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How The US Government Uses Information From Spying On Foreign Companies
There’s no longer doubt that the US government spies on foreign multinational corporations as well as governments, thanks to the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor turned international fugitive Edward Snowden. [...] Read More »
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How The World Bank Is Using Technology And Open Development To Help Eradicate Poverty
Founded in 1944, the World Bank is, as its name alludes to, a global financial institution geared towards reducing poverty in developing countries. Read More »
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How The World’s First Open Source MRI Happened
You wouldn’t think that a hang gliding accident could start a revolution in medicine. But when a teenager fell 150 feet into a lake several years ago, the subsequent events that sparked a revolutionary new diagnostic method, what I am calling the first open source MRI. Read More »
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How The ‘Failure’ Culture Of Startups Is Killing Innovation
Far from being the measure of disgrace it once was, failure now seems to be a sort of badge of honor. But underlying many popular Silicon Valley failure clichés is entrepreneurs’ belief that “starting companies these days is akin to doing research in the past” — as if we don’t need research when the opportunity to fail is so readily available. Read More »
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How The “Internet Of Things” Will Replace The Web
We’ve already written about why 2014 is really, finally the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth—becomes visible in our everyday lives. Read More »
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How to Achieve Credibility in NHS Open Source IT Projects
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical lead for electronic patient records explains how clinical engagement has helped make EPR an open source success. Anyone who knows me will know I am not very good with computers. Which may make me seem a curious choice to lead clinical engagement in an important IT implementation for our trust. Two years ago I took a step back from clinical practice as a consultant physician at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to work as chief clinical information officer and clinical lead for the implementation of an open source electronic patient record (EPR) system across the wards and departments of the trust’s Musgrove Park hospital...
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How To Avoid EHR Backlash In The Patient Experience, Clinic
The term “EHR backlash” has been used recently to describe the challenges and feelings that physicians associate with their EHR adoptions. It has even reached the point of having its own hashtag on Twitter, #EHRBacklash, with plenty of interest to draw even more attention. [...] However, the term “backlash” may not be the word that best fits the current discourse.... Read More »
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How To Avoid The Top 3 EHR Contracting Pitfalls
It seems inevitable that every practice will eventually be on an electronic health record (EHR) system. Making the right vendor decision and avoiding pitfalls is critical to having a successful experience. Below are the hard lessons learned by those who have been there, done that, and paid the price... Read More »
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How To Break Out Of PRISM
NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to escape the Panopticon Read More »
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How To Buy Slavery-Free Prawns – And Have A Positive Impact On The Industry
Wield your consumer power to help remove slavery from the Thai seafood supply chain, says the executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation Read More »
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How To Cash In On Government As A Platform
At TechCrunch Disrupt New York , the White House’s chief geeks — CTO Todd Park and CIO Steve Van Roekel — rang the bell for Silicon Valley to step up and help recode the federal government with their Digital Government Strategy. They hammered home the need for developers to leverage the mountains of open data coming out of the government to create new services and products for consumers.
How To Choose Your Open Source Hardware License
It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public... Read More »
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How To Connect Community Radio Stations In Indonesia
Worldwide, media outlets are increasingly mastering two-way communications channels. Radio and television stations are equipped to receive text messages, phone calls, and social media inputs. Staff can then decide to respond over broadcast, or back through the incoming channel. Yet these communications are often restricted to a single node [...]. Read More »
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How to Cut Through the Noise of the Healthcare Internet of Things
Healthcare providers are busy people. Between high patient loads and the demands of EHR documentation, the reporting requirements, the internal meetings, and the minutes wasted waiting for test results or other communications from the care team, there is often precious little time to get a cup of coffee, let alone sit down to rethink their workflow procedures...
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How To Fix Healthcare.gov
Late last night, the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services finally communicated with the public and let us know their plans on fixing Healthcare.gov with a “tech surge”. Their plan? Read More »
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