Information Technology (IT)

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Now, It’s The Turn Of Open Source Hardware Movement

Arun Jayan | The New Indian Express | February 25, 2013

After the open source software movement in the IT sector, the new wave is that of open source hardware, wherein the information about the hardware can easily be discerned and it can be further customised. Read More »

NRO Readies Open Source Cloud For Launch

Henry Kenyon | AOL Government | October 26, 2012

In a move toward a more efficient National Reconnaissance Office, analysts for the agency operating the nation's spy satellites are on the verge of getting their information through a top-secret open-source cloud environment housing intelligence data. Read More »

NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion In U.S. Technology Sales

Nicole Gaouette | Bloomberg | November 26, 2013

International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom. Read More »

Nurses Not Happy With Hospital EHRs

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | October 20, 2014

'A poorly implemented EHR with chaotic processes and bungling IT support is becoming a detriment to hospital nurse retention and recruitment'...

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NYC Opens The Books, And The Source Code, On Checkbook 2.0

Susan Miller | GCN | June 17, 2013

Last week, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu unveiled the Checkbook NYC 2.0 website and announced that the source code for the financial transparency website would be available to developers on GitHub,  which will allow other government organizations to use Checkbook to build similar sites. Read More »

Obama Eyes $2B Increase In IT Budget

Nicole Blake Johnson | Federal Times | April 17, 2013

The president’s budget proposes nearly $2 billion in additional information technology funding for 2014, which would raise overall IT spending to $82 billion. Read More »

Obamacare Site Flaws Due To More Than ‘Talent Gap’

Dustin Volz | Nextgov | October 23, 2013

As Congress begins investigating the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, technology experts warn that it may not find any easy scapegoats. Read More »

Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | May 29, 2013

Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »

Officials, Industry Preparing For More Mobile Government

Marjorie Censer | Washington Post | April 28, 2013

[Steven VanRoekel is] now spearheading an effort to modernize the government’s technology, pushing to make more information available to citizens and allow its employees to do more work on the go. But moving the federal government to tablets, smartphones and applications isn’t as simple as signing a cellphone contract or building a 99-cent app. Read More »

ONC & FHA Announce Upcoming CONNECT Code-A-Thon

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 26, 2012

Next month, the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) will host its CONNECT Code-A-Thon at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. The two-day event, beginning Nov. 7 and ending Nov. 8, will bring together information technology and healthcare professionals as well as students who will together on health information exchange (HIE) solutions related to the open source software solution, CONNECT. Read More »

ONC Chief's Early Years Inform Her Work

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | January 16, 2014

Karen DeSalvo, MD, has stepped into the role of national coordinator for healthcare information technology at a time when American healthcare is in a state of unprecedented change. Read More »

ONC-Nurtured Population Health Tool Gains Traction

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | March 20, 2014

An open source software program created with the help of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator is now federally certified and ready to be used as a population health tool. First developed in 2010, the program, called popHealth, imports data, then calculates, displays, and exports it as electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), using Cypress, the same open source engine the ONC uses to certify eCQM functionality in EHRS.

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Open Access Explained

Anna Goldstein | Berkeley Science Review | April 4, 2013

The conversation about scientific publishing has exploded lately, online, in print and in person. Last week, the journal Nature released a special issue called The future of publishing. Also last week, Michael Eisen [...] posted a speech he gave on the past and projected future of scholarly communication in the age of the Internet. I want to start there, because his remarks were thorough and persuasive, and they inspired me to think differently about the issue... Read More »

Open Access To Research Data: The European Commission’s Consultation In Progress

Velichka Dimitrova | Open Economics | July 9, 2013

The European Commission held a public consultation on open access to research data on July 2 in Brussels inviting statements from researchers, industry, funders, IT and data centre professionals, publishers and libraries. [...] Read More »

Open Data For Agriculture

Staffwriter | ICT Update | June 1, 2013

Most of the research results published by agricultural researchers in academic journals are in English. As a result, the vast majority of farmers and extension workers in developing countries – who not speak English or often do not have access to libraries – cannot retrieve these research results. Read More »