Open Health News – Most Popular News Stories in 2013

Open Health News (OHNews) opened for business back in January 2011. Over the past three years, the OHNews web site has grown exponentially. We have now have had over 140,000 unique readers visit OHNews and have had over 7 million hits on our site – and the numbers continue to grow.

As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'Open Health' movement continues to grow and strengthen.  The following is a quick review of the most popular articles, feature stories, blogs, and news clips posted on the OHN web site based on the number of readers viewing them. Here are the results:

Top Ten OHN News Articles

• MaineHealth Facing Financial Debacle due to Proprietary EHR Install
• VistA rivals Epic and Cerner in major deployments of EHR systems
• Burlington Hospital to Acquire Costly Proprietary EHR System
• OpenEMR & Ophthalmologist's Meaningful Use Attestation
• Emerging GIS Map of Healthcare Sites Using VistA EHR Systems
• Petition to have DoD adopt the EHR used by the VA posted on the White House web site
• It's Going to be Huge! Google Glass, Open Source, & Healthcare
• OpenEMR v.4.1.2 - Planned Release
• Open Source EHR Systems Implemented Across Oklahoma and Beyond
• Open Source EHR Systems Spreading Across Hawaii and the Pacific Rim

Top Ten Feature Stories

• VistA as an EHR System Core for DoD
• EHR Systems & Cost Transparency in the Healthcare Industry
• Oroville Hospital’s Scheduler: a winning technology
• Case Study: MD Anderson Successfully Implements Tools to Migrate Clinical Research Data from MUMPS to Oracle
• VistA, AHLTA, CHCS: An Evolving Alternative Roadmap to the Future
• Health IT Innovation? Not Without Open Platforms
• Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
• VHA Providing EHR Training for Health Professional across the U.S.
• Mobile Health IT Solutions for Healthier Aging
• HealtheMe: Personal Health Record & Wellness Management System

Top Ten Blog Posts

• 'Open Systems' for Consumers Comparison Shopping for Healthcare
• An 'Open' Hospital Chargemaster System is Needed
• My Updated 2013 List of 'Open Source' Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
• HIMSS 2013: Open Source 'Best Practices' in the Federal Sector
• The Value of EHR Interoperability that Money Can't Buy
• Electronic Health Record (EHR) Infographic by HealthIT.Gov
• OSEHRA Summit 2013 Shines, even as DoD Shuns the Summit
• Lessons Learned from Implementations of 'Open' EHR Systems
• WHO Global Health Observatory & Other 'Open Data' Resources
• Disturbing new Microsoft Office strategy

Top Ten News Clips

• Overview of Open Source and VistA in the UK's National Health Service (NHS)
• Nurses Warn Epic EHR Causes Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at E. Bay Hospitals
• Bi-directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE) between VA & DoD
• Burlington Hospital expansion includes buying a $160 million EHR System
• An Electronic Medical Records Mess
• Tax Evasion? Greeks protests banning of open source in hospitals
• Open Source Software Cuts Costs for Startups
• Big Data tying knots in HIT workforce
• The Staggering Cost of an Epic Electronic Health Record Might Not Be Worth It
• Real-World Raspberry Pi

We look forward to seeing what will catch the attention of our readers in 2014. On behalf of all the staff at Open Health News (OHN), we want to thank you for coming to our site and supporting us.

Roger Maduro
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Open Health News (OHN)