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LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/25/12 -- MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of Personal Health Records ("PHR"), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals, today announced that The MichaelBassGroup ("MBG"), a leading investment banking and strategic advisory services firm (www.michaelbass.com), issued a special report January 20, 2012 (http://michaelbass.com/PDF/JAN20MMRF.pdf) citing the global market for Personal Health Records at $19 billion, and focusing on the patents issued, pending and owned by MyMedicalRecords, Inc., the Company's wholly owned-subsidiary, in connection with a METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE MEDICAL RECORDS, and a METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE RECORDS. In their report, MBG valued these patents at a minimum of $300 million t... (more)

Physical libraries in a digital world

I’m at the final meeting of a Harvard course on the future of libraries, led by John Palfrey and Jeffrey Schnapp. They have three guests in to talk about physical library space. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned, people. David Lamberth lays out an idea as a provocation. He begins by pointing out that until the beginning of the 20th century, a library was not a... (more)

BridgeHead Software Research Reveals: Healthcare IT Professionals Investing in Electronic Patient Record Systems Resiliency

BridgeHead CEO says Vendor-Agnostic Healthcare Data Management (HDM) and Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) Can Make IT Managers' EPR Resiliency Dreams a Reality World of Health IT, Barcelona - 15th March 2010 - Preliminary results from the BridgeHead Software Data Management Healthcheck survey suggest health IT managers are looking for resilient solutions for managing their electronic patient record (EPR) systems that can grow and evolve as their organisations' storage needs change over time. Respondents to the survey, which is still underway at http://www.bridgeheadsoftw... (more)

The Phenomenon Called Facebook

Are you old enough to remember the 1982-1993 TV show Cheers and its theme song lyrics by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo? “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came; you want to be where you can see, our troubles are all the same; you want to be where everybody knows your name.” Now imagine the creation of that same kind of community feel, but instead of inside a common location of physicality put the community within the confines of an electronic screen and you have the popular phenomenon of Facebook. “We believe that Facebook represe... (more)

Publishers and Authors Ask to Delay Google Hearing to Negotiate New Settlement

Publisher and author associations sought today to cancel a key hearing in the Google Books case to allow private negotiations with Google over digitizing books online. Consumer Watchdog warned that important issues affecting copyright law should not be negotiated behind closed doors. Notice of the motion was filed in U.S. District Court today after the Department of Justice raised objections to the proposed Google Books deal late last Friday. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Consumer Watchdog had also filed an amicus brief opposing the settlement. A hearing was scheduled before Judge ... (more)