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Obama's Second-Term Management Agenda To Focus On People Power
The architects of President Barack Obama's second-term management agenda say changing the culture of the federal workforce — not just technology — is driving the administration's efforts to make government more innovative. Read More »
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Obama: Technology Will Make Health Insurance Transparent
President Barack Obama signed an executive order in May that made all federal data freely accessible in a form that can be used by software developers, which has come to be known as “machine-readable format.” [...] Read More »
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Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation
Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »
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OECD 2012 Economic Survey of the United States: The United States Needs to Foster Education and Innovation to Keep Its Cutting Edge
So what does an economic survey of the United States have to do with health care? Simply that we cannot expect to have a superior health care system that serves everyone well if we don't fulfill our citizen obligation to demand greater government oversight and intervention in education, employment, and especially in the intolerable rise in income inequality. Current trends in the United States are not encouraging.
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Official: The White House Loves Open Source
Recently, the White House has adopted a scheme that we Brits have been using for some time now: online petitions. The basic idea is the same:
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Ok Chatbot: What Is Your Value for Humanitarians?
Whether or not you are aware of it, you have probably interacted with a chatbot – whether checking your finances, making a travel reservation, or even ordering a pizza. But what opportunities exist to use chatbots to assist humanitarians and development practitioners? Chatbots are conversational computer programs that can read message questions, interpret responses, and perform actions or make decisions, without any assistance from a live person on the other end...
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On Dennis Ritchie: A Conversation with Brian Kernighan
The phrase "Kernighan and Ritchie" has entered computing jargon independently of the lexical tokens from which it is constituted. I talked on Friday with Brian Kernighan about Dennis Ritchie, who sadly passed away two weeks ago at the age of 70. Brian had gotten to know me a bit when he contributed a chapter on regular expressions to the O'Reilly book Beautiful Code. Read More »
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On Quora, Park Highlights White House Innovation, Entrepreneurship Efforts
Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, U.S. Chief Technology Office Todd Park took to the question-and-answer social network platform Quora to provide a 1,600-word response on how the Obama Administration is fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in America. Read More »
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ONC Announces the Winner of the Discharge Follow-up Appointment Challenge
At the Health Data Initiative (HDI) Forum III on Tuesday, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced the winners of the Investing in Innovation initiative's (i2) Discharge Follow-Up Appointment Challenge. Read More »
ONC at OSCON 2012: What Could the Future Bring?
The open source software (OSS) community is full of creative software coders developing amazing computer applications collaboratively. Recently I witnessed the power of their collaborative innovation first hand at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. This was the conference’s 12th year…but my first experience. Read More »
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ONC Looking To Beacons For Database Of Insights From HIT Frontier
The 17 Beacon communities around the country that have brought providers together within regions to use health IT and clinical interventions to elicit better patient care have each demonstrated measureable improvements, including for outcomes around chronic disease and preventive screenings. Read More »
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One Year After SCOTUS, Health Law Is Even More Complex
It's been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of Affordable Care Act, and by now the law’s critics and opponents can probably rest assured that the individual mandate set no precedent for the federal government to require American citizens to eat broccoli. Read More »
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Open Access Africa: Showcasing African Research
In November 2012 the third Open Access Africa event, hosted by BioMed Central and the University of Cape Town, will discuss the implications of open access for African research. Read More »
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Open Access Aids Science Research
No one likes paying for the same thing twice. This holds true for federally funded scientific research. For years, scholarly journals have relied on taxpayers paying for research on the front end and access to the results on the back. It is past time to embrace an open access policy for scientific research. Read More »
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Open Access Explained
The conversation about scientific publishing has exploded lately, online, in print and in person. Last week, the journal Nature released a special issue called The future of publishing. Also last week, Michael Eisen [...] posted a speech he gave on the past and projected future of scholarly communication in the age of the Internet. I want to start there, because his remarks were thorough and persuasive, and they inspired me to think differently about the issue... Read More »
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