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Mosquitoes Carry Painful Chikungunya Virus To Americas
The patient showed up at the University of Miami Hospital feverish and hobbled by joint pain, a rash spreading across her face, and was presumed to be suffering from lupus or severe rheumatoid arthritis. But in talking to the middle-aged woman last week, doctors realized that her symptoms and recent history of travel to the Dominican Republic added up to a different diagnosis: chikungunya...
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Most RECs Plan To Stay Open For Business
Federal funding for most regional extension centers is set to dry up by late this year or early next, but most of them still plan to keep their doors open, according to the 2014 HIMSS Regional Extension Center Survey...
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MOTECH: How An Open Source SMS Medical Platform Is Improving Patient Engagement and Reaching Underserved Populations in Developing Nations
Implementation of the MOTECH Suite is spreading rapidly among government health services and humanitarian organizations that address the health of potentially vulnerable or at-risk populations across the globe. As an open source solution, MOTECH affords a number of advantages for health services, particularly in low resource areas of the world. Organizations or individuals who work with software solutions to healthcare-related humanitarian issues will need to know what MOTECH is, how it works, and how it might be used to improve the health of various populations...
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Moving Counter-Clockwise: Lessons from Hurricanes, Floods and Earthquakes
The plethora of natural disasters raises all sorts of complicated but expected issues – from discussions of the legitimacy of global warming to the adequacy (or lack thereof) of on the ground relief efforts. One would have thought that post-Katrina, we would be ready, willing and able to provide immediate relief to those in need of disaster relief...despite capacities, we have been stunningly slow in moving these new services into disaster areas. Instead of technology advancing the ball, it is as if we are moving our clocks backwards. Sure, in the absence of cell towers, creative workarounds have been enabled like ATT&T facilitating communications to/from the mainland for its customers.
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Moving healthcare into a new state of openness
The future of healthcare belongs to social, mobile, analytics and the cloud. Although most industries have embraced these technologies, the healthcare IT industry has been slow to adopt them. The country has taken good first steps to digitize the paper-based medical industry, but now it is time to build on what we've done, enhancing usability, better engaging patients/families, and preparing for the future of reimbursement, which is based on value, not more healthcare.
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Mozilla And Mobile Operators Want To Make The Web More Global And Diverse
Firefox-maker Mozilla and the GSMA mobile operator trade body are teaming up to help develop more non-English content for the web, so as to “positively shape” the future of the mobile web – and they’re looking for others to join them...
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Mozilla Brings Firefox OS-Powered Smartphones In Bangladesh
Mozilla, a pioneer in Web platforms, introduces the Firefox operating system for smartphones in Bangladesh, in cooperation with Grameenphone and device partner Symphony. Customers of Bondhu, Grameenphone’s youth offer, will be able to enjoy range of benefits on Firefox OS, including 20MB of free Internet per day...
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Mozilla Eyes Africa With Firefox OS
Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser, has revealed plans to expand its new Firefox OS smartphone operating system to Africa...
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Mozilla Holds Its Nose And Supports DRM Video In Firefox
The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says...
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Mozilla Lights Up Preorders For Firefox OS-Driven Flame
Firefox OS fans across the globe can now preorder Flame, the Web-based mobile operating system's first official reference phone...
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Mozilla Tells The FCC To Grow A Spine, Reclassify ISPs As Common Carriers
Mozilla might not be as big as Google or Netflix in most consumers’ minds but as the maker of the popular Firefox browser, it does have some clout. That’s why it’s noteworthy that Mozilla on Monday recommended that the Federal Communications Commission use the “nuclear option” against Internet service providers by reclassifying them as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act...
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Mozilla's $25 Firefox OS Phones Look To Score In India
The alternative to Android and iOS is geared for low-budget markets, and it's about to hit one of the biggest in the world. Will that price tag light a fire?
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Mozilla's Firefox OS Readies For Africa Launch
The Mozilla Foundation has signed deals with three new operators to bring Firefox OS to the continent...
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MPAA Wants To Use DMCA To Effectively Bring Back SOPA
...According to memos leaked from the recent hack on Sony, the big studios would like to employ a Winston Smith to remove domain name listings from ISPs DNS directories, effectively removing entire websites from the Internet for most users, as if they never existed...
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MrPUP Medicare dataset released to public, maps provider-referred procedures in the outpatient setting.
Today DocGraph and CareSet Systems announced the release of the Medicare Referring Provider Utilization for Procedures (MrPUP) dataset at the Health Datapalooza conference. The MrPUP dataset details healthcare procedures that Medicare providers referred in the outpatient setting in 2014, and is particularly useful to understand how specific doctors use blood tests, CT scans, and MRIs to diagnose patients. MrPUP is the first Medicare dataset released by a private company directly to the public.
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