See the following -
VA Researching Natural Language Processing In EHRs To Prevent Suicide
The U.S. Department of Veterans affairs is researching the use of natural language processing within its electronic health records system to automate suicide risk alerts.
- Login to post comments
Valuable Mental Health Apps Lost in a Sea of Untrustworthy Digital Solutions
The mental health industry has been flooded with potentially untrustworthy apps.
With more than 10,000 mobile health apps available to assist with mental health treatment, patients and clinicians now face the daunting challenge of parsing out trustworthy digital tools. That challenge has only intensified as more apps have entered the marketplace amid the FDA’s hands-off approach to regulating apps and wearables, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry...
- Login to post comments
Verizon Jumps Deeper Into Open Source
First, on March 25th, Verizon joined the Open Invention Network (OIN). The OIN is a patent protection consortium that promotes patent collaboration between its members and it uses its patent portfolio to protect Linux from patents attacks.
- Login to post comments
Washington Debrief: Is Meaningful Use In Danger?
...More groups weighed-in on the new meaningful use (MU) rule, allowing providers to meet MU through alternative pathways in 2014. Concerns mount over full-year EHR reporting period coming Oct. 1, 2014...
- Login to post comments
We Need to Learn How to Search the Web of Data
Many data portals exist, especially open data portals. Our team at ODIHQ and members of our global network have helped people to build data portals and get them used, so they can create impact. Despite the growing number of data portals, we are often asked “Do you know where I can get X data?” Sometimes there is an expectation that the Open Data Institute has ‘all the data’, and some people even ask us “Where should we publish our data so people can find it?” We’ve also been getting requests from people trying to create a data marketplace, where data can be bought and sold...
- Login to post comments
Wearable Computing: Why There's No Room For Watches Like Galaxy Gear
The technology and time are right for wearable computers -- at least the ones with eyeglasses as the user interface. But smartwatches? No way. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Wearable Devices With Health IT Functions Poised To Disrupt Medicine
The next innovation in health care may come from Silicon Valley. With Google, Apple and Samsung exploring how to incorporate health IT features into wearable devices, patients may soon provide information to doctors through devices such as smartwatches that can measure and transmit biometric data.
- Login to post comments
WebOS Resurrected On Android Devices
Hewlett Packard (HP) may have effectively walked away from its (Palm) webOS platform, but the open source OS is finding a new life on Android hardware. Read More »
- Login to post comments
WebRTC to enable Telehealth through your browser
The browser-based real time communications standard known as WebRTC is gaining a lot of interest around the world, backed as it is by heavyweights like Google and Mozilla. Its full maturity is also being eagerly awaited in the field of telehealth, as it promises to help develop new applications that will allow users to conduct video consults and exchange data and images from within any browser. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Welcome To The Age Of Open-ish Technology
From Twitter's API and the Android OS, we live in an age when private companies reap the benefits of some openness while maintaining ultimate control. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Wellcome Trust Supports Open Access Award Programme
The Wellcome Trust has joined with the Public Library of Science and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, that has led to innovations in any field that benefit society. Read More »
- Login to post comments
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the core issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money. Read More »
- Login to post comments
What Everyone Gets Wrong In The Debate Over Net Neutrality
We shouldn’t waste so much breath on the idea of keeping the network completely neutral. It isn’t neutral now. What we should really be doing is looking for ways we can increase competition among ISPs—ways we can prevent the Comcasts and the AT&Ts from gaining so much power that they can completely control the market for internet bandwidth.
- Login to post comments
What Is Deep Learning, and Why Should You Care About It?
Whether it's Google's headline-grabbing DeepMind AlphaGo victory, or Apple's weaving of "using deep neural network technology" into iOS 10, deep learning and artificial intelligence are all the rage these days, promising to take applications to new heights in how they interact with us mere mortals. To go deeper (yes, I went there) on the subject, I reached out to the team at the deep learning-focused company Skymind, creators of Deep Learning For Java (DL4J), and authors of the recently released O'Reilly book Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach, Josh Patterson and Adam Gibson...
- Login to post comments
What Is The 'Right To Be Forgotten'?
...Google - and other search engines - are extremely efficient at crawling the web to find and store data. Even if websites are taken offline, a cache is kept - meaning they can still be accessed. This is good for making the web as useful as possible, but bad if you don't like what it finds about you...
- Login to post comments