Open Health News (OHN) Weekly Summary - 12/21/2013

December 21, 2013 - The following is a brief listing of some of the hot news items, selected news clips, feature stories, and blogs posted on Open Health News (OHNews) over the past week that we believe will be of interest to our readers across the U.S. and around the world. We've also included links to some upcoming open source and health IT conferences and events.

Some of the key themes dominating the news this week involved:

  • Reporting on the continued growth of the 'Internet of Things (IoT), also known as the 'Internet of Everything (IoE)'
  • The battle that is heating up between publishers and the global 'Open Access' movement and community
  • Ongoing news about a wide range of innovative 'Open Health' activity and solutions from across the U.S. and around the world.

Roger Maduro
Publisher & Managing Editor, Open Health News

 

Headlines

OHN News, Features & Blog Posts

Selected News Clips

 

Brief Abstracts of Selected News Stories

Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH) Clinician Registry

Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH) strives to offer the most up-to-date information on integrative medicine in mental health, practical clinical solutions, and now provides 'open access' to a new clinician registry of healthcare professionals supportive of the integrative medicine approach. Integrative medicine for mental health involves a whole body approach utilizing multiple fields of traditional medicine, including medications, psychotherapy, nutritional sciences, dietary interventions, and more. Read More »

OpenMRS v.1.9.7 now available

OpenMRS 1.9.7 has been released. This is a maintenance release for OpenMRS 1.9.x which fixes a number of known bugs.  Over 650 downloads of OpenMRS were logged during the first week after it was released.  Approximately 20% of the downloads were from the country of Sri Lanka. For download instructions and details on this release, have a look at the release notes. Read More »

Five 'open source' community management tips for 2014

Jason Hibbets | OpenSource.com | December 17, 2013

"Every year, the art and science of community management is becoming more predictable," said Jono Bacon, the Community Leadership Summit 2013 lead organizer. Read More »

New Report Shows Europe Needs More Strategic High-Tech Investment

Editor | eHealthNews | December 16, 2013

Europe remains a main knowledge production centre of the world, but lags behind North America and Asia in fast-growing technologies of the future. This is a key conclusion of the latest Innovation Union Competitiveness Report. Read More »

Google to co-head 'open source' patent defense alliance

Roger Parloff | CNN Money | December 18, 2013

The Open Invention Network (OIN), a consortium of major technology companies formed in 2005 to minimize patent-aggression against free and open-source software projects Read More »

Elsevier Clamps Down On Academics Posting Their Own Papers Online

Olivia Solon | Wired | December 17, 2013

Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. Read More »

Enunciation On Open Access: The Practitioners’ Perspective

Dimitris Parperis | JEPS Bulletin | December 15, 2013

A continually  growing body of student organizations, as well as scientists, have been advocating for an Open Access to scientific publications. The European Federation of Psychology Students Associations (EFPSA) has been part of this effort for a long time and this blog hosts an extensive cover of the numerous aspects of the Open Access initiative... Read More »

Congress Demands No More iEHR Delays

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | December 16, 2013

The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense have come under fire this past year over their botched development of the integrated electronic health record system, which resulted in a go-live pushback and a doubling of overall costs. The myriad implementation setbacks have prompted Congress to finally put its foot down. Read More »

NY Health Data Transparency Draws Journalists, Researchers and Coders

Miranda Neubauer | TechPresident | December 17, 2013

New York transparency advocates are praising the state's leadership role in making health data accessible Read More »

Argentina Passes Open Access Act For Publicly Funded Research

Maximiliano Marzetti | Intellectual Property Watch | December 16, 2013

The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access. Read More »

The Growth of the 'Internet of Things (IoT)' & 'Open Health'

The numbers are staggering. Gartner predicts that the total economic value add for the Internet of Things (IoT), also known as the Internet of Everything (IoE), will be $1.9 trillion dollars in 2020, spread across all industries – especially in healthcare. McKinsey Global Institute pegs the potential economic impact at $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion by 2025. IDC put the Internet of things technology and services spending at $4.8 trillion in 2012 and expects the market to be $8.9 trillion in 2020.  Cisco Systems has published a white paper entitled "Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion".  Key to this rapidly evolving market are open standards and open source technology. Read More »

'Internet of Things (IoT)' morphing into the 'Internet of Everything (IoE)'

The numbers are staggering.  Gartner predicts that the total economic value add for the Internet of Things (IoT)will be $1.9 trillion dollars in 2020, spread across all industries – especially in healthcare. McKinsey Global Institute pegs the potential economic impact at $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion by 2025. IDC put the Internet of things technology and services spending at $4.8 trillion in 2012 and expects the market to be $8.9 trillion in 2020.  Cisco Systems has published a white paper entitled "Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion". Key to this rapidly evolving market are open standards and open source technology. Read More »

How The “Internet Of Things” Will Replace The Web

Christopher Mims | Quartz | December 15, 2013

We’ve already written about why 2014 is really, finally the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth—becomes visible in our everyday lives. Read More »

Here’s The One Thing Someone Needs To Invent Before The Internet Of Things Can Take Off

Christopher Mims | Quartz | December 17, 2013

As Quartz has already reported, the Internet of Things is already here, and in the not too distant future it will replace the web. Many enabling technologies have arrived which will make the internet of things ubiquitous, and thanks to smartphones, the public is finally ready to accept that it will become impossible to escape from the internet’s all-seeing eye. Read More »

The NSA's other victim: U.S. business competitiveness

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | December 20, 2013

This week, a review panel commissioned by the White House determined that the NSA needs reining in to prevent overreaching and damaging America. Read More »

Healthcare Breach Prediction 2014: 'A Perfect Storm'

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | December 17, 2013

Get ready, because data breaches are expected to rise in 2014, especially in the healthcare industry. New security threats and regulations that call for more transparency will be partly to blame. Read More »