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Health Tech Hatch Chosen As Test Platform For Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge

Eric Wicklund | mHIMSS | December 18, 2012

A California-based crowdfunding and development resource for mHealth entrepreneurs has been selected to provide the testing platform for the healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge. Read More »

Healthcare Crowdfunding Gets Hatched: Passion Is The Possibility Of Health Tech Hatch

Scott Rupp | Health Tec hHatch | October 31, 2012

Fund next year’s Post-it notes. You can. Through crowdfunding; which seems to have become one of the market’s hottest concepts... Read More »

Healthcare IT News: Act II

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | January 10, 2012

The healthcare IT scene has changed radically since the first issue of Healthcare IT News hit your desks in December 2003 and President George W. Bush mentioned electronic medical records in his State of the Union address in January 2004. Read More »

Healthcare Needs a Big Data Infusion

Stacey Higginbotham | GigaOM | March 9, 2012

To improve medicine and health IT, we need a big heaping dose of data. That’s the takeaway from a conversation with Aneesh Chopra, the former U.S. CTO and assistant to President Obama, at South by Southwest in Austin on Friday. Read More »

Healthcare Via Shipping Containers?

Seema Singh | Forbes | December 12, 2012

Why not? Being classified as prefabricated structures, containers avoid the regulatory hassles associated with floor area rules or land-use agreements that arise in setting up physical infrastructure. Minimalist in design, it can be transported through rail and used in the remotest corner of the country. Read More »

Healthy Soil Is the Real Key to Feeding the World

One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all, soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire and other ancient societies around the world. Other agricultural myths hinder recognizing the potential to restore degraded soils to feed the world using fewer agrochemicals. When I embarked on a six-month trip to visit farms around the world to research my forthcoming book, “Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life,” the innovative farmers I met showed me that regenerative farming practices can restore the world’s agricultural soils.

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Healthy Water Sources Identified With Space Station-Inspired mWater App

Staff Writer | redOrbit | August 20, 2013

Whether you live in some remote region of Africa, a high rise in New York City or aboard an orbiting laboratory in space, you need reliable drinking water to survive. You now can check for yourself the cleanliness of your water using the mWater app on your mobile phone. Read More »

Help Us Integrate GitLab and the Open Science Framework

For years, the benefits of open source code development have been self-evident to the software development community: Transparency leads to collaboration, and collaboration leads to better and more secure code. The scientific community is just starting to understand these benefits. The growing open science movement is using these same lessons to make the scientific process more transparent, so that research findings will be more reproducible. In order to realize the benefits of open science, we must use a wide set of research tools to enable transparency, which will lead to increased discoverability, reuse, and collaboration...

Hesperian Health Guides Addresses Maternal Health

Cathleen O'Grady | Foundation Beyond Belief | July 23, 2013

According to the United Nations, more than 350,000 women die every year from maternity-related complications, with the risk being vastly higher in the developing world. [...] Read More »

Hesperian’s Mobile App Featured On Public Radio

Staff Writer | Hesperian Health Guides | November 15, 2012

Hesperian’s mobile app, Safe Pregnancy and Birth, was featured on the Bay Area’s KQED public radio this morning. Read More »

HHS Announces First External Class Of The HHS Innovation Fellows Program

Press Release | Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) | November 13, 2012

Today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the first class of the HHS External Innovation Fellows.  Selected from an applicant pool of more than 100 innovators, the six External Fellows will spend the next six to 12 months working on projects focused on solving critical health care problems. Read More »

HHS Harnesses the Power of Health Data to Improve Health

Press Release | CMS, IOM, HHS, ONC | June 5, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Institute of Medicine (IoM) and other members of the Health Data Consortium, are co-hosting the third annual “Datapalooza” focusing on innovative applications and services that harness the power of open data from HHS and other sources to help improve health and health care.

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High-Tech Tattoos Redefine Health Care Solutions

Elena Watts | University of Texas (UT) | June 7, 2013

In the not-so-distant future, patients with heart disease won’t have to strap brick-size Holter monitors to their arms or waists, with webs of electrodes connected to their chests to monitor their hearts. [...] The technology enabling these advances is called bio-integrated electronics, and it is expected to revolutionize health care. Read More »

HIMSS12: Officials Stump for Open Data, Consumer Health Tools

Kate Ackerman | iHealthBeat | February 24, 2012

Park discussed how open data can help spur innovation to improve health and health care, while Benjamin talked about how technology can "bring health to where people are." Park said the federal government's Health Data Initiative is "an effort to turn HHS and sister agencies into the NOAA of health data."

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HIMSS12: VA, DoD 'A Force That Can Move Markets'

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 21, 2012

The closest thing to a stampede at HIMSS12 occurred as soon as they opened the doors for the joint DoD/VA iEHR panel discussion – as people poured in faster than previous session attendees could swim upstream and out of the room. Even the conference officials furiously adding new rows of chairs couldn’t accommodate the crowd.

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