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Chefs & Local Food Advocates Head To Washington To Support Food Stamp Nutrition Incentives At Farmers Market
With nearly a dozen chefs at their side, local food advocates visited Capitol Hill today to encourage lawmakers to support legislation that would provide federally funded nutrition incentives in the upcoming farm bill... Read More »
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CHIME And HLTH Announce Launch Of ViVE, The New Digital Health Industry Event
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders, together with HLTH, the leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on digital health innovation and transformation, announced today the launch of a new annual industry event: ViVE. The inaugural ViVE event will take place March 6-9, 2022 in Miami Beach, launching with significant support from title sponsors and event supportersViVE will provide a fresh, curated education and networking experience for digital health leaders, disruptors and influencers...
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CHIME Asks ONC to Rethink NwHIN
CHIME submitted comments this week to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, responding to the agency’s vision for nationwide health information exchange. ONC officials in May released a Request for Information (RFI) that sought feedback on how to establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN). Read More »
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CHIME Calls For Stage 2 Delay
Responding to a feedback request from Senators on Capitol Hill regarding health IT adoption, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives called for a one-year pushback of the Stage 2 meaningful use deadline and defended the efficacy of the federal incentive program. Read More »
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CHIME Wants 1-Year Extension Of Meaningful Use Stage 2
In response to a call last month from six GOP senators to reboot the Meaningful Use incentive program, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives said, instead, it would like to see more time given to providers, payers and vendors to meet Stage 2 to allow the program to flourish. Read More »
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China Arrests 900 In Fake Meat Scandal
Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton Read More »
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China Isn’t Wrong To Call The U.S. "The Real Hacking Empire"
The cyberwar between China and the US has spread from computers into the halls of diplomacy. In a report this week, the Pentagon said for the first time that the Chinese government and military have been launching cyber attacks against the US. Today, Chinese state media called the US “the real hacking empire” and said the country has “an extensive espionage network.” Read More »
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China Unicom Hedges OS Bets With Ubuntu Support
Chinese operators' support vital for new platforms as huge country looks for alternative to Android Read More »
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China’s Plan To Survive The 3D-Printing Revolution: Own The Market
If 3D printing will up-end manufacturing as we know it, and if China is home to the world’s largest and most successful manufacturing industry, it ought to stand to reason that if—or when—3D printing eventually goes mainstream, China’s manufacturing will suffer, right? Some people certainly think so. Read More »
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Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison
In contrasting China and America, pundits often cite our free and independent media as one of our greatest strengths, together with the tremendous importance which our society places upon individual American lives. For us, a single wrongful death can sometimes provoke weeks of massive media coverage and galvanize the nation into corrective action, while life remains cheap in China, a far poorer land of over a billion people, ruled by a ruthless Communist Party eager to bury its mistakes. But an examination of two of the greatest public-health scandals of the last few years casts serious doubt on this widespread belief.
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Chinese Sewage Is Feeding Superbugs That No Antibiotic Can Kill
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives and extended billions of others. But paradoxically, the more they are used the more the bacteria they fight get stronger, with potentially lethal consequences. Read More »
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Chip Away At The Stone: REMOTE, Transparency Life Sciences
(This blog is part 2 of my interview with Tomasz Sablinski, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO of Transparency Life Sciences. As noted in my first blog, Sablinski’s company announced it was the first company to have an IND cleared using a crowdsourced protocol. [...] Read More »
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Chipotle Menu Now Practically 100 Percent GMO-Free
After disclosing last year on its website which of the Chipotle menu items contained genetically modified ingredients, the restaurant chain is making good on its promise to go GMO-free. Read More »
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Chipping Into The Debate On Open Access
As the incoming co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture, as well as one of the editors here at Material World Blog, I have been involved in many conversations regarding the politics, economics, and materiality of Open Access. Read More »
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Choosing An Open-Source CMS, Part 1: Why We Use Drupal
Of the open-source content management systems (CMSs) available today, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are, according to Web technology tracker W3Techs, by far the most popular. But how do companies choose which to use?
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