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More Data, Better Drugs: Genetech, PatientsLikeMe Ink Groundbreaking Research Pact
Genentech Inc. will mine the deep online patient network of PatientsLikeMe to pinpoint ways of using patients' real experience with diseases and drugs for better research. The five-year agreement is the first broad research collaboration between Cambridge, Mass.-based PatientsLikeMe and a drug company, but it also demonstrates how open-source research and social media are increasingly tapped by companies to get real-world insights into diseases and how patients respond to treatments.
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Mozilla Aims To Socialize App Shopping With Marketplace For Firefox OS (Video)
Firefox OS has an uphill battle to impress consumers, and Mozilla is hoping that the social app store it's developing will be the thing that sets it apart... Read More »
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New Biotech Site Sparks Hope For Cancer Treatments
The latest victory in the Myriad Genetics case in Australia, allowing Myriad Genetics to patent isolated DNA, has sparked new debate over the development of new drugs to treat cancer... Read More »
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New Data Sources Fuel Understanding of Public Health Emergencies
Remember when Google search results were first used to predict the flu? Now, data from mobile phones, social media and even grocery scanners has been shown to be effective at identifying patterns in epidemics. Standard travel data collection methods, however, are limited and often provide outdated data. Mobile phones, on the other hand, are nearly ubiquitous, and can serve as a rich data resource. Call data, which automatically provides time and location details, can help in understanding human mobility...
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New York: A Look at One State’s Transformative Efforts To Combat The HIV/AIDS Epidemic While Leveraging Health Information Technology And Innovative Solutions
To commemorate National HIV Testing Day on June 27th, we wanted to highlight the State of New York’s efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic when it first emerged, and to celebrate the new and innovative tools the state is exploring to prevent HIV and to test, diagnose, treat, and care for those living with the disease. Read More »
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Says Government Must Embrace Tech, Be Open Source
Monday afternoon Newark Mayor Cory Booker crossed the Hudson River to chat at the OnMedia NYC conference about changes he believes government can make through technology. His administration uses social media to get residents more active in improving their community... Read More »
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News Participation Starts At ‘Home’
Seemingly every major news event worldwide is heightening participation in news. People are eager to share updates and photos of an unfolding news event, ask questions of media outlets, and share important information. But there are two important aspects to this type of participation [...]. In other words, people write about their immediate world using their ‘home’ or go-to platform. Read More »
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NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »
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NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists
Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »
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Obamacare And The New Soviet Man
Obamacare's failure to enlist young people into its ranks may well result in an American version of the New Soviet Man. That man was the communist ideal of a person who served the state and its leader with selfless devotion. Read More »
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Occupy Research: Methods and Tools for a Decentralized Future
Occupy Research is a highly participatory band of researchers active in the Occupy Wall Street movement, with working groups popping up across the country. Committed to using open methods, they outline different areas of interest in a wiki and share ideas, tools, and information about the movement. Read More »
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ONC, HHS Officials Announce Winners of Health App Contests
On Wednesday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Health 2.0 announced the winners of a contest that challenged software developers to create applications using the popHealth framework, Modern Healthcare reports (Lee, Modern Healthcare, 2/23). Read More »
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Online Activity Has Potential To Escalate Election Violence
Umati, a project of iHub Research and Ushahidi, has produced a pioneering collection of inflammatory speech, posted online by Kenyans in the past three months, as our presidential elections draw near. Read More »
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Online Tools To Use To Track Hurricane Sandy's Power
Hurricane Sandy is proving to be a storm not to be trifled with. If you need to stay abreast of the latest developments, there are plenty of useful resources you can find online. Read More »
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Open Access Meeting Reflections—SPARC 2012
Ten years after the movement was launched through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, open access (OA) is thriving, flourishing, and becoming a core element in the broader “Open Knowledge” movement that includes Open Educational Resources (OER), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Data, and Open Science among others, all of which share the common goals of providing free, unrestricted access to different types of information and knowledge. Read More »
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