Education innovation will require scalable, national, open, interoperable systems that support data feedback loops.

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Tizen and Ubuntu also use HTML5 in their development, something that should allow applications on both operating systems to be interoperable.

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So, many of the funds went to improve existing systems that are not interoperable with other responders.

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Schmidt rattled off that 80% of doctors offices are not computerized, and even large health care organizations have closed systems that are not interoperable.

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By funding a modernized Patriot, our military will own a system that is interoperable with many other missile defense systems in our own arsenal and in the arsenals of our allies, allowing the United States to maximize its threat response capability.

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