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Airbnb is all the talk on Wall Street. Its thirtysomething founders were nearly broke six years ago. Now it seems likely they will soon become billionaires.
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Hackathons, the high-octane, all-night problem-solving sessions popularized by the software-coding community, are making their way into the more traditional world of health care.
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Global flows have been a common thread in economic growth for centuries, since the days of the Silk Road, through the mercantilist and colonial periods and the Industrial Revolution.
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President Obama may be right: Free trade is a winning strategy that will lower consumer costs and expand employment in exporting industries.
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The fast-growing technology industry in New York is often cited as a magnet for graduates of the nation’s top universities. But a new report to be discussed in a speech by a deputy mayor on Wednesday found that almost half of the technology jobs in the city are filled by people without college degrees.
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The government has established an online collaboration called Project Interoperability to help develop tools and technologies for sharing threat information among organizations inside and outside of government.
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A few months ago, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and Marlene Seltzer, the chief executive of Jobs for the Future, published an article in Politico titled Closing the Skills Gap.”
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A couple of years ago Brian Arthur, an academic affiliated with the Palo Alto Research Center, made a startling prediction. In the next two to three decades, western digital networks would end up performing functions equal to the size of the real” US economy.
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An experiment under way in the state is starting to show how giving doctors that kind of information can reduce the number of people who repeatedly show up in emergency rooms with minor ailments such as upset stomachs and headaches.
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It is well documented that the population that cycles in and out of U.S. jails each year is statistically sicker than the general population and therefore would benefit from greater care coordination between correctional and community settings.
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Jeffrey Brenner reflects on efforts to bring jails in Camden, N.J., into a health information exchange.
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The Oxford Internet Institute this week posted a nice visualization of the state of open data in 70 countries around the world, reflecting the willingness of national governments to release everything from transportation timetables to election results to machine-readable national maps.
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Using advanced technology to dramatically expand the quality and reach of education has long been a key priority for the Obama Administration.
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Emergency department physicians are less likely to admit patients to the hospital when they have readily available electronic access to those patients’ health records, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have found.
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Around the world, there is enormous enthusiasm for the type of technological innovation symbolised by Silicon Valley. In this view, America’s ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.
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The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 33, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry-and optimistic about the future.
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Brad McIlquham was tutoring at-risk youth in Durham, N.C., when a former co-worker gave him the educator’s equivalent of the Social Network pitch. What if, instead of teaching at most 50 kids a year, you could help bring personalized tutoring to 100,000, or a million kids?
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The sheriff of Hampden County, Massachusetts, describes the county’s efforts to help break the cycle of reincarceration by ensuring that inmates get high-quality health care in and out of jail.
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Providers and stakeholders GAO interviewed in four states with ongoing electronic health information exchange efforts cited key challenges to exchange, in particular, issues related to insufficient standards, concerns about how privacy rules can vary among states, difficulties in matching patients to their records, and costs associated with exchange.
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Many people have long believed that if government and the private sector agreed to share their data more freely, and allow it to be processed using the right analytics, previously unimaginable solutions to countless social, economic, and commercial problems would emerge. They may have no idea how right they are.
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One of the largest unresolved issues in the safe and secure electronic exchange of health information is the need for a nationwide patient data matching strategy ensuring the accurate, timely, and efficient matching of patients with their healthcare data across different systems and settings of care.
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A sweeping transformation of medicine has begun that will rival in importance the introduction of anesthesia or the discovery of the germ basis of infectious disease.
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Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers and patients have changed markedly.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that several of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. have pledged support for the Blue Button initiative, which aims to expand patients’ access to their own electronic health information.
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Major pharmacies and retailers are joining the Blue Button initiative, which enables people to download a personal health record in an open, machine-readable electronic format.
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I saw this Tweet over the holidays while I was reading your book. I mean, I literally got distracted by this tweet while I was reading your book.
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Ah, to be young and wild and not at all free. Living with your parents. In your late twenties.
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In Manhattan, the upscale clothing retailer Barneys will replace the bankrupt discounter Loehmann’s, whose Chelsea store closes in a few weeks. Across the country, Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants are struggling, while fine-dining chains like Capital Grille are thriving.
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The Medical Officer for Innovation at the ONC discusses the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the implementation of patient engagement functionality in EHRs, including new requirements that a certain percentage of patients view, download and transmit their health data in 2014.
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Long seen as a vehicle for funding independent films and other artistic ventures, crowdfunding is evolving into a potentially powerful resource for low-income people and the organizations that serve them.
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Greg Simon has a very straight-forward answer to the question of what problem his new company, Poliwogg, is solving: Underinvestment in healthcare.
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The government’s employment report for December showed that the central policy challenge is not just more jobs but rather more well-paying jobs. About a third of the 2.2 million new jobs in 2013 were in retail, accommodation and food services, two of the lowest-paying industries.
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Providing the right platform is sometimes all it takes. Instead of planning new pedestrian plazas by the usual bureaucratic means, New York City’s department of transportation just marks an area on a street with temporary materials and then lets local organisations, architects and citizens decide what to do with it.
