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How We Build CMS-Free Websites
It's been almost two years since Development Seed deliberately stopped building websites with Drupal and moved away from CMS-driven applications altogether. Since then, our recent blog posts about investing in Prose.io, rebuilding our own websites with Jekyll, creating the MapBox Map Site templates, and launching new client-sponsored projects like MIX Maps indicate the new approach we're taking. Read More »
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How We Could Kill Superbugs Without Antibiotics
Antibiotics will soon be useless, but U.K. scientists have come up with a new way to kill bacteria—and it's not with a drug. And perhaps the best thing about this approach is that bacteria may not be able to build resistance against it. A team from the University of East Anglia, publishing in the journal Nature, figured out that the key to destroying bacteria is understanding how they build their defensive walls. It’s like ruining an astronaut’s space suit instead of going after the astronauts inside...
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How We Made a Health App That Works in Remote Rural Areas without Internet
Over half a century ago, communications guru and public intellectual Marshall McLuhan predicted that electronic interdependence will make the world a global village. But last month, Simon Tisdall of The Guardian called out the international media for creating a hierarchy of suffering by focusing on Hurricane Harvey more than on the devastating floods in South Asia and South East Asia. The reason: distance! The distances that marginalize are not just physical. They manifest in governance gaps in justice, cultural atrophy and social dystopia. Nowhere is the tyranny of distance more manifest than in health care delivery. And the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand has the double burden of a hilly terrain along with metaphorical distances to bridge...
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How Will Current EHR Adoption, Use Affect Future Research?
Research from the United Kingdom provides a glimpse into the challenges following the widespread adoption of EHR systems and capturing of patient data electronically. “The present use of EHR databases requires programing expertise and understanding of the nuances of the coding systems.[...]." Read More »
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How Will Open Access Affect The Humanities And Social Sciences?
How open access will affect the humanities and social sciences sector (HSS) has been a topic of hot debate, one that has been called even more into focus since the new RCUK OA policy became effective on 1 April this year. Read More »
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How Would You Spend $100 Million?
Picture one hundred million dollars. 1,000 units of $100,000. Health systems routinely spend that much on a new EHR system. Keep in mind that EHRs are software systems that no one seems to love, that have dubious impact on care quality, and that are fundamentally ill-suited for the patient-centric future of healthcare. Nevertheless... Read More »
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How Zombie Phones Could Create A Gigantic, Mobile Botnet
[...] For the past decade, botnets have mostly been a problem for the PC world. But, according to a new report on mobile malware, it may not be long before we start seeing botnets built out of an increasingly sophisticated type of device: cell phones. Read More »
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How's The Sausage Made? These Folks Really Want To Share The Knowledge
With the current bloom of artisanal small-batch producers across the country, you'd think that all you need to start up a new food business is a good idea and a lot of gumption. And for the most part, that's true. But when it comes to artisanal producers working with meat, you also need something else: a Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points plan. Or, if you will, a HACCP. Read More »
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HP Plans Open Source Offer For NHS
Hewlett Packard is planning to provide a full electronic patient record system on the open source framework being developed by NHS England. Read More »
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HP Reportedly Ditches Windows RT as Microsoft Readies Surface
According to unconfirmed reports, HP has scrapped plans to build Windows RT-based tablets which would have been direct competitors to Microsoft's own upcoming Surface tablet that was announced in June. Read More »
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HP Said to Dump Microsoft over Surface: WART is No Longer Welcome at Most OEMs
Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface? We were being too kind, their largest OEM, HP, just bailed. Read More »
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HP Wins $39 Million Contract To Continue VistA Support
HP was awarded a five-year, $39 million contract to continue providing operations and maintenance software applications support for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, also known as VistA. Read More »
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HSCIC To Support Open Source
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will extend its support for NHS organisations and providers using open source, open interfaces and cloud technology to increase integration across health and social care. Read More »
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HTML5 Trumping iOS Among App Developers In Emerging Mobile Markets
Mobile app developers in many regions outside the US and Europe are choosing to develop apps in HTML5 rather than iOS but it's iOS that's earning devs the biggest bucks. Read More »
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HTML5 vs. Apps: Here's Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win
HTML5 is a new technology that allows developers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a standard web browser. Read More »
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