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Pop Health App Contest Winners Named at HIMSS12
A pair of mobile phone application contest winners were announced this week, each with a bent toward bolstering population health by engaging individuals more, and arming them with better health information. Read More »
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Promoting Open Source Software Government: The Challenges of Motivation and Follow-Through
The Journal of Information Technology & Politics has just published a special issue on open source software. My article "Promoting Open Source Software in Government: The Challenges of Motivation and Follow-Through" appears in this issue, and the publisher has given me permission to put a prepublication draft online. Read More »
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San Francisco's Plan: Open Government, Open Data, Open Doors to New Business and Better Services
Headd has been urging local governments to think of open data as an economic development tool for some time. In particular, he has argued in the past that financially strapped states could leverage the data in lieu of loans and grants to stimulate the creation and growth of small businesses. Read More »
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Say “Yes” to Innovation
Tablets and smartphones hold great potential to improve veterans’ care, believes VA CIO Roger Baker. “As IT head, my job is to make sure we can support mobile platforms.”
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The digital revolution in sub-Saharan Africa
Much has been written about the role technology played in bringing social and political change across much of the Middle East and North Africa, but less is known about the technological revolution that is taking place and transforming people's lives in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More »
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The Innovative Use of Mobile Application in East Africa
The key questions that this report seeks to answer are therefore; what hinders the take off of m-applications for development in East Africa and what role can donors play in this process? Through mobile phones, farmers get access to market prices, young urban citizens can transfer money back to their home villages, health workers can give diagnoses and collect data, family and friends can easily connect and communicate, news can be spread and read in crisis situations, citizens can build opinion and mobilise.
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Toward the Pocket Doctor: South Koreans Perfecting Mobile Phone Medical Apps
As all of us spend more and more time with our mobile phones, it can be easy to be lulled into believing that all the great mobile applications have already been invented. However, many mobile analysts predict that one emerging application class for mobile phones has yet to come to full fruition: medical diagnostic applications. Read More »
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VA Taps DSHI to Develop App for Tablets
The Veterans Health Administration (VA) has tapped DSHI Systems to create a tablet-based mobile triage system for the emergency room that determines how urgently a patients needs to be seen by a physician. The application, called ER Mobile, will help emergency room nurses better identify the sickest patients so that they can be cared for first.
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