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Kitware Sponsors Tutorial Contest at Summer 2010 NA-MIC Project Week

Press Release | Kitware | June 29, 2010

Kitware, sponsors of the Tutorial Contest at the 11th NA-MIC PROJECT WEEK, would like to congratulation the winners of the Winter 2010 NA-MIC Tutorial Contest!

1st Prize for End User Tutorial: $400
Robot-assisted MRI-guided prostate biopsy
Andras Lasso, Junichi Tokuda, Nobuhiko Hata, Gabor Fichtinger, Queen's University Read More »

Setting Free the Data Sets

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | June 27, 2010

With the announcement last month of its Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI), HHS has begun to pry the doors off some of its information storage sheds, inviting developers of Web services, mobile phone apps and social media to have at the data in the hopes it will yield tools and services that help the public make better decisions about their healthcare.

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Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

Bo-Christer Björk, Patrik Welling, Mikael Laakso, Peter Majlender, Turid Hedlund, Guðni Guðnason | PloS One | June 23, 2010

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Executive Spotlight: Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat U.S. Public Sector

Camille Tuutti | ExecutiveBiz | June 23, 2010

Like many other IT professionals, Gunnar Hellekson’s interest in computers was born at an early age, but it was not until college he received formal training in the field.  About four or five years ago, he[...] ended up working at Red Hat U.S. Public Sector as a chief technology strategist.

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Medsphere: New ONC EHR Certification Program ‘Levels Playing Field for Open Source’

Press Release | Medsphere, ONC Certification | June 22, 2010

Enables Hospitals to Affordably Achieve Meaningful Use of Health IT and Improve Care Read More »

Enabling ParaView Interaction with ITK and Slicer

Staff | Kitware Blog | June 18, 2010

A joint project by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Imaging Science, under Michael Miller, and Kitware, under Will Schroeder, is leading to new functionality in ParaView, to facilitate its use by JHU in order to empower its Computational Anatomy research. Read More »

A Classification Analysis of the Success of Open Source Health Information Technology Projects

Evangelos Katsamakas, et. al. | Information Resources Management Association | June 15, 2010
As the number of open source software (OSS) projects in healthcare grows rapidly, researchers are faced with the challenge of understanding and explaining the success of the open source phenomenon.

Here Come the Healthcare Apps

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | June 11, 2010

The potential for private enterprise to provision services using open data from the Community Health Data Initiative could match the billions of dollars made when the government unlocked GPS and NOAA weather data....

Sebelius delivered her remarks to both an online audience at HHS.gov/open and the collection of government officials, technologists and researchers gathered at the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science. Her speech is embedded below. Read More »

Trip to Kenya Furthers Several HRIS Initiatives

Carol Bales | Global HRIS Strengthening | June 9, 2010

CapacityPlus software developer, Carl Leitner, recently traveled to Kenya to advance HR information system (HRIS) strengthening initiatives, including furthering regional support of the iHRIS software, fostering collaboration with other health information systems (HIS) implementers in the region, and gathering feedback for future HRIS-related trainings.

In Nairobi, Carl met with representatives Read More »

Predicting Drug Toxicity from Integrated Data and Services on the Life Science Semantic Web

Michel Dumontier | 2011 Semantic Technology Conference | June 9, 2010

Modern drug discovery requires access to machine-understandable data that can be searched, retrieved, and subsequently analyzed using a wide array of analytical software and services.  In this presentation, I will demonstrate the prediction of chemical toxicity through a set of SADI-compliant semantic web services[...]

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Kitware and Lung Cancer Alliance Announce the First Publicly Available Lung Cancer Database Created Through Patient Data Donations

Press Release | Kitware, Lung Cancer Alliance | June 8, 2010

Patients participated in the Give A Scan pilot program to collect and contribute their CT image datasets and patient history records to an open image archive; the data is now freely downloadable to help research efforts geared toward understanding, detecting and treating lung cancer Read More »

Open Source Project Looks for Better TB Treatments

Lisa Hoover | O Static | June 8, 2010

India's Open Source Drug Discovery(OSDD) collective is the driving force behind the Connect 2 Decode project that aims to pool research data and create a central repository accessible by any one organization in the world that's doing TB research of its own.

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Open Source for America to Measure Openness and Transparency Across U.S. Federal Government Agencies

Press Release | Open Source for America | June 8, 2010

Open Source for America (OSFA), an organization of technology industry leaders, non-government associations and academic and research institutions promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. Federal government, announced today its sponsorship of a study to measure openness in government. 

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Making the Case for VA’s Transformative Use of Health IT as Cure for What Ails Healthcare

Press Release | Medsphere, Philip Longman | June 8, 2010

Author Phillip Longman takes ‘Best Care Anywhere’ message on the road in June, champions VistA/OpenVista as nation’s best hope for improving healthcare while controlling costs


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Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open-source health IT solutions, announced a series of June events designed to educate healthcare providers, researchers, administrators and IT professionals about an often-overlooked national treasure. Read More »

Open Source: 'One of the last great challenges'

Mike Miliard | Health IT News | June 2, 2010

"I think open source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy," software pioneer Linus Torvald, who developed the "kernel" that's the basis of the Linux operating system, has said. "Like science, open source allows people to build on a solid base of previous knowledge…. It's just a superior way of working together." Read More »