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1979 Paper by Epic Systems CEO Judith Faulkner

Tom Munnecke | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica | August 20, 2010

I’m researching a op-ed piece on federal health care software, and am browsing through my old proceedings from the early days of the MUMPS Users Group meetings.  These meetings were quite an entrepreneurial incubator.

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VA Investigates VistA EHR Open Source

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | August 18, 2010

A few months after being urged to embrace open source for its electronic health record system by an industry group, the Veterans Affairs Department says it's investigating the possibility.  VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker reportedly called the industry's group earlier recommendations "good advice" during a recent press call, adding that they are "being incorporated into our thought processes." The recommendations came from the Fairfax, Va.-based Industry Advisory Council.

VA Moves Toward Open Source for Electronic Health Record System

Bob Brewin | NextGov | August 17, 2010

The Veterans Affairs Department asked industry, government agencies and academic researchers last week for insights on using open source software as a key component of a modernized electronic heath record system, a move that could have serious implications for the Obama administration's initiative for adoption of digital medical files nationwide. Read More »

Now We're Talking!

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | August 16, 2010

It's articles like the one recently published in the New York Times that so powerfully demonstrate the value of open source methods, in this case the value of data sharing and collaboration. The article "Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s" says it better than 100 blogivators ever could: Read More »

What do FrontlineSMS and EpiSurveyor Have in Common?

Joel Selanikio | DataDyne | August 13, 2010

Ken Banks, creator of the terrific FrontlineSMS text messaging software, has some great thoughts today on why deep knowledge of on-the-ground circumstances is important to make great software.  And he points out that technologists usually have much lower understanding of development problems than the development specialists who've been studying those problems for years, or the on-the-ground folks who have been working on those problems for years. Read More »

Ministries Collaborate to Improve Healthcare with WorldVistA

United States Forces – Iraq, Deputy Commanding General (Advising and Training) | Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System | August 13, 2010

Representatives from the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Health and the Kurdistan Ministry of Health signed a memorandum of agreement earlier this month that will facilitate the implementation of an integrated, comprehensive health information system.

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Open Source for America Celebrates its First Anniversary with Awards

Andy Updegrove | ConsortiumInfo.Org | August 11, 2010

The mission of OSA is to educate decision makers in the U.S. Federal government about the advantages of using free and open source software; to encourage the Federal agencies to give equal priority to procuring free and open source software in all of their procurement decisions; and generally provide an effective voice to the U.S. Federal government on behalf of the open source software community, private industry, academia, and other non-profits.

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Nokia Data Gathering is Now Open Source

Prabhas Pokharel | MobileActive.org | August 10, 2010

Nokia Data Gathering, a Nokia-built software tool for mobile data collection, recently open-sourced its code. 

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Stephen Aylward to Speak at the “From MICCAI Algorithms to Clinical Translational Tools: The NA-MIC Platform” Tutorial

Press Release | Kitware | August 9, 2010

MICCAI offers a window into the latest scientific achievements in medical image computing and computer assisted interventions which will lead to the next generation of technological breakthroughs for improved clinical care. Read More »

VA Approaches Open Source Day of Reckoning

Dana Blankenhorn | ZDNet Healthcare | August 9, 2010

Long before open source entered the lexicon, the Veterans Administration (VA) was known to techies for VistA, an electronic medical record (EMR) program written in MUMPS that was developed in an open way and published as a public record, freely available.

Now, with MUMPS experts looking increasingly like an opera audience (aging out), the VA is looking to replace VistA. They like the idea of open source, but they have serious questions about things like governance and management of the intellectual property. Read More »

Sustainable & Scalable Rural Primary Healthcare Delivery & Micro Insurance Program Delivered Through Handheld Device by Healthworkers

B. Girish Babu | eHealth | August 8, 2010

A sustainable and scalable healthcare delivery & microinsurance program done
through 50 healthcare workers in a district of Maharashtra covering more than a
lakh of population... Read More »

Capiz Province Embraces Hospital Informatics, Rolls out Electronic Medical Records

Nimrod Firaza, MD | National Telehealth Center | August 8, 2010

The turn-over was part of the Cost-benefit Analysis of Hospital Computerization project of the PanAsia Networking and Coolaboration on eHealth Applications (PANACeA) funded by the International Development Research Centre of Canada. The CBA aimed to quantify the value of automating patient registration vis-a-vis the costs that accompany it. It employed the free and open source  OpenMRS as the software behind the system. Read More »

Kitware Awarded NIH Grant to Improve Lesion Biopsy Using PET-CT Imaging

Press Release | Kitware | August 5, 2010

Kitware has received a one-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $228,458 to improve the clinical effectiveness of liver lesion biopsy using PET-CT imaging. The project will extend the open source Image Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) to enable the fusion of motion corrected PET images with CT images for liver lesion biopsy. Read More »

Kitware Receives $1.07 Million in Stimulus Funds to Further Innovation in the Renowned Insight Toolkit (ITK)

Press Release | Kitware | August 4, 2010

Kitware today announced it has received a $1.07 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to improve the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). A dynamic, self-sustaining, cross-platform, and open source application development framework, ITK is used freely in a multitude of commercial and non-commercial image segmentation and registration programs. Read More »

Experts Available to Discuss Mental Health Providers Excluded From Health IT Incentives

Press Release | Medsphere | August 3, 2010

“Having an interoperable system of electronic health information is critical to achieving greater coordination among addiction, mental health and other health care providers and to helping consumers manage their own health care.”

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