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Not So Fast: CMS Says Meaningful Use Not Dead, New Incentive Program Will Take Time
One week after Andy Slavitt said meaningful use would be replaced soon, the acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator and national coordinator Karen DeSalvo made it clear that the changes would take time and that providers must still follow the current program. Slavitt and DeSalvo in a blog post Tuesday afternoon explained the new regulatory framework would move away from measuring clicks to focusing on care...
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Noted: Experimenting With Open Access Notes In Medicine
As health information technology continues to evolve, new and creative uses for electronic health records (EHRs) are beginning to develop. One such “potentially disruptive innovation” is the use of EHRs and patient portals to give patients access to the notes doctors prepare on patients after an office visit. Read More »
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Novant Health Hoping For Smoother Transition To Epic Records System
In the middle of a $600 million, 10-year initiative to put in place a new Epic Records Corp. electronic medical records system, Novant Health has seen two of its Triad counterparts rack up operating deficits as they've brought the same Epic system online. Read More »
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Novel Open Source Seed Pledge Aims To Keep New Vegetable And Grain Varieties Free For All
This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge. Read More »
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Novena Whips Up An Open Source Laptop From Scratch
Novena Project aims to create an entirely open source laptop, from the iron down to the bits, and a prototype already exists Read More »
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Now Available: 29 Flavors Of Open Source Seeds, Sans Patents
There’s been an argument going on for at least 100 years over seeds. Should they be free? Or should the people who develop them control, and profit from, their use? If they were shared, we’d have a more fluid development of agricultural technology [...] On the other hand, maybe breeders wouldn’t want to engage in the hard work of experimenting if they couldn’t sell their inventions for lots of money. Read More »
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NOW AVAILABLE: March 31 Issue Of "Dramatic Growth Of Open Access"
The March 31 issue of Dramatic Growth of Open Access features a comparison of open access growth including CC-BY article growth figures supplied by OASPA. [...] Recent research suggests that CC-BY is the preference of a small minority of scholars. Read More »
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Now, It’s The Turn Of Open Source Hardware Movement
After the open source software movement in the IT sector, the new wave is that of open source hardware, wherein the information about the hardware can easily be discerned and it can be further customised. Read More »
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Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... The Digital Public Library Of America!
Two-and-a-half years ago, at a meeting in Cambridge, leaders of 42 of America's top libraries and research institutions decided that the time had come to build something together. But what was that thing? After a half hour, Robert Darnton told The Atlantic last year, the group was able to agree on a single sentence: "It's a worthy effort, and we are willing to work together toward it." The "it" in question: a national, digital public library. Read More »
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NRO Readies Open Source Cloud For Launch
In a move toward a more efficient National Reconnaissance Office, analysts for the agency operating the nation's spy satellites are on the verge of getting their information through a top-secret open-source cloud environment housing intelligence data. Read More »
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NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »
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NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists
Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »
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NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion In U.S. Technology Sales
International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom. Read More »
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NSA Surveillance Is An Attack On American Citizens, Says Noam Chomsky
The actions of the US government in spying on its and other countries' citizens have been sharply criticised by Noam Chomsky, the prominent political thinker, as attacks on democracy and the people. Read More »
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NSA Surveillance Program Reaches ‘Into The Past’ To Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
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