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Spinal Fusions Serve As Case Study For Debate Over When Certain Surgeries Are Necessary
By some measures, Federico C. Vinas was a star surgeon. He performed three or four surgeries on a typical weekday at the Daytona Beach, Fla., hospital that employed him, and a review showed him to be nearly five times as busy as other neurosurgeons. The hospital paid him hundreds of thousands in incentive pay. In all, he earned as much as $1.9 million a year... Read More »
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SPINE 2 – A Game Changer For NHS IT
I attended a presentation of SPINE2 from CfH at Intellect today. I think it’s the first thing from CfH to really excite me (at least in a positive way) since they were established. [...] Read More »
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Spine2 Built In-House On Open Source
The replacement for the NHS data spine, Spine2, is being built using open source components and is due to go live at the end of October. Read More »
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Spiralling Expenditure Creates Pressing Need for Sustainable Business Models in Healthcare IT, Says Frost & Sullivan
Healthcare expenditure is reaching unsustainable levels on a global scale. There is an urgent need for sustainable business models that can curb expenditure and promote better healthcare delivery. The focus is shifting from traditional to newer, more sustainable business models...[Their] research analyses software as a service (SaaS), Managed Services, Open Source and the Freemium business models. Read More »
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Spotify And NASA To Speak At Next Cloud World Forum
The next Cloud World Forum, due to take place at National Hall, Olympia, London on the 26 to 27th June this year, has announced two more keynote speakers will be in attendance, representing Spotify and NASA. Read More »
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Spotlight On Open Access At The Smithsonian Libraries
James Smithson bequeathed his fortune to the people of the United States with the clear impetus for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.” The Smithsonian Libraries takes that message to heart by striving to connect ideas and information to you, and all whom we serve. Consider this an overview of Open Access (with capital O and A) and open access (lowercase o & a) here at the Libraries. Long story short: if you have access to the internet, you have access to an increasing number of quality, peer-reviewed journals and scholarly publications (as long as you know where to look).
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Spotlight On Open Access Books At COASP 2012
For the first time, 2012 saw the 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) feature an afternoon of sessions entirely dedicated to Open Access books. Read More »
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Spotlight On: Ken Banks
It has been a great pleasure to have Ken Banks as April's Fellow of the Month. Ken is a true super-star in the social enterprise scene, using his vast experience with mobile technology to create new projects, consult companies and mentor the next generation of Social Entrepreneurs. Read More »
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Springer To Collaborate With Scion On Open Access journal
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science will join the SpringerOpen portfolio Read More »
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Springer To Publish New Open Access Journal With The Korean Society For Micro And Nano Systems
Beginning in March 2013, Springer and the Korean Society for Micro and Nano Systems will partner to publish a new interdisciplinary journal Micro and Nano Systems Letters (MNSL). As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on link.springer.com. Read More »
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Spying on Mental Health Records is a Dangerous Idea
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull just made a surprising announcement: the Government is considering accessing the mental health records of Australians suspected of terrorist activity. This is supposed to be a way of preventing so-called “lone wolf” attacks — such as in Nice, or Orlando— because apparently these horrific acts are primarily the result of mental health issues. So why do I feel like our society just got that much more unsafe with this announcement?...
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Sqrrl Raises $2 Million For Secure, Scalable Big Data Technology Originally Developed At NSA
Sqrrl, a big data startup that came out of development at the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture. Read More »
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Sqrrl Snags $5.2M To Commercialize The NSA’s Accumulo Database
New funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Ventures will help the NoSQL database vendor push its product globally. Read More »
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SRA To Provide Support For Veterans Affairs’ Self-Service Portals Integration
SRA International, Inc., a leading provider of IT solutions and professional services to government organizations, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT) to provide software development support for its Enterprise Veteran Self-Service Portal Platform... Read More »
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Sssh! DataWell’s Clear-Cut Priority Is the Protection of Confidentiality
Everywhere people are, be it out shopping in a supermarket or sitting at home online, they are adding information to their digital footprint – which feeds into what is known as Big Data and so enables them to be traced. The use of Big Data can be beneficial to society, particularly in terms of health – which is why Gary Leeming’s job as director of informatics for the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is to source and use the digital health footprints of patients both their for own benefit and that of clinicians...
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