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Big Tech Should Stay Out of Healthcare
...The use of digital technology in health care has enormous promise, to be sure. But, as the Wall Street Journal's coverage of Google's Project Nightingale revealed, there is also a potential dark side to these projects. Ascension, it noted, "also hopes to mine data to identify additional tests that could be necessary or other ways in which the system could generate more revenue from patients, documents show." That detail raises a key question that's largely overlooked in our health care debates: should the drive to maximize corporate revenues determine how health information technology develops and becomes integrated into medical practice, or should that be determined by medical science and the public?...An alternative path exists. In the 1970s, the Veterans Affairs Administration (VA) developed VistA, an open-source code system that was the country's first EHR system... Read More »
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Bigger Is Better: TopCoder's Platform Upgrade Allows For Creation Of More Valuable And Efficient Big Data Solutions
TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators, has upgraded its platform to more efficiently deliver valuable solutions to clients. Read More »
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Bill Gates Joins Administration In Promoting Open Agricultural Data
Bill Gates on Monday joined top administration officials in promoting open access to agricultural data as a way to increase global nutrition and food security. Read More »
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Bill Gates Won’t Save You From The Next Ebola
In late August 2014, Tom Frieden, then director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traveled to West Africa to assess the raging Ebola crisis. In the five months before Frieden’s visit, Ebola had spread from a village in Guinea, across borders and into cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières, the first international responder on the scene, had run out of staff to treat the rising numbers of sick people and had deemed the outbreak “out of control” back in June...
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Bill Gates Won’t Save You From The Next Ebola Outbreak
In late August 2014, Tom Frieden, then director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traveled to West Africa to assess the raging Ebola crisis. In the five months before Frieden’s visit, Ebola had spread from a village in Guinea, across borders and into cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières, the first international responder on the scene, had run out of staff to treat the rising numbers of sick people and had deemed the outbreak “out of control” back in June...
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Bill Gates, VCs Invest $35M In ResearchGate To 'Open Source' Science
Startup ResearchGate, a social network for scientists, has raised $35 million in Series C financing led by Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital for its goal of making scientific research more transparent. Read More »
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Bill in Congress Targets NSA's Accumulo Open Source Project
A new bill on Capitol Hill could have far reaching implications for government use and development of open source platforms – potentially requiring all open source projects to “prove adequate industry support and diversification.”
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Bill to Make Federal Data Open, Machine-Readable Reintroduced in Both Chambers
A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers reintroduced Wednesday the OPEN Government Data Act — a bill that passed the Senate last year but stalled in the House. The bill, which would set a presumption that federal data should be published online in a machine-readable format, has a broad support from open data advocates, government spending watchdogs and the technology industry...
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Bio-IT World Announces the Winners of Its Tenth Annual Best Practices Awards
Bio-IT World announced the winners of its tenth annual Best Practices Awards competition this morning in a plenary session at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Grand prize winners were named in five life sciences categories highlighting best practices in clinical trial IT, research infrastructure, bioinformatics, cloud computing and data management from AstraZeneca and Tessella, U-BIOPRED, the Pistoia Alliance, Baylor College of Medicine, and Genentech. Read More »
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Biodefense Takes Center Stage at House Oversight Hearing
Is the nation ready to defend against antibiotic-resistant diseases or bioterrorism? What would the response to a biological attack or disease pandemic look like? Those threats and the collaboration of private, federal and local agencies to respond to them were the focus of a hearing Wednesday in the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security on biodefense preparedness. Congressman Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., said at the beginning of the hearing that around 2.4 million people could die in high-income countries between 2015 and 2050 without an effort to contain antimicrobial resistance, according to an April report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Biogears Open Source Human Physiology Engine Showcased At IMSH 2015
BioGears® delivers an open source, comprehensive, extensible human physiology engine that serves as a platform for biomedical modeling research and also facilitates the creation of immersive medical education and training technologies. At IMSH, the BioGears® team will interact with over 2,000 professionals from around the globe who will see the latest in technology advancements, attend hands-on workshops and explore professional development opportunities.
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Biohacking Healthcare - Part 2
One of the most valuable research tools is a model of the type of problem you are trying to solve. This allows for study of the problem mechanism and allows attempts at solving various parts of the problem without disrupting an actual patient or when such is unavailable... Read More »
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BioImageXD: A One-Stop Shop for All Image Post-Processing Needs
Most of us have sat for hours and hours in a dark and cold room, taking pictures of stained cells or tissue sections. But analysing and quantifying all those colourful images with customary software programmes can have its flaws. Therefore, Pasi Kankaanpää from the University of Turku, Finland and colleagues came up with a new “high-throughput image processing platform” and published it in Nature Methods. Read More »
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BioOne and Dartmouth Collaborate with Other Leading Research Universities to Launch Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a New Open-Access Scientific Journal
October 23rd, 2012 – Washington, DC & Hanover, NH. BioOne and Dartmouth are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a new open-access publishing program. Read More »
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BioSistemika Launches Kickstarter Campaign for sciNote - the First Open Source Scientific Laboratory Notebook
BIO-IT company BioSistemika LLC believes that laboratories deserve reliable and easy-to-use software at affordable prices, that's why they created sciNote – an open source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN). They decided to launch sciNote via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, which started on November 23rd (http://scinote.net/). "After fighting our own battle with growing amount of scientific data, we wanted to design a software platform, where every scientist could store their data and would be able to share it with everyone else," explained Klemen Zupancic, PhD in Biomedicine, leader of the team behind sciNote...
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