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When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark
IN JULY, SAN Francisco Superior Court Judge Sharon Reardon considered whether to hold Lamonte Mims, a 19-year-old accused of violating his probation, in jail. One piece of evidence before her: the output of algorithms known as PSA that scored the risk that Mims, who had previously been convicted of burglary, would commit a violent crime or skip court. Based on that result, another algorithm recommended that Mims could safely be released, and Reardon let him go. Five days later, police say, he robbed and murdered a 71-year old man...
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Where Do Big Ideas for Greater Good Come From? Humanitarians Tell All
Ideas are to SwitchPoint what wind is to a hurricane. The conference swirls with innovative approaches, unexpected methods, and brilliant inventions. Even the information is presented in unconventional ways, including through networking events and microlabs where attendees interact with presenters in intimate settings...
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Where Does $2 Trillion In Subsidies For The Wealthiest Hide In Plain Sight?
Research shows that government subsidies for the 1 percent are creating greater inequality. A new white paper by Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz offers solutions...
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Where's The Next Big Thing In Tech? Try A Government Funded Lab
Research from government and university labs has brought us technologies as ubiquitous as the internet, microwaves, and GPS. But the path from laboratory bench to market success goes uphill, and it’s a steep hill at that. Most projects never make it out of the lab, and instead of helping us stream Youtube videos or warm up leftovers, are left to languish, unused, forever. It’s a cruel irony, given that today’s tech economy is driven by the relentless search for innovation. But this uphill path is not insurmountable, especially not with the right partner to guide the way...
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Where's The Plan For Interoperability?
Six reasons we will not have health IT interoperability without an architecture...
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While Waiting for a State Health-Records Exchange, Medical Society Launches One
Electronic medical records have become common, but the ability to share them easily between providers still lags. Frustrated that after 10 years of effort the state of Connecticut has yet to launch a functioning health information exchange (HIE) allowing physicians, hospitals and other health care providers to share patient medical records, the Connecticut Medical Society is offering one of its own. Available to all clinicians in the state and called CTHealthLink, it is based on a system currently used in Kansas...
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White Hat Hackers Hit 12 American Hospitals To Prove Patient Life 'Extremely Vulnerable'
A two-year research project into the security of 12 hospitals and a variety of medical technologies has concluded that patient health is “extremely vulnerable” to digital attacks. The report, shown to FORBES ahead of publication today, comes from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a San Diego-based security outfit that formed out of Johns Hopkins more than a decade ago...
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White House Actions On Antibiotic Resistance: Big Steps, Plus Disappointments
The United States government proposed several important steps last week that, if accomplished, will significantly change how this country attempts to counter the advance of antibiotic resistance, bringing us within reach of the more complete programs which exist in Europe. But as significant as it is, the new program has some perplexing gaps that left experts attending to the issue disappointed...
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White House Introduces New Class Of Innovation Fellows
The White House has pulled nearly 30 innovative techies from the private sector to spend a year tackling thorny government problems, introducing the third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows...
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White House Launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ With HealthCare.gov Fixer At The Helm
The White House on Monday announced that it is formally launching a new U.S. Digital Service and that it has hired to lead it Mikey Dickerson, an engineer widely credited with playing a central role in salvaging HealthCare.gov after its disastrous launch...
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White House Unveils Action Plan For Gov’t Data Transparency; Steve VanRoekel, Todd Park Comment
The Obama administration has introduced a plan calling for federal agencies to make their datasets publicly available as part of an open government initiative, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Shefali Kapadia writes that the White House wants agencies to prioritize the public’s research needs when sharing open data...
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WHO Credits mHealth App With Helping Nigeria Get Rid Of Ebola
The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, and public health agencies are declaring that an mHealth initiative deserves much of the credit...
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Who Needs An EHR? Some Defense Hospital Emergency Rooms Still Use Paper
Despite investing billions of dollars in information technology over the past decade, three out of seven military hospitals surveyed in a review of the Military Health System reported their emergency rooms still use paper records...
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Who Needs Heartbleed When Many Dot-Govs Don't Even Encrypt Communications
More than a quarter of federal websites are not properly configured with software to prevent intruders from intercepting data entered by citizens, according to a new study...
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Who should regulate Mobile Health?
Not everyone is eager to see the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] issue its final guidance on mobile medical app regulation. Read More »
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