The Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s HHS IDEA Lab has announced the seventh cohort of teams selected for the HHS Ignite Accelerator. The HHS Ignite Accelerator is a program that spurs innovative problem-solving across the Department by encouraging and enabling HHS staff (at all levels) to experiment with novel means for addressing key Departmental challenges...
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Gamification Concept Used To Quickly Improve Patients’ Blood Pressure
April Flowers | Red Orbit | May 21, 2014
This week, Merriam-Webster released a list of new words being added to the dictionary, including gamification: the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context to engage users. What could gamification have to do with medical education, though?...
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Genomics and Big Data-Part 1
Gerry Higgins | OSEHRA Blog | January 23, 2013
This will be the introductory part of a long report that I completed in response to a 'big data' study being performed by MITRE for the U.S. Army. It will be released in phases, with some text redacted. Here is the Executoive Summary. See link below for the first part of the PDF. Read More »
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Grant Supports Development Of Software To Judge Quality Of Electronic Public Health Data
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Indiana University |
September 10, 2015
With the growing need for early identification of emerging threats including those of bioterrorism, pandemic flu, Ebola and foodborne illnesses, public health departments nationwide are increasingly relying upon data captured from electronic sources. A $381,000, 2-year grant from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health supports development by the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health of open source software tools to measure and monitor the quality of electronic data being transmitted to public health departments across the nation from health care systems, medical laboratories, physician offices and other sources.
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Half Of Taxpayer Funded Research Will Soon Be Available To The Public
Andrea Peterson | Washington Post | January 17, 2014
Proponents of the open access model for academic research notched a huge victory Thursday night when Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public. Read More »
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Heather Joseph On The State Of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?
Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | July 12, 2013
This is the fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. Read More »
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Here's Why Africa's Ebola Epidemic Is Officially 'Spiraling Out of Control'
Tom McKay | World.Mic | September 2, 2014
Health authorities admitted Tuesday that the West African Ebola virus epidemic is accelerating quickly and may soon outpace the ability of medical teams to contain it. Meanwhile, the grim situation is being made worse by a massive strike among Liberian health care workers, who have accumulated large amounts of unpaid wages while suffering from overwork and the constant risk of exposure...
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Highlights From Open Access Week 2012 At Indiana University
Stacy Konkiel | Indiana University | November 13, 2012
This year’s Open Access Week events at Indiana University-Bloomington were a resounding success. Due in large part to new cross-campus partnerships, the Scholarly Communication department was able to bring a series of six events to students and faculty from October 22-26. Read More »
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How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine
David Greene | NPR | April 6, 2017
A surprising medical finding caught the eye of NPR's veteran science correspondent Richard Harris in 2014. A scientist from the drug company Amgen had reviewed the results of 53 studies that were originally thought to be highly promising — findings likely to lead to important new drugs. But when the Amgen scientist tried to replicate those promising results, in most cases he couldn't...
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How To Lead A Team To Greatness, From The Man Who Sequenced The Human Genome
Mark Micheli | Nextgov | June 5, 2013
From sequencing the human genome to running the largest biomedical research agency in the world, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, has a record of harnessing complex public institutions to get things done. Read More »
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I.B.M. Using Bits of Watson for Drug Research
Steve Lohr | The New York Times | December 8, 2011
The ingredients that went into the Watson arsenal are steadily finding their way into I.B.M. products. For example, WellPoint, the big health insurer, is trying out a system that uses Watson-style software to reduce redundant medical tests.
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IBM Donates Technology for Open Source Innovation
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | October 3, 2011
IBM announced Monday that it will donate a portion of its Blue Spruce Project code to the Dojo Foundation’s Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb), helping enable health IT advancements on several fronts. Read More »
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IBM To Help Doctors Fight Heart Disease With Smarter Use Of Data
Andy Patrizio | CITE World | October 11, 2013
IBM Research, Sutter Health, and Geisinger Health System have been granted $2 million for a joint research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of analytics and application methods that could help doctors detect heart failure years earlier than they do now. Read More »
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Ignite Accelerator Announces 14 Teams Selected for the Seventh Round of the Internal Innovation Training Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
August 9, 2017
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Improving Public Access To Research Results
Sally Rockey | Rock Talk | November 16, 2012
Most researchers are familiar with our public access policy which is central to the NIH mission. It ensures NIH-funded research is accessible to everyone so that, collectively, we can advance science and improve human health. [...] Read More »
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Industry Continues Dabbling with Open Innovation Models
Cormac Sheridan | Nature Biotechnology | December 8, 2011
On October 26, seven large pharma companies and a biotech firm, Alnylam, announced a collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to establish WIPO Re:Search. Read More »
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