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“It’s all in the presentation”- Using analytics to transform health care

Deltek Analyst Amanda White reports. The 2011 ehealth National Forum on Health Information Exchange (HIE) was held July 14, 2011 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference consisted of numerous panel discussions and brought together an array of nationwide health care leaders. The goal of this year’s conference was to discuss challengesRead… Read more »

MTA wireless project inches forward

As Transportation Nation reports, wireless service is coming to New York’s subways, but progress is slow. The long-delayed project is scheduled for completion in four years, with three Manhattan stations to be wired within six months. Transit Wireless will charge telecom companies for use of the wireless signal and share those revenues with the MetropolitanRead… Read more »

Crackdown on Indian Railways e-ticketing fraud

An illegal network of ticket agents is overcharging Indian Railways customers for booking tickets online. Scammers are asking passengers to pay Rs 100 instead of the actual Rs 20 fee. Agents have also hacked into the website of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, which is the railway’s e-ticketing outlet, to purchase last-minute premiumRead… Read more »

Hacked Off?

Kent County Council is always looking to create innovative and cost-effective methods of delivering services. One way in which this can be done is through hosting local hack-days for creative students and graduates to come together, to contribute and share ideas and to try out new concepts and prototypes. Who would we invite students toRead… Read more »

The Job Board-Linkedin Mashup

I heavily emphasize Linkedin in all my advice to job seekers, but there are limits on what it can do. At this point, it’s not that awesome as a job board. You can, in fact, use Linkedin as a job board by looking under “Jobs” and also looking for Jobs conversations/postings in the groups youRead… Read more »

Using Triumfant for Secure Configuration and Change Management

It’s late Monday morning when your computer security department notices that a suspicious message has been emailed to most of the email addresses at your company. It contains a malicious PDF that exploits a new vulnerability that came out over the weekend. The patch hasn’t been applied to the company workstations yet, and it’s tooRead… Read more »

Open Government Partnership

I was traveling last week (great trip!) and am still trying to catch up on the newly-announced Open Government Partnership. From their website: The Open Government Partnership is a global effort to make governments better. We all want more transparent, effective and accountable governments — with institutions that empower citizens and are responsive to theirRead… Read more »

Aphorism 54

Nudge is not enough to change behaviour on its own. Sometimes you need to bribe and threaten people too. Flip Chart Fairy Tales (introducing his blog post, Nudge is not enough on its own) Original post

How using a marketing approach can help open data

One of the biggest barriers to the growth of the open data movement in my opinion is that nearly every open data related meeting/event is still comprised primarily of data geeks and app developers. The language that is used by this community (e.g. machine readable data, open access, genomes, geo-spatial, etc…) confuses the typical non-geekRead… Read more »