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'Net Neutrality' Ruling Could Be Costly For Consumers, Advocates Say

Chris O'Brien, Salvador Rodriguez and Jim Puzzanghera | Los Angeles Times | January 14, 2014

An appeals court throws out the FCC's 'net neutrality' rules on Internet traffic. The ruling could raise Internet service fees and stifle innovation, some say. Read More »

10 Fastest Growing Cities For Concierge Medicine

Matthew Smith | Health Directions | July 23, 2013

In order to avoid the ongoing stress and health insurance headaches, many physicians have switched to cash-only practices and are saving their patients money in the process. Physicians throughout the country are setting up membership-based programs that offer discounts on services to customers. Read More »

2013: The Tipping Point In Health Care

Paul H. Keckley | Deloitte | January 3, 2012

In the health care industry, 2013 will be a huge year: the perfect storm of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the fiscal cliff and long-term deficit reduction, consumer dissatisfaction, and higher costs mean it’s a year when results matter.

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3D Printing Could Herald The Age Of Open Source Stuff

Brian Reale | OpenSource.com | January 20, 2014

3D printing is set to disrupt multiple industries thanks to its unique position at the intersection of three important trends in technology: the Internet of Things, our growing desire to personalize our things, and the coming revolution in the way things get delivered to us. Read More »

5 Trends Will Reshape Health IT In 2013

Paul Cerrato | InformationWeek | August 27, 2012

Ultimately the goal of all healthcare--IT included--is to put itself out of business. That may sound a bit strange but medicine's primary objective is to cure disease, or prevent it from occurring in the first place. And as the profession gets better at these two tasks, the public should become increasingly self-sufficient and have less and less need for its services. Read More »

6 Shifts In The Use Of Digital Platforms

Sohini Bagchi | CXOtoday | July 16, 2013

With digital activities growing rapidly in every sphere of life, consumers – both enterprise and end users - are changing the ways they use digital platforms today. Read More »

6 Steps To Health Information Superiority

Jeffrey Edgell | Government Health IT | August 13, 2013

IT enterprises must respond rapidly to queries and be in a position to take action based on data and information that are accurate, understandable and timely. This demand extends to all areas of professional and personal use including the health environment. Read More »

7 Healthcare Big Data Projects Get Knight Foundation Funding To Push For Public Health

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | January 15, 2014

An online portal connecting researchers with people willing to share their health data, a community health dashboard and a text-based counseling program for teens were the big winners of The Knight Foundation’s $2.2 million health data challenge. Read More »

A Whole New Dimension As Manufacturing Goes 3D

John Hearne | Irish Examiner | January 11, 2014

If you want to get some idea of the hype surrounding 3D printing, check out what the stockmarket thinks. When Voxeljet, a German manufacturer of 3D, printers staged their initial public offering last month, its shares instantly doubled. [...] Read More »

AHRQ's 10 Tips For Creating Consumer HIT

Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | November 14, 2012

More and more, health IT is expanding from the clinical into the commercial realm. With patient engagement so crucial to the transformation of care delivery, that's a good thing. But some consumer technologies are better than others. Read More »

Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy

Tomio Geron | Forbes | January 23, 2013

...Larson is also a data point in an economic revolution that is quietly turning millions of people into part-time entrepreneurs, and disrupting old notions about consumption and ownership. Twelve days per month Larson rents his Marin County home on website Airbnb for $100 a night, of which he nets $97. Four nights a week he transforms his Prius into a de facto taxi via the ride-sharing service Lyft, pocketing another $100 a night in the process.

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Amid adoption Inroads, Texas Looks To Statewide HIT

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 10, 2013

When the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) last studied the state’s health IT landscape in 2009, there was fairly broad consensus about the potential benefits of IT, “but provider adoption rates accelerated slowly and many communities lacked the unified visions needed to create and sustain the infrastructure to share records between organizations' [...]. Read More »

Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | May 23, 2013

For years, Android has trailed iOS in terms of developers. In 2012, that changed dramatically, with the open-source operating system taking a significant lead over iOS in terms of related mobile open-source projects. What does this mean for the mobile wars? Read More »

Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Creep Into Nation's Food Supply

Mark Koba | CNBC | April 18, 2013

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria—often called "superbugs"—are entering the nation's food system and endangering consumers at an alarming rate, according to researchers who analyzed data from the federal government. Read More »

Apple’s Court Loss Could End The Book As We Know It

Marcus Wohlsen | Wired | July 11, 2013

The Justice Department is hailing a judge’s finding yesterday that Apple and publishers conspired to fix e-book prices as a victory for consumers, who are paying less since the alleged cabal was thwarted. But readers shouldn’t rest easy... Read More »