NASA Officials collected 770 entries between April 20-21 from more than 9,000 people in 83 cities around the world for this year’s International Space Apps Challenge. Continue reading
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Upgrades Teradata Integrated Data Warehouse to Power Analytics for Healthcare Reform
BOSTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), a full-service health benefits company headquartered near Boston has expanded its integrated data warehouse (IDW), Teradata (TDC) announced today. Continue reading
NASA’s Three Years of SDO Data-Narrated – Video
NASA's Three Years of SDO Data-Narrated a repost – This version of Three Years of SDO Data is extended, and narrated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights m… By: vengencefrom1979 Continue reading
NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
LOS ANGELES (AP) NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. If engineers can’t find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission’s search, although the space agency wasn’t ready to call it quits Wednesday. Continue reading
NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture
Although the ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space, the three miniature satellites (named Alexander, Graham and Bell) also took pictures of Earth and transmitted these “image-data packets” to multiple ground stations on Earth. Continue reading
Growth of Health Care Spending, Prices & Employment Each Head Lower
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– National health care spending in March 2013 grew 3.8 percent relative to March 2012, one-tenth below the February rate, putting it below the record low levels seen annually in 2009 2011, and below our estimate of 4.3 percent for 2012. Meanwhile, health care employment may finally be slowing with an average gain of 19,000 jobs per month for 2013, compared with 27,000 per month during 2012. Continue reading
Cost of health care varies widely at North Bay hospitals
Published: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 1:12 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 2:03 p.m Continue reading
Precision Medicine National Campaign Launched at OME Summit
At the OME Precision Medicine summit at UC San Francisco today, attendees launched a social media campaign to engage the nation in an effort to transform medicine as we know it. The MeForYou.org campaign aims to engage the public in addressing a key roadblock to advancing a new model of medicine, known as precision medicine, to provide preventive, predictive and precise care. The roadblock stems from the fact that while todays federal regulations are effective in protecting patients privacy, there are circumstances in which that very protection impedes scientists ability to understand disease Continue reading
NASA smartphone satellites beam clear images of Earth
The trio of Android smartphones NASA blasted into orbit recently have ended their journey by burning up in the atmosphere, but not before snapping shots of Earth — and the pictures don’t look too bad. The “PhoneSats” were a NASA experiment to develop super-cheap satellites and to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable satellite, NASA said Continue reading
Botched brain surgery prompts extensive review at SSM Health Care
ST. LOUIS Severe mistakes happen, even at hospitals that receive high marks from federal health officials. And consumers usually never learn the details of these errors Continue reading
GNS Healthcare Licenses REFS™ Big Data Analytics Platform to Harvard Medical School
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –GNS Healthcare, Inc. announced today that Harvard Medical School has licensed its REFS (Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation) Big Data analytics platform Continue reading
Industry-Leading Aerospace Manufacturer Leverages IntraStage Solution to Avoid Recalls
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– IntraStage announced the release of a Case Study with the experiences of a major Aerospace Electronics Manufacturer who understood the importance of managing their ATEs (Automated Test Equipment) through the use of Test Data. Without properly checking the health of both the software and hardware on ATEs, there is a risk of tests not being performed effectively causing products to escape manufacturing with reliability and performance defects. Having rapid and accurate visibility into our Test Data has improved our manufacturing operations in a number of different ways, says the Engineering Test Manager Continue reading
Advocate Health Care Honored for Environmental Efforts for a 4th Consecutive Year
OAK BROOK, IL–(Marketwired – April 26, 2013) – Recognized as a national leader in promoting environmental stewardship through its innovative programs, Advocate Health Care has received the System for Change award from Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental responsibility and best practices by healthcare organizations. The System for Change Award recognizes health systems that are working cohesively to gather data, set system goals, benchmark, and share successes in environmental performance. This is the fourth year in a row, Advocate, the largest health system in Illinois, has earned the recognition. Continue reading
Green flights? NASA explores biofuel use in planes.
Commercial jets could fly safely with a blend of jet fuel that includes a plant oil, NASA researchers said Thursday.NASA is one of several government agencies examining the use of renewable biofuels to reduce dependency on foreign oil while reducing carbon emissions. Continue reading
NASA Is Firing Cell Phones Into Space
Today, in NASA Is the Best: The space agency this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they’d fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do with science Continue reading
Life Technologies' Ion Proton(TM) to Power Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre
– Innovation Centre’s ambitious approach to treatment of disease to dramatically improve patient outcomes whilst reducing overall healthcare costs. GLASGOW, Scotland, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Life Technologies( http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home.html ) Corporation (LIFE) today announces that it is a lead commercial partner along with Aridhia,( http://www.aridhia.com ) a bio-medical informatics company, in the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC). The Ion Proton( http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/Products-and-Services/Applications/Sequencing/Semiconductor-Sequencing/proton.html )(TM) sequencing platform will be the primary tool to drive discovery and genetic analysis as SMS-IC aspires to be a world-class centre of research, innovation and commercialisation in stratified medicine. Continue reading
Potential Dark Matter Discovery a Win for Space Station Science
If nature is kind, the first detection of dark matter might be credited to the International Space Station soon. Today (April 3), researchers announced the first science results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a $2 billion cosmic-ray particle detector mounted on the exterior of the football-field-size International Space Station. The instrument has observed a striking pattern of antimatter particles called positrons that may turn out to be a product of collisions between dark matter particles Continue reading
Comet Ison C/2012 S1 WTF Nasa? – Video
Comet Ison C/2012 S1 WTF Nasa? In this video, I show the data, latest images and videos, explain why Comet C/2012 S1 ISON is special, ask Nasa a question and make a special request. www.yo… Continue reading
BrightScope Releases Top 25 Companies in the Health and Medicine Industry With the Best 401k Plans
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 26, 2013) – BrightScope (www.brightscope.com), a leading provider of independent financial information and investment research, today announced the Top 25 companies with the highest ranked 401k plans containing more than $100 million in assets in the health and medicine sector. This is the third list in a new series that BrightScope will regularly issue to highlight the strongest plans within leading industries across the nation. BrightScope obtains an increasing amount of its data directly from plan sponsors and record keepers, and augments these primary sources with data from publicly available sources such as the Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Commission Continue reading
Astronomy : Star tracker
MARK GARLICK The technology was a complete joy, says Andrea Ghez, thinking back to the mid-1980s and her first time helping out at an observatory. She wanted to learn everything Continue reading