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A Marriage Of Data And Caregivers Gives Dr. Atul Gawande Hope For Health Care
Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. His long-form narratives and books have helped illuminate complex systems and wicked problems to a broad audience. Read More »
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A New Open-Source, Dynamic Model for Projecting Physician Supply and Demand
With a grant from the Physicians Foundation, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research (Sheps Center) is developing a dynamic, open-source, web-based tool to project physician supply and demand and estimates of shortages in the United States. Read More »
A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
In the early days of the Internet, scientists erected their own online network, a digital utopia that still stands today. Here, astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, computational biologists, and computer scientists come together to discuss heady, cosmic topics. They exchange knowledge—without exchanging money. It’s called arXiv, and it’s where researchers go to post their ideas for discussion, sharing PDFs of their scientific articles before they’re locked behind a journal’s paywall...
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A Secret Court Making Secret Laws? That's No Democracy
Last December, well before the Ed Snowden leaks revealed some information about the FISA court (FISC) and its rulings, we had already noted that the court itself was almost certainly unconstitutional. Read More »
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A Sustainable National Healthcare System: Prevention Only
The current sickcare system will bankrupt the nation. One model of a sustainable national system would focus solely on providing preventative care. Read More »
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A Troubling Strategy At Health IT Week
Health IT Week demonstrated a double barrel strategy to segregate patient information from provider information. Providers already have the power to set prices and health IT plays the central role. Read More »
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A Way For Biopharma To Disclose More Trial Data
[...] At a time when some regulatory bodies and biopharma companies are increasing their transparency initiatives involving access to clinical-trial data, disclosing trial results to volunteers could also go a long way toward strengthening public confidence. Read More »
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Accela Announces CivicData.com Beta Availability For Developers And Government Agencies
Accela, Inc., the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government agencies, announces the beta availability of CivicData.com for Accela customers, partners, and developers. CivicData.com is a free cloud-based open data platform that will make it easier for government agencies to publish and manage datasets. [...] Read More »
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Accountability Goes Both Ways
Back in 1999, when eZ Systems was founded, it became one of the first organizations to pioneer an open source business model. Years later, in 2009, a Community Board was put in place to govern and grow the community—and to implement a system of accountability that incorporated the commercial entity and the community surrounding it. I'm now Chair of that board. And as Community Manager at eZ Systems, I want to share some of my views on the relationship between the company and the board, in light of one core value of The Open Organization: accountability...
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Across Pharma, Few Open Arms For Trial Data Sharing
Industry inches toward consensus on limited sharing as EMA, GSK press for open access. Read More »
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Africa's Mineral Wealth Hardly Denting Poverty Levels, Says World Bank
Report finds discovery of oil and mineral resources doing little to improve prospects for poor people, whose lot may even worsen Read More »
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Africa: Breaking Down The Academic Paywalls, In Africa Too
Across Africa, academics and researchers face financial barriers that keep them from accessing the same knowledge their peers elsewhere in the world can afford. Read More »
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Africa: The Pros And Cons Of Social Media In Global Health
I was invited to moderate a panel at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week. [...]Within the first three hours of the summit, two other sessions had acknowledged that global health governance needed a shake-up and should move away from top-down, supply-driven models. Could social media, with their emphasis on dialogue and inherent transparency, be the solution? Read More »
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Agencies Aren't Honest About Tech Spending And Risks, Auditor Says
Better information technology management could save taxpayers $10 billion within five years, the government's top technology auditor told lawmakers Tuesday. But getting there will require agencies to be more open about what they're spending on IT and what they're actually getting for that investment. Read More »
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Agencies Plan for Government-Wide FOIA Portal
Three federal agencies are creating a common web portal for Freedom of Information Act requests with the intention of launching it in fall 2012. The $1.3 million portal, being built mostly with funds from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commerce Department, with some participation from NARA, could save the federal government $200 million over 5 years were it to be adopted gover Read More »
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