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Choosing An Open-Source CMS, Part 2: Why We Use Joomla
In this, the second installment of our three-part series on finding the best open-source content management system (CMS) for your needs, we asked two organizations that use Joomla to explain why they felt that Joomla was the best choice for them, how the transition went, and whether they're happy with the results.
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CHOP's Harvest Toolkit Offers Innovative Data Discovery Resource For Biomedical Researchers
A team of informatics experts and biomedical researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers a new software toolkit to help researchers explore complex data sets without having to become database technicians themselves. Harvest is an open-source highly interactive framework designed by CHOP's Center for Biomedical Informatics. Read More »
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Chris Haddad on API Branding for Improved Community Reach
In this special guest post for OStatic, Chris discusses the value of API branding and open APIs for improving community reach... Read More »
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Christians Beat FEMA, and in So Doing, Tame Big Government
Faith-based groups — Christian nonprofits, specifically — have been busy bees of late, providing more aid to hurricane victims than even FEMA, the federal agency that’s supposed to swoop to the scenes of natural disasters, assess the situation and speed the recovery and rebuilding process. Just goes to show: Where charity exists, government is not needed. Look at this, from the Daily Caller: “Faith-based relief groups are responsible for providing nearly 80 percent of the aid delivered thus far to communities with homes devastated by the recent hurricanes”...
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Christine Doig on Data Science as a Team Discipline
Data science is about the design and development of solutions to extract insights from data (structured and unstructured) using machine learning and predictive analytics techniques and tools. Data Science as a discipline and Data Scientist as a role have been getting lots of attention in the recent years to solve real world problems with solutions ranging from fraud detection to recommendation engines. Christine Doig, Senior Data Scientist at Continuum Analytics, spoke at this year’s OSCON Conference about data science as a team discipline and how to navigate the data science Python ecosystem.
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Chromebooks: A Bright Spot In The Dark PC Market
Yes, the PC market is going to hell in a hand-basket -- except for the sub-$300 market where the Linux-based Chromebook is leading the way to growth. Read More »
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Chronology Of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks, 1976-2014
The blog post Ebola virus disease outbreak, West Africa, 2014 was devoted to present the current situation of the outbreak of Ebola virus that is currently taking place in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Some readers requested additional information about the number of outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in history and affected countries, so I decided to visualized the chronology of Ebola outbreaks. Read More »
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Chuck Hagel – One of the Fathers of VistA
I am pleased to read that Chuck Hagel has been nominated to the position of Secretary of Defense. He was the Deputy Director of the VA when I worked for the Loma Linda VA Hospital, working on what would become the VistA Electronic Health Record System, one of the largest and most successful EHRs. Starting with very humble beginnings as a “skunkworks”, Chuck played a key role in helping to evolve our early back room prototypes into a VA-wide electronic health record that has won many awards and accolades by physicians. Read More »
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Chuck Hagel, Under Attack Again
Mr. Hagel would be the first enlisted combat veteran to be defense secretary, a grunt who has seen war from the trenches. Others who have plunged America into war — like the former defense secretaries Robert S. McNamara and Donald H. Rumsfeld, both former officers — had never fought in combat...
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Chuck Lauer: An IT Boondoggle?
A recent Wall Street Journal article left me speechless. Like a lot of other people in healthcare I have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless the industry fully and enthusiastically adopts information technology, hospital and health systems will never run efficiently and be able to deliver quality healthcare to patients... Read More »
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CIA Invests In Geodata Expert OpenGeo
Summary: In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has put money into an open source geospatial-data startup called OpenGeo. Read More »
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Cigna Named 2013 Red Hat Innovator of the Year
Cigna recognized for successful Infrastructure-as-a-Service transformation project built with Red Hat solutions Read More »
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CIO for the U.S. government at FOSE 2012
Steven VanRoekel is the second Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, appointed by President Obama on August 5th, 2011. As the CIO for the U.S. government, Mr. VanRoekel is responsible for managing innovative initiatives and is at the center the many of government information technology (IT) reforms or initiatives now underway, e.g. Data.gov, IT Dashboard, USASpending.gov, FedRAMP, BusinessUSA, and more. Read More »
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CIO Halamka Highlights 5 Health IT Challenges In Year Ahead
One question that healthcare CIOs are asked time and time again to answer is: What keeps you up at night? Answers to the question vary depending on the type of organization the CIO works for and the complexity of the health IT systems it maintains or is planning to implement. Read More »
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CIO overhaul: Issa plan would reinvent how IT is managed
An ambitious plan is emerging in Congress that, if approved, would represent the most sweeping overhaul of the way agencies buy and manage information technology since the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which created chief information officers at all agencies. Read More »
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