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Social Media: An Asset to Saving Millions
The amount of women and children that die hourly from preventable incidences can be compared to the amount of persons that died during the recent Dana clash that claimed 154 lives in Lagos in June. Read More »
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Social Medicine 2.0—Can You Use Crowdsourcing to Give Your Medical Device a Leg Up?
Online crowdsourcing communities are a game changer. These platforms allow anyone to appeal to the entire connected world for support or participation. They get many of us to participate—Kickstarter processed just shy of $500 million dollars in 2014. Most interesting, at least to me, are platforms for crowdsourcing information. These make up the next generation of online forums, ranging from chat forums to open source hardware development...
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Social networks are not communities, and other discussions from the Community Leadership Summit
[At the Community Leadership Summit this past weekend]... I realized that I appreciate social networks but feel much more passionate about communities, and spontaneously called for a session to talk about the differences. This article describes our discussion and summarizes the insights I got this year from the summit. Read More »
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Society for General Internal Medicine Calls For End To Fee-For-Service
Fee-for-service medicine is a financially unsustainable payment model that should be phased out by the end of the decade, a study commissioned by the Society for General Internal Medicine recommends. Read More »
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Socrata Joins Open Data Institute (ODI)
Cloud Software Company Provides Tools, Technology and Expertise to Boost Government Decision-Making and Efficiency While Aiding Economic Growth Read More »
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Socrata Raises $18M For Platform To Open Government Data
Socrata has raised $18 million to further the extension of its open-data platform now used at all levels of government to present information for the general public. Read More »
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Software company Ushahidi uses open source skills to help during Kenya mall siege
...Once Ushahidi team members found out they were all safe from the mall siege, they went to work figuring out how they could make their skills and tools useful during the crisis. Soon they mapped out all the blood drive center locations in Nairobi by deploying a Crowdmap , which is the hosted version of the open source Ushahidi Platform that quickly lets users map crowdsourced information... Read More »
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Software Developers Invited to Create Applications for Improving Care by Sharing Health Data
The Advisory Board Company has launched the Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge and is accepting until August 6 software applications that help hospitals and health systems engage patients in improved health outcomes through secure sharing of key personal health data. Read More »
Software Freedom Conservancy And Free Software Foundation Announce Copyleft.Org
This new site will not only provide a venue for those who constantly update and improve the Comprehensive Tutorial, but is also now home to a collaborative community to share and improve information about copyleft licenses, especially the GNU General Public License (GPL), and best compliance practices...
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Software Patents And The Return Of Functional Claiming
Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. They have pointed to a variety of problems and offered a variety of solutions...Most software patents today are written in functional terms. If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation. Read More »
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Software Release: Version 4.1.4 Of iHRIS Manage And iHRIS Qualify
We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.1.4. Key components of the iHRIS platform of health workforce information tools and technologies, iHRIS Manage maintains health worker deployment, performance, and attrition information, and iHRIS Qualify tracks training, certification, and licensure. Read More »
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Software That Tracks People On Social Media Created By Defence Firm
ERaytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups Read More »
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Solar Storm Could Leave Britain Without Power 'For Months'
The risk of a catastrophic solar storm that would leave countries including the United Kingdom and United States without electricity for days or even months will peak in 2015, a new report claims. Read More »
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Solar Storm Could Leave Britain Without Power 'For Months'
The risk of a catastrophic solar storm that would leave countries including the United Kingdom and United States without electricity for days or even months will peak in 2015, a new report claims. Read More »
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Some Doctors Find Switch To Electronic Medical Records Painful
Phil Talbert took the plunge and bought an electronic medical record system for his small medical practice in Shelby in 2010, assuming the pricey computer program would last years, perhaps a career... Read More »
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