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Second MERS Case Shows Hospitals Are Ground Zero For MERS
The patient started feeling ill as he sat on a packed flight from Jeddah to London. Things didn’t get any better after he boarded another flight to Boston, or a third flight to Atlanta, or even as he took one last miserable leg to Orlando...
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Securing Health Data Means Going Well Beyond HIPAA
A two-decade-old law designed to protect patients’ privacy may be preventing health care organizations from doing more to protect vulnerable health care data from theft or abuse. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established strict rules for how health data can be stored and shared. But in making health care providers vigilant about privacy protection, HIPAA may inadvertently distract providers from focusing on something just as important: overall information security...
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Security's Future Belongs To Open Source
It's really not a debate question, it's just the way it is. The world runs on Linux and open-source software...
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Security: Healthcare's Fixer-Upper
The alarming state of affairs, how the industry's slack security is bad for business and what some are doing to step it up...
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See The Inspiring Story Of Aaron Swartz On Vimeo On Demand
Today marks the premiere of a Vimeo On Demand title that we’re supremely excited to share. Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion) directs the story of Aaron Swartz, a technological wunderkind whose suicide in January 2013 rocked the Internet community and prompted a tremendous outpouring of sadness for a person who became known as “The Internet’s Own Boy.”...
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Seeds Of Rebellion
Vermont becomes a hotbed of resistance to high-tech agribiz.
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Senate Committee Report Excoriates Air Force For IT Incompetence
A full two years after its cancellation, Congress is still taking the Air Force to task for the failure of an eight-year logistics system project that was intended to consolidate somewhere between 175 and over 900 legacy software systems—depending on who you asked and when...
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Sending Medicaid to the Cloud
Led by Wyoming, states are ready to pioneer MMIS as a service. The Wyoming state government already has considerable experience with cloud-based services. It uses Google Apps for Government, NEOGOV for human resources and is looking at Salesforce.com for customer relationship management. But as its Department of Health prepares to issue an RFP to replace its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), all eyes in the Medicaid IT sector are on Wyoming because it will be the first time a state has tried to move away from an expensive custom-developed system to an MMIS-as-a-service approach.
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Separating The Opportunities From The Obstacles In Open-Source Networking
Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet...A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit...
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Serial Entrepreneur Peter Tippett Hopes To Improve America's Health Care System
These days, the energetic and innovative Tippett is tackling perhaps his biggest challenge yet: turning the bloated, costly and cumbersome world of electronic medical records on its head. Instead of relying on institution-controlled health information exchanges to share records, Tippett wants to empower doctors and patients. The name of his company— HealthCelerate—hints at the urgency with which he wants to transform the system, and a lifetime of cutting-edge achievement suggests he may be just the guy for the challenge.
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Seven Bridges Introduces Open Source Cancer Genomics Workflow
Seven Bridges, a Cambridge company that builds tool to help scientists process genomic data, has created a cloud-based workflow for analyzing cancer genomes. The workflow was presented at the Biology of Genomes conference at Cold Spring Harbor in May...
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Sewage, Debris, Mosquitoes: Flood Waters Increase Health Risk for Harvey Victims
Tropical storm Harvey continues to threaten lives in Houston, where officials are focused on evacuating hospitals and securing life-saving emergency transportation, knowing they face long-term health threats. “Our number one priority now,” said Chris Van Deusen, a clearly frayed spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services, is “to make sure hospital patients and those with medical needs are taken care of.”...
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Sharing Is Caring: Social Network Allows Patients to Share Diagnoses and Test Results
The open-source health network PatientsLikeMe can help medical researchers connect with patients.
Sharing private information in the cloud comes with obvious risks, but it can also offer many benefits, some of which are just now coming to fruition.
PatientsLikeMe, an online community founded in 2004, which allows patients to manage their conditions and connect with others who share similar experiences, is taking this concept a step further.
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Sharing Records Called Key To VA Health Care
...A July audit by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Defense Department failed to make proper records transfers to the VA. In the Army, 77 percent of records transferred in 2013 were not timely and 28 percent were not complete, the audit said...
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She's Made So Many Doctors Furious — But She's Not Backing Down
Dr. Leana Wen is just what I would hope for in a doctor of my own: She's honest. But it's exactly that honesty that's been getting her into so much trouble lately...
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