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Patient Engagement, Data Liberation And Portability
Open source drug discovery can be an influential model for discovering and developing new medicines and diagnostics for neglected diseases. It offers the opportunity to accelerate the discovery progress while keeping expenditures to a minimum by encouraging incremental contributions from volunteer scientists.
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Patient-Generated Data Is The Future Of Care, VA Official Says
Patient engagement is on the minds of a lot of people in healthcare, spurred not only by a requirement in Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations, but by imperatives to improve the quality of care and boost patient satisfaction. [...] Read More »
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Peer Learning Helps Tanzania Reach New Ground with Open Data
When we introduced Tanzanian open data officials to their UK counterparts they shared home truths about problems, gaining new perspective and inspiration to engage users, communicate more and seek support from those who can help. Learning from peers is essential to building momentum behind new open data programmes. As part of our work with the Tanzanian government we were delighted to facilitate their meeting with key figures from government, NGOs, businesses, NGOs and startups in the UK, during a London Study Tour...
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Peering into Complex, Tiny Structures with 3D Analysis Tool Tomviz
New open source software tomviz—short for tomographic visualization—enables researchers to interactively understand large 3D datasets. More specifically, the software analyzes 3D tomographic data similar to a medical CT-scan but at the nanoscale. "When you can take a nanoparticle or biomolecule and spin it around, slice it, look inside it, and quantitatively analyze it, you get a complete picture from all angles," says Yi Jiang, a physics Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University. Watch this 3-minute video from the Michigan Engineering department....
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Peering Into The Soft Underbelly Of Net Neutrality
The net neutrality fight is moving in new directions, and quickly. Today FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that the FCC would press forward with new “Open Internet” rules, undeterred by last month’s court decision striking down most of the old ones. Last week, Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to merge. [...] Read More »
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PeerJ Leads A High-Quality, Low-Cost New Breed Of Open-Access Publisher
A one-off fee allows researchers to publish as many papers as they like. The first open access PeerJ articles appear today Read More »
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Phablet, Schmablet: Let's Refocus On Real Innovation
Last night, Samsung delivered a flash-mob style performance in Times Square ahead of its Galaxy 4S device unveiling tonight at Radio City Music Hall. Literally, turning the U.S. wireless communication competition into a circus... 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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Prepare to Be Hacked: Information Security for Small Organizations
Information security is challenging, and can be breathtakingly expensive in money and staff energy. Smaller organizations may not have the money or staffing expertise to do the job right, even when the need is the greatest. At OSCON 2016, Kelsey Gilmore-Innis of Sexual Health Innovations (SHI) gave a really interesting talk on how her small nonprofit has done some creative thinking about security, and how that influences the deployment and operation of their application. Callisto is an online reporting system designed to provide a more empowering, transparent, and confidential reporting system for college sexual assault survivors...
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President’s Budget Moves Spending Transparency Site From GSA To Treasury
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal moves control over the spending transparency website USASpending.gov out of the General Services Administration and gives it to the Treasury Department. Read More »
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Preventing the Next Heartbleed and Making FOSS More Secure
David Wheeler is a long-time leader in advising and working with the U.S. government on issues related to open source software. His personal webpage is a frequently cited source on open standards, open source software, and computer security. David is leading a new project, the CII Best Practices Badging project, which is part of the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) for strengthening the security of open source software. In this interview he talks about what it means for both government and other users...
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Price Doesn't Always Buy Prestige In Open Access
The open-access journals that charge the most aren't necessarily the most influential, an online interactive tool suggests. The freely accessible tool, launched earlier this month, shows that a journal's fees do not correlate particularly strongly with its influence, as measured by a citation-based index. Read More »
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Price Transparency Could Lower Costs In The ED
Price transparency can educate emergency department providers about the cost to patients when they undergo procedures--and, as a result, help hospitals address inefficiencies that drive up costs, conclude researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. Read More »
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PRISM Could Put The Kibosh On US Trade Abroad
Europeans are not taking revelations about the U.S. government's PRISM surveillance program in stride, and that could be exceedingly bad for U.S. businesses. One sector that's already seeing cause for alarm is cloud services. Read More »
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Private Hospitals to Gain Access to Vets' Medical Records
The Department of Veterans Affairs has reached the final stretch of what's been a long effort to employ technology that allows private hospitals access to veterans' medical records that can be used to evaluate health history and deliver better care. Read More »
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