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Two Innovations Bringing Simplicity Back To Health Care

Marzena Zukowska Ashoka Changemakers
February 11, 2014
The ubiquity of mobile phones and decreasing cost of SMS are beginning to transform healthcare systems in some of the most impoverished regions of the world—places such as Kibera, Nairobi, Africa’s largest urban slum.
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‘The Little Hospital That Could’: Confronting Diabetes in the Delta and Beyond

Billy Marlow North Sunflower Medical Center
January 23, 2014
The percentage of people in Mississippi aged 18 or greater who report they have been told they have diabetes is 11.3 percent, according to the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 2010.
In the Mississippi Delta, the problem is expounded by issues such as obesity, inactivity, familial history and poverty. In Sunflower County, 13.8 percent of the population has been diagnosed with diabetes, with an estimated one-third of the population currently unaware they may have the disease.
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Report: Failure to Deal With Cybersecurity Could Cost Global Economy Trillions

January 21, 2014
Failing to deal with the ever increasing global cybersecurity threat could cost the global economy $3 trillion by 2020 and plunge international relations to levels not seen since the Cold War, according to report released by the World Economic Forum just ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Data Innovation 101

Travis Korte Center For Data Innovation
January 16, 2014
Excited about data? Join the club. Data, both “big” and small, has the potential to grow the economy, cut costs in government and improve the health and welfare of individuals around the world.
While some organizations have been slow to adopt data-driven innovations, there has been a great deal of innovation through the entire “data lifecycle,” which includes collection, storage, analysis, use and dissemination. Not all data-driven initiatives have pieces that fall into all categories, but most projects have some aspects of each category.

Collection and Storage
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The Dangers of ‘Sponsored Data’

David Sohn Cdt
January 15, 2014
AT&T recently announced a new program under which providers of online services or apps can negotiate special deals to “sponsor” data usage by AT&T mobile customers, allowing those customers to use the services or apps without it counting towards their bandwidth caps. The argument for this idea is that consumers get some relief from the feeling that the data meter is always running, and online services get a way to overcome possible consumer reluctance to make full use of data-intensive services.
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