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Two Famous Journalism Institutions Shame Themselves By Not Standing Up For Basic Fair Use
Two of the most respected and forward looking schools for journalism are the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the Poynter Institute. I've long been a fan of both, but I'm now quite disappointed in both of them too... Read More »
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Two Ghanaian Software Products Win 2013 World Summit Awards
Two of Ghana’s software products have been selected as winners of the 2013 World Summit Awards, a UN-based initiative to promote the world's best e-contents.
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Two recent surveys of patients and their healthcare providers in the U.S.
Two recent surveys that showing general dissatisfaction with the healthcare industry amongst patients and their healthcare providers. The two surveys offer some interesting insight into the current state of affairs.
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Two Regenstrief Innovators Win AMIA's Lindberg Award for Open Source EHR Work in Developing Countries
Burke Mamlin, MD, and Paul Biondich, MD, of the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, will receive the 2016 Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association for their work on open source software. AMIA's Lindberg award recognizes individuals for technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics...
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Two Sides to Open Development
Ever since Robert Zoelick’s speech on “democratizing development” there has been a lot of buzz around the idea of open development and lots of discussion about what it really means... Read More »
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Two States Want To Extend Obamacare Deadline Because Of Glitchy Websites
At least two states are requesting a longer Obamacare enrollment period--and they might get it.
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Two Years After The Book: “A Digital Liberia”, How Digital Is Liberia?
It’s been over two years since I first submitted the final manuscript of what would later be my first book titled, “A Digital Liberia: How Electrons, Information and Market Forces Will Determine Liberia’s Future” A lot has happened since then. In the following paragraphs, I briefly discuss the progress made in Liberia’s ICT sector since the book was published. Read More »
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Two-Thirds Of The World’s Mobiles Are Dumb Phones. Meet The Company Getting Them Online
And yet U2opia mobile, a Singapore-based company founded by Indian entrepreneurs, has catapulted to 17 million users in 36 countries as a result. To understand why, you have to unlearn Facebook—its blue background, viral videos, photo uploads—as you know it. And put yourself in the position of someone who has never been on the internet before. Read More »
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U of Michigan & VA Hospitals Strengthening Ties To Provide More Clinical Research
The University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Health System are strengthening ties in an effort to provide more research to help those who have served. The organizations recently announced 150 researchers from the Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management Research will move from... Read More »
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U-M Collaborates On New Open Access Scientific Journal
A new online journal born of a multi-institutional effort, which includes U-M, is set to tackle issues of sustainability on two fronts. Read More »
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U. S. Electronic Health Record Initiative: A Backlash Growing?
There seems to be a slow but steady backlash growing among healthcare providers against the U.S. government’s $30 billion initiative to get all its citizens an electronic health record, initially set to happen by 2014 but now looking at 2020 or beyond. Read More »
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U.K. Considers Adopting VistA
The United Kingdom is considering the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA electronic health record system as it looks to expand open-source software for health IT. Read More »
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U.K. Official Urges U.S. Government To Adopt A Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day. During the past decade, the government in the United Kingdom faced a string of public, embarrassing and costly IT failures. Finally, a monster technical fiasco — a failed upgrade for the National Health Service — led to an overhaul of the way the British government approached technology. Read More »
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U.S. Army developing 'Open Source' Medical Simulation Solutions
An open-source physiology engine that anyone can use to develop medical simulations is being developed by the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center. Read More »
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U.S. CIO Talks Of Opening More Government Datasets To Spur Innovation
If more of the government’s data could be made available to the public, it could spur a new wave of government efficiency and data-driven innovation. That was the message Steven L. VanRoekel, U.S. federal CIO, delivered in his keynote address Tuesday at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cloud Computing and Big Data Workshop here on January 15. Read More »
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