were excited to join colleagues and friends in Washington, DC, on Tuesday 9th August to release the first edition of our User Guide on Data Integrity, a tool that will help FrontlineSMS users around the world better understand the flow of information into and out of the platform, the risks and vulnerabilities to that data, and simple ways they can mitigate those risks. Read More »

Map Kibera Trust put Kibera on the world map! Our team of community mappers plan to bring the map information to local change agents in the community, through printed atlases and map murals throughout Kibera. Read More »

Two years ago, leaders from the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs promised to redouble efforts to make seamless, lifetime medical records a reality for troops enlisting in the military. Read More »

How do we avoid the UK's failure? The administration or Congress should slow down the program and delete those parts of the legislation that fine doctors for not using this technology. There's no need to have this system in place by 2014. Instead, we should conduct rigorous studies of the cost-effectiveness of electronic health records systems before mandating their use. Read More »

After nearly 20 months, OpenClinica 3.1 is finally ready to meet the world as a production ready application.  You may download OpenClinica 3.1 here.  It has been a long and arduous road, but the final incarnation of 3.1 is the most significant leap forward for the OpenClinica clinical trials software. Read More »

Third-generation sequencing company Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) began commercial shipment of its PacBio RS single-molecule sequencer this week. The instrument has been in beta testing at 11 institutions in North America and elsewhere for the past year. A notable success was the recent sequencing and identification of the cholera strain sweeping Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Read More »

A major discovery of 21st Century business is that there is no such thing as a mature industry with only slow growth possibilities: these are merely industries to which management has yet to apply imagination. Steve Jobs at Apple [AAPL] has demonstrated the validity of the proposition in music, the mobile phones and tablets, as has Jeff Bezos at Amazon [AMZN] in books and retail. Read More »

Researchers at Novartis in Basel have developed a powerful new electronic data capture (EDC) hub for clinical data that has allowed its investigators to control data across multiple trials as never before, according to David Tuch, head of clinical imaging at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland. “This is a game changer for managing clinical trials at Novartis.”... Read More »