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Boost To VA EHR In The Works
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $162 million contract for upgrades to its VistA electronic health record. The announcement comes just as government officials assert in a news release Thursday that the multi-billion dollar acquisition to modernize the Department of Defense electronic health record is on track...
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Boston Trackers Chart Ebola Outbreak
HealthMap.org, a high-tech infectious disease tracking system run by Boston epidemiologists, has emerged as a critical tool in the battle against Ebola in West Africa — tracking its rapid and unusual spread ahead of official reports by monitoring thousands of local news and social media sources...
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Brad Thompson: CDS Legislation Could Create Confusion
On Thursday, lawmakers with the House Energy & Commerce Committee and health IT stakeholders convened on the Hill to once again discuss the role of health information technology in improving patient care...
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Brainwave Technology Breakthrough?
In a project that could be a boon for ALS patients, and potentially others with neurodegenerative conditions, Philips and Accenture have developed proof-of-concept technology that enables users to control devices using brainwaves...
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BrainWriter Helps Graffiti Artist Suffering From ALS To Draw Using OPENBCI
...The Eyewriter was an open source wearable eye tracker that gave Tempt back the creative outlet he had lost. The system was able to trace Tempt’s eye movements and project them onto the side of a building...
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Brazil Farmers Say GMO Corn No Longer Resistant To Bugs
Farm lobby group calls on Monsanto and other biotech companies to reimburse for additional pesticide treatments Read More »
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Brazil's health IT market to top $714 million by 2015
According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, the Brazilian market is the second fastest growing BRIC market after China. Last year Brazil’s health IT market generated revenues of $410 million, which is expected to hit $714 million by 2015. Read More »
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Brazil's Internet Gets Groundbreaking Bill Of Rights
Brazil's internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country's 100 million internet users.
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BRCK Founders Embark On Epic Roadtrip To Promote African Connectivity
This is pretty cool: the folks behind BRCK — the device that allows you to connect to the internet, no matter where you are and without electricity — are embarking on an epic roadtrip from Nairobi to Johannesburg...
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Breaking In: How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Changing Government
For a long time tech entrepreneurs have battered against the ramparts, looking for a way to breach the walls of government with services they believed could further civic aims. They are finally getting through...
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Brian Knappenberger On Capturing The Life And Death Of Aaron Swartz In The Internet’s Own Boy
In 1986, the U.S. Congress, spooked by the fictional film War Games — in which a hacker unwittingly almost kicks off the Third World War by breaking into NORAD’s supercomputer — enacted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Nearly three decades later, that same anachronistic law became the basis of the overzealous prosecution and ultimate suicide of one of the online world’s most prodigious sons.
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Bringing Open-Source IT To Personalized Health
It's widely believed that engaged patients have better outcomes, but the healthcare industry has been grappling with how to make that happen. Joanne Rohde, CEO and founder of mobile software developer Axial Exchange, believes the solution lies in bringing low-cost technology to patients at a personal level so they can track their health — and integrating that information with the systems physician use to run their practices...
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Bringing Order to Potential Confusion of Gene Data
Scientists from research and health-care groups including Harvard University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health [NIH] are trying to create a way to standardize and share genetic information before the DNA-scanning field develops into a balkanized mess. Read More »
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British Government Offers School Pupil Data To Private Companies
Data relating to every school pupil in England is now available for use by private companies thanks to a change in legislation implemented last year. The move is part of a wider government initiative to "marketise" data, which includes initiatives such as the much-criticised Care.data and the selling off of taxpayer data by HMRC.
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Brokers Use ‘Billions’ Of Data Points To Profile Americans
...information and much, much more is being quietly collected, analyzed and distributed by the nation’s burgeoning data-broker industry, which uses billions of individual data points to produce detailed portraits of virtually every American consumer, the Federal Trade Commission reported Tuesday...
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