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Will Watson Help Solve The Mystery Of The Missing DOD EHR?
As the Department of Defense edges closer to choosing one lucky vendor to support its planned department-wide EHR system, IBM is doing some strategic shifting of its own by adding technology from its Watson supercomputer to its federal health care repertoire. With a new request for information (RFI) released by the DOD, asking for details about infrastructure requirements to replace its aging ALHTA system, the department is putting a contract valued around $11 billion up for grabs.
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Windows XP Dies At 12 1/2 After Long Illness
Microsoft Windows XP's lifecycle came to an end today after a tumultuous 12-year reign as the most successful operating system ever. Despite great market success, Windows XP had been suffering from severe security vulnerabilities almost since birth.
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Wisconsin Company Develops A Better Wheelchair
A Kenosha [Wisconsin] engineering firm says it has developed a new wheelchair aimed at reducing shoulder and wrist injuries that come from using a regular wheelchair, and that's also faster and better at climbing...
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With 2nd Ebola Patient's Release, Defense Chief Hagel, HHS Ask Nebraska Med Center To Share What It Has Learned
Now that the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit has released a second Ebola-free patient, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other federal officials want unit staffers to share what they have learned...
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With Ingenuity And A 3D Printer, Group Changes Lives
Ebeling had read a magazine article a few months earlier about the 16-year-old, whose hands and forearms had been blown off two years ago during an airstrike launched by the Sudanese government. The boy's plight resonated with Ebeling, who tracked down the remote hospital where Daniel had received treatment.
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With The .Net Foundation, Microsoft Finally Bets Big On Open Source
For years, Microsoft has flirted with the open-source movement, trying to build bridges with developers that favor publicly released code over proprietary software. This week, the software giant finally made the big moves skeptics of its commitment to open source have been looking for.
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Without A Universal Personal Identifier, Healthcare Is Awash In Social Security numbers
The healthcare industry is swimming in Social Security numbers, thanks to the necessities of patient record management systems. But balancing those requirements with fraud mitigation and privacy protections is proving a big challenge...
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Women Doctors At Forefront Of Healthcare Innovation
When Elizabeth Blackwell officially earned her MD at the Geneva Medical College in New York, Charles Lee, MD, conferred her accomplishment by standing and bowing to the first female doctor. That was January 23, 1849 and, although some will say not fast enough, times have changed...
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World Health Organization Report Warns Most Countries Lack Plans to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
A quarter of countries that responded to a WHO survey have national plans to preserve antimicrobial medicines like antibiotics, but many more countries must also step up. A new report, "Worldwide country situation analysis: Response to antimicrobial resistance", which outlines the survey findings, reveals that while much activity is underway and many governments are committed to addressing the problem, there are major gaps in actions needed across all 6 WHO regions to prevent the misuse of antibiotics and reduce spread of antimicrobial resistance. “This is the single greatest challenge in infectious diseases today,” says Dr Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Health Security. “All types of microbes—including many viruses and parasites—are becoming resistant to medicines. Of particularly urgent concern is the development of bacteria that are progressively less treatable by available antibiotics. This is happening in all parts of the world, so all countries must do their part to tackle this global threat.”
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World Losing Farm Soil Daily To Salt-Induced Degradation
Every day for more than 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt, according to a study by UN University’s Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), published Oct. 28. Today an area the size of France is affected — about 62 million hectares (20%) of the world’s irrigated lands, up from 45 million hectares in the early 1990s. Read More »
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World Protests Monsanto Grip On Food Supply Chain
Hundreds of thousands people have united across the world to voice concern over the spread of GMO foods and crops and to raise awareness over the biotech giant Monsanto’s growing grip on the global food supply chain...
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World Wide Web Founder Supports Brazil's "Internet Constitution"
The founder of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for Brazil's first set of internet governance rules to be passed "without further delay or amendment." The Marco Civil da Internet, dubbed Brazil's "Internet Constitution", is due to be voted this week and the creator of the Web, who had previously voiced opinions about aspects of the Bill, released a statement of support.
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Would Jonas Salk Join The Open-Source Movement?
...While Salk’s lasting impression on medicine and its place in society is obvious, his philosophy on the patent-free development of the polio vaccine — and its applicability to the increasing influence of technology on biological and biomedical research — is also an important part of what he left behind...
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WSO2 Adopts Eclipse Che Platform For Developer Environments, Joins Eclipse Foundation To Contribute Technology To Eclipse Che
WSO2 today announced that it will adopt Eclipse Che as the core platform for all WSO2 tooling supporting its middleware, cloud, and mobile platforms. Che, introduced by the Eclipse Foundation today, is an open source platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) integrated developer environments, which uniquely offers the ability for software vendors to create custom cloud developer tools that are fast, secure and extensible...
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WSO2 and Axiata Launch Radical New Open Source Digital Enablement Platform for Mobile Network Operators: WSO2.Telco
WSO2 Inc. and Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) today launched WSO2.Telco, a radical new open source platform for digital enablement...WSO2.Telco is a breakthrough cloud-ready solution that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to easily establish an agile collaboration layer with Web-centric APIs. The platform represents a new milestone in agility and scalability, allowing telcos to expose, manage and orchestrate multiple network services at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. Read More »
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