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HELP Committee Passes Patient Centered Care EHR Bill
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee legislation on improved EHR use has passed, according to a public statement from the committee. The bill’s passage was unanimous. Earlier this year, the HELP Committee drafted legislation to improve EHR use. This legislation centered primarily on improving physician EHR use, decreasing data blocking, and making health IT patient-centered...
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Here Comes Another Tech Bubble — In Education
I’m the kind of guy who worries when something gets too popular. [...] When anything rapidly accelerated in popularity with no clear tie to quality, I wondered how long it would take before that bandwagon crashed. I’m starting to ponder the same about technology in education. Read More »
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Homelessness, Hunger, The Immiseration Of The Unemployed, Decimated Head Start Programs And Public Schools: All Brought To You, Courtesy Of The Sequester
The federal budget sequester — that Rosemary’s baby that resulted from the unholy alliance between political elites’ bipartisan fetish on the one hand, and their austerity mania on the other — continues to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of Americans. Like a particularly nasty and tenacious social disease, it is the gift that keeps on giving. Read More »
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House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee On Economic Opportunity Hearing
H.R.331, direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit the centralized reporting of veteran enrollment by certain groups, districts, and consortiums of educational institutions; H.R.821, to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide surviving spouses with certain protections [...]. Read More »
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How Are Open Access And MOOCS Disrupting The Academic Community In Different Ways?
New article in SAGE Open compares and contrasts the disruptive tensions of open-access publishing with MOOCs Read More »
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How Billionaire "Philanthropy" Is Fueling Inequality And Helping To Destroy The Country
Peter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America “just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place.” At meetings of charitable foundations, he says “you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.” [...] Read More »
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How Doubling The Student Loan Interest Rate Hurts The United States
University graduates are as vital a resource for the United States as anything that is mined, extracted, or farmed from nature. [...] In short, there is a very strong public interest for incentivizing intelligent students to aspire to a college education. Read More »
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In The News
Mobile technology is now being used for everything from paying bus fares to eye tests, donating money for disaster relief to distance learning. ICT for development remains a big issue in Africa and here’s a sweep of some of the latest developments that we’ve been following at Indigo. Read More »
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Innovation At VA: Collaboration, Data Aid Veteran Benefits Project
A collaborative effort to combine data previously scattered across multiple federal agencies has led to a single portal where veterans can access key benefits. Read More »
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Innovative Funding Begets Innovative Development
Chlorinating water, a bug-killing intervention that the industrialized world largely takes for granted, can be prohibitively difficult in the developing world. Read More »
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Inside Google’s Innovative African Broadband Trial
Google is involved in a groundbreaking trial of “white space” technology, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. Just a few months in, it’s already making a real difference for local schools. Read More »
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Intel CEO Announces Collaboration With Arduino To Inspire Creativity, Learning And Invention With Makers And Students
Introduces First Intel-Based Arduino-Compatible Development Board; Announces Donation to 1,000 Universities Worldwide Read More »
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Internet For All: Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded
The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. Read More »
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Jenny Aker On Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa
Jenny Aker an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, provided an overview of the welfare impacts of mobile technologies and how current research is testing our assumptions about the benefits of mobile phones for individuals in developing countries. Read More »
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Kenya Pushes Technology Into Overdrive
The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters, is now taking its technological talents to new heights. The East African nation of Kenya has just started construction on a 5,000-acres piece of land in Konza... Read More »
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