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Author Photo Google For Government Signals Long Cloud March Ahead
Jul 27, 2010
Posted by J. Nicholas Hoover

Google's announcement Monday that it was formally releasing a version of its application suite for government doesn't just represent a Google sales push, but in some ways also indicates that although the federal government is stepping up its cloud computing push, much work remains.

Author Photo How Hospitals Are Helping Doctors Achieve Meaningful Use
Jul 26, 2010
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Hospital executives aren't just worried about having their own organizations meet the federal government's meaningful use requirements; they're also concerned about their affiliated and owned doctor practices achieving the goals. In fact, many hospitals are assisting (or plan to help) doctors to get on board with e-health records even as those hospitals struggle with their own projects.

Author Photo Meaningful Use Rules Make Sense To Patients
Jul 20, 2010
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

I'm not a doctor or nurse. Nor am I a hospital administrator, CIO or health IT worker. However, I am a patient. So while the government's long-awaited, meaningful use, stage 1 "core objectives" could very well entail a lot of process changes and costly technology to implement for healthcare providers, from a patient perspective--my perspective--many of the requirements sound reasonable, even commonsensible.

Author Photo NASA's Muslim Outreach Is Real
Jul 15, 2010
Posted by J. Nicholas Hoover

The White House on Monday was forced to walk back NASA administrator Charles Bolden's recent remarks to Al Jazeera that one of his top priorities was outreach to Muslim countries, but in fact, the Obama administration has been doing a lot of science and technology outreach to the Islamic world in recent months.

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