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  • White House defends selection process for e-gov projects

    The head of the White House's e-government initiatives on Thursday responded to a government report that criticized the effort as lacking key information.
  • Why Can’t the U.S. Keep Pace With Europe on IT?

    Despite the work the U.S. has done the past decade to make information technology ubiquitous, a digital divide persists between America and some of the fast-advancing European countries.

    Interestingly, while the country’s large land area is still one of the main factors impeding the U.S. government’s ability to successfully leverage its IT capabilities to a maximum, the biggest reason for the country’s underperformance has been its “less than satisfactory” political and regulatory environment, according to The Global Information Technology Report 2012 [PDF].

  • Why telemedicine must become a healthcare priority in America

    A snapshot of the current state of America’s health landscape from the Centers for Disease Control Health Disparities and Inequalities Report paints a very bleak picture. The report indicates that approximately 38 percent of African American women with coronary heart disease die before the age 75, compared to only 19.4 percent of Caucasian women. The statistics are far worse for African American men with coronary heart disease, with close to 62 percent dying before the age of 75 – a number that exceeds Caucasian men’s rate, which currently stands at 41.5 percent.

    For decades, studies such as this have revealed the severe health disparities that currently exist in America – much of which are caused by a lack of access to care, especially for poorer communities. As our government and health care organizations continue to work to decrease these gaps, policymakers must continue to work diligently to remove any legislative or regulatory barriers that impede progress.

  • Why The U.S. Government Should Embrace Smart Cities

    Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to stop.

    The hottest wave in technology today is not about the individual consumer, but the “smart city.”

    Global companies, having wired people throughout the world, are now on a mission to connect cities, within and without, through the integrated application of advanced technologies like wireless sensors and processors, mobile and video telecommunications, and geographic information systems. The tantalizing prospect: cities and metropolitan areas that use technology to manage urban congestion, maximize energy efficiency, enhance public security, allocate scarce resources based on real time evidence, even educate their citizenry through remote learning.

  • Why the U.S. needs a national definition of telehealth

    Healthcare is at a critical juncture. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, many millions of newly eligible Americans will seek access to an already heavily burdened health care system. Primary care shortages, specialty care diversification, an overall thinning pool of health professionals as well as rural access challenges will continue to rise. It is crucial, now more than ever, for the nation to leverage innovative technologies to address these growing gaps in care.

    Telehealth — real-time video encounters between patients and providers — presents the opportunity to reverse the longstanding paradigm of placing the burden on patients to seek care where it’s physically available by bringing healthcare directly to them — akin to the old-fashioned “house call.” These technologies move appropriate care to lower cost settings, reducing unnecessary ER utilization, hospitalizations and even general overhead, and support preventative care efforts for chronic care patients.

  • Will the U.S. Ever Be Entirely Paperless?

    Despite the popularity of mobile devices and electronic innovation, 56 percent of Americans believe the United States would never become entirely paperless, according to a new survey.

    In a national scientific telephone survey conducted on Dec. 6, by Poll Position, a non-partisan news, polling and social media company, only 20 percent of respondents believed the United States would get to an all-paperless status, while 24 percent were undecided or had no opinion.

  • With 73 Million Americans Now in Managed Care, Telemedicine is Set To Boom

    The American Telemedicine Association projects an exponential growth in the adoption of telemedicine and mHealth technologies as a record number of consumers are entering fee-capped managed care insurance plans. Managed Care, which pays a flat fee to treat health conditions, creates a powerful incentive for providers to leverage the power of remote healthcare technologies to maintain or improve quality and lower costs.

    Today almost one quarter of all Americans, 73 million patients, are covered under a managed care health insurance program. This is up from 58 million patients in 2005, a 26 percent increase in just 6 years.

  • Zugriff auf Fingerabdrücke und DNA: USA und Österreich kurz vor Einigung

    Verhandlungen zwischen der Republik Österreich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika über ein Abkommen zum Austausch von Fingerabdruck- und DNA-Daten stehen kurz vor dem Abschluss. Wie der Sprecher des österreichischen Außenministeriums, Gesandter Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, gegenüber heise online ausführte, ist nach aktuellem Stand ein mehrstufiges Verfahren geplant, das Strafverfolgern keinen direkten Zugriff auf Personendaten des jeweils anderen Landes gestattet. Die in Medienberichten kolportierte Drohung der USA mit dem Ausschluss österreichischer Staatsbürger aus dem Visa Waiver Program steht demnach nicht unmittelbar im Raum, wohl aber im Hintergrund.

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