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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research

Kevin Hascup | RateMyPI.com | October 7, 2012

Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media.  Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers.  To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

OpenFDA Backstory: Breaking The Paperwork Backlog

David F. Carr | InformationWeek Government | June 5, 2014

The startup Captricity uses a combination of crowdsourcing and OCR to digitize mountains of paper records, particularly for government agencies and healthcare. Read More »

Publishers Respond In CHORUS To White House Open Access Mandate

Beth S. | Pocket Full of Liberty | June 7, 2013

In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) informed federal agencies spending more than $100 million on research to develop strategies to make published results of federal funded research publicly available. OSTP stipulated that results must be freely available within one year of publication. Read More »

Technology Is At The Heart Of Obama’s Second-Term Management Agenda

Charles S. Clark | Nextgov | July 8, 2013

President Obama on Monday highlighted the continuing role of technology in his second-term management reform agenda, using a televised speech to White House staff to also defend the federal workforce and nudge Congress to grant him long-sought authority to consolidate agencies to curb duplication. [...] Read More »

The OSEHRA Value Proposition

Keith McCall | Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) | July 18, 2013

This post is a follow-up to a presentation made at the OSEHRA lock-down and provides various updates in an attempt to engage dialogue supporting or rebutting various value elements of OSEHRA and the challenges OSEHRA has in becoming a successful organization. Read More »

The tranSMART Foundation To Present Its Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform At Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

Press Release | tranSmart Foundation | April 10, 2014

The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced its program for participation at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, Mass. on April 29 – May 1, 2014.

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Three Technology Trends Driving Big Changes For Federal Managers

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | November 4, 2013

The bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov has created a crisis of confidence in government’s ability to execute technologically complex undertakings. Nevermind the human genome project, NASAs exploration of Mars or a host of other breakthrough initiatives, the collateral damage inflicted by the malfunctioning insurance exchange has politicians, taxpayers and even federal employees questioning whether agencies can operate effectively in a digital world. Read More »

Todd Park on The Awesome Potential of Hidden Medical Data

Gene Ostrovsky | Medgadget | August 1, 2012

Todd Park, the Chief Technology Officer of the United States, spoke at the last TEDMED about vast amounts of data trapped within government agencies that needs to be “liberated” so that private players can create “awesomeness” out of it. Read More »

Treating Organizational Ills Via Patient-Centered Care

Andrew Ritcheson | Government Health IT | September 6, 2012

To truly deliver “more for less” government health agencies should look to organizational advancements made by another community fraught with complexity, trying to cut costs and improve quality simultaneously — the medical community.
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White House Orders Agencies To Follow New Open Data Standards

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 9, 2013

Government agencies must collect and publish new information in open, machine-readable and, whenever possible, non-proprietary formats, according to a White House executive order and open data policy published Thursday. Read More »

White House Releases Modular IT Development Guide

David Stegon | FedScoop | June 18, 2012

The White House released a new guide encouraging agencies to shift away from larger multi-year information technology projects to a more nimble approach. Read More »

White House Says Agencies Slowly Meeting Open Data Milestones

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | December 10, 2013

Many agencies have created new groups to address key provisions in the open data executive order and policy put out by the White House seven months ago. Read More »

Why Open Source Is a Safe Choice for Government Agencies

Eddie Garcia | GCN | October 14, 2015

Already prevalent in big data applications and many other software solutions regularly employed by agencies, open-source technologies are a natural fit for the public sector. Their ability to combine distributed peer review and transparency drives software innovation at an accelerated pace and at a significantly lower cost.

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