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Charting A Locally Owned, For-Profit Future For Community News
For those of a certain age, perusing the ads posted at The Batavian, the for-profit news site in Batavia, New York, can seem a lot like flipping through the pages of a weekly community newspaper a generation or two ago. Read More »
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CMS Makes Medicare, Medicaid Data Easier For Researchers To Access
Researchers who want to study population health using the vast stores of Medicare and Medicaid data will no longer have to order it and wait for the federal government to ship them encrypted data files. Rather, they can now access the information virtually [...]. Read More »
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Commentary: IT Is Critical To Preventing Fraud And Waste In Austere Times
In the face of intense and growing budget pressures, taxpayers, legislators, and commentators of all political stripes want greater transparency and accountability in government spending. Read More »
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Court Rejects 'State Secrets' Excuse For Why Feds Want Out Of Lawsuit Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping
While there have been a number of new revelations lately about the NSA's surveillance efforts, there have been some long-running on-going legal disputes about it as well. One of the biggest is Jewel vs. the NSA. Read More »
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Customer Says eClinicalWorks Holding Patient Data 'Hostage'
As eClinicalWorks faces a possible class action lawsuit and the potential for clients to switch to rival EHR vendors, some customers are coming forward with complaints about their treatment. The company countered that it is still signing up new healthcare organizations and at least one user has noticed the vendor changing its ways. At May’s end, the U.S. Department of Justice – in a settlement that included a $155 million fine – mandated that the EHR vendor either upgrade existing customers' software for free or transfer their data to a rival’s electronic health record platform...
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Dataset Tracks World’s Open Government Data
The Global Open Data Index, a crowdsourced project launched by the Open Knowledge Foundation, released its 2014 dataset ranking 97 world governments on the openness of their data across 10 categories...
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Deloitte's Tom Davis Pushes For Contractor Accountability
Deloitte & Touche director and former U.S. Rep. Tom Davis asked former colleagues on Capitol Hill Tuesday to adopt a procurement model that delivers profits to contractors only when they make good on promised cost savings to government agencies. Read More »
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Demand Better: Making Government More Open And Accountable
When President Obama extolled the virtues of open data in government in a 2010 speech before the United Nations, he created opportunities for hackers, entrepreneurs and governments at all levels to embrace innovation through radical shifts in information exchange. [...] Read More »
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Despite Scandal, Former UnitedHealth CEO Was Ninth Best Paid CEO Of The Decade
A little while ago, the Wall Street Journal reported on the highest paid US corporate CEOs of the past decade. One name stood out for those interested in health care: Dr William W McGuire, the former CEO of giant health care insurance company/ managed care organization UnitedHealth Group. [...] Read More »
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Did You Know John Roberts Is Also Chief Justice Of The NSA’s Surveillance State?
The 11 FISA judges, chosen from throughout the federal bench for seven-year terms, are all appointed by the chief justice. In fact, every FISA judge currently serving was appointed by Roberts, who will continue making such appointments until he retires or dies. FISA judges don’t need confirmation — by Congress or anyone else... Read More »
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Do We Need Five-Star Open Development?
According to Beth Noveck open data can probably not make government more transparent and accountable. Instead, she holds the value of open data is primarily in making use of the wisdom of crowds to solve complex problems in society. Read More »
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DOJ Says Public Has No Right To Know About The Secret Laws The Feds Use To Spy On Us
So, we were just discussing the insanity of the FISA court (FISC) basically acting as a shadow Supreme Court, making broad rulings in total secrecy that have created a secret body of law that the public is not allowed to know about. Read More »
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EAC Mulls Project to Boost Maternal, Child Health
The East African Community is set to launch before the end of this year a project to boost maternal and child health in the region. The project, named the Open Health Initiative, is envisaged to promote innovative interventions and enhance access to data and information for better results, better tracking of resources and stronger oversight of results and resources for women's and children's health nationally and regionall... Read More »
Editorial: Time To Fix IT Procurement
Federal chief information officer Steven VanRoekel called the bungled rollout of Healthcare.gov a “teachable moment.” Unfortunately, it is just the latest in a long string of teachable moments concerning federal information technology projects. Read More »
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EFF Sues FBI, Wants Access To Records Of The FBI’s Facial Recognition Program
Companies like Facebook have been scrutinized by government regulators over the use of facial recognition technology. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting a mirror up to the government to demand the same scrutiny back. Read More »
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