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Some hospital executives are questioning whether health care organizations are really meeting the spirit and intent of the HITECH Act as they race to check off the boxes necessary to comply with Stage 2 of the meaningful use incentive program.
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For decades, Intel has generated the bulk of its revenue by manufacturing processors and other parts for personal computers, remaining comfortably among the top semiconductor vendors.
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American innovation-the key to our prosperity-has always relied, to some extent, on government support.
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As we look at the dynamic change shaping today’s data-driven world, one thing is becoming increasingly clear. We really do not know that much about it.
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Trade in services drives the exchange of ideas, know-how and technology. It helps firms cut costs, increase productivity, participate in global value chains and boost competitiveness. Consumers benefit from lower prices and greater choice.
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Since the first censuses were taken and crop yields recorded in ancient times, data collection and analysis have been essential to improving the functioning of society.
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The United States performs very well in many measures of well-being, as shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large number of topics in the Better Life Index.
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Over the past several days, severe storms have battered Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and other states. Dozens of people have been killed and entire neighborhoods turned to rubble and debris as tornadoes have touched down across the region. Natural disasters like these present a host of challenges for first responders.
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This article elaborates on countries’ increasing use of barriers and restrictions to digital trade, explains why such practices are damaging for individual countries and the broader global economy, and provides policy recommendations to better safeguard the open cross-border data flows and digital services that have become the lifeblood of the modern global economy.
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This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage formation.
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Cutting through the gloom of a winter that never seems to end and another weak GDP report, eBay has broadcast the year’s most bullish signal about the U.S. economy.
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In this interview with McKinsey, Albright discusses how infrastructure can provide the foundation for stable and prosperous societies.
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Since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has added 8.3 million jobs, and the unemployment rate has fallen from 10 percent to 6.7 percent. But beneath these top-line numbers, the labor market is still quite fragile.
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For decades, policymakers have called for more spending on America’s infrastructure to stimulate job growth.
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Despite their important role providing health care to about ten million people a year, jails remain largely siloed from the surrounding health care community, compromising inmates’ health and adding to health care spending.
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Knowledge is central to development. The World Bank invests about one-quarter of its budget for country services in knowledge products.
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New capabilities to gather, analyze, disseminate, and preserve vast quantities of data raise new concerns about the nature of privacy and the means by which individual privacy might be compromised or protected.
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Rapidly increasing EHR adoption and requirements in the latter stages of Meaningful Use are significantly increasing the amount of public health reporting.
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The early adopters and even the late followers appear to have already joined the federal EHR incentive payment program and the holdouts or those not successfully participating are shaping up to be a significant number of providers.
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FundaGeek, TechMoola and RocketHub have more in common than just their curious names. These are all the monikers of crowdsourcing websites that are dedicated to raising money for science and technology projects.
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Health IT tools can provide a faster and more accurate way of moving critical information from providers to health departments where outbreaks are identified, tracked, and managed.
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Economists at Goldman Sachs say they have pretty clear evidence against the widely held mismatch” theory of unemployment
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The Center for Health Care Strategies recently conducted a series of focus groups that showed how one key Medicaid population – medically and socially complex, low-income individuals – stands to gain from these advances.
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The first two stages of Meaningful Use have not gone far enough to develop an industry-wide health data infrastructure.
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Pfizer piloted the Blue Button technology in December 2013, when clinical trial participants were first able to download and share their individual electronic data.
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Meaningful use stages 1 and 2 fall short of implementing the interoperability among electronic health records that is necessary to facilitate information exchange and develop a robust health data infrastructure.
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There is no shortage of evidence testifying to the value of crowdfunding for those seeking to finance a new product idea, company, or even personal need.
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This study examines the adoption and use of the Blue Button feature in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) personal health record portal, My HealtheVet.
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As a direct outcome of the events of September 11, 2001, the Information Sharing Environment and the Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment were officially stood-up when President Bush designated the first PM-ISE staff member on April 15, 2005.
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The energy-efficient power networks of the future will require entirely new ways of forecasting demand on the scale of individual households. That won’t be easy.
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On April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs placed near the finish line of the Boston Marathon detonated within seconds of each other, killing three and injuring more than two hundred people.
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Uber has demonstrated that it can cheaply and efficiently deliver cars to specific addresses (provided it’s neither a snow storm nor a national holiday), so now the company is going meta and getting into the delivery business for everything else.
