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What Will Happen If The Feds Get Warrantless Access To Phone Location Data
On Tuesday prosecutors for the Obama administration argued that records of location data gathered by cell-phone companies should be available to law enforcement even when no search warrant has previously been issued by a judge. Read More »
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What Will It Take To Successfully Implement Health IT Solutions?
Incorporating health IT solutions to “fix” a troublesome healthcare system has long been touted as the backbone of healthcare reform. Health IT would not only greatly improve the delivery of care through increased performance, it could also largely pay for itself [...]. Read More »
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What Will Stop The Amazon Cloud Juggernaut?
A lethal combination of market forces positions AWS to grow ever larger as they squash competitors like bugs under their sandals Read More »
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What Would It Take to Mainstream "Alternative" Agriculture?
The industrialized food system, studies have shown, is linked to greenhouse gas emissions, algal blooms, pesticide pollution, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, to name a few ecological troubles. Add to this a long list of social ills, from escalating rates of obesity to the demise of the family farmer and deadening of rural landscapes and rural economies across much of the U.S...
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What Would Keep Ebola From Spreading In The US? Investing In Simple Research Years Ago.
There’s a thing you learn, when you’ve been writing about infectious diseases for a while: People love drama. They’re not so much with detail...
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What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like In 2020?
There is tension between doctors and designers. Architects want to build dramatic structures while doctors need room to deal with traumatic scenarios. [...] Despite these inherent differences, the non-profit design firm NXT Health has developed a proposal for the nicest hospital room you’ll hopefully never have to visit. Read More »
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What Would Universal Healthcare Look Like In The U.S.?
David U. Himmelstein M.D. is a Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a medical residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard and practiced primary care internal medicine at the public hospital in Cambridge, MA for 28 years... Read More »
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What You Need To Know About Health IT Apps
The Veterans Affairs Department has begun rolling out custom-designed medical apps as part of a larger effort to make health care something patients can carry in their pockets. Apps could be used to help with self-help strategies, patient participation, and could be new tools for the doctors themselves. [...] Read More »
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What Your Email Metadata Told The NSA About You
President Obama said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls," even though the National Security Agency could actually track you from cellphone metadata. Well, the latest from the Edward Snowden leaks shows [the following]. Read More »
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What's At Stake For Google & Android In Rockstar's Patent Lawsuit
Google’s Android operating system may be the rock star of mobile world, but it has another group of rock stars that are trying to knock it from its perch. Read More »
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What's Atop HIT Execs' Wish Lists For 2013?
Thinking of gift ideas for that special health IT someone this holiday season? Want to explore the creative side of gift-giving and outdo last year's gift of that Epic EMR or enterprise-wide RTLS? Look no further. Read More »
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What's New in Facebook Open Source
With more than 1.65 billion people on Facebook and more coming online every day, our engineers are hard at work making sure that our services work smoothly for everyone. Part of this work involves streamlining our processes so we can keep moving fast as we continue to scale: We build tools that enable engineers to work more easily across platforms, automate testing to catch problems sooner, and help improve the overall performance of our products...
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What's The Role Of A Hospital In 10 Years?
Dr. Eric Topol was named #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare of 2012 by Modern Healthcare so his views are closely watched. In addition to his role as a cardiologist, geneticist and author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine, he’s also the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape (WebMD’s leading physician offering). Read More »
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What's Tylenol Doing To Our Minds?
The active drug in Tylenol, acetaminophen, is one of the best medications we have for helping people in pain. It's also one the most commonly overdosed substances in the world and puts about 60,000 Americans in the hospital every year. Several hundred people in the U.S. will die in 2013 from liver failure after acetaminophen overdose. Read More »
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What's wrong with IT at Veterans Affairs?
Projects are stalled, and top leaders have departed. Investigations and agency sources paint a bleak picture inside VA's IT office. Read More »