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5 Problematic HIT Projects Costing The Government Billions
Cost overruns and missed deadlines for several federal agency health technology projects are costing the government "billions of dollars," according to a Government Accountability Office report focusing on the inefficiency of agency IT initiatives published Thursday. Read More »
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5 Questions With Stephen Mickelsen, Mobile Application Architect For Humetrix iBlueButton
[...] While not often considered a hot topic at the C-suite level, the government has taken some very interesting steps to encourage patients to become willing participants in their care, be it through ACO preventative care measures or healthcare standards. Read More »
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5 Q’s for Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa Regional Coordinator for the World Wide Web Foundation
Right now, the community of civil society, media, and academia using open data is still growing in Africa. Governments are still not sharing enough open data. And while more and more freedom of information laws are being passed, citizen inquiries are not always responded to in practice. We don’t have clear open data champions.But I’m hopeful this will change because in spite of the challenges a number of excellent projects have shown us what’s possible. For example, the Africa Data ConsensusAfrica Open Data Conference, and the growing network of open street mapping across the continent.
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5 Reasons Hospitals Need a Mobile App
If patient engagement is the holy grail of healthcare and if hospital revenue will increasingly hinge on the ability to connect with patients, then why are so many hospitals missing out on one of the most effective means of engaging patients -- a branded mobile application? Read More »
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5 Reasons Mobile Is the Future of Sustainable Development
Social media and technology hold a unique position when it comes to shaping sustainable solutions for the future or our planet. At the core of many of these possibilities for change are mobile phones. Read More »
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5 Strategies For Implementing Data Analytics In Hospitals
Since the advent of the Internet, people have been able to access a significant amount of information with the click of a computer mouse. As technology becomes more ingrained in healthcare delivery, providers are facing the quandary of how to glean useful information from the enormous amount of data available through electronic health records, computerized provider order entry and other databases. Read More »
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5 Things Every Organization Can Learn From Anonymous
You may find them annoying. You may find them threatening. But there’s no denying that Anonymous is still one of the most prevalent, powerful and decentralized movements out there...The movement’s ability to survive speaks to the power of leaderless groups, crowd sourcing and spontaneity. Here are 5 ways that traditional organizations — from companies, to start-ups, to charities — can learn from the mysterious power of hacktivists and internet trolls in Anonymous...
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5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal
The theme at TEDGlobal this year was "Radical Openness," indicating the effects of open-source technology, collaboration, social media, and DIY invention on our world. Read More »
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5 Things To Know About The NSA Court Ruling
A District Court decision that the NSA's sweeping data collection program is unconstitutional paves the way for a Supreme Court review of the counterterrorism program, and creates a major headache for the Obama administration in the process. Read More »
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5 Trends That Will Drive Health Care IT In 2014
In 2014, analytics will play a bigger role in health care, while electronic health records (EHRs) will take a backseat to other types of technology such as mobility, Big Data and cloud computing, research firm IDC predicts. Read More »
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5 Trends Will Reshape Health IT In 2013
Ultimately the goal of all healthcare--IT included--is to put itself out of business. That may sound a bit strange but medicine's primary objective is to cure disease, or prevent it from occurring in the first place. And as the profession gets better at these two tasks, the public should become increasingly self-sufficient and have less and less need for its services. Read More »
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5 Ways Humanitarian Bots Can Save the World
Fifteen year old Sarafina, a female student in the capital city of Liberia, had a distressing problem at school: Her math teacher refused to give her a report card unless she had sex with him. Every day at school, he would request sexual favors and touch her inappropriately. Embarrassed, Sarafina kept the issue hidden from everyone, even her parents, until her father overheard a sexually harassing phone call the teacher made to their home. Sarafina’s father successfully confronted the man and got the report card, but his daughter was reprimanded for reporting her teacher’s sexual advances and forced to move to another school...
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5 Ways IT Helps Make Sense Of Costs
'It’s one thing to show a mountain of data. But if that mountain isn’t making sense to the consumer it’s of no use.' Read More »
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5 Ways Mobile Tech Can Improve Your Health
[People] increasingly access healthcare services via mobile, or “mHealth.” The result: Mobile is having a transformative effect on the way physicians and nurses care for patients. It’s also impacting how consumers manage their own health and well-being. Read More »
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5 Ways That Our Healthcare System Is Broken Infographic
How is our healthcare system doing? What changes need to be made? Is the Affordable Care Act the answer? What suggestions do you have to help fix our healthcare system? What are you doing to help reduce healthcare costs? How are you offsetting Medicare cutbacks? Read More »
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