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Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation
Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »
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Obamacare, The Constitution, And The Original Meaning Of The Commerce Clause
Several lawsuits over the health-care reform's individual mandate hinge on interpretations of the constitution's Commerce Clause. This clause is widely believed to grant Congress broad power over national markets. But that isn't what the founders had in mind. Read More »
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Obamacare’s Open Source Project Lives On — Even After White House Kills It
Months before the ill fated launch of Healthcare.gov — the website built to give millions of Americans access to affordable health care — government officials were already describing it as something special. Read More »
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Obamaneycare: Trotskyite Takeover or Big Company Bail out?
It's almost too perfect. Of all the GOP candidates President Barack Obama could possibly face in the 2012 election, he's been matched against Mitt Romney. As presidential opponents tend to be, Romney and Obama are on opposite sides of nearly every policy issue – not least, if only ostensibly, healthcare.
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Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says
The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government. Read More »
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Obama’s Surprising Answer on Which Part of Obamacare Has Disappointed Him the Most
There was this moment, about 50 minutes into our interview with President Barack Obama last week, that genuinely surprised me (and surprised other health care journalists, like David Nather, too). My colleague Ezra Klein had asked the president a question about which part of the law had overperformed his expectations, and which part of the law had underperformed. The president gave a surprisingly frank assessment of something his administration has tried, and failed, to do: Get doctors off paper and on to digital medical records...
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Obesity And The AMA
Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »
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Obesity Worsened During Economic Downturn: Poor Buying More Cheap Junk Food
Since the economic downturn of the past five years, obesity increased in many developed countries and remained stable in a few. Read More »
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ODK Team Releases ODK Tables Alpha
The ODK Team is pleased to announce the alpha release of ODK Tables. Read More »
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OECD 2012 Economic Survey of the United States: The United States Needs to Foster Education and Innovation to Keep Its Cutting Edge
So what does an economic survey of the United States have to do with health care? Simply that we cannot expect to have a superior health care system that serves everyone well if we don't fulfill our citizen obligation to demand greater government oversight and intervention in education, employment, and especially in the intolerable rise in income inequality. Current trends in the United States are not encouraging.
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Of Aaron Swartz, Open Access And #PDF Tributes
So in a fitting tribute on Monday, academics across the world paid tribute to this legendary hacker and advocate of a free and equal Internet by putting up PDFs of their copyrighted works online. On the micro-blogging site Twitter, the hashtag #PDFTribute trended all day, triggering a progressive and open debate on copyright, academic work and access.
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Of Course Verizon Wants Net Neutrality to Go Away
One of the more controversial recent network neutrality rules...seeks to balance free speech against fairness and access. On one side, those controlling the networks say that controlling what goes out over broadband is their right under the First Amendment's free speech clause, among other commercial problems. On the other, net neutrality advocates warn that those controlling networks will restrict free speech by suppressing outside voices. Read More »
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Off-Grid Phone System to the Rescue
An emergency mobile phone system developed at Flinders University has been acknowledged in international InnovationXchange awards for post-disaster relief work in the Pacific. The Australian Government’s Pacific Humanitarian Challenge is running the awards competition to acknowledge and develop outstanding efforts to improve faster, cheaper and effective aid responses to Pacific nations. Among 129 applications from 20 countries, the first-round winners included solutions to communications, logistics and finance in disaster situations, including the acclaimed free smartphone system built on the Serval Project at Flinders...
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Office Of The National Coordinator For Health IT Tackles Pressing EHR Issues
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to stimulate the adoption of health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
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Official Intel Statement Denies Tizen's Death Rumors
Intel has posted a statement regarding the rumor that the Tizen OS, which is co-developed with Samsung, is dying. Read More »
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