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NHS England Collaborating with U.S. on 'Open' Health IT Solutions
The NHS is spending nearly £300,000 on an exchange programme with the US Veteran’s Health Administration to investigate its use of open source software and telehealth. Read More »
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Open Access in Europe to Big Pharma clinical trial data
When Guido Rasi took charge of Europe’s medicines’ regulator in 2011 he inherited an explosive dossier that is now poised to transform drug development. Read More »
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OpenAIRE
Open Access Infrastrcture for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) aims to support the implementation of 'open access' in Europe. It provides the means to promote and realize the widespread adoption of the Open Access Policy, as set out by the ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access and the Open Access pilot launched by the European Commission.
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Personal Genome Project UK
The Personal Genome Project UK (PGP-UK) is dedicated to creating public UK genome, health, and trait data. Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices—our approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good. Read More »
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Personalised monitoring SYstems for Care in mental HEalth (PSYCHE) Project
The Personalised monitoring SYstems for Care in mental HEalth (PSYCHE) project is focusing on mental diseases management, in particular it is targeting bipolar patients. Read More »
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Portuguese government plan embraces 'open source' solutions
The Portuguese government plan makes it mandatory for public administrations to compare open source and proprietary software solutions, before purchasing technology solutions or services. The plan states that "Government entities should always quantify the total costs of ownership, taking in mind direct and indirect costs". Read More »
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Rapidly Increasing Acceptance of 'Open Source' Software by EU Nations
The news just keeps coming about the widespread acceptance and increasingly rapid deployment and use of 'open source' software solutions by local and national government agencies across the Euriopean Union (EU). Federal, state, and local government agencies in the U.S. might want to pay close attention.For example, read about OpenEyes in the U.K., or Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) software being used in France, or ... Read More »
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Redesigning Health in Europe for 2020
The European Union (EU) eHealth Task Force just released a report entitled "Redesigning Health in Europe for 2020". You can download a copy at from eHealthNews.eu portal at - http://www.ehealthnews.eu/images/stories/pdf/redesigning_health-eu-2020.pdf Read More »
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Spain switches 40,000 PCs to Linux and Open Source software
The Spanish Region of Extremadura has announced that it will switch 40,000 government PCs to open source software. Read More »
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Trends in eHealth Report
The Everest Group Outsourcing Center and Wipro conducted a survey in 2010 that examined current trends and approaches to eHealth initiatives of organizations worldwide. Survey respondents were from five continents and various regions, with the highest percentage of participants from the U.S. (35.6%), Asia (30%), and Europe (17.6%). Read More »
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U.K. Announces National Health Service Information Sharing Strategy
Using information and technology to put people in greater control of their health and care is at the heart of the U.K. Government’s strategy – The Power of Information – announced today. More data about NHS [National Health Service] and social care services is being published to support the public in making meaningful choices based on things like success rates for treatment and infection control. Building on open data already published on NHS Choices and bringing together health and care information from across the internet, a new online portal will give people access to trusted health and care information, wherever it was created.
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U.K. Department of Health: eHealth Information Strategy - 2012
The focus of the U.K. Department of Health's Information Strategy is on: Read More »
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UK Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Achieving an Integrated Digital Care Record
"Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Achieving an Integrated Digital Care Record" lays out the vision and guidance for the UK National Health Service (NHS) and its committment to Transparency`– the safe sharing of data and information between clinicians and with patients – and Participation – supporting patients and the public to take more control of their health and care. Read More »
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OW2 Conference 2011
OW2Con 2011 will be held November 23-24 at Orange Labs' innovative and professional conference site "Issy Innovation Gardens" in Paris-Issy-Les-Moulineaux. The event will offer two days of high-level technical presentations around open source middleware technologies and generic applications. This will be a unique opportunity for attendees and sponsors of the event to meet with peers and network with the international open source community at large.
The program includes technical and business presentations, all sessions will take place in English language. Parallel sessions (BoFs, side events, third parties projects) will complete the program. Among the main novelties that will be included in the OW2Con 2011 program, the "SQUAT" project (Software Quality Assurance and Trustworthiness) is a major one.
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Open Source Scotland 2012
A new and unique digital conference in the heart of Scotland; where agencies, subject matter experts (SME), Chief Technical Officers (CTO) and entrepreneurs meet to discuss new ideas and innovation brought about by the rise of Open Source Software.
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