For those of us of a certain age, a "Kodak moment" connotes a special event that should be captured by a photo, presumably on Kodak film. For younger generations, the term probably doesn't mean anything, because they don't know what Kodak is and have never seen film. That's why, for some, "Kodak moment" has come to suggest a turning point when big companies and even entire industries can become obsolete. Health care could soon be at such a point. Anthony Jenkins, a former CEO of Barclay's, recently warned that banks could face a Kodak moment soon...
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Germany's Healthcare System Is Using This Open Source Standard For Encrypted Instant Messaging
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet | ZDNet | July 23, 2021
A fast-growing open communication platform has been picked by the German healthcare system to support instant messaging between health professionals and organizations across the country. Called Matrix, the platform will provide German developers with the infrastructure, tools and protocols to build custom-made applications that will let up to 150,000 healthcare organizations securely share messages, data, images and files.
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Health Care's Kodak Moment
By Kim Bellard | July 24, 2017
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How to Use Content Marketing To Promote Open Source Projects
By Will Kelly | October 15, 2021
Both startups and more established firms are increasingly turning to content marketing as a way of reaching prospective customers. However, corporate marketers often consider the open source software (OSS) community a challenge to reach. This article features ways your technology and content marketing teams can work together to target and reach the community around an OSS project your organization supports.
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Hyperledger Wraps Up 2016 By Welcoming Eight New Members
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Hyperledger |
December 28, 2016
Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that eight new members have joined the project to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications. Last month, Hyperledger announced it reached 100 active members in less than one year, a huge milestone for the open source project, hosted by The Linux Foundation...
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IBM Accelerates Open Database-as-a-Service on IBM Power Systems
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IBM |
May 24, 2017
IBM today announced a new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) toolkit on Power Systems optimized for open source databases, including MongoDB, EDB PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, Neo4j, and Apache Cassandra to help deliver more speed, control, and efficiency for enterprise developers and IT departments. The new platform gives database administrators and developers the ability to easily deploy a fully configured private cloud with automated provisioning for open source database services...
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New Paper from American Medical Informatics Association Details How to ‘Cross the Health IT Chasm’
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American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) |
April 5, 2017
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) held a briefing today on Capitol Hill to unveil the findings and recommendations from a new paper, detailing ways that policymakers should focus on liberating data for patients, improving interoperability for clinicians, and enhancing the capacity for research and innovation to impact patient care. The paper, “Crossing the Health IT Chasm: Considerations and Policy Recommendations to Overcome Current Challenges and Enable Value-based Care,” is published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) in tandem with the briefing...
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Open Source Recognized As A Key Economic Pillar In European Union Study
By James Lovegrove | October 28, 2021
A September 2021 study on the economic impact of open source software and hardware concluded that open source technologies injected EUR 65-95 billion into the European economy. This study is timely given the current rollout of the European Union's EUR 750 billion recovery investment, which has allotted 20% for digital transformation. Growing political efforts to understand and quantify the importance of open source in realizing EU digital sovereignty accentuate the study's significance. The European Union sponsored the study, which was written by Fraunhofer ISI and OpenForum Europe.
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Regarding Open Source, Security, and Cloud Migration, Old Prejudices Die Hard in Health Care
By Andy Oram | August 7, 2019
Although the health care industry has made great strides in health IT, large numbers of providers remain slow to reap the benefits of a “digital transformation”. Health care organizations focus on what they get paid for and neglect other practices that would improve care and security. At conferences and meetings year and after year, I have to listen to health care leaders tediously explode the same myths and explain the same principles over and over. In this article I'll concentrate on the recent EXPO.health conference, put on in Boston by John Lynn's Healthcare Scene, where the topics of free and open source EHRs, security, and cloud migration got mired down in rather elementary discussions.
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Rivet Logic Customer AvMed Honored with 2016 Liferay Pulse Award for Best Omnichannel Experience
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Rivet Logic Corporation |
November 2, 2016
Rivet Logic Corporation, a leading consulting and systems integration firm focused on helping major enterprises build riveting digital experiences with leading open source and cloud-based software, announced that its customer, AvMed, has received a Liferay Pulse Award in the category of Best Omnichannel Experience. Presented during the 2016 Liferay Symposium North America, Liferay’s Pulse Awards are designed to distinguish the people and companies behind innovative and creative solutions built using Liferay Portal. The Customer Awards reward companies on the unique ways they are using Liferay to transform the way they do business...
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Why 2017 Will Belong to Open Source
Staff Writer | ETCIO.com | January 18, 2017
A few years ago, open source was the less-glamourous and low-cost alternative in the enterprise world, and no one would have taken the trouble to predict what its future could look like. Fast-forward to 2016, many of us will be amazed by how open source has become the de facto standard for nearly everything inside an enterprise. Open source today is the primary engine for innovation and business transformation. Cost is probably the last reason for an organisation to go in for open source...
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OpenStack Days: Silicon Valley 2016
In its third year, OpenStack Silicon Valley features thought leadership keynotes from open source infrastructure disruptors and IT leaders for Fortune 1000 enterprises on the edge of digital transformation. The event format features keynotes and deep dives on the main stage, with sponsored breakouts that go into specific solutions and technologies driving the agile revolution. OpenStack Silicon Valley is a community event, with ways for community members of every size to participate. Join us in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum on August 9-10...
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