Amidst all the angst within academia generated by the new MOOCs (massive open online courses) and online education in general, actually working on a MOOC for the last six months has convinced me of one thing: MOOCs will make the classroom better. Read More »

There’s definitely been a trend in EHR replacement that’s happening on the ambulatory side of the EHR market. Many ambulatory EHR practices are dropping their EHR and switching to another EHR. Read More »

Jobs in the healthcare sector have grown faster than in any other industry, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. Read More »

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortune turns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. [...] Read More »

One of the key themes that has come out from the revelations concerning NSA surveillance is a bunch of defenders of the program claiming "it's just metadata." This is wrong on multiple levels. Read More »

Electronic health record "backlash"--the opposition to EHR adoption and Meaningful Use by clinicians and other staff--can be avoided by better planning and implementation, according to a recently published article in EHR Intelligence. Read More »

Today, Zoe Lofgren and Jim Sensenbrenner in the House and Ron Wyden in the Senate introduced "Aaron's Law," an attempt to reform the widely abused CFAA, so that it no longer sweeps up innocent activity. Read More »

The Fourth of July holiday brought about another first for Google Glass, the computing device that you can wear on your face. Read More »

People are creating their own maps and databases in a movement called open-source mapping, as Sarah Shearman discovers. Read More »

Last December, well before the Ed Snowden leaks revealed some information about the FISA court (FISC) and its rulings, we had already noted that the court itself was almost certainly unconstitutional. Read More »