Archive for July 27th, 2012

 

DARPA I2O Director at the Computer History Museum

July 27th, 2012

Dan Kaufman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [image courtesy the Computer History Museum].Dan Kaufman, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), was interviewed on Tuesday evening by New York Times tech writer John Markoff – the first in a series of conversations with “amazing people at research labs” being produced this summer by the Computer History Museum.

During the hourlong interview, Kaufman — Markoff describes him as “not your standard, cookie-cutter DARPA official — touches on a bit of history about DARPA, his own personal background and how he landed at the agency, and a variety of projects he and his colleagues in I2O are currently spearheading.

Check out the full-length video and summary after the jump…

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AHRQ Requesting Information on Health Quality Measurements

July 27th, 2012

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI), “seeking ideas and input from the public … on successful strategies and remaining challenges in the creation of health IT-enabled quality measure development and reporting.” Comments are due by Aug. 20th.

Among the questions regarding quality measurement enabled by health IT being posed in the RFI are (following the link):

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