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Accenture Scoops Up HIT Contractor To DoD And VA
Accenture Federal Services (AFS) announced Wednesday that it will acquire ASM Research, Inc., a provider of information technology and services to U.S. defense and federal health clients. Read More »
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Access Barriers Relegating Africa To Invisible Research Contributor
The growth of research in Africa and the ability to find solutions to the continent’s problems will remain limited if African academic libraries continued to have restricted access to official research information, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Wednesday. Read More »
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Access To Broadband Internet Is The New Access To Ports, Rail, And Electricity
In the 21st century, a small business in Kansas City, Missouri, has at least one very important thing in common with a small business in Seoul, Korea: Both have access to ultra high-speed internet—Kansas City via Google Fiber and Seoul on account of its government championing the rollout of fiber optic internet for over a decade. Read More »
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Access To Research - Comment
Research Councils UK (RCUK), a partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils recently announced a new access policy for the research they fund. Alexandra Saxon explains the new policy and what it means for researchers. Read More »
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Access To Research Comes At A Price
In 2008, the Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with a number of specially selected libraries, was “invited” to take part in a “pilot” to pay EBSCO, the journal aggregator, an additional amount of money for the privilege of using URLs to point to Harvard content contained in our existing subscriptions. The Sainsbury Library refused... Read More »
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Accessing & Using APIs from Major EMR Vendors–Some Data at Last!
Information blocking, Siloed data. No real inter-operability. Standards that aren’t standards. In the last few years, the clamor about the problems accessing personal health data has grown as the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) increased post the Federally-funded HITECH program. But at Health 2.0 where we focus on newer health tech startups using SMAC (Social/Sensor; Mobile OS; Cloud; Analytics) technologies, the common complaint we’ve heard has been that the legacy–usually client-server based–EMR vendors won’t let the newer vendors integrate with them...
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Accountable Care Is Healthcare’s New OS
The 1st year report card on Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations is out. Depending on who you talk to, the story changes dramatically. As Gregg Masters pointed out, reactions to the reports on the Pioneer ACOs would either have you believe that ACOs “succeeded” or that “Obamacare is a failure.” Read More »
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Accountable Care: IT Gets Us Only Halfway There
It's hard to imagine a successful accountable care organization (ACO) that doesn't rely heavily on IT...But the very foundation upon which ACOs are built could be shaky, making software tools only so effective. Let me explain. Read More »
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Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database
If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency... Read More »
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Acetaminophen In Pregnancy Linked To ADHD In Kids, Study Finds
Children whose mothers took Tylenol during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, researchers found. Read More »
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Acquia Delivers Integrated Digital Experiences For Higher Education Institutions
Acquia, where great digital experiences begin, today announced it is working with more than 300 higher education institutions, helping them gain the freedom and agility to build great digital experiences and speed their time to market. With Acquia, colleges and universities are discovering how open source technology powerfully integrates both the real and virtual campus. [...] Read More »
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Acquia Launches Digital Alliance To Provide Technology Ecosystem For Creating Next-Generation, Integrated Digital Experiences
Acquia, where great digital experiences begin, today launched its Digital Alliance program, bringing together digital marketing and infrastructure technology companies that provide a full range of digital skills and applications that build upon and integrate with the Acquia open cloud platform... Read More »
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Acquia To Open Portland Tech Center, Add 20 Jobs
A Boston company with a fresh round of venture capital is tapping into Portland’s open source software expertise to make the city home to a new technical center. Read More »
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Across Pharma, Few Open Arms For Trial Data Sharing
Industry inches toward consensus on limited sharing as EMA, GSK press for open access. Read More »
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ACS Publications Announces The Large-Scale Digitization And Open Availability Of Data Coupled To ACS Legacy Archives Journals
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today the completion of a comprehensive undertaking to digitally convert and conserve the Supporting Information for its broadly subscribed ACS Legacy Archives journals collection. Read More »
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