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How States Launched Successful Health Exchanges

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | November 1, 2013

In the second half of August, six weeks before rollout, the best tech minds building Washington D.C.’s Health Benefit Exchange gathered to test the system end to end... Read More »

IDGA’s Interoperable EHR Roundtable Day: Facilitating the Conversation on Successful EHR Adoption

Press Release | The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement | January 9, 2014

IDGA’s Interoperable EHR Roundtable Day
Facilitating the Conversation on Successful EHR Adoption

The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement announces the Interoperable EHR Round Table Day, taking place March 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The Roundtable Daywill will bring together all relevant stakeholders - the medical professionals, service providers, purchasers and policy makers- to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Electronic Heath Records community.

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Meet The Geeks: The D.C. Tech Corps's Leading Edge

Elizabeth Segran | Fast Company | June 15, 2015

Here's why these techies chose to leave startups and top tech companies to serve the public good. When President Dwight Eisenhower established NASA in 1958, he called on the country's top scientists to bring their talents to the government. At the time, outer space was still a vast, unexplored mystery, and by joining NASA, astronauts had the opportunity to discover the rest of the universe "for the benefit of all," to use the organization's motto...

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MIT Hosts Forum for Release of New Report on the Future of Health Research

Press Release | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 20, 2016

On Friday, June 24th, MIT will host a forum at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, D.C. to present a new report titled Convergence: The Future of Health, which proposes innovative strategies for an integrated approach to scientific research that could lead to advances in biomedicine, health and related fields. The forum, which follows the release of the report on Thursday, June 23rd, will begin at 9:00 a.m...

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Transparent Civic Improvement With Crowdfunding Platform Neighbor.ly

Sunlight Foundation | OpenSource.com | April 11, 2014

There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what's worse is that both are in trouble.

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What Can You do with Open Data?

Play a word association game and the word "open" will almost surely be followed by "source." And open source is certainly an important force for preserving user freedoms and access to computing. However, code isn't the only form of openness that's important. Open data has been discussed for at least a decade. At the OSCON conference in 2007, Tim O'Reilly kicked off a bit of a ruckus when he suggested that open data might actually be more important than open code. Open data in this context mostly referred to the ability to export the user-created "Web 2.0" data, which was becoming important at that time. Tim Bray, then at Sun Microsystems, highlighted the issue when he wrote...