Roy Mark

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has selected Acumen Solutions to provide a cloud-computing CRM and project management solution. A division of the HHS (Health & Human Services), ONC has been charged with encouraging the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide HIE (Health Information Exchange). The American […]

Legislation approved by the U.S. House aimed at greater regulation of the financial industry tops the latest edition of the iAWFUL (Internet Advocates’ Watchlist for Ugly Laws) Top 10 by NetChoice, a coalition of trade groups that includes the IAC and the Electronic Retailing Association.The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act includes a provision […]

The International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Eastman Kodak’s claim that both Research In Motion and Apple smartphones featuring digital cameras are infringing on Kodak patents. Kodak, which makes digital cameras and inkjet printers, filed its complaint Jan. 14.The ITC Kodak complaint specifically claims that Apple’s iPhones and RIM’s camera-enabled BlackBerry devices infringe […]

After a week of record snowfall in the nation’s capital, Washington was hit by another blizzard this week: a flurry of broadband data, ambitious goals for the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan due to Congress March 17, and calls for the FCC to be bold in addressing the whole issue.The National Broadband Plan, ordered […]

A mobile phone app allowing individuals to take a picture of a mole, lesion or birthmark on their bodies; send the image to Health Discovery; and immediately receive back on their mobile phone a risk assessment for melanoma and other skin cancers is nearing completion.This first-ever melanoma/skin cancer mobile phone app using Health Discovery’s patented […]

The Health and Human Service’s “meaningful use” workgroup is expected to propose Feb. 17 easing some of the proposals that health-care providers’ electronic health care records are expected to demonstrate in order to receive federal funding. The workgroup is proposing that physicians and hospitals could drop up to six meaningful use measures for 2011. In […]

The GSMA announced a partnership Feb. 15 with the Continua Health Alliance, a nonprofit, open industry organization of health care and technology companies, to promote innovation and drive the use of embedded mobile solutions in health care.The two organizations plan to develop interoperability for connected devices and create a scalable and viable market for mobile […]

The White House has announced “nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act awards to help health care providers advance the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology … and train workers for the health care jobs of the future. The awards will help make health IT available to over 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians […]

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Nicholas Patrick are back on the International Space Station after successfully unloading and installing the 16-ton Tranquility node during a 6.5-hour spacewalk. The newest addition to the ISS was installed at 1:20 a.m. EST over the Indian Ocean west of Singapore. Once Tranquility was structurally attached to the ISS, the spacewalkers […]

NASAs New Generation of Robonauts: R2, Where Are You? by Roy Mark Built to Work with Humans R2’s humanlike shape was a product of the fact that it was built to work side-by-side with people, assisting with work that is difficult or dangerous on Earth and in space. More Technologically Advanced than Its Predecessors R2 […]

The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour begins the first major portion of its mission to the International Space Station Feb. 12 when astronauts Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken will unload and prepare to install the Tranquility mode, the last U.S. portion of the ISS.The new node will add additional room for crew members and […]

In hopes of better predicting solar storms that “can wreak havoc on power grids, communications systems and delicate satellites,” NASA Feb. 11 launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a satellite that will relay massive amounts of solar data back to Earth.The data “is expected to reveal the sun’s inner workings by constantly taking high-resolution images of […]