Lori Mehen

1940 points

Raleigh, NC

Lori Mehen is an Account Manager in Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA and now resides in Durham, NC with her husband and three kids. Lori enjoys water skiing, cooking and car racing.

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Authored Content

Hackteria: Give your old devices new life

An abundance of high tech devices--year-old mobile phones abandoned for the latest iPhone release, low-pixel digital cameras, too-slow gaming devices and other consumer…

Pharma: Start your engines!

In a rare but interesting example of pharma's willingness to look outside its own industry for innovation, GlaxoSmithKline is teaming with Formula 1's McLaren Group in effort…

Digital disruption in pharmacology

Imagine you could take your prescription pill with a microchip attached. And when ingested, the chip sends wireless signals through your body and transmits not only ingestion…

Open source health IT

Healthcare IT is experiencing a revolution, and open source is driving change across the industry. Fundamental principles underpinning the growth of open source from…

Feedback loops are changing health behavior

The premise of a feedback loop is simple: Give people real-time information about their actions, and they're more likely to change those actions for the better. Teague…

Open health with the quantified self

Beyond the walls of our constrained health system, there is a movement that could change the entire context of healthcare. While the US health system struggles to open patient…

Authored Comments

lorimehen

14 Jun 2011

What open source milestones would you commemorate on the technology calendar?

September 27th 1983: Annoyed by a printer that couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld, Richard Stallman at MIT, launched the GNU Project to develop "a sufficient body of free software [...] to get along without any software that is not free."

lorimehen

5 May 2011

Building stronger public schools: problem solved?

I absolutely believe it will work. You instill a desire for learning in a student only once you've built trust. One teacher in the video said, "On a student, I will never give up." It's clear that the students get that, (one student said, "they [teachers] actually care") and so trust these teachers.