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What The Open Access Button Means For the Future Of Research And Publishing
The Open Access Button is designed to help researchers easily report when they hit a publisher paywall and are unable to access scholarly publications (because they lack a paid subscription to a particular journal or database or have not otherwise paid an access fee for the document). [...] Read More »
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What The Red Dots Are For, Or Why We Map (Part 1: Iraq)
Mercy Corps has recently embarked on a strategy to introduce mapping tools to its conflict management and protection programs around the globe – from Iraq to Kenya to Nepal... Read More »
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What The Story Of A Much Talked-About Bay Area Startup Tells Us About The Future Of Health IT
Today, we all know how dramatically different mobile phones are than they were a year or two ago, much less back in 2004. But as the power of mobile technology increases, tech entrepreneurs have taken a lead on challenging old rules that haven’t been discussed in decades. What if the development of the smartphone could give us some clues into the future of healthcare IT? Read More »
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What The US Can Learn From Africa’s Booming Economy
Seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa. Behind that is a surge in healthy young people and an emphasis on local markets. Read More »
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What The White House Learned From LinkedIn And The Use Of Big Data
One of the best presentations at the recent Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston was by LinkedIn Senior Data Scientist Yael Garten. Garten, who leads LinkedIn's Mobile Data Analytics team, in a presentation entitled Data Infused Product Design & Insights at LinkedIn provided a glimpse of how big data is used by LinkedIn to explore usage patterns, on mobile devices, for instance. Read More »
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What To Do (And What Not To Do) When Your $1B System-Wide EHR Fails
The 24-hospital Sutter Health system in Northern California was the talk of the town late August after a software glitch rendered its $1 billion Epic electronic health record system inaccessible to nurses and clinical staff throughout all Sutter locations. Read More »
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What To Expect At Government Health IT Conference
At the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2013 next week, the apex of all the tracks, breakout sessions and likely hallway conversations will be engaging patients while lowering care costs. Read More »
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What to Expect in Apple's Upcoming Maps App
Apple will unveil iOS 6 next week at WWDC, and the Maps app will reportedly be getting a complete overhaul. Here's what to expect. Read More »
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What Took So Long? The First Open Source Private Cloud Software Arrives
Rackspace has become the first vendor to deliver on the promise of true cloud-computing portability for businesses with Wednesday’s launch of the first commercial cloud service using OpenStack cloud technology. Read More »
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What Transparency Reports Don't Tell Us
These reports give us a lot of numbers, but very little information about how hard these companies fight on the behalf of users. Read More »
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What U.S. Hospitals Can Still Learn from India’s Private Heart Hospitals
In 2008, we explored the emergence of private heart hospitals in India whose outcomes rivaled those of top U.S. hospitals (low infection and readmission rates for coronary artery bypass grafting [CABG], angioplasties, and other cutting-edge procedures) at between 1/10 and 1/20 of the cost. We described how Indian hospital leaders exhibited a near-obsessive drive to offer the highest quality services at the lowest possible price. We concluded that even though India is far from a model of social justice in health care, American hospitals could learn a great deal from the organizational focus and structure of their Indian counterparts...
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What Was The FBI Doing With 12 Million Apple IDs Anyway?
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place? Read More »
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What We Could Do With A Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure That Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers A Dime
[...] What has pushed the USPS into insolvency is an oppressive 2006 congressional mandate that it prefund healthcare for its workers 75 years into the future. No other entity, public or private, has the burden of funding multiple generations of employees who have not yet even been born. Read More »
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What We Don't Know About The Deadly New SARS-Like Virus
Saudi Arabia announced late Wednesday that five more people have died and two others are undergoing intensive treatment as a result of the new novel coronavirus (NCoV), a cousin of SARS that causes kidney failure and pneumonia. The latest in a slow trickle of information brings the mortality rate to 16 deaths among 24 known infections [...]. Read More »
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What Will Google Glass Do For Health?
As early adopters test out the new technology, many are excited about its potential for improving care – but some are sounding alarms. Read More »
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