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Amazing Graphic Shows Chicago’s Middle Class Disappear Before Your Eyes
The graphic that you are about to see is sobering, perhaps depressing, and you can’t take your eyes off it. We have the exhaustive work of Daniel Kay Hertz, a masters student at the University Of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, to thank for that. At the risk of sounding like an old carnival barker, step right up and watch the middle class of Chicago vanish before your eyes.
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Amazingly Rapid Growth in Use of EHR Systems Across the U.S.
Until the President made investments in health information technology by signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, our health care system ran largely on paper. Read More »
Amazon Has Gone Too Far
Because it was Apple (AAPL) that got sued for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, not Amazon (AMZN), the federal judge who decided the case last July was able to ignore the facts...Apple tried to raise these facts in its defense, but U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, in the ruling that found that Apple had conspired with five publishers to raise the price of e-books, dismissed them in two sentences...
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Amazon hires openFDA trailblazer Kass-Hout for healthcare project: report
Amazon has hired former FDA chief health informatics officer Taha Kass-Hout, M.D., CNBC reports. Kass-Hout led the groundbreaking openFDA initiative and rehabilitated the reputation of the FDA’s IT department during his three years at the agency. Details of what Kass-Hout will do at Amazon are scarce....during his time at the FDA, Kass-Hout lead the precisionFDA program that established a collaborative, open approach to genomic testing references. Across the initiatives, Kass-Hout deployed approaches that were established in tech circles but alien to the FDA prior to his arrival. Open-source projects that embraced the cloud, shared their code on GitHub and invited programmers to hackathons became commonplace.
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Amazon Pushes Yet Another Publisher Around
Once again, Amazon appears to be putting the screws to a major publisher. According to the New York Times, the king of all Internet retailing “has begun discouraging” shoppers from buying Hachette releases by stretching out shipping times to two weeks or longer...
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Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Rackspace, VMware And The Linux Foundation Form New Initiative To Support Critical Open Source Projects
The Linux Foundation today announced it has formed a new project to fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure. The Core Infrastructure Initiative enables technology companies to collaboratively identify and fund open source projects that are in need of assistance, while allowing the developers to continue their work under the community norms that have made open source so successful.
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Amazon, PwC join campaign to bring open-source EMR to Puerto Rico in wake of Hurricane Maria
The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a public-private partnership founded in 2008, launched the NHIT Care Campaign to bring healthcare resources to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The two-phase campaign, rolled out with guidance from PwC and other supporting partners, aims to provide emergency medical response tools, supply chain management and technology infrastructure to Puerto Rico's 20 Federally Qualified Health Centers and 85 affiliated health centers.
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Ambulatory Docs Unhappy With Their EHRs
Physicians may be adopting electronic health records in record numbers, but more than half are still dissatisfied with them, according to a new study from IDC Health Insights.
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America Is Declining At The Same Warp Speed That's Minting Billionaires And Destroying The Middle Class
America has the most billionaires in the world, but not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable cities...America looks increasingly like a Third World nation, and now new data shows America’s intellectual resources are also in decline...
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América Móvil Carries Mozilla's Firefox OS To Mexico
The company's Telcel subsidiary will sell Alcatel One Touch phones with Mozilla's browser-based operating system. Mozilla has a new partner, América Móvil, a carrier that will spread its Firefox OS mobile operating system to Mexico...
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America's Middle Class Is Unlucky
President Obama's tax plan is Piketty-lite, aimed at reversing years of economic rot among America's poorest 50 percent...
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America's Young Workers: Destined For Failure?
They face a very different economy than their parents' generation, so simply working hard and getting a good education is no longer enough.
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American Chemical Society is First Publisher To Implement Copyright Clearance Center’s Next Generation RightsLink® For Open Access Platform
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, announced the American Chemical Society (ACS) is the first publisher to implement its next generation RightsLink® for Open Access platform to manage article processing charges (APCs) for ACS Open Access (OA) publications...
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American Samoa Medical Center Authority Selects OpenVista as Public Health EHR
American territory will use VistA-based solution to meet Meaningful Use and support broad public health services for residents Read More »
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Americans Still Battling Unexpected Medical Bills
Putting Americans at extreme risk of death is the menace of unexpected medical bills. Officials and experts in the field point to the fact that these unexpected costs can overwhelm the patient...
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