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Senators Grassley, Wyden Call For More Billing Transparency
“Medicare is a $500 billion program with billions of dollars going out in error each year,” Grassley said June 4 in a news release. “The bad actors get bigger and bolder all the time. They stay out of law enforcement’s reach all too often. It’s time to try new things.” Read More »
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Senators Launch Probe Of Massive Data Breaches
Several senators repeated calls for legislation to ward off massive data thefts during a hearing Monday to review the vulnerability of the nation's digital-payment systems, the first in a trio of sessions this week examining the enormous breaches sustained recently at retailers around the country. Read More »
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Seneca awarded Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Open Source Technology
Seneca Professor Chris Tyler has been named among the first Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The $1 million renewable five-year grant recognizes Seneca's expertise and establishes Tyler as a research leader in open source technology for emerging platforms. Read More »
Sensored Meetup #10 At A Glance: Data, Open Source And Hardware Startup Strategy
I can’t believe last night was already the 10th edition of the Sensored Meetup. I went to the first one more than a year ago, which was a really great gathering of sensor experts. It’s this kind of meetup where you end up learning tons of things by just being around, and where everyone is working on super ambitious and high-level products. Read More »
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Sequenom Chose Open Source EDC System ClinCapture For Cost Efficiency And Team Commitment
San Diego-Based Medical Device Company Sequenom Highlights Cost Savings and Team Responsiveness Using ClinCapture, Clinovo’s Open Source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) System Read More »
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Sequester Causes 'Brain Drain' Of U.S. Researchers
One in five U.S. scientists have considered moving overseas to continue their research due to being hamstrung by the federal budget sequester, according to a new report called Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, published by a coalition of 16 science organizations. Read More »
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Sequester Damage Detailed; Health Records Won’t Merge
With Congress seemingly satisfied to let the defense budget take another $52 billion hit in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 [...] Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gave a preview recently of how Round 2 of budget sequestration could rattle current forces and deepen damage to U.S. readiness. Read More »
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Sequester Shutters System For Tracking Threats From Outer Space
Amid cost-cutting efforts, the Air Force plans to shut down an aging radar system that tracks thousands of objects in space. The fate of a planned $2 billion replacement system is still up in the air. Read More »
Series: Introduction To Anti-Corruption Mapping
This blog series will focus on anti-corruption and transparency mapping. We’ll post about best practices and feature some of the strategies to connect policy and action with online savvy. Our community strategy is aimed to connect topical mappers to build and learn together... Read More »
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Serious Resistant Infections Increasingly Found In Children
Here’s some disturbing news published late last week in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society by a team of researchers from two Chicago medical institutions plus an expert analyst of antibiotic resistance: Serious drug-resistant infections in children are rising across the United States. [...] Read More »
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Serious Risks and Few New Benefits from FDA-Approved Drugs
Over the past year, the U.S. Senate and The New York Times have been investigating the failure of the nation’s auto safety regulators to protect citizens from cars with occasionally dangerous faulty devices. But neither august institution has paid attention to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) failure to protect the 170 million Americans who take prescription drugs from adverse reactions that are killing more than 2,400 people every week. Annually, prescription drugs cause over 81 million adverse reactions and result in 2.7 million hospitalizations...
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Servers Will Lead the Data Center Evolution
The last decade has seen the data center focus on a number of key technologies in order to improve efficiency. Since 2000, virtualization has been at the heart of increasing server utilization, allowing businesses to consolidate hardware and reap significant cuts in operating expenses. This was followed by a holistic focus on data center design, from the layout of suites to the efficiencies of HVAC and electricity supply. However, data center design will turn its focus on the server in order to make the next step to increase efficiency.
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Session To Focus On EHR-Billing Controversy
The controversy over the appropriate use of health information technology systems to streamline workflow while not fraudulently increasing healthcare claims will get a public airing early next month. Read More »
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Setback For Sutter After $1B EHR Crashes
The nearly $1 billion electronic health record system at Sutter Health in Northern California crashed early this week, leaving nurses and clinical staff unable to access any patient information for a full day. Read More »
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Setting National Goals To Bolster Patient Safety With Electronic Health Records
Experts at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine have proposed a framework to help develop new national patient safety goals unique to electronic health record-enabled clinical settings. Read More »
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