Innovation
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Is HIT Interoperability In The Nature Of Healthcare?
The proprietary business model makes the vendor the single source of HIT for hospital clients. Complexity and dependence are baked into both solutions and client relationships, creating a “vendor lock” scenario in which changing systems seems almost inconceivable.
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Is IT Innovation Driving Physicians Out The Door?
Rather than face the perfect storm of decreasing reimbursement, increasing costs, legislative mandates, and penalties around technology adoption, information exchange, and Meaningful Use, an alarming number of physicians are making the decision to "go quietly into the night" and retire early from practice. Read More »
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Is Open Source Technology Right For Your Clinical Studies?
I recently attended the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Southern (OCT) California event as Clinovo was an exhibitor, showcasing the latest release of our advanced open source electronic data capture (EDC) system ClinCapture. [...] I sat in on the session by Liz Robertson, Director of Data Management, at TRACON Pharmaceuticals. Read More »
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Is The White House Trying To Blow Up An Open Data Bill?
The case for open data is pretty straightforward: Citizens deserve access to the information created with their tax dollars. Publishing that data in a format that's easy to search, sort and download could unleash a wave of innovation. If the private sector had access to government data it could find new ways to leverage it -- creating new services for consumers and new jobs. Right now, we're a long way from that ideal. Read More »
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Israeli Health Monitor Hopes To Spur Medical Innovation
When Eugene Jorov was 17, his father, who was just 40, had a fatal heart attack. That was the moment when Mr. Jorov knew what he wanted to do. A keen engineer, he wanted to use technology to stop people dying early like his father. The Tel Aviv-based startup Angel is his answer. Read More »
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IT Spending Up 2.1 Percent In President's Budget
The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2014 includes a modest increase in overall IT spending. Total outlays are just under $82 billion, with $42.3 billion in civilian-agency IT spending, and $39.5 going to defense IT. Read More »
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It's the Ecosystem, Stupid
I've been writing for a while on topics related to product and supply chain management in the context of open source communities, and I've noticed a few consistent themes in my articles and blog posts. Most notable is the call for companies to move from the "not invented here" syndrome to a more externally focused view. After all, if so much innovation is taking place in open source projects, why not take advantage of it to the fullest extent possible? You can see this theme manifested in the following ways:
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Italian Man Makes Worldwide Plea For Best Brain Cancer Treatment
Salvatore Iaconesi is looking for a cure for his brain cancer and he’s asking the world to help. Read More »
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It’s Go Time for the Presidential Innovation Fellows
Excitement is building as we prepare for Thursday’s launch of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. This new initiative is bringing in top innovators from outside government to work with top innovators inside government to create real and substantial changes that will in a very short time frame benefit the American people, save taxpayers money, and help create new jobs. Read More »
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IU Scientist to Lead Study on the Use of Telehealth to Assist Veterans with Mild Brain Injury
An Indiana University researcher has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a new assessment mechanism that will improve long-distance care for military veterans with mild traumatic brain injury. The system will be piloted at five hospitals serving veterans and active-duty soldiers in the South and Midwest, including the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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Japan To Launch National Open Data Portal
The Japanese Government will be launching its National Open Data Portal as part of its commitment to create an environment where data is used by citizens to promote innovation, creative industries and knowledge-based services. Read More »
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Jay Nath Named San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Jay Nath has been appointed Chief Innovation Officer for the City and County of San Francisco. More about Nath at here on GovFresh and SF.GovFresh.
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Jeremiah Owyang: Why The Industrial Revolution Is About To Unravel
There's a revolution coming, and Jeremiah Owyang wants you to be prepared. In 2005, social media was a nascent topic, viewed as a fad by brands and corporations. He saw it coming then, and believes the next step after social—a collaborative economy based on peer-to-peer transactions and co-innovation—is about to change our world. Read More »
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Jimmy Wales To Silicon Valley: Grow Up And Get Over Your Age Bias
Silicon Valley frowns on age, yet several of its most successful entrepreneurs argue experience tends to trump youthful exuberance. Read More »
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Joi Ito: Open-Source Hardware Is a No Brainer
Open-source hardware is on its way, and it will foster a new era of innovation, according to MIT Media Lab director Joichi “Joi” Ito. The emergence of freely available hardware designs and near-free components will unleash the same sort of technology innovation that open-source software kicked off a decade or so ago, Ito said Tuesday.
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