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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr

Kasia Galica | Informatics for Consumer Health | November 13, 2012

In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »

Crowdfunding In Healthcare Isn’t Easy – Health Tech Hatch Turns to Indiegogo

Ki Mae Heussner | GigaOM | June 5, 2013

Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms on the web, Indiegogo. Read More »

Crowdsourcing a Better Prostate Cancer Prediction Tool

Press Release | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | November 15, 2016

Knowing the likely course of cancer can influence treatment decisions. Now a new prediction model published today in Lancet Oncology offers a more accurate prognosis for a patient's metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The approach was as novel as the result - while researchers commonly work in small groups, intentionally isolating their data, the current study embraces the call in Joe Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" to open their question and their data, collecting previously published clinical trial data and calling for worldwide collaboration to evaluate its predictive power...

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Crowdsourcing Gaining Momentum in Africa

Munya Chiura | Techzim | March 2, 2012

In Africa, we are also seeing some innovative ways in which crowdsourciing is being utilised. In Kenya for example, Ushahidi put Africa’s crowdsourcing on the map, as its platform was effectively used to monitor the 2002 Kenya elections...Closer to home in Kubanata, a Zimbabwean human rights and civic organization leveraged crowdsourcing to gather information to map the Typhoid cases in Zimbabwe, providing critical data to assist with managing the epidemic.

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CSIR, Royal Society Of Chemistry Team Up To Support OSDD Efforts: Minister

Staff Writer | Pharmabiz.com | August 9, 2013

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)  had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Royal Society of Chemistry of London to support  drug discovery efforts through the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) , the Parliament has been told. Read More »

Cybersecurity Check In

Fred Trotter | The Healthcare Blog | September 13, 2016

No one likes to think about the possibility that patients might be hurt or killed as a result of cyber attacks. But all signs indicate that this is a real possibility and a serious problem. Attacks on Health IT systems such as EHRs or patient portals, electronic medical devices, or on standard healthcare digital systems can be a threat to patient safety...

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Daimler Advances Connected Car Technology through Open Source and Automotive Grade Linux

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | January 5, 2016

CES – Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car, today announced that Daimler is joining The Linux Foundation and Automotive Grade Linux. Daimler is the tenth automaker to join AGL and will actively contribute to developing the Unified Code Base (UCB), AGL's connected car platform. The third version of the UCB was recently released and is on display at CES 2017 in the AGL Demo Suite at the Bellagio Hotel...

Data Center Operators Welcome IBM's OpenPower Initiative

Samuel Shead | CIO.com | August 13, 2013

Data center providers have welcomed the news that Google, IBM and Nvidia will collaborate to form an open development alliance for datacentres called OpenPower. Read More »

Data Liquidity Tackles Cancer And Diabetes: An Epic Battle For Global Health

Marcia Kean and Kenneth Buetow | O'Reilly Strata RX Conference | June 26, 2013

The Data Liquidity Coalition is a collaboration comprised of a wide spectrum of stakeholders in the biomedical community – including providers, payers, patients, researchers and others—who are deeply committed to actualizing a common vision of data liquidity to achieve personalized medicine and the rapid learning healthcare system. Read More »

Data Scientists Need Their Own GitHub. Here are Four of the Best Options

Jordan Novet | Venture Beat | March 1, 2016

Imagine if a company’s three highly valued data scientists can happily work together without duplicating each other’s efforts and can easily call up the ingredients and results of each other’s previous work.That day has come. As the data scientist arms race continues, data scientists might want to join forces. Crazy idea, right?...

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David Ho Highlights Launch of Bio-IT Asia Conference

Kevin Davies and Allison Proffitt | Bio-IT World | June 6, 2012

Ten years after the launch of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo series in Boston, the conference made its debut in Asia in the sparkling Marina Bay Sands convention center. The trio of speakers who opened the three-day meeting was veteran HIV researcher David Ho, bio-IT consultant Chris Dagdigian, and AstraZeneca bioinformatician Yaron Turpaz.

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Davos: Ushahidi Grows Its Global Crowd-Sourcing Platform, Slams Twitter Censorship [TCTV]

Mike Butcher | TechCrunch | January 27, 2012

VIDEO - At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder of Ushahidi, the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya. Starting with just a handful of countries in 2009, it’s main product, Crowdmap, is now used in hundreds of countries for crisis mapping and even crowd sourcing information about nuclear weapons in Iran. Read More »

Deloitte Continues Its Support Of TranSMART Foundation As Gold-Level Sponsor And Will Join Board Of Directors

Press Release | tranSMART, Deloitte | February 5, 2014

Deloitte has announced today the gold-level sponsorship of the tranSMART Foundation.  As a part of Deloitte's sponsorship, Brett Davis, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will join the Foundation's board of directors. Read More »

Demand Better: Making Government More Open And Accountable

John Kachuba and Elissa Yancey | Soapbox | August 27, 2013

When President Obama extolled the virtues of open data in government in a 2010 speech before the United Nations, he created opportunities for hackers, entrepreneurs and governments at all levels to embrace innovation through radical shifts in information exchange. [...] Read More »

DHS-Developed Krona Software Powers Humanitarian Project

Tammy Waitt | American Security Today | March 10, 2017

Software originally developed at the at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) to sequence DNA for biodefense is now being used by Microsoft to sequence mosquito DNA in the fight against disease. Developed by the NBACC’s National Bioforensic Analysis Center Genomics Team for bioforensics applications, Krona is a unique visualization tool that enables users to quickly analyze massive quantities of data – such as more than 100 million sequences of DNA in a single mosquito sample, according to Microsoft...

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