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Adullact To Award Open Source Development Project
Adullact, the platform for French civil servants working on free software, is organising an award for the best open source tablet-based solution aimed at public administrations...
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AEGIS Is Latest HL7 Benefactor Member
At this week’s 28th Annual HL7 International Plenary & Working Group Meeting here in Chicago, IL, AEGIS joins 22 other distinguished organizations as the latest HL7 Benefactor. As an HL7 Benefactor, AEGIS supports HL7's important efforts toward streamlined development, implementation and adoption of industry-critical standards, specifications and products.
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AERA To Launch Open Access Research Journal
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced today that it will launch AERA Open, an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to all readers on the web. AERA Open is expected to start publishing articles in early 2014. “The launch of this innovative effort continues AERA’s leadership in exploring open access publishing,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine.
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Aetna to cite Leapfrog Hospital Safety Scores
Aetna will include The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Scores in its DocFind online hospital directory to help patients make better decisions about their care. Read More »
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African Leaders Agree Steps To Fight Runaway Ebola Outbreak
West African leaders agreed on Friday to take stronger measures to try to bring the worst outbreak of Ebola under control and prevent it spreading outside the region, including steps to isolate rural communities ravaged by the disease. The World Health Organisation and medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said on Friday the outbreak, which has killed 729 people in four West African countries, was out of control and more resources were urgently needed to deal with it...
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Africa’s Age Of Innovation Could Make Continent A Major Economic Power
Over the past few days, tech experts and global authorities have urged African countries to embrace innovation and technology in order to transform the entire continent into a global, economic powerhouse. Thanks to a new wave of tech startups and government investments into these new businesses, experts believe Africa could be on the verge of an age of great innovation...
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Africa’s Tech Edge
How the continent's many obstacles, from widespread poverty to failed states, allowed African entrepreneurs to beat the West at reinventing money for the mobile age
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After Building Apps For Harvey Victims, Houston's Techies Set Their Sights On Irma
After more than two days on a boat rescuing upwards of 50 victims of Hurricane Harvey from flooded houses, Matthew Hager decided to try to help his hometown of Houston the best way he knew how: with tech. Though Hager and his friends looked like a ragtag volunteer rescue squad, he’s a web designer by trade. With other volunteers from his design shop Poetic Systems, he built what has become one of the central hubs for information on Harvey recovery, HarveyNeeds.org. Hager and his crew are hardly alone. As Harvey hit, Houston’s startup community went into overdrive, connecting over a volunteer Slack channel and gathering around impromptu hackathons to build at least 20 new apps and sites designed to provide support to residents, first responders and the city...
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After Long Delay, Obama Declines To Rule On Petition Calling For Firing Of DOJ Officials Over Aaron Swartz’s Suicide
The White House has declined to rule on a petition that called for the firing of two Justice Department officials over the handling of a controversial court case involving Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide in 2013 after being accused of hacking into a university network...
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Aged Care Facilities Nurturing Superbugs [Australia]
Nursing home residents appear to be significant carriers of superbug infections into hospitals, potentially putting other patients at risk. This is the latest finding in a series of Monash University studies that have investigated management of infection in Melbourne's aged care facilities, and the over-prescription of antibiotics to residents...
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Agencies Under The Gun To Meet Data Transparency Deadlines
The Obama administration has six months to prove its implementation of a sweeping new data transparency law is on track...
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Ahead Of Obama Visit, MSF Warns US Pressure On India Could Impact Access To Medicines For Millions
Ahead of US President Obama’s visit to India, the international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) expressed deep concern over the US government’s heightened efforts to undermine access to affordable medicines from India—often called the ‘pharmacy of the developing world.’...
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AHIMA Conference: Reporter's notebook on consumers, mobile health, and telemedicine
Perhaps the best advice [Iverson Bell, MD], gave attendees at the AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, where both he and [Travis Good] spoke, was that technology is merely an enabler.
“Focus on the patient,” Bell said, “not the device.” Read More »
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AHIMA Launches Global Workforce Council
Working to advance standards for health information management and technology workforce curricula around the world, AHIMA has founded the Global Health Workforce Council, which comprises members from 12 different countries...
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AHRQ Grants Show Use Cases For Clinical Decision Support
Want to know how healthcare analytics is impacting healthcare right now? A new report published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published a new report highlighting findings and lesson learned through its awarding of grants through its Improving Quality Through Clinician Use of Health IT Grant Initiative, a portion of which demonstrates use cases for clinical decision support (CDS)...
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