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Who Writes Linux? Corporations, More Than Ever
Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Read More »
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Who's Footing the Bills?
In the 2fi years since Citizens United, it’s become clear that creative accounting can in some cases obscure from voters’ eyes the dollars behind the messages that bombard us with each election cycle. (And you can imagine the barrage which awaits us as Nov. 6 nears.)
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Wholesome Wave Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program Launches In New York City Public Hospitals, Targets Those At Risk Of Obesity
Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program Launches in New York City Public Hospitals, Targets Those at Risk of Obesity Read More »
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Whose Data Is It Anyway?
A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I, who co-authored this post, have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Read More »
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WHO’s First Global Report On Antibiotic Resistance Reveals Serious, Worldwide Threat To Public Health
A new report by WHO–its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally–reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country. [...] Read More »
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Who’s Going to Pay for Future Drug Development?
In the first part of this article, the author detailed how pharma and biotech companies, along with the federal government, provide the majority of funding for biomedical research in the U.S. In this second part, he turns his attention to a number of other sources, both for-profit and nonprofit, that also provide the capital that drives drug discovery and development work. Read More »
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Who’s Logging Your Face?
In 1892, Sir Francis Galton published a treatise in which he argued that the patterns on our fingers were “an incomparably surer criterion of identity than any other bodily feature.” Today, fingerprinting is ubiquitous. But the limits of the technique are clear: Fingerprinting is a targeted, one-off process whereby a single person is identified, typically through an in-person or on-site interaction. Advanced face recognition, on the other hand, lets police identify people from far away and without interacting with them...
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Why 2017 Will Belong to Open Source
A few years ago, open source was the less-glamourous and low-cost alternative in the enterprise world, and no one would have taken the trouble to predict what its future could look like. Fast-forward to 2016, many of us will be amazed by how open source has become the de facto standard for nearly everything inside an enterprise. Open source today is the primary engine for innovation and business transformation. Cost is probably the last reason for an organisation to go in for open source...
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Why 2018 Was a Breakout Year for Open Source Deals
At the beginning of 2018, it didn't seem like the open source movement could get any bigger. Android, the world's most popular mobile operating system; websites including Facebook and Wikipedia; and a growing number of gadgets have open source software under the hood-literally, in the case of cars. The world's largest companies, including Walmart and JP Morgan Chase, not only use open source but have released their own open source software so the rest of the world can modify and share their code. Then, in June, Microsoft announced plans to buy GitHub, the platform used by millions of developers and companies, including Google and Walmart, to host popular open source projects, for $7.5 billion.
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Why 6 U.S. Senators Are Upset About The EHR Incentive Programs
Six U.S. Senators claim that the $35 billion Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs are not achieving their goals and require a “reboot.” Read More »
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Why A Grocery Chain Supports Health Data Liquidity
The CEO of a family-owned grocery store chain wrote a letter to New York State lawmakers to support $65 million worth of spending on a computer system for health information in the state. That grocer is Danny Wegman, and that project is the Statewide Health Information Network, aka SHIN-NY.
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Why A ‘Tech Surge’ Isn’t Going To Save HealthCare.gov
Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promised it would recruit the ”best and brightest” to fix HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s online insurance marketplace that’s part of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which has been plagued by technical defects... Read More »
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Why All Pharmaceutical Research Should Be Made Open Access
The government wants to make all publicly funded research available – but the same must be demanded of pharmas also Read More »
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Why Americans Need Bloomberg's Big Gulp Ban
Last week, New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to ban sales of sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces...That means that the city’s 20,000 restaurants, coffee shops, food carts, movie theaters, and stadiums will no longer be able to sell empty calories in supersize portions.
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Why an Obscure Indian Journal Has an Impressive — and Growing — International Stature
Earlier this year a Canadian medical ethicist published a doozy of an essay1 claiming that the heavyweight New England Journal of Medicine was poorly vetting its authors and publishing shoddy studies. The piece drew lots of attention for those allegations. But what went unremarked, though perhaps just as notable, is the place where they appeared: The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). The IJME isn’t on anyone’s list of most desirable places to publish...But for a relatively unknown and ostensibly local title...it has an impressive list of staff and contributors, and has been earning plaudits from the science community lately.
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