The University of Massachusetts Amherst has settled violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy and Security Rules for $650,000 and a corrective action plan.
The Trust for Public Land is launching a platform called ParkServe that will contain urban park data from 13,931 cities and towns across the country, covering more than 80 percent of the population.
Civil rights advocates flooded a City Council hearing to protest the Boston Police Department’s plan to buy $1.4 million in social media monitoring software. Advocates questioned police promises to respect citizen privacy, as well as whether the technology can actually detect threats.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a tool this month that automatically shares electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program. This tool is the first in a series to help reduce clinician burden and support high-quality patient care.
Kansas plans to invest as much as $100 million to improve Internet access at school districts statewide, thanks to a partnership between Kansas state agencies and EducationSuperHighway.
A team of scientists led by the National Institutes of Health published their analysis of using big data to track infectious diseases in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, and found that it can make surveillance more effective.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is asking cities for proposals to test automated vehicles through the new Automation Proving Ground Pilot Program.
A new technology will make telemedicine more effective by giving physicians a way to get visually closer to patients.
Bob Zangrillo, a Silicon Valley investor and CEO of Dragon Global, and Tony Cho, a Miami real estate developer and CEO of Metro 1, are hoping to turn Miami’s Little Haiti into Magic City, a 15-acre mixed-use development.
Though some areas of the country have become famous for high-tech innovation–such as Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, and Seattle–all congressional districts in the U.S. have both investments and contributions in the high-tech space and should be treated as such, according to a recent report by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation.
