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How The US Government Uses Information From Spying On Foreign Companies
There’s no longer doubt that the US government spies on foreign multinational corporations as well as governments, thanks to the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor turned international fugitive Edward Snowden. [...] Read More »
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HP Reportedly Ditches Windows RT as Microsoft Readies Surface
According to unconfirmed reports, HP has scrapped plans to build Windows RT-based tablets which would have been direct competitors to Microsoft's own upcoming Surface tablet that was announced in June. Read More »
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HP Said to Dump Microsoft over Surface: WART is No Longer Welcome at Most OEMs
Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface? We were being too kind, their largest OEM, HP, just bailed. Read More »
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HSCIC To Support Open Source
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will extend its support for NHS organisations and providers using open source, open interfaces and cloud technology to increase integration across health and social care. Read More »
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Implementing Insurance Exchanges — Lessons from Europe
State-based health insurance exchanges are a key component of the health care reforms included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Starting in January 2014, each state's exchange will provide a marketplace where individuals and small employers can compare and purchase health plans. The idea is both to expand health insurance coverage and to foster competition among insurers, thereby promoting cost containment. Read More »
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Indian Healthcare Industry Prescribing A Dose Of Technology
Max Healthcare which has been at the forefront of delivering healthcare services in Delhi-NCR has moved to an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system from their existing Hospital Information System (HIS). The group implemented an open source EHR system, WorldVistA, with the goals of minimizing the need for paper records, allowing order entry by the doctors in the system itself, and enabling easy access to patient records. The system was hosted on a private cloud and was interfaced with laboratory, radiology and pharmacy to allow real-time access to any patient record.
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Inner-Sourcing: Adopting Open Source Development Processes In Corporate IT
Today, we are hearing from customers more and more frequently that they want to gain the benefits of open source community-style collaborative development inside their corporate development organizations – what Tim O’Reilly has called “inner-sourcing.” Read More »
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Internet For All: Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded
The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. Read More »
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Is HIT Interoperability In The Nature Of Healthcare?
The proprietary business model makes the vendor the single source of HIT for hospital clients. Complexity and dependence are baked into both solutions and client relationships, creating a “vendor lock” scenario in which changing systems seems almost inconceivable.
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Lessons From AWS Part I: The Crush Of The Boa Constrictor
The cloud industry is often portrayed as a race between Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Compute Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure. The reality however, at least to date, is more like AWS and the also-rans. The lesson is scale and the classroom is Walmart. Read More »
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Lessons From AWS Part II: Is Open Source Lock-In Better?
In Part I, I drew comparisons between AWS and Walmart, and emphasized differentiation as the key component to compete with the 800-pound cloud gorilla. For over a decade, I have held that open source is the antidote to vendor lock-in and dis-innovation. In Part II, I maintain that advocacy, but with a caveat... Read More »
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Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead
There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services. What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »
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Lessons From The ACA Health Insurance Marketplace Failure
One can’t pass a single day it seems without seeing in the news coverage of the problems with the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM). But what is perhaps most surprising is not that the web site had problems, but that people are surprised that it had problems. [...] Read More »
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Linux Foundation To Host CloudOpen To Mitigate Open Source Cloud War
The Linux Foundation will host CloudOpen later this summer for backers and supporters of OpenStack, CloudStack and other open source cloud related projects. It will run parallel with LinuxCon NA in late August in San Diego. Read More »
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Microsoft Plus Nokia: Pending Patent Troll?
Nokia's large patent portfolio could be a powerful weapon in Microsoft's war on archrival Google Read More »
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