News

Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

See the following -

Why One Medicare Pioneer ACO Succeeded In Saving Money

Jessica Zigmond | ModernHealthcare.com | July 16, 2013

How did Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization meet Medicare's cost targets and receive substantial shared savings in the first year of the Medicare Pioneer accountable care organization experiment? Read More »

Why One-third of Hospitals Will Close by 2020

David Houle and Jonathan Fleece | KevinMD.com | March 15, 2012

Despite a history of strength and stature in America, the hospital institution is in the midst of massive and disruptive change. Such change will be so transformational that by 2020 one in three hospitals will close or reorganize into an entirely different type of health care service provider. Several significant forces and factors are driving this inevitable and historical shift.

Read More »

Why Online Book Discovery Is Broken (And How To Fix It)

Laura Hazard Owen | paidContent | January 17, 2013

Here’s the main problem with book discovery online: Right now, it doesn’t really work. New research shows that frequent book buyers visit sites like Pinterest and Goodreads regularly, but those visits fail to drive actual book purchases. Read More »

Why Open Access Makes No Sense

Robin Osborne | The Guardian | July 8, 2013

There can be no such thing as free access to academic research, says Robin Osborne in Debating Open Access essays – research is a process that universities teach and charge for Read More »

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules For Licensing Data And Models

Antony J. Williams, John Wilbanks, and Sean Ekins | PLoS Computational Biology | September 27, 2012

As we see a future of increased database integration, the licensing of the data may be a hurdle that hampers progress and usability. We have formulated four rules for licensing data for open drug discovery, which we propose as a starting point for consideration by databases and for their ultimate adoption. Read More »

Why Open Source Drug Discovery Needs A “Champion”

Sean Ekins | Collaborative Chemistry | April 5, 2013

Yesterday I attended the Southeast Venture Philanthropy Summit held in Chapel Hill. Attendees included VC, philanthropy types, disease foundations (big and small), bioscience organizations, scientists from all over the country... Read More »

Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron

Cade Metz | Wired | January 24, 2013

“It’s time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club,” said Jonathan Heiliger, “and demystify the way these things are built.” It was April 2011, and Heiliger — the man who oversaw all the hardware driving Facebook’s online empire — was announcing the creation of something Facebook called the Open Compute Project. Read More »

Why Open Source Isn't The Same As Free

Matthew Todd and Abdi Ismail | The Guardian | August 14, 2013

In this week's letters, the science lead at Open Source Malaria explains the semantics of collaborative drug discovery Read More »

Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing

I think there are inexorable forces that will elevate open-source software to widespread acceptance, and eventually dominance, in the scientific computing market. For some time now I have harbored a secret belief that this is true, but when customers and scientific computing professionals start saying the same thing, it’s time to pay careful attention. Key forces will be...

Read More »

Why Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation

April Burbank | Forbes | July 25, 2012

Open sourced software has proven that proprietary ownership often precludes innovation — and that with proper organization and oversight, you can trust the wisdom of the masses. But what does open sourcing look like in health care, government or everyday situations where there is no software code?

Read More »

Why OpenFlow Is The Next Big Thing

Paul Venezia | InfoWorld | July 1, 2013

The networking revolution has begun, and it's going to be good for (almost) everyone Read More »

Why Patients Will Soon Be Treated Like Valued Customers

John Casey | Axial Exchange | February 4, 2013

Why should hospitals and physicians get serious about the patient experience today? It’s good business! Read More »

Why PC Sales Are In Free Fall

George Ou | InformationWeek | April 11, 2013

The latest IDC report has some alarming news for Microsoft and the PC industry. Personal Computer sales are in free fall due to lack of hardware and software innovation. Not only has Microsoft Windows 8 failed to save the PC industry, the hated operating system (OS) has actually harmed PC sales. The PC industry has its share of blame with the failed tablet launch. Read More »

Why Procurement Professionals Need To Get Open Source Savvy

Phil Marshall | Open Source Delivers | June 3, 2013

Procurement’s primary role is to obtain goods and services in response to business needs.  When it comes to commercial software, procurement has long played an active role working with development teams to meet their needs for code... Read More »

Why Proprietary Big Data Technologies Have No Hope Of Competing With Hadoop

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | October 28, 2013

Big Data is not new. For decades companies have been leveraging massive data warehouses and other proprietary Big Data tools to optimize business processes, improve customer targeting and more. That, however, was the problem: proprietary. Today Big Data is so big precisely because it's so open... Read More »