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A Primer on the Open Source Movement from a Health Care Perspective
Open source, in myriad forms, has emerged as a significant development model that drives both innovation and technological dispersion. Ignore it at your peril, as did the major computer companies destroyed or totally remade by Linux and free software, or encyclopedia publishers by Wikipedia, or journalists and marketers by social media. The term "open source" was associated first with free software, but it goes far beyond software now. People around the world use open hardware, demand open government, share open data, and--yes--pursue open health. The field of health, in particular, will be transformed by open source principles in software, in research, in consultations and telemedicine, and in the various forms of data sharing all these processes call for.
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A Pro- Single Payer Doctor’s Concerns About Obamacare
Believe me, the right's approach would be much worse. But the underinsured are getting a worse deal than you think
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A Real Stand Against Antibiotic Resistance Starts At The Farm, Not The Hospital
The US government made history on September 18th when President Obama signed an executive order establishing a task force to combat antibiotic resistance at the federal level. The order outlined general goals such as tracking the use of antibiotics and creating incentives for drug development. Some applauded the announcement, while pointing out other countries’ continued failure to do the same...
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A Refresher: Warrantless Spying Was Blatantly Illegal
Frontline's new documentary about NSA spying is an important reminder of how Bush officials violated the Constitution...
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A Regulator, Harvard Prof. Walk Into An ER ...
Between the health reform’s goal of avoiding acute hospitalizations, the rise of urgent care clinics and the new possibilities of digital health, emergency rooms are poised for transformation. Indeed, a much needed one...
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A Resurrection For Hippocratic Medicine?
...Just a few days ago, a paper by Casalino et al, in the journal Health Affairs clearly showed that compared to practices with 10–19 physicians, practices with 1–2 physicians had 33 percent fewer preventable admissions, and practices with 3–9 physicians had 27 percent fewer. Physician-owned practices had fewer preventable admissions than hospital-owned practices...
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A Revolution in Mobile Technologies is Taking Place in India
Everyone knows India has changed in very obvious ways since the explosion of the technology economy...But what most Indians haven’t seen first hand is the revolution that mobile technology is bringing about in the small towns and rural areas of India...
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A Simple Request From The Front Lines Of Healthcare
I know that there is going to be another scuffle over the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). I know that we have already paid $150 billion on “doc fixes” since 1997, and I know that everyone in healthcare is trying to make sure that their ox will not be gored.
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A Stethoscope That Can See
A new tool lets doctors turn sound waves into graphs.
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A Tale of Two Epidemics — HCV Treatment among Native Americans and Veterans
In light of ongoing debates about health care budgets and rising drug prices, a current public health crisis can provide useful insights. For patients who get their health care through two separate federal agencies, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic is unfolding in vastly different ways. In recent years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system has mounted a response to HCV that should be the envy of any health system, public or private. On the other hand, the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency that serves American Indians and Alaska Natives, is struggling to meet the needs of its patients with HCV...
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A Third Of Americans Delinquent On Debt
More than a third of the country is in trouble when it comes to paying debts on time; 35% of Americans have debt in collections, according to a study out Tuesday from the Urban Institute, which analyzed the credit files of 7 million Americans...
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A Tiny Technical Change In iOS 8 Could Stop Marketers Spying On You
Whenever you walk around a major Western city with your phone’s Wi-Fi turned on, you are broadcasting your location to government agencies, marketing companies and location analytics firms.
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AAAS Selects Copyright Clearance Center to Handle Article Processing Charges For Its First Online, Fully Open Access Journal
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has chosen the RightsLink for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, to handle Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Science Advances...
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AAFP Calls For A Less Burdensome ONC Interoperability Plan
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is seeking to reduce regulatory burdens on providers in response to a request for commentary on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015–2020 recently published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)...
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AAFP Recreates Center For EHR optimization, Clinical Analytics
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced the rebranding of its Center for Healthcare Technology, a program focused on helping providers make efficient, effective use of their electronic health records...
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