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5 Ways to Manage the Cost of Health IT

Michelle McNickle | Healthcare Finance News | February 1, 2012

Managing costs in today's industry has been put front and center. And although incentive funds have been helping organizations to implement health IT, easy tweaks and innovative tips are always welcome to help cut corners.

Industry experts give use five simple ways to help manage the cost of health IT. Read More »

A Ugandan mHealth Moratorium Is a Good Thing

David McCann | ICTworks | February 22, 2012

Kampala is comfortable, with mild weather, good infrastructure (Umeme Electricity Co. notwithstanding), and more than its share of international-style restaurants for all those expatriate aid workers. Read More »

Agencies Saving one-Fifth of IT Budget Through Virtualization, Survey Finds

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 1, 2012

More than 80 percent of federal information technology leaders say their agencies have implemented some manner of server virtualization and, overall, the government is saving nearly 20 percent of its IT budget through virtualization, according to a recent survey.

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Air Force Buys 18,000 iPads – Not 'Equal' Tablets

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | March 2, 2012

The Air Force Air Mobility Command awarded Executive Technology Inc. of Phoenix a $9.6 million contract to acquire up to 18,000 Apple iPad 2 computers to store and display digital flight charts and manuals.

The deal announced Friday came one month after the command kicked off the procurement for iPads "or equal" tablet computers. Read More »

Apple's iBooks 2: An Attack on Educational Freedoms

Glyn Moody | ComputerworldUK | January 20, 2012

This is the dark side of the e-textbook revolution. Yes, it's clearly fantastic to have all those "interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos" available to enhance learning; and yes, it's great that you can carry around an entire library in a single iPad (assuming you can afford both of those elements), but the ugly truth is these are not your books: you are simply licensing them, just like proprietary software.

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Art & Science – The Pistoia Alliance, Dragons Den – An Opportunity to Showcase a New App

Sean Ekins | Collaborative Chemistry | February 8, 2012

What do David Hockney and I have in common? Not much except he is pushing the boundaries and creating great art with an iPad and well I am trying to use an iPad to do drug discovery, pushing a different kind of boundary. 

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Canonical CEO: Ubuntu Tablet OS Will Battle Android, iOS

Paul Krill | InfoWorld | January 11, 2012

Jane Silber is on a mission to get the Ubuntu Linux distribution onto mobile devices and TVs, rather than be stuck on desktop PCs.

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Cost Savings Draw Governments Worldwide to the Cloud

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 28, 2012

Cost savings are the biggest driver to cloud computing for national, state and local governments and security concerns are the greatest barrier, a survey released Tuesday found. Read More »

HP Reportedly Ditches Windows RT as Microsoft Readies Surface

Mikey Campbell | AppleInsider | July 2, 2012

According to unconfirmed reports, HP has scrapped plans to build Windows RT-based tablets which would have been direct competitors to Microsoft's own upcoming Surface tablet that was announced in June. Read More »

HP Said to Dump Microsoft over Surface: WART is No Longer Welcome at Most OEMs

Charlie Demerjian | SemiAccurate | June 29, 2012

Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface? We were being too kind, their largest OEM, HP, just bailed. Read More »

KiwiViewer Arrives in the Android Market

Pat Marion | Kitware Blog | February 13, 2012

I'm very happy to announce that KiwiViewer has arrived in the Android Market and you can now download it here! Read More »

Open Source Municipalities: Twitter, Transit and Apps a Focus of Cities Summit – Live Blog

Linda Solomon | The Vancouver Observer | February 1, 2012

One of the big cultural shifts we're working through in Calgary is to change our entire mindsets. We serve the citizen. We have to put the citizen at the centre of every decisions we make. I only want you to think about that every day. That mindset coupled with the open data mindset allows us to serve our citizenry more. Read More »

OsiriX on iPad works well for emergency MRI and CT reads, study finds

Brandon Glenn | MedCity News | June 4, 2012

iPads are just as effective as traditional workstations for radiologists reading MRI and CT scans in emergency situations, according to new research published in the Journal of Digital Imaging...The radiologists in the study used [Open Source] software from OsiriX to read the images.

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Predictions 2012 – The View From an Open Source Foundation

Paula Hunter | Open Source Delivers | January 11, 2012

Projects aimed at improving health IT will continue to spark interest, and those funded and fostered at the government level have the best chance of widespread adoption. Some of the largest healthcare initiatives are open source, and funded at the federal level for several years to come. Thus they can ride out the financial and regulatory uncertainty currently plaguing our HC industry. I do expect that on the back end of these projects there is great commercial opportunity.

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Review: Ubuntu Touch On A Nexus 7 Is Almost Awesome

Bryan Lunduke | Network World | October 21, 2013

This past week, we saw the release of Ubuntu 13.10. And, with it, we got the first official release of Ubuntu Touch (dubbed "Ubuntu Phone 1.0"). So, of course, I couldn't resist installing the "1.0" version of the operating system that Canonical is pitting against the likes of Android and iOS.

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