Training, support and anxiety management all are key to the implementation of computerized physician order entry systems, according to research published this week in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Read More »

More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States. Read More »

Open source is winning praise in enterprises thanks to businesses realising the risk of letting proprietary software control their businesses. Read More »

I’m just one of millions of examples of how data can transform our lives. Read More »

I recently had my attention called to a great post on the WSJ.com blog by Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill University in Montreal. Though it’s the opposite of the sort of advice one would expect to get from the Wall Street Journal, it was apparently first posted in 2009 and then re-upped in November, 2012: Read More »

As smartphone adoption and broadband infrastructure grows throughout the world, so does the ability to reach individuals of all backgrounds. Smartphones hold the promise to be the vehicle that will help to scale philanthropic and education efforts in remote locations of developing countries where health literacy is nearly non-existent. Read More »

The discovery, reported in Current Biology, suggests that what time we store and eat our produce may affect its nutritional value Read More »

Imagine waking up just after midnight to a sky so bright you swear it must be early morning. Imagine seeing the Northern Lights as far south as Cuba or Hawaii. Imagine that the same phenomena behind both has also generated electric fields in the ground strong enough to power small electronics. That's what happened in 1859, when the earth was struck by the most severe geomagnetic storm ever recorded. Read More »

The metadata that the National Security Agency collects on all calls in the U.S. is not just what's on a phone bill, as the program's supporters have claimed. Read More »