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MalarImDB: An Open-Access Literature-Based Malaria Immunology Database
The Malaria Immunology Database (MalarImDB, www.malarimdb.org) is a novel literature-based database of host mediators in blood-stage malaria. We designed this open-access online tool because intensive malaria research has resulted in a dazzling complexity of host mediators with pathogenic or protective functions...
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MALSI Day 2014
...The 7th Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a high-energy, hands-on event which brings together scientific leaders and business experts to mingle with scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists...
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Many Current EHR Vendors Will Not Survive For Long
CMS just released the December 2012 attestation data, and one thing is abundantly clear—many EHR vendors will not be around to see Stage 2. Read More »
Map Lab Science Graphic Of The Week: Map Shows Half Of The U.S. Suffering Drought Conditions
It’s not just California’s problem. Nearly half of the contiguous U.S. is experiencing abnormally dry or drought conditions right now...
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Mapping A New Future For GIS
As more and more IT investments go towards analytics tools to uncover trends and patterns in care delivery and wellness, one type of technology is starting to make inroads: geographic information systems...
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Marina Martin: Building A New Digital Service At VA
As chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs for the past year and a half, Marina Martin has been streamlining VA's disparate online customer relationships into a service that is focused on veterans...
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Mario Hyland Makes The Case For Continuous Interoperability
Interoperability has been a key buzz word heard along the road toward modernizing the American healthcare system. But standards, conformance to those standards, and thorough testing to ensure conformance are all required to achieve true, seamless information exchange. That’s the message advocated by Mario Hyland, senior vice president and founder of AEGIS, a consulting firm focused on advancing a health IT testing infrastructure. Hyland spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about current interoperability and testing challenges.
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Mark Johnson Of OSS Watch Opens Up About The Challenges Of Open Source Procurement
The OSS Watch blog has been on our radar for a while now as a great resource for open source commentary. We've looked to their team, including development manager Mark Johnson, for thought leadership on how open source software is being used and to gauge the pulse of the open source movement...
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Maryland Council On Open Data Holds First Meeting
The state of Maryland’s Council on Open Data held its first official meeting on Aug. 25 in Baltimore to discuss how the state can provide citizens with data in ways that are beneficial to them and the state as a whole. Gov. Martin O’Malley attended the meeting, which was made up of a 37-person council of cabinet secretaries, entrepreneurs, open data experts and business owners from across the state...
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Matchstick Launches The Flint Open Source Streaming Platform With New Hardware Partnerships
AOC and TCL join Matchstick to develop and market a target one million streaming devices in 2015 using the Flint platform...
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Maxims Code To Be Released On GitHub
IMS Maxims will release the source code for its electronic patient record system on GitHub, the company announced today. Speaking in the open source pavilion at the HC2014 conference in Manchester Paul Cooper, IMS Maxim’s head of research, said the company has been in talks for several months about how best to go about open sourcing parts of its Maxims EPR.
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Meaningful Use Problems Go Beyond Just Software, Say “Stage 2 Flexibility” Critics
The final rule for meaningful use Stage 2 flexibility, released late on Friday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is not as popular as the government probably would have liked...
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Medical Data Security Increasing Concern For ACOs
As more providers adopt accountable care models--and take on the responsibility of facilitating medical data exchange--healthcare leaders are under increasing pressure to protect personal health information (PHI)...
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Medical Device Interoperability Could Save $30B A Year, Says WHI
Improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings, according to a new report from the West Health Institute...
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Medical Devices Could Be Lethal in Hands of Hackers
It is embarrassingly easy to hack medical devices, experts warn, creating a new security threat that could have life-or-death consequences. Among the many devices vulnerable to hackers are drug infusion pumps, which could be jimmied to deliver a lethal dose, anesthesia machines and Pacemakers. Many medical devices are produced by legacy companies that are new to designing software...
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