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Computer Scientists Urge Court To Block Copyright Claims In Oracle V. Google API Fight
Dozens of computer scientists urged an appeals court today to block the copyright claims over application programming interfaces (APIs) in the Oracle v. Google court battle, arguing that APIs that are open are critical to innovation and interoperability in computers and computer systems. Read More »
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Continua Design Guidelines Adopted For e-health Interoperability
An important milestone for global e-health standardization has been achieved with final approval of a new standard that will better enable interoperability between e-health devices. The standard - Recommendation ITU-T H.810 - contains Continua Health Alliance's Design Guidelines providing "Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems". Read More »
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Continua Health Alliance Announces Changes To Board Of Directors
Continua Health Alliance today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed two new members, effective August 2012, to serve a one year term. [...] Continua is the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability. Read More »
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Continua Publishes Open Health Tools On Website
Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open-industry organization of healthcare and technology companies, has announced new additions to its open source clearinghouse to encourage innovation by entrepreneurs, small businesses, students and universities working on health IT projects. Read More »
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Continuity Of Care: 4 Benefits Of The DoD And VA's Integrated EHR
Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »
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Coordinating FrontlineSMS Use in the Upcoming Kenyan Elections
With the next general election now set to occur in March 2013, peacebuilders and democracy advocates in Kenya are looking for innovative ways to monitor election results and violence. Kenya’s high levels of mobile penetration and literacy create ideal conditions for a platform like FrontlineSMS. Read More »
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Could Billion Dollar EHRs Bankrupt the Country?
Earlier this year, Monmouth University conducted a survey to determine which issues were most important as the country transitions to a new presidential administration. Among all the potential concerns Americans now face, the issue that rises to the top is healthcare costs. How acute a concern is this? It’s significant enough that, when asked the open-ended question, “turning to issues closer to home, what is the biggest concern facing your family right now?”, 25 percent of respondents made it their number one issue...
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Craig Newmark, Peter Levin Join Lineup Of Top Innovators Slated To Address Federal Technology Leaders At Nextgov Prime
Nextgov Prime will convene 500+ senior federal technology leaders in Washington, D.C. on October 15th-16th to explore the future of technology and government. Read More »
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Creating Innovation in Government: 3 Lessons from Todd Park
Todd Park closed out the opening sessions of the Next Generation of Government Summit, reviewing his fascinating path to government...Todd started off by providing lessons for driving change within government. The theme of the presentation was that change in government is possible, it’s a rewarding experience, and a necessary step to solve the complex challenges government faces. Read More »
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Crisis Maps: Harnessing The Power Of Big Data To Deliver Humanitarian Assistance
Crisis-mapping technology has emerged in the past five years as a tool to help humanitarian organizations deliver assistance to victims of civil conflicts and natural disasters. Crisis-mapping platforms display eyewitness reports submitted via e-mail, text message, and social media. Read More »
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Crowdfunding For Innovation And Sustainability
Kickstarter has just hit the UK, but there are now a host of crowdfunding startups that focus on business creation and innovation Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr
In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »
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Crowdfunding In Healthcare Isn’t Easy – Health Tech Hatch Turns to Indiegogo
Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms on the web, Indiegogo. Read More »
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DARPA Robot Challenge: Disaster Recovery
Robots can go where humans can't in a disaster. See what the innovative machines in DARPA's next robotics challenge can do. Read More »
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