More than one in five individuals with children had trouble in 2013 “With some of the world’s wealthiest countries among their ranks, Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states may seem like unlikely places for many residents to report problems affording food. But rising numbers of residents in OECD countries — particularly those… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Secret Service seeks software to monitor current and historical social media data
Via NextGov: “The Secret Service is purchasing software to watch users of social networks in real time, according to contract documents. In a work order posted on Monday, the agency details information the tool will collect — ranging from emotions of Internet users to old Twitter messages. Its capabilities will include “sentiment analysis,” “influencer identification,” “access to historical Twitter data,” “ability to detect… Continue Reading
HHS releases new data and tools to increase transparency on hospital utilization and other trends
“With more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, data scientists, researchers, policy experts, government employees and more in attendance, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing new data and launching new initiatives at the annual Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is releasing its first annual… Continue Reading
DARPA research program focusing on traumatic brain injuries
Via DefenseTech: “The Pentagon has ambitious plans to develop a prosthetic for the brain that, if successful, will restore memory functions lost to troops who suffered brain injuries as well as people losing their pasts to Alzheimer’s disease. The Restoring Active Memory — or RAM — is just one project among a broad, multi-agency program underway… Continue Reading
Launch of openFDA Beta Research Project
“OpenFDA offers easy access to FDA public data and highlight projects using these data in both the public and private sector to further regulatory or scientific missions, educate the public, and save lives. OpenFDA is specifically designed to make it easier for developers, researchers, and the public to access and use the many large, important, health… Continue Reading
Liquidity Risk and U.S. Bank Lending at Home and Abroad
Federal Reserve Bank of New York – June 2014 Number 676 – Authors: Ricardo Correa, Linda Goldberg, and Tara Rice “While the balance sheet structure of U.S. banks influences how they respond to liquidity risks, the mechanisms for the effects on and consequences for lending vary widely across banks. We demonstrate fundamental differences across banks without foreign affiliates versus those with foreign… Continue Reading
Measles cases in the United States reach 20-year high
Measles — United States, January 1–May 23, 2014 – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Early Release May 29, 2014 / 63(Early Release);1-4 “Two hundred and eighty-eight cases of measles were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States between Jan. 1 and May 23, 2014. This is the largest number of measles… Continue Reading
Enterprise Risk Management and the Financial Reporting Process
Cohen, Jeffrey R. and Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh and Wright, Arnold, Enterprise Risk Management and the Financial Reporting Process: The Experiences of Audit Committee Members, CFOs, and External Auditors (May 30, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444397 “The financial crisis has brought to the forefront the need for companies to effectively manage their risks. One approach that has gained… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Medicare Physical Therapy, Passport Fraud
MEDICARE PHYSICAL THERAPY: Self-Referring Providers Generally Referred More Beneficiaries but Fewer Services per Beneficiary, GAO-14-270: Published: Apr 30, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 2, 2014. STATE DEPARTMENT: Pervasive Passport Fraud Not Identified, but Cases of Potentially Fraudulent and High-Risk Issuances Are under Review, GAO-14-222: Published: May 1, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 2, 2014. Continue Reading
EPA Clean Power Plan Proposed Rule
“On June 2, 2014, EPA proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants. States, cities and businesses across the country are already taking action to address the risks of climate change. EPA’s proposal builds on those actions and is flexible – reflecting that different states have a different mix of sources and… Continue Reading
Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively?
Benjamin Edelman, HBS Working Paper Number: 14-112. May 2014. Via SSRN – http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2436940 “This paper presents a series of incidents in which Google used tying and bundling to expand its dominance in a number of online markets and into additional markets. The author assesses whether these incidents raise concerns under antitrust law, and concludes that they do.… Continue Reading
Business Adapts to a New Style of Computer
Are companies ready for billions of everyday objects to join the Internet? MIT Technology Review – Antonio Regalado on May 20, 2014. “The Internet of things is especially important for companies that sell network equipment, like Cisco Systems. Cisco has been enthusiastically predicting that 50 billion “things” could be connected to communications networks within six years, up from… Continue Reading
