I love a good mystery. And I’ve noticed one post-mortem analysis after another lately exploring the recently announced impending demise of Google Health, a service aimed at helping people manage their own health information. Read More »

In rural Malawi, each hospital serves hundreds of thousands of patients within a 100-mile radius. To reach remote patients, hospitals rely on trained volunteer community health workers. It was at one such hospital that Josh Nesbit met Dickson Mtanga, a subsistence farmer and health volunteer. Read More »

..."My mother is suspected of having dengue," tweets a woman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "I think I have dengue. Read More »

Jennifer Pahlka — founder of one of Civic Commons’ founding partners, Code for America — gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, entitled “The Next Disruption: The Opportunity for Civic Startups.” The keynote, embedded below, outlined how ther Read More »

The success of our health care track at the O'Reilly Open Source convention last year (which I covered in a series of blogs) called for a follow-up. This year we offer another impressive line-up. Read More »

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other's “tweets,” or short, 140-character messages. The service has more than 190 million registered users and processes about 55 million tweets per day. Read More »

...A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and lack of resources have interfered with timely detection and reporting of dengue cases in many endemic countries. Surveillance efforts have turned to modern data sources, such as Internet search queries, which have been shown to be effective for monitoring influenza-like illnesses. Read More »

When federal CIO Vivek Kundra leaves his post for Harvard in mid-August, he will leave behind a comprehensive, long-term plan for federal IT reform that has only begun to be implemented. Kundra's replacement will have to hit the ground running to execute on that strategy. Read More »

Health behaviorists spend their careers researching ways to keep people better engaged in their health because being your own advocate is the best way to stay healthy. Technology and data may therefore soon become the health behaviorists' best friends. Read More »

The latest series of Young Turks sees CNBC-TV18’s Shereen Bhan put the spotlight on e-entrepreneurs; young start-ups that are focusing on the opportunities that the internet has thrown up. Read More »