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Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Innovation Initiative: Health IT Industry Officials Lying To Regulators With Impunity?

InformaticsMD | Health Care Renewal | February 14, 2013

A statement that health IT has a "lower risk profile" compared to other regulated healthcare sectors such as devices or drugs, in order to seek continued and extraordinary regulatory accommodations, is remarkable.  It is either reckless regarding something that the statement's makers should know, or should have made it their business to know - or a deliberate prevarication with forethought.

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More Americans Now Commit Suicide Than Are Killed In Car Crashes

Staff Writer | Daily Mail | September 22, 2012

Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according to an alarming new study. Read More »

Open Source Training Makes Labs Safer For All

Nathan Watson | Occupational Health & Safety | October 12, 2012

BioRAFT has teamed with NH-INBRE and Dartmouth EHS to create an open source-style lab safety training program. This model can and should be replicated to start solving this industry-wide challenge. Read More »

The Plus-Size MRI Machine

Christopher Weaver | Wall Street Journal | September 18, 2012

As the percentage of obese Americans continues to rise, hospitals demand larger, more powerful imaging machines that can fit any patient and penetrate greater masses of tissue.

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The Risks And Perils Of Crowdfunding

Krist Werling, Bob Cohen, Michael Pilo | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | March 1, 2013

Crowdfunding could revolutionize fundraising for early-stage biotech companies, but beware of the pitfalls. Read More »

What Was The FBI Doing With 12 Million Apple IDs Anyway?

Rebecca Greenfield | Nextgov | September 5, 2012

This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place? Read More »

Why Government Must Embrace Failure As A Mission Critical Value

Mike Bernard | GovDelivery | September 10, 2012

In the current heated political climate, lots of air time is given to the failures of the opposing party... This kind of rhetoric highlights two important issues that need to be addressed: 1.The right kind of failure can actually be quite helpful. 2.Negativity about failure obscures true successes. Read More »