This is not going to all be about getting your books, or your socks, or even your new HD television faster. It is going to impact many industries -- including health care. And that impact has already started to happen. Zipline International, for example, is already delivering medical supplies by drone in Rwanda. They deliver directly to isolated clinics despite any intervening "challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure." They plan to limit themselves to medical supplies, but not only in developing countries; they see rural areas in the U.S. as potential opportunities as well. Last fall they raised $25 million in Series B funding. Drones are also being considered for medical supply delivery in Guyana, Haiti, and the Philippines...
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Urges the USDA to Make GMO-Labeling Transparent, Accessible
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard |
August 4, 2017
As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) develops final rules on GMO-labeling requirements over the next year, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and fellow lawmakers called on Secretary Perdue to ensure labeling standards are consumer-friendly, fair, and transparent. In July 2016, Congress passed weak GMO labeling standards into law that create a confusing web of disclosure options, allowing companies to choose between on-package text, a USDA-regulated symbol, or an electronic or digital link (e.g., QR code)...
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Report Highlights Positive Elements of U.S. Government Open Source Adoption
By Mark Bohannon | October 9, 2015
I think we've all read our fair share of reports about lessons learned and the challenges and opportunities for governments taking up open source software. Frankly, many of them seem a bit dry, and often repetitive. But one study I recently came across (that has not received much media coverage) stood out. Its predicate was different that most, recognizing the positive: open source software (OSS) "is being used in [the U.S.] government, as well as being released by the government (as both minor improvements and whole new projects), and the government is receiving benefits from doing so. However, many in government are unaware of this." In short, it appears to find the glass half filled—or better—rather than half empty...
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Report: MOOCs Top Open Access For Disruptive Potential
Joshua Bolkan | Campus Technology | October 23, 2013
A new report, Open Access, Megajournals, and MOOCs: On the Political Economy of Academic Unbundling, in Sage Open compares the disruptive potential of open access (OA) for academic articles and massive open online courses (MOOCs) and finds that MOOCs are more likely to change the course of higher education. Read More »
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Research Transparency: 5 Questions about Open Science Answered
By Elizabeth Gilbert, and Katie Corker | July 17, 2017
Open science is a set of practices designed to make scientific processes and results more transparent and accessible to people outside the research team. It includes making complete research materials, data and lab procedures freely available online to anyone. Many scientists are also proponents of open access, a parallel movement involving making research articles available to read without a subscription or access fee...
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Researchers: Ensure Management Transparency When Moving To A Cloud-Based EHR
Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | August 21, 2013
Healthcare providers that plan to use cloud-based services to host their electronic health records should first audit such providers via an external company to help build a relationship of trust, according to a new study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. [...] Read More »
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Restoring Trust In VA Health Care
Kenneth W. Kizer and Ashish K. Jha | New England Journal of Medicine | July 24, 2014
It has been nearly 20 years since the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the subcabinet agency that oversees the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, implemented a series of sweeping reforms that markedly improved quality, boosted access, and increased efficiency.1,2 Recent revelations about long wait times for veterans compounded by systematic cover-up by VHA administrators make it clear that reforms are again needed...
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Rise of Drones for Medical Supply Delivery
By Kim Bellard | May 23, 2017
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RNs Urge Tougher Federal Oversight On Unproven Medical Technology On which Hospitals Spend Billions
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National Nurses United |
July 8, 2014
National Nurses United is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enact meaningful oversight and public protections on the use of unproven medical technology that is rapidly spreading through the nation’s healthcare system...
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Sage Bionetworks Advocates for Open Systems in Health Research
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Sage Bionetworks, mPower |
July 20, 2016
Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization, continues its work to redefine the way in which health data is gathered, shared and used through the use of open systems, incentives and norms. In a Nature commentary published today, a set of governing principles for digital health data analysis that are designed to maximize the contribution of large-scale digital data to advancing medical care are described. This commentary was co-authored by John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks and Eric Topol, MD, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, and Chief Academic Officer of Scripps Health. The two work together on the NIH-funded Precision Medicine Initiative that was announced earlier this month.
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Sage Bionetworks to Share Results of Mobile Health Research Study at Upcoming Precision Medicine Conference
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Sage Bionetworks |
June 29, 2016
In the midst of several colliding perspectives on personal data sharing from both patients and researchers, it is challenging to comprehend how clinical study designs should be conducted to benefit both stakeholders. Sage Bionetworks recently began sharing data from over 9,000 participants of mPower, a mobile health research study for Parkinson's Disease. As one of the first observational assessments of human health to achieve this scale, its success is attributed to the unique study design which emphasizes transparency and trust between participants and researchers...
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San Francisco Set To Appoint Chief Data Officer In Revised Open Data Legislation
Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | October 15, 2012
San Francisco will announce proposed revisions to open data legislation Monday that includes the creation of a chief data officer who will serve as the primary evangelist for making city data freely-available to the public. Read More »
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Sandy Aid Website Doesn’t Live Up To Stimulus-Tracking Standards
Charles S. Clark | Government Executive | November 1, 2013
On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy Oct. 29, members of the Obama administration’s special interagency task force were eager to placate the homeowners and business people growing impatient with the pace of arriving grants and contracts for rebuilding. Read More »
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Scenarios for Health Care Reform (Part 1 of 2)
Andy Oram | EMR and HIPAA | May 16, 2017
All reformers in health care know what the field needs to do; I laid out four years ago the consensus about patient-supplied data, widespread analytics, mHealth, and transparency. Our frustration comes in when trying to crack the current hide-bound system open and create change. Recent interventions by US Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, whatever their effects on costs and insurance coverage, offer no promise to affect workflows or treatment. So this article suggests three potential scenarios where reform could succeed, along with a vision of what will happen if none of them take hold...
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Science Europe Denounces ‘Hybrid’ Open Access
Ross Mounce | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | May 2, 2013
Recently Science Europe published a clear and concise position statement titled: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications. This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Read More »
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Scientists Are Accidentally Helping Poachers Drive Rare Species to Extinction
By Benjamin Scheele, and David Lindenmayer | July 16, 2017
If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for sale” – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large number of animals being pushed to extinction in the wild by animal trafficking. What’s shocking is that the illegal trade in Chinese cave geckoes began so soon after they were first scientifically described in the early 2000s. It’s not an isolated case; poachers are trawling scientific papers for information on the location and habits of new, rare species...
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