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mHealth May Hold The Key To Stage 3 Adoption
At least two health phenomena are common to all humanity: the experience of health (or illness) and the continual need for health vigilance. In spite of these constants, healthcare has historically been “delivered” in a series of isolated events rather than integrated into daily life and shared between patients and doctors. Read More »
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Modem To Improve African Net Access
A modem designed specifically for Africa has been announced at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. Read More »
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Modem To Improve African Net Access Launched By Ushahidi
A modem designed specifically for Africa has been announced at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. Read More »
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One Big HIE Hurdle Still Stands
Interoperability among disparate systems continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing health information exchanges today, according to the findings of a new industry survey. Read More »
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Online, Off The Grid: The Promising New Tech Tool About To Hit African Markets
An African tech company is gearing up to unleash a brand new tool that will help people across the continent get connected to the Internet, even in the most remote places. Read More »
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Open Source Has Changed Everything
In today's world of increasingly connected homes, connected machines and connected devices, any IT leader who can't grasp an open source mindset is doomed to fail. Read More »
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Pandemic Stresses National Need for Seamless Information Sharing Between Healthcare Providers, Black Book 2020 Interoperability Surveys
Two of three consumers revealed they will consider changing their physician and hospital providers in the coming year after learning how their health record was not shareable or available or was blocked in the past year...Five hundred and nine managers of frontline providers confirm the lack of general interoperability across the entire U.S. health care system has detracted from COVID-19 patient care, led to poor health outcomes and higher expenditures, and left population health data muddy and deficient...."Portability of data in the middle of this pandemic is vital," said Doug Brown, President of the survey organization Black Book Research. "But resolving systemic data blocking and platforms interfering with the exchange of patient data are not on the industry's front burner."
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Peering Into The Soft Underbelly Of Net Neutrality
The net neutrality fight is moving in new directions, and quickly. Today FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that the FCC would press forward with new “Open Internet” rules, undeterred by last month’s court decision striking down most of the old ones. Last week, Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to merge. [...] Read More »
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Sub-Saharan African Countries Club Together To Speed Up Mobile Rollouts, Smooth Spectrum Use
A new cross-border group will meet regularly to discuss spectrum allocation, digital inclusion and increasing the pace of high-speed mobile network deployments. Read More »
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The State Of LTE 4G Networks Worldwide In 2014 And The Poor Performance Of The US
You might be surprised to hear that while the U.S.'s average 4G speeds are among the worst in the world, the quickest you can find is from a Brazilian operator. Read More »
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Usability Failures Heat Up EHR Replacement Market, Black Book Rankings Survey
Black Book resurveyed nearly 3,000 EHR users seeking a replacement system in the second quarter of 2013 to assess the impact of usability issues and physician practice satisfaction in the "Year of the Great EHR Switch." Read More »
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What Firefox OS Means For You
Firefox recently announced that Firefox OS phones are now available! (As of this post, in Spain and Poland.) Read More »
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What Is Moving National Health Information Exchange Forward?
[...] The eHealth Exchange (née the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) has come a long way from its earliest beginnings as an initiative spurred on by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to recent developments which saw it spun off into its own public-private partnership run by Healtheway. Read More »
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Why We Should Build A National Internet System Under The National Highway System
Earlier this month, The Daily Yonder, a well-named site about life in rural America, brought us this unsettling map of broadband availability, or lack thereof, in the country's remote counties: Read More »
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Pistoia Alliance US Conference 2017
The Pistoia Alliance US Conference 2017 is a free one-day conference put on by the Pistoia Alliance. This year's theme is "Lab of the Future" and will focus on how advances in automation, connectivity, machine learning, augmented reality, quantum computing, and blockchain are affecting clinical outcomes data and research data and diminishing the boundaries between hospitals, research laboratories, clinics, and ambulatory care...
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