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What Pain Killers Can Teach Us About Open Government
Looking for an example of how open government data is being used by the private sector? Google the words “aspirin,” “ibuprofen” or “amoxicillin” and check out the upper right hand corner of the webpage. Read More »
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Where did the issue of health data exchange disappear to?
There has been extensive talk about the scandals at the VA and remedies for them, including the political and financial ramifications of partial privatization. Republicans have suggested it for some time, but for the solution to be picked up by socialist Independent Senator Bernie Sanders clinches the matter. What no one has pointed out yet, however–and what makes this development relevant to the Datapalooza–is that such a reform will make the free flow of patient information between providers more crucial than ever. Read More »
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White House Accused Of Letting Politics Influence HealthCare.gov Design
Congressional overseers made their first move to apportion blame on Monday for the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, the government’s online health insurance marketplace, while the White House turned to social media to drum up public support for the ailing and embattled website. Read More »
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White House Honors 11 Immigrant Innovators
The White House has named 11 American inventors and entrepreneurs as Immigrant Innovator Champions of Change.More than 40 percent of the 500 biggest U.S. companies were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. Read More »
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White House Introduces New Class Of Innovation Fellows
The White House has pulled nearly 30 innovative techies from the private sector to spend a year tackling thorny government problems, introducing the third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows...
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White House Launches Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
US Chief Technology Officer Todd Park announced the first class of “Presidential Innovation Fellows” today. Selected from an applicant pool of nearly 700 innovators from across the country, the 18 “Fellows” have agreed to spend six months in Washington to work on five high-impact projects aimed at supporting entrepreneurs, small businesses and the economy, while significantly improving how the Federal Government serves the American people.
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White House Pushes Blue Button: Broader Adoption of Secure Records Downloads Sought
A new Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which seeks developers for short-term technology assignments, includes a project designed to spread the use of the Blue Button medical records secure download function. Read More »
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White House to Establish Chief Technology Officers' Council
The White House is in the process of launching a new council of federal technology officers who will be tasked with sharing insights and solving problems across government, Veterans Affairs Department Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin said Tuesday. Read More »
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White House to mandate machine-readable open data
White House technology leaders are close to issuing a new policy that will change the way agencies release data to the public. Todd Park, the federal chief technology officer, said Friday the new policy is one of several steps to spur the release of more data from agencies. Read More »
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White House Unveils Action Plan For Gov’t Data Transparency; Steve VanRoekel, Todd Park Comment
The Obama administration has introduced a plan calling for federal agencies to make their datasets publicly available as part of an open government initiative, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Shefali Kapadia writes that the White House wants agencies to prioritize the public’s research needs when sharing open data...
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Why A Grocery Chain Supports Health Data Liquidity
The CEO of a family-owned grocery store chain wrote a letter to New York State lawmakers to support $65 million worth of spending on a computer system for health information in the state. That grocer is Danny Wegman, and that project is the Statewide Health Information Network, aka SHIN-NY.
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Why A ‘Tech Surge’ Isn’t Going To Save HealthCare.gov
Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promised it would recruit the ”best and brightest” to fix HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s online insurance marketplace that’s part of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which has been plagued by technical defects... Read More »
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Why Government Must Embrace Failure As A Mission Critical Value
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 »
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Why Obama’s Tech-Savvy Team Couldn’t Make Obamacare Glitch-Free
As the online rollout of the Affordable Care Act continues to be plagued by glitches, many of the president’s allies and foes are wondering the same thing: how could the most tech-savvy White House in history launch a flawed Web site? Read More »
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Why The Government Never Gets Tech Right
For the first time in history, a president has had to stand in the Rose Garden to apologize for a broken Web site. But HealthCare.gov is only the latest episode in a string of information technology debacles by the federal government. Indeed, according to the research firm the Standish Group, 94 percent of large federal information technology projects over the past 10 years were unsuccessful...
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