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Health Exchange Website Failures Were Both Predicted And Predictable

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

Who knew it could be so difficult to build an effective, user-friendly website capable of efficiently serving up complex information for millions of users? Quite a few people, actually. And that’s why the Obama administration’s bungling of the most public aspect of its signature policy initiative is so baffling. [...] Read More »

6 Cloud Considerations for Health Orgs

Karen Conway | Government Health IT | July 27, 2012

The cloud offers considerable benefits to healthcare, which is undergoing dramatic and essential transformation without the necessary financial or technological means to support the level and speed-of-change required... Read More »

8 Benefits Of Agile Software Development

Adam Zolyak | Segue Technologies | April 12, 2013

In my previous post [...] I discussed a number of benefits to using an agile process to manage software development projects. In this post, I’d like to expand upon these benefits and illustrate why they are compelling reasons to consider Agile. Read More »

A Hardware Renaissance In Silicon Valley

Nick Bilton and John Markoff | New York Times | August 25, 2012

In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking and apps for smartphones. But there are signs here that hardware is becoming the new software. Read More »

A Sustainable National Healthcare System: Prevention Only

Charles Hugh Smith | Business Insider | August 19, 2012

The current sickcare system will bankrupt the nation. One model of a sustainable national system would focus solely on providing preventative care. Read More »

Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution

Alok Jha | The Guardian | April 9, 2012

Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. Read More »

Agencies Initiate IT Cut-And-Invest Strategy

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | October 29, 2012

The Office of Management and Budget got its first glimpse into whether agencies would be able to cut 10 percent of their IT budgets, and how they would like to reinvest at least 5 percent of it in fiscal 2014. Read More »

All Eyes On Jeff Zients, Healthcare.gov's ER Surgeon

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013

To lead a sort of tech worker surge and software code purge for Healthcare.gov, the Obama Administration has brought in a turnaround guy, Jeffrey Zients. Read More »

America Needs $8 Trillion Worth Of Infrastructure Over The Next Two Decades—And China Could Help

Lily Kuo | Quartz | October 24, 2013

America needs at least $8.2 trillion to keep energy, water and transportation infrastructure in a good state of repair between now and 2030, according to a new report by the US Chamber of Commerce. The best way to cover that gargantuan expense? Investment from China. Read More »

An Inexpensive Fuel-Cell Generator

Kevin Bullis | MIT Technology Review | August 22, 2013

People could soon get cleaner energy from a compact fuel-cell generator in their backyards, at costs cheaper than power from the grid. At least, that’s the hope of Redox Power Systems, a startup based in Fulton, Maryland, which plans to offer a substantially cheaper fuel cell next year. Read More »

An Open Source Vision

Geraint Lewis | Health Service Journal (HSJ) | April 12, 2012

A campaign is attempting to bring VistA, an open source IT system, to the NHS. Why should you consider it? Read More »

Appallicious Joins With SF To Launch Park And Rec iPhone App

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | October 15, 2012

Later today, as part of Innovation Month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will unveil SF Recreation & Park’s official iPhone App, SFRECPARK, developed for San Francisco by mobile commerce company Appallicious. Read More »

Appropriate Technology, Open Source Blueprints

Daniel Krotz | Carroll County News | May 7, 2012

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, Missouri farmer Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step he's taking to write instruction sets for an entire self-sustaining farm operation with equipment costs of under $10,000. Read More »

Axial Exchange Ranks Florida Hospitals With New Patient Engagement Index

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | April 5, 2013

Axial Exchange, a developer of patient engagement technologies, unveiled this week its Patient Engagement Index, which ranks U.S. hospitals based on how involved their patient communities are with their own care. Read More »

Bizarre And Sad: Defense Dept. Runs 900+ Suicide Prevention Programs

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | September 24, 2013

The Defense Department has more than 900 suicide prevention programs and  plans to whittle down that number based on a cost-effectiveness ratio, according to this missive from the Military Health System. Read More »