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Is Dr. Zaius America's Newest Cyberenemy?
On Wednesday, The Colbert Report took a hard look at the possibility of a cyberattack brought on by mobile devices. Host Stephen Colbert asked counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke about the possibility of a Stuxnet-type attack being perpetrated via an iPad. Clarke replied, "A small group of talented people using iPads could take down a whole nation." Read More »
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Is EHR data blocking really as bad as ONC claims?
Consensus that EHR vendors and profit-hungry hospitals are intentionally making it hard for patients and others to access date is based on evidence – much of it put forth by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT – that is largely anecdotal. Center for Medical Interoperability vice president Kerry McDermott says data blocking is a systemic issue because information sharing is a new practice in healthcare...
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Is EHR “Mania” Hiding Serious Patient Safety Flaws?
A typo leads to the administration of the wrong medication. A surgeon looking at a flipped image operates on the opposite side of a patient’s head. An allergy warning is ignored after a clinician clicks away from an annoying pop-up reminder. In the rush to adopt electronic health records and the race to achieve meaningful use, are potentially significant dangers to patients being ignored? Read More »
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Is Energy Industry Ready to Join Open Source World?
Landmark, a technology unit of the energy services company Halliburton, is betting that it is, unveiling a cloud-computing platform last week that will allow companies to collaborate on developing software to process the massive volumes of data they collect on everything from geology to seismology to chemistry to drilling to flows of oil and gas. The idea is that easy and open access to the code on which the platform is based will lead to faster and better analysis of the data and ultimately to innovations that allow the industry to extract more oil and gas at lower costs...
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Is Epic Stifling Health IT Innovation?
In many ways and definitely based on the buzz, Epic is at the top of the hospital EMR market. According to one estimate, about 40 percent of the U.S. population has its medical information stored in an Epic EMR, a stunning number given the level of competition in the hospital EMR space. Read More »
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Is Facebook The World's Largest Open Source Company?
Red Hat used to wear the open source crown. Then Google. But Facebook and other web giants now contribute the most to open source. Read More »
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Is GitHub Government’s Next Big Thing?
With recent attempts from the White House to bring a more agile approach to government technology, U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel’s “Shared First” initiative, released in December, coupled with the federal government’s new digital strategy, the door may slowly be opening to a more widespread public sector collaborative coding environment, such as the one provide by San Francisco-based startup GitHub.
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Is Google Health On Its Deathbed? Privacy and the Personal Health Record
Google Health is approaching its second birthday, and according to some, also near death. I can't help but speculate that if it is indeed shuffling off the digital coil, that its demise has something to do with a general unwillingness to hand over such sensitive information to a company that already knows so much about us as individuals. (Although I should note that their privacy policy does explicitly state that your Google Health profile would not be linked to information from other Google services you use). Read More »
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Is HIT Interoperability In The Nature Of Healthcare?
The proprietary business model makes the vendor the single source of HIT for hospital clients. Complexity and dependence are baked into both solutions and client relationships, creating a “vendor lock” scenario in which changing systems seems almost inconceivable.
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Is iEHR Really Dead?
Is the highly-anticipated joint iEHR that the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have been working on ready for a burial? Or not? Read More »
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Is IT Innovation Driving Physicians Out The Door?
Rather than face the perfect storm of decreasing reimbursement, increasing costs, legislative mandates, and penalties around technology adoption, information exchange, and Meaningful Use, an alarming number of physicians are making the decision to "go quietly into the night" and retire early from practice. Read More »
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Is IT The Department Of 'No?'
There is an interesting conversation going on at GovLoop about how a number of government leaders are often turned down when they try to convince their IT shops to try new technologies. Read More »
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Is It Time To Revisit Clinger-Cohen?
The time has come to revise the framework that dictates the acquisition process for federal IT, according to two lawmakers in what might be a rare moment of bipartisan agreement. Read More »
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Is Lobbying Closer To Bribery... Or Extortion?
We've certainly talked quite a bit about the institutional-level corruption of the way Congress and lobbying works, but a recent This American Life episode, done in partnership with the Planet Money team takes a much deeper dive into how lobbying works... Read More »
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Is Most Of Modern Society Run By Linux?
Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin discusses the ubiquity of Linux in supercomputers, Televisions, smartphones and "most of modern society" with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." Read More »
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