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9 Healthcare Innovations Driven By Open Data
...IBM and the Cleveland Clinic announced that Watson was turning to more serious pursuits and had "enrolled" in medical school. It's been a productive partnership: Last month, they launched a new Watson program using genomic data to find the best options for cancer patients...
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A 2012 Solar Storm Almost Caused A Worldwide Catastrophe
The world as we know it almost came to an end in 2012 — though it happened before the Mayan calendar came to an end. Instead, one of the strongest solar storms ever recorded sent a burst of energy through Earth's orbit that could have crippled electrical systems across the planet...
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A Better Way to Release Your City’s Data
Open data has immense potential to catalyze creative problem solving by practitioners and policymakers, but troves of vaguely-labeled spreadsheets will do little to inspire interest or facilitate innovative solutions. To unlock the value of open data, governments have begun to launch open datasets in themed releases, which contain data and additional context about a specific policy area. These open datasets have two distinct advantages: a more useful and navigable platform for users and better marketing appeal to practitioners focused on the policy area...
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A Bionic Eye That Restores Sight
By bridging the gap between eye and brain, a new device has the capacity to help the blind regain their vision...
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A Bionic, Mind-Controlled Arm, From The Inventor Of The Segway
The FDA just approved a prosthetic arm that amputees can control with their brains...
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A Bureaucratic Mess Leads to Shutdown of HHS Cybersecurity Center
In May 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services decided to stand up its own version of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in order to address the increasing cybersecurity risks to the health care sector. But creating the Health Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, or HCCIC, was the easy part. Soon after, the newfound center landed in the spotlight, sparking agency and industry drama about the role and scope of HHS authorities in information sharing.
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A Call To Action For A Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure. This paper describes ONC’s broad vision and framework for interoperability and is an invitation to health IT stakeholders – clinicians, consumers, hospitals, public health, technology developers, payers, researchers, policymakers and many others – to join ONC in developing a defined, shared roadmap that will allow us to collectively achieve health IT interoperability as a core foundational element of better care, at a lower cost and better health for all...
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A Chart About College Coach Salaries That Will Make Academics Weep
The American Association of University Professors is out with its latest annual report on the economic health of its members' profession. Executive summary: It’s pretty weak. But this year, the AAUP has added a fun little wrinkle by comparing the growth of academic and sports spending.
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A Cloud For Every Industry — Real Estate, Health Care, & Beyond
Industry cloud software companies have largely been ignored by the investment world because of the assumption that the markets they serve are too small to support billion-dollar outcomes. We think that’s misguided — and a quick look at some of the numbers shows why...
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A Consulting Firm Attempts a Transition to Open Source Health Software (Part 1 of 2)
Open source is increasingly understood to be the future of software, because communities working together on shared needs can produce code that is at least as good as proprietary products, while representing user interests more effectively and interoperating without friction. But running an open source project is a complex task, and keeping a business going on it is absolutely perilous. In his 2001 book The Cathedral & the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond listed half a dozen ways for businesses to profit on open source software, but today only one or two are visible in the field (and they differ from his list).
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A Dangerous Week For Food: 4 Major Recalls
There have been three major human food recalls this week, as well as one recall that affects man’s best friend...
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A Deadly Virus Is Spreading Around Saudi Arabia And It Might Be About To Go Global
Reported cases of MERS have surged in Saudi Arabia in 2014 and no one seems to know why.
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A Disease That’s Three Times More Deadly Than SARS Just Reached The United States
A viral and often fatal respiratory disease in the Middle East has taken a turn for the worse and is spreading throughout the region, as well as to parts of Asia, Europe and now the United States. US officials have just confirmed that a man who fell ill after returning from Saudi Arabia about a week ago has Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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A Doctor Is Skeptical About Apple’s HealthKit. Here’s Why.
Apple recently previewed a new framework called HealthKit that will be included in their next mobile operating system called iOS 8....But, to be honest, even though the tech press is very excited about this, I am not impressed...
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A Doctor's Declaration Of Independence
It's time to defy health-care mandates issued by bureaucrats not in the healing profession.
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