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Open Data For Development Camp Highlights Challenges And Innovations In Aid Transparency
From May 12-13, AidData's Anna Lauridsen attended the Open Data for Development Camp (ODDC) in Amsterdam. The camp, hosted by Open for Change, allowed participants from the development and technology fields to discuss challenges, benefits, and lessons learned associated with open data. Read More »
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Open Health Data In Practice: Increase Your Access To Lab Results
I’m convinced that there’s a wave of innovation coming in healthcare, driven by new kinds of data, new ways of extracting meaning from that data, and new business models that data can enable. That’s one of the reasons why we launched our StrataRx Conference, which focuses on the importance of data science to the future of health care. Read More »
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Open Health, Privacy And The Digital Divide
Open health refers to a set of developing information technologies that make it easier for patients, professionals and administrators to access health-care information or make it anonymous and open to the public. Read More »
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Open Health: What Is It And Why Should You Care?
“Open health” captures a broad set of information technologies that will change the way we approach health and health care. It encompasses “ehealth” (the storage and provision of personal medical information online) but also includes the release of health information to the public at large. It’s the health side of “open data” policies being pursued by countries all over the world. Read More »
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Open Policy Alliance: A New Program To Amplify Underrepresented Voices In Public Policy Development
On behalf of the Open Source Initiative and the public policy team, I’m very pleased to share early news of our new educational program – one aimed at building and supporting a coalition of underrepresented voices from public benefit and charitable foundations. This new program – the Open Policy Alliance – seeks to empower these voices and enable them to actively participate in educating and informing US public policy decisions related to Open Source software, content, research, and education. The OPA is created in response to increased demand for public dialog and stakeholder engagement in these adjacent and related “open domains”.
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Open-Source Attack Dog Enters Ballmer's Inner Ring
While Rudder helped build .NET, Mundie hit the headlines in 2001 when he tried to steer third-party programmers towards Microsoft’s new architecture by scaring them off using open-source and free software, which was raising its profile thanks to Linux.
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OpenID Connect Identity Protocol Launches With Support From Google, Microsoft & Others
Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn’t necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that’s often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch of OpenID Connect, the organization’s latest standard for authenticating users and building distributed identity systems. [...] Read More »
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Paper Highlights Legal, Ethical Issues With Open Health Data, Makes Policy Recommendations
Government open data initiatives have made patient health information more readily available online through healthdata.gov and third-party sites that pull from public sources. But coherent legal and ethics policies are lagging data innovation, says a paper recently published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal...
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Patients Matter Most, But Technology Matters A Lot
Computing practices that used to be religated to experimental outposts are now taking up residence at the center of the health care field. From natural language processing to machine learning to predictive modeling, you see people promising at the health data forum (Health Datapalooza IV) to do it in production environments. Read More »
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Pilot Aims To Add Transparency To Exchange Of PHI
A pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin is looking at how to enable patient tracking of who requests and receives their protected health information (PHI), according to a Health Data Management article. Read More »
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Polish NGO To Obama: Mass Surveillance Is Not Freedom
...Since October 2013, the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO, has tried to understand the relationship between the Polish and United States’ secret service organizations. Panoptykon believes that the Polish government, by accepting mass and pre-emptive surveillance, is reverting back to the much contested practices of the former, authoritarian regime—practices that triggered the revolution 25 years ago...
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Privacy Leader Takes Issue With ‘Myths’ About Big Data
Responding to a recently published story in Health Data Management, “The Biggest Big Data Myths of 2013,” as well as the news that drug database vendor IMS Health Holdings will go public, Deborah Peel, M.D., leader of the Patient Privacy Rights advocacy group, offers a different view of Big Data: Read More »
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Privacy Onus May Shift From Individual To Data Users
Derek Slater reported here last week on John Podesta's 79-page White House report on privacy issues in a post titled "Praise, criticism as groups dissect White House big data report." I'll just add to that some information from another related White House report issued on the same day...
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Prominent Critic Of Patent System To Join The White House
Santa Clara law professor Colleen Chien, who has published research that questions the economic justification for patent trolling, will advise the Obama Administration’s Chief Technology Officer. Read More »
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Prospects For Comprehensive Cyber Reform Are Questionable
Congress is unlikely to pass a comprehensive cybersecurity reform bill this year, largely because public concern about computer hacking doesn’t sway elections, a recently-departed House Homeland Security Committee senior aide said. Read More »
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