Removing Barriers to Medical Devices for Users with Impairments

Removing barriers to insulin use.

Patients with type 2 diabetes and their physicians are often reluctant to begin insulin therapy--despite evidence of its efficacy. Here's help in overcoming this other form of "insulin resistance."

Barriers to innovation in the field of medical devices MedicAl devices : MAnAging the Mismatch

Removing barriers to global pandemic influenza vaccination.

This article clarifies the regulatory issues surrounding influenza pandemic vaccine for the larger policy community and describes the need for regulatory harmonization. Vaccination would save lives in an influenza pandemic, but a lack of global manufacturing capacity will leave most of the world without access to vaccine. Capacity can be expanded if governments harmonize their regulatory polici...

Removing barriers for citizen participation to urban innovation

The potential of open data as a resource for driving citizen-led urban innovation relies not only on a suitable technical infrastructure but also on the skills and knowledge of the citizens themselves. This paper describes how a smart city project in Milton Keynes, UK, is supporting multiple stages of citizen innovation, from ideation through to citizen-led smart city projects. This approach en...

New Architectures for Identity Management — Removing Barriers to Adoption∗

In recent years a large number of identity management systems have been proposed. Unfortunately, although these systems offer the possibility of significantly improving user security, they have not been widely adopted, typically because the cost of adoption is too high for the involved parties. In this talk we consider the problem of designing identity management systems which offer security ad...