Health care data stumbles on ‘walls’ put up by EMR vendors

Before health care providers can handle "big data," they first need to learn how to deal with small data.

10 startups put ‘civic lens’ on tech to drive change in communities

Points of Light has selected the second class of startups for its civic accelerator program. The program is entirely focused on 'civic ventures' and entrepreneurs working to strengthen communities.

Cloud-based health record company CareCloud reports tripling revenues

CareCloud, a company that offers a cloud-based electronic health record company, says it tripled its growth last year -- helped by the U.S. government mandate that doctors be fully transiitoned to electronic records by 2014. It's the latest example of the tech revolution hitting health care....

GamesBeat weekly roundup: BioShock Infinite delayed, Epic Games president retires, and Kixeye expands to Canada

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Privacy groups to Facebook: Let us vote

Two privacy organizations sent Facebook a letter urging it to reconsider its new stance on passing privacy changes. The company recently announced that it was striking its previous practice of allowing the Facebook community to vote on privacy changes.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

The best Retina Display apps to show off your new iPad

So you’ve got a shiny new iPad — now what? Given that the most significant upgrade this time around is its new Retina Display, we suggest diving into apps that will best show off the high-resolution screen.

Apple has wisely …

Public interest group urges FTC to investigate Facebook for Timeline privacy violations

A prominent public interest group is once again targeting Facebook for questionable privacy practices.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Facebook for its implementation of Timeline, the social networking company’s radical …

Week in review: Meet IBM’s first chip modeled on the human brain

Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain — IBM has been shipping computers for more …