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The Risks And Perils Of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding could revolutionize fundraising for early-stage biotech companies, but beware of the pitfalls. Read More »
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Top 12 Reasons Health Providers Pay too Much for IT
Healthcare pays more than any other industry for information technology. At least according to a new survey. "Our analysis shows healthcare organizations pay an average 17 percent more than that of the other 29 industries we sampled," write the authors of a paper by Net(net), which bills itself as a consultancy specializing in IT optimization, "and 33 percent more than the industry with the lowest average costs (food service).” Read More »
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U.S. Economic Woes Ripple All the Way to Latin America
The national recession didn’t just hit people living in the U.S. – it’s made it more difficult for people to pay for medical bills in poor countries like Honduras, new University of Michigan Health System research shows. Read More »
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U.S. Needs Single-payer Health Care
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has essentially approved the Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate, what affect will it have? Read More »
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U.S. Paid Extra $13 Billion for Some Veterans' Care: Study
The U.S. government paid billions of dollars for the medical care of some older veterans twice, according to a new study published on Tuesday. Read More »
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UCLA Targets Malaria with Online Gaming
UCLA researchers have created a crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from healthy ones by viewing digital images obtained from microscopes. Read More »
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UK Government defines Open Standard's Principles
In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down firmly on the side of RF, not FRAND. The UK government's approach is enshrined in an important new document defining what it calls Open Standards Principles. Read More »
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Under The Surface, Microsoft's ARM Tablet Is A Terrible Mistake
Unhappy with Microsoft’s intended release of a direct hardware competitor, HP has reportedly withdrawn its support for the Windows on ARM RT (or “WART”) platform. The sages at SemiAccurate acerbically explain the whole ugly affair: "…Microsoft just unveiled one of the largest and most unethical industrial espionage campaigns of the last few decades, so it is no surprise that everyone is jumping ship."...
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Ushahidi Via USSD
The mobile phone has been at the core of Ushahidi’s strategy when building tools for citizen engagement. Its ubiquitous nature makes it the easiest tool to use and ensure that a vast majority of citizens can actively participate. [...] Read More »
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Why I've All But Given Up On Windows
After more than two decades of being a dedicated Windows power user, and having invested tens of thousands of hours into mastering the platform, and run versions spanning from 3.0 to 8.1, I've now all but given up on Windows. Read More »
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Why One-third of Hospitals Will Close by 2020
Despite a history of strength and stature in America, the hospital institution is in the midst of massive and disruptive change. Such change will be so transformational that by 2020 one in three hospitals will close or reorganize into an entirely different type of health care service provider. Several significant forces and factors are driving this inevitable and historical shift.
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Why Procurement Professionals Need To Get Open Source Savvy
Procurement’s primary role is to obtain goods and services in response to business needs. When it comes to commercial software, procurement has long played an active role working with development teams to meet their needs for code... 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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Willetts 'Should Have Done Open-Access Homework'
Ministers should avoid making policy "on the basis of their summer reading lists", a senior sector figure has cautioned. Read More »
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XO Tablet native mesh networking added with Open Garden preload
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has paired with Open Garden to bring mesh-networking to the new XO Tablet, allowing users of the low-cost open source slate to get online via bridged connections with other owners. [...] Read More »
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