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Fighting For Rights In A Time Of Big Data
More than a dozen civil rights groups are working to establish fairness guidelines for use by big data wielding law enforcement, hiring and commerce entities. They rightly point out the potential use of big data in discriminating against seniors and other groups. Below is the set of principles they think should be adopted across the board to prevent discrimination. [...] Read More »
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Fighting The Next Obamacare Tech Fail
In terminating CGI Federal's role in HealthCare.gov, President Obama finally "fired" one of the parties responsible for Obamacare's faulty website. That may appease the chorus of those calling on Obama to hold someone "accountable," but it does nothing to fix the underlying problem: the system for selecting contractors that picked CGI Federal in the first place. Read More »
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Fileman Lab Agile Project releases project plan
We are now halfway through phase 1 of the Fileman Lab Agile Project [FLAP], with three months done and three to go. During the next three months we will be doing the following... Read More »
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Final policy requires feds to publicly release 20 percent of code
Nearly four months after issuing a draft policy to release most — if not all — code produced by government agencies as open source, the Office of Management and Budget dropped the final mandate on Aug. 8. The use of open source code for federal projects has been a major push from the administration over the last couple years and the new policy shows an effort for the government to abide by the same standards they espouse...
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Finally Home, Traumatically Injured Vets Face New Lives As VA Faces Costs
Jerral Hancock wakes up every night in Lancaster, Calif., around 1 a.m. dreaming he is trapped in a burning tank. He opens his eyes, but he can't move, he can't get out of bed and he can't get a drink of water. Read More »
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Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »
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Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center: Reading This Blog Might Have Saved Them Millions Of Dollars, And Prevented Massive "Cost Saving Initiatives"
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »
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Finch Access Plan Unlikely To Fly Across The Atlantic
Felice Levine, executive director of learned society the American Educational Research Association, told the Academy of Social Science's Implementing Finch conference last week that the Finch report on open access had been "noticed" in the US. Read More »
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Finding The Value In HIE, IT Integration Will Push Adoption: Q&A
“What’s in it for me?” isn’t an unreasonable question when it comes to healthcare information technology. Providers are being asked to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new IT systems, and finding the business case for these massive investments is crucial to spurring adoption and improving healthcare at its core. Read More »
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Fine Tuning The National Healthcare IT Timeline
As I work with healthcare leaders in Boston, in New England, and throughout the country, I'm seeing signs that well resourced medical centers will struggle with Meaningful Use stage 2 attestation, ICD-10 go live, HIPAA Omnibus Rule readiness, and Accountable Care Act implementation, all of which have 2013-2014 deadlines... Read More »
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Firefox Beta Brings New 'Home' Design To Android, Desktop Version Gains Firefox OS App Manager
Early adopters know that Firefox likes to put new features through the paces via beta versions of its browser. Accordingly, Firefox today announced some fresh goodies for both mobile and desktop... Read More »
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Firefox May Beat Google To A Web-Based Slate: Hello, Firefox OS Tablet
I’ve been waiting for a web-based tablet and it looks like it’s coming soon. But it’s not the Chrome tablet I was expecting. Instead, meet the first slate in the Firefox OS tablet program. Read More »
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Firefox OS Ecosystem Continues Expansion And Redefines The Entry-Level Smartphone
Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is demonstrating the latest advancements to its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem at Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai...
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Firefox OS Is Now on Smartphones
Firefox has been the longstanding preference of tech savvy users for web browsing for the better part of a decade now. Created by Mozilla, the Firefox OS is a natural extension of their mobile desktop and browsing interfaces, and now, thanks to LG, will be the gears and bolts now powering their new line of smartphones. Read More »
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Firefox OS Mobilises HTML5, Without The Added Steve Jobs
Review Do you want to build applications for Firefox OS? The first step is to head over to the Mozilla website and sign up for a developer kit. Read More »
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