Last weekend, I started a process that some may consider regressive. I began deleting my social media accounts to improve the signal to noise ratio in my life. 10 years ago I wrote about the importance of social media and building networks of colleagues, collaborators and relationships. During that decade our social norms have changed to the point that we walk off cliffs, text while driving, and document every microsecond of our lives on devices that have become the centerpiece of our waking hours. The problem has gotten so profound that Google has introduced artificial intelligence technology to respond to messaging for you - “LOL”, “cute dog”, “a movie at 7pm is great”...
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Re:Publica Conference On Internet And Society In Berlin
Loren Treisman | Indigo Trust | May 17, 2013
After almost 2 month’s in West Africa, I flew straight into Berlin for the Re:publica Conference, one of the world’s leading gatherings of techies and social activists, exploring how technology can help improve society across a huge range of themes. Read More »
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Real Copyright Reform Starts With Listening To Users, Not Just The Usual Suspects
Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | July 24, 2013
In the next baby step on the long march toward reforming the Copyright Act, the House Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the importance of the “copyright and technology sectors” to the U.S. economy. The first will be held tomorrow. Read More »
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Recent Hurricanes Have the Coast Guard Rethinking Social Media’s Role in Rescue and Response
Nicole Ogrysko | Federal News Radio | September 21, 2017
The U.S. Coast Guard is still knee-deep in rescue and response efforts as the third major hurricane in three weeks hits the U.S. and its territories. But the agency has already learned a thing or two from its initial response efforts and is thinking about new tools it should develop to better prepare for future disasters. When 911 call centers quickly overloaded in Houston, residents in the area quickly took to Facebook and Twitter to ask for help...
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Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon To Speak At Open Source Think Tank
Press Release |
Red Hat |
March 18, 2013
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon will be a featured keynote speaker at Open Source Think Tank on March 21, 2013... Read More »
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Red Hat Summit 2013: Company Pushes 'Open Innovation' As Future Of IT
Lynn Haber | TechTarget | June 13, 2013
Red Hat Inc.'s lead for its technology and product organizations, Paul Cormier, opened Day 2 of the ninth annual Red Hat Summit, held here on Wednesday, by explaining how some of the company's pivotal undertakings over the past 11 years will provide the springboard to where Red Hat is headed tomorrow. Read More »
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Red Hat Summit: Open Source Trends, Cloud Outlook, Innovation And More
Anne Stuart | TechTarget | June 14, 2013
Open-source enthusiasts from around the world descended on Boston recently for the annual Red Hat Summit, an intensive technology conference sponsored by Red Hat Inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of Linux and open source technology. Read More »
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Redefining Medicine With Apps And iPads
Katie Hafner | New York Times | October 8, 2012
The history of medicine is defined by advances born of bioscience. But never before has it been driven to this degree by digital technology... Read More »
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Redesigning Healthcare: Guest Post by Kirt Hine
Kirt Hine | The Value of Openness | August 17, 2012
Today’s guest post is written by Kirt Hine, who was a research intern at PatientsLikeMe in June and July. On his last day, Kirt gave a presentation to the entire company about his experience at the 2012 Healthcare Experience Design Conference, held in Boston last March. It made such an impression that we asked him to share his takeaways on the blog. Read More »
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Reducing My Digital Burden
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 14, 2016
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Reflecting On Our IT Progress
John D. Halamka | Life As A Healthcare CIO | October 31, 2012
In a time of EHR naysayers, mean-spirited election year politics, and press misinterpretation (ONC and CMS do not intend to relax patient engagement provisions), it's important that we all send a unified message about our progress on the national priorities we've developed by consensus. Read More »
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Reform Update: JAMA Study Suggests Money Alone May Not Be Enough To Improve Performance, Reduce Costs
Melanie Evans | ModernHealthcare.com | September 11, 2013
One goal of health reform, among many, is to break the industry's dependence on incentives for hospitals and doctors to do a high volume of business. Incentives for volume invite wasteful spending, of course, and also can be harmful if patients receive unnecessary care as a result. Read More »
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Regenstrief Institute Hopes to Create Comprehensive Patient Profile by Leveraging FHIR
Mark Taylor | MedCity News | August 23, 2016
In the quest for interoperability, Regenstrief Institute, the Indianapolis-based healthcare research and informatics organization, is piloting a heavily touted method of compiling healthcare information electronically. The not-for-profit Regenstrief’s Center for Medical Biomedical Informatics has developed a platform for merging data from different electronic health records systems to produce a comprehensive patient health profile for hospitals and physicians...
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Report: Drug discovery industry must embrace open source innovation to speed process, boost bottom lines
Ronald Rosenberg | CenterWatch | January 3, 2011
To meet the challenges of research and development, the pharmaceutical industry must adopt more open source innovation—a concept that has been used for nearly three decades by the information technology sector—to promote innovation in the drug discovery process and boost bottom lines, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. Read More »
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Report: Grim Future For U.S. Docs; Outlook Brighter In California
George Lauer | California Healthline | July 23, 2012
A national report released last week paints a grim picture of the future of practicing medicine in the U.S., but the sentiment is not universally echoed in California. Read More »
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Rethink the School of Tomorrow: Africa as the Starting Hypothesis
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras and the Africa 4 Tech team | LinkedIn | July 8, 2016
With 200 million inhabitants between the ages of 15 and 24, Africa is today the youngest continent on the planet. These young Africans will be the future leaders and the driving force of the continent’s economic, social and cultural development. A well-functioning inclusive educational system is thus essential to tackle tomorrow’s challenges. For several years, governments and large institutions on the planet, have attempted to implement an educational system relevant to the continent’s challenges. Considerable efforts have been made to catch up on an accumulated backlog in this crucial sector, allowing to tremendously enhance access to primary education...
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