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Le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) lance un nouveau portail (Portail Informationnel Santé et Services sociaux) qui vise à permettre aux professionnels de l’information du secteur sociosanitaire, aux employés (professionnels, intervenants et cliniciens), aux cadres et à la clientèle du réseau d’avoir un accès optimal à différentes informations liées au domaine de la santé et des services sociaux.

Le portail est organisé en trois grandes sections

les internautes concernés par la question des maladies rares pourront poser des questions en direct à l’équipe de Maladies Rares Info Services, sur le site www.maladiesraresinfo.org.

Companies that can harness big data will trample data-incompetents. Data equity, to coin a phrase, will become as important as brand equity.

big data could save the American health-care system $300 billion a year and the European public sector €250 billion

The data revolution is clearly handing power to the little people as well as the big ones.

Open Data in Canada describes the capacity for the Canadian Federal Government and other levels of government in Canada to provide online access to internal data in a standards-compliant Web 2.0 way. Government 2.0 is a way to engage individuals and businesses in government decisionmaking and services. Integration of tools such as wikis, development of government-specific social networking sites and the use of blogs, RSS feeds and Google Maps are all helping governments provide information to people in a manner that is more immediately useful to the people concerned.[1] There are also aspects of improving Freedom of information in Canada but the main focus of Government 2.0 is citizen engagement.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in having a real discussion about ideas as opposed to force-feeding an increasingly sleepy crowd with numerous graphs and bullet points projected on to the nearest wall.

Sometimes I wonder why we even bother showing up to hear a colleague elucidate on their thesis, when we are helpfully posted an advance printout of the presentation. As the speaker is building to a crucial statistic, delegates have long finished and are doing the crossword instead.