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Sharp Memorial Hospital And Doctors Medical Center Of Modesto Earn Top Rankings In Independent California Patient Engagement Index

Press Release | Axial Exchange | June 24, 2013

Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile apps to deepen the patient’s role in improving outcomes, today announced the results of its California Patient Engagement Index (PEI) [...]. Read More »

Small Is Beautiful

Daloni Carlisle | eHealth Insider | November 8, 2012

The view from the top at EHI Live 2012 was clear and consistent: without IT the NHS cannot deliver the savings, efficiencies and quality gains demanded of it. Read More »

Social Change And New Media In Africa

Cathal Gilbert | International Business Times | November 2, 2012

Cathal Gilbert looks at technologies being used by activists and discovers that many of most innovative ideas have come out of Africa. Read More »

Social Engagement Shouldn't Wait Until After A Crisis Hits

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | July 9, 2013

One of the greatest challenges social media emergency managers face is that the public isn’t very interested in hearing from them unless and until a disaster strikes, they told lawmakers on Tuesday. Read More »

Social Media Holds Big Potential For Public Health

Benjamin Harris | Government Health IT | September 10, 2013

Another example of the growing convergence between our public and private, our digital and our "actual" selves: NPR reports that targeting via Facebook population groups at risk for diseases such as HIV has an impact and can increase awareness and testing. Read More »

Social Media In Healthcare: 5 Best Practices

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | October 24, 2012

Social media has become mainstream in healthcare. The most successful healthcare institutions use social media as a means to an end for existing goals -- not as a collection of tools. Here are 5 best practices: Read More »

Social Media Is “Worst Menace To Society” Says Turkey PM, 25 Twitter Users Arrested

Gregory Ferenstein | TechCrunch | June 5, 2013

Turkish authorities have arrested 25 protesters for the high crime of using Twitter. Amid widespread violent clashes, police rounded up netizens on Tuesday night for “spreading untrue information.” Read More »

Social Media's Role In The Evolution Of FrontlineSMS

Ken Banks | PBS | September 26, 2012

It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. Read More »

Social Media: An Asset to Saving Millions

Ruby Leo and Judd Leonard Okafor | Daily Trust | August 21, 2012

The amount of women and children that die hourly from preventable incidences can be compared to the amount of persons that died during the recent Dana clash that claimed 154 lives in Lagos in June. Read More »

Software That Tracks People On Social Media Created By Defence Firm

Ryan Gallagher | The Guardian | February 10, 2013

ERaytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups Read More »

State Plans to Hike Cloud Spending, Scale Back Digital Diplomacy

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 13, 2012

The State Department wants to invest about $22 million more in information technology this year, according to justification documents accompanying President Obama's proposed fiscal 2013 budget. Read More »

States Seek Ban To Employers' Social-Media Snooping

Dave Maass | Electronic Frontier Foundation | March 6, 2013

When EFF considers a job applicant, we ask for the usual information: a resume, references, maybe writing samples. When we decide to hire someone, we require a few more pieces of personal data, the standard HR stuff, to ensure the lucky employee gets paid on time and is covered by health insurance. Read More »

StopWatching.Us: Mozilla Launches Massive Campaign On Digital Surveillance

Alex Fowler | The Mozilla Blog | June 11, 2013

Last week, media reports emerged that the US government is requiring vast amounts of data from Internet and phone companies via top secret surveillance programs. The revelations, which confirm many of our worst fears, raise serious questions about individual privacy protections, checks on government power and court orders impacting some of the most popular Web services. Read More »

Tech & The Cheetah

Marcy Mendelson | National Geographic | November 26, 2013

Some regions of Kenya have better cell phone reception than the heart of San Francisco’s financial district.  This is no exaggeration.  One can easily make a call or text from the Maasai Mara National Reserve.  It’s changed the country’s economy, society in both rural and urban areas, and launched millions of voices onto Twitter and Facebook. Read More »

Technology Could Empower Africans To Hold Their Governments To Account

Loren Treisman | The Guardian | October 15, 2013

Mobile phones are almost ubiquitous across Africa but can citizens use this technology to better participate in democracy? Next year, South African citizens will take part in their fifth democratic election. While the African National Congress will undoubtedly triumph, it can no longer rest on its laurels. Read More »