Here’s an alarming fact: the meaningful use dropout rate is already 17%. Read More »

Developing an effective framework for driving healthcare quality improvements proves a multifaceted, complex endeavor, and although EHR systems can play a positive role in the task, much of the technology still misses the mark. This was just one of several concerns put before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. Read More »

Maker Machine is a mobile makerspace that brings 3D printers, DIY robotics, and interactive art to primary schools, libraries, museums and youth clubs. The project is currently fundraising for a tour of Australia to bring our workshop to schools around the country. Read More »

Researchers at the Imperial College London, UCL and King’s College London have found long-term cannabis users have lower levels of the chemical dopamine in the brain that is necessary for motivation. [...] Read More »

Members of the European Parliament and public administrations working with free and open source software solutions are getting together at the Libre Software Meeting, taking place in Brussels between 8 and 11 July. Read More »

Despite the potential for electronic health records to help providers coordinate care, the current marketplace has failed to provide adequate solutions. [...] Read More »

There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services.  What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »

I have been following  the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest.  If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now. Read More »

So, you think that the Mobile Revolution is complete and the battle between smartphones and PCs is all but won? Think again. Read More »

Over the past year and a half I've been spending more and more of my time working with Mozilla's latest project, Firefox OS. During that time I've fallen in love with the project and what it stands for, in ways that I've never experienced with a technology platform before. Read More »