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Browse Your Library’s e-Journals On Your Device With BrowZine
Review of BrowZine for iPhone, iPad, and Android...
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Building On Digital Libraries’ Growing Momentum in Africa
Digital libraries – collections of documents organised in an electronic form – encompass learning tools that could potentially enable huge strides in research, teaching and learning in African academic and research institutions...
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Building the mHealth Evidence Base
Last week at Stanford, innovation guru BJ Fogg hosted a conference called Mobile Health 2011: What Really Works. As a new member of the Pioneer team, the conference was a great opportunity to learn more about mHealth and meet some of the key players in the field.
As the title suggests, this year’s conference focused on what we know about how mHealth is changing behavior and improving health ou Read More »
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Burlington hospital expansion includes buying a $160 million EHR System
Lahey Health plans to spend over $170 million on its hospital facilities, with a new $162 million electronic medical records system as the centerpiece. Read More »
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Burwell Confirmed As HHS Secretary
The U.S. Senate voted in Sylvia Matthews Burwell as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday afternoon. Burwell, the former head of the Office of Management and Budget, was confirmed 78-17. Before and after the vote, Burwell both faced her share of fire and garnered high praise...
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Burwell Faces Barrage Of Tough Questions In Confirmation Hearing
President Obama's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary underwent a Senate committee hearing Thursday morning, during which Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., offered nothing but "highest praise for her work" as deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, the role which Burwell currently holds. McCain admitted he recommended Burwell turn down the HHS nomination due to the position being among the "most thankless jobs" in Washington...
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By 2050, Superbugs Will Kill 10 Million People A Year
A scourge is emerging across the rich and poor worlds alike, one that will claim 10 million lives a year by mid-century. Watch out for the “superbugs”—pathogens that even antibiotics can’t kill...
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By Drawing 50 'States' According to Income, Study Reveals 'Developing Countries' Within the U.S.
The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, but it would look dramatically different if its 50 states were organized according to income instead of geography. If that were the case, residents of the poorest state in the union would have a median household income that’s just above the federal poverty line for a family of four. They would also expect to live shorter lives than people in more than half of the world's countries. It's not a pretty picture, according to the researchers who carried out this thought experiment...
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CACI wins VA Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) contract
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded CACI International a $14 million contract to provide core development support on the VA’s Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record program. Read More »
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California Pharmacists Resist Translating Medicine Labels
Every Saturday morning, a steady stream of Chinese and Vietnamese patients line up at the Paul Hom Asian Clinic in Sacramento. Most of them speak little or no English...
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Camels And Contagion: Inside Global Hunt For Source Of MERS
With another case of the virus confirmed in the U.S., virus detectives are tracing its spread.
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Can Cable Companies Get Away With Being Hated? In Short, Yes
High prices, poor customer service, a lackluster reliability of products: Customers despise their cable TV provider, but lack a sufficient alternative to cut the cord...
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Can Cell Phones Stop Crime In The World's Murder Capitals?
...In recent years, police have courted cell phone-toting citizens as crime "censors" everywhere from Washington, D.C. to the tiny Kenyan village of Lanet Umoja. But the practice has gained particular traction in Latin America, which, as the UN reported in April, has the highest rate of criminal violence on the planet (the region accounts for 8 percent of the world's population and a third of its murders)...
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Can Doctors Teach The Body To Cure Cancer?
Increasingly, doctors are using their patients' own immune systems as valuable weapons against the disease...
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Can Public Health Data Mapping And Visualization Transform Healthcare Globally? [Australia]
Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Victorian Human Services Directory in Australia discusses how public health data mapping can improve global health...
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