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Keely Cababe

How The Internet Is Changing Health Care - Forbes.com - 0 views

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  • Using the micro-blogging service Twitter, it announced the imminent release of a study on Celiac disease, an immune system response to gluten
  • blog about the study once it was released to the public.
  • unconventional perspective.
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  • conversation about health issues, much less the staff of a prestigious research institution and hospital system.
  • Internet masses who seek not only reputable health information, but also a dynamic user experience and Web-based dialogue about their respective conditions and questions.
  • earnest
  • social media to engage Internet users
  • medical information
  • 3-D virtual reality known as Second Life and found 68 health-related sites alone.
  • videos and virtual renderings of health care facilities.
  • virtual experiences can empower people to become better patients by simulating health care scenarios.
  • to receive a virtual mammogram in order to familiarize patients with the procedure.
  • Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have been around for a few years, most in the health care field are only now starting to migrate to such outlets.
  • directory of physicians to grab the attention of busy patients looking for a cardiac surgeon
  • various procedures.
  • Patients Like Me, a social-networking Web site that functions as a support group, users share intimate details of their diagnosis and treatment, including information about specific symptoms and medications.
  • new technologies,
  • dialogue--or debate--about medicine there are various Internet platforms.
  • turned up videos on YouTub
  • Similar conversations can take place on Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
  • ideal and imperfect about free and open discussion of health issues online.
  • peers to reputable resources
  • epeat unfounded or untrue claims.
  • public health experts the most,
  • educating the masses and countering misinformation has been the focus of public health officials since the 18th century, when they used broadsheets and town halls to reach the public.
Katerina Schoenegger

The Changing Shape of Government | Brookings Institution - 0 views

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      The government is reshaping and reforming as the informational age is!
  • most significant reshaping of the federal workforce in recent history
  • past six years
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  • total number of full-time federal employees has declined
  • government has gotten much taller
  • federal middle-level managers
  • umber of layers at the very top of the federal hierarchy
  • less likely to contact a federal employee
  • call a government 800 number
  • nation's elected and appointed leaders will be further from the front lines
  • office
  • use a service
  • public is
  • public is getting for its tax dollars
Katerina Schoenegger

Republicans want to change laws on Electoral College votes, after presidential losses |... - 0 views

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  • Republicans want to change laws on Electoral College votes, after presidential losses
  • Wisconsin to Pennsylvania,
  • give the winner of a state's popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too
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  • Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president
  • won the Electoral College
Katerina Schoenegger

Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out - Washington Post - 0 views

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  • privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
  • collecting some of this information
  • policy shift
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  • NBA clip online
  • “jaguar,” Google would have a better idea of whether the person was interested in the animal or the car.
  • imagined that the content of his or her messages could affect the experience on seemingly unrelated Web sites such as YouTube.
  • option to opt out
  • Google can collect information about users
  • Web sites they visit or use its popular maps program to estimate their location.
  • scattered approach,
  • more seamless environment across its various offerings.
Katerina Schoenegger

Does information technology destroy or create jobs? Debate heats up | SmartPlanet - 0 views

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  • IT, on the other hand, point to the new types of opportunities created as a result of the march of technology — from programming to analytics to technicians.
  • 2000s was a time of accelerating technology
  • 1% during th
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  • e past
  • airline reservations
  • assistance
  • done competently by scanning technologies and software
  • It’s not the labor-intensive or professional jobs that will be replaced by automat
  • intensive
  • Talbot also offers
  • n opposing point of view as well:
  • technology’s impact on jobs and job creation
Katerina Schoenegger

Tracking Report No. 26 - 0 views

www.hschange.com/1260

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Katerina Schoenegger

What It Takes to Change Government | Booz Allen Hamilton - 0 views

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  • What It Takes to Change GovernmentThe Obama Administration is calling upon federal agencies to implement meaningful changes that strengthen government operations and performance.
  • The federal government can be a large, intransigent bureaucracy that is slow to change.
Katerina Schoenegger

How The Government Has Caused America's Obesity Problem - 0 views

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  • biggest problems
  • ica's sw
  • medical care
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  • The awful dietary advice dispensed by mainstream medical science over the last 30 years. If we want a healthier, slimmer population, we have to stop eating the sugar-laden diet so many experts have recommended to us
  • based on grains like bread and rice
  • digest carbohydrates
  • entirely of carbohydrates.
  • ice cream, soda, potato chips
  • sugar in your bloodstream
  • ould recognize as unhealthy
  • “... the rise in obesity began around the same time the so-called experts began telling everyone to cut back on fat and eat more carbohydrates.”
  • r Tom Naughton
Katerina Schoenegger

Technology's Role in Government Change | Tim Bajarin | PCMag.com - 0 views

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  • headline in one of the papers that called the overthrow of the government in Egypt the Facebook Revolution and discussed the role Facebook and Twitter had, helping arrange many of the demonstrations in Tahrir Square that became a major force in bringing down the government.
  • communication and people's ability to express their feelings and opinions relatively freely. Of course, technology helped make that communication possible in new ways via Facebook and Twitter.
  • technology as a force for change
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  • Guttenberg press was invented
  • created in large quantities that were used to help educate people about current issues and used as a force for challenging autocratic and even dictatorial rulers of the time.
Katerina Schoenegger

Technology Has Changed the Way Our Politicians Communicate with Us - Yahoo! Voices - vo... - 0 views

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  • All types of media use a number of different types of technology to spread news, this is also true in the world of politics.
  • Twitter, blogs, CNN, and other forms of instant communications have also helped change the way government communicates
  • This has led politicians to be prepared for any and all situations at any given moment. Other forms of instant communication allow for an individual politician to update the people he represents instantly.
Katerina Schoenegger

(Feb 2013) How Many People Use the Top Social Media, Apps & Services? - 0 views

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  •  1.06 billion monthly active users and 680 million mobile users, I thought I would get a head start on my February
Katerina Schoenegger

Citizen 2.0: How the internet has changed citizen/government interaction - Global Busin... - 0 views

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  • where communication is interactive and instantaneous
  • governments with an opportunity to function in a more innovative, engaging and cost-effective manner
  • In a government context, such tools can be similarly used to engage with citizens with the goals of collecting their feedback and ideas, making them aware of public services at their disposal and reaching out to broader audiences through non-traditional channels.
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