OHNews Weekly Summary - 7/6/2013

July 6, 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.

OHNews-News & Blog Posts

• EHR Systems & Cost Transparency in the Healthcare Industry
• Minnesota & Great Lake States using VistA & Other Open Source EHR Systems
• VHA Quietly Provides EHR Training to Physicians in the U.S.
• Open Letter to Chuck Hagel: DoD still doesn’t know what the hell they are doing
• Open Source Software creeps into Healthcare through Clinical Research
• VHA Joins 'OpenNotes' Effort for EHR & PHR Systems

Selected News Clips

• OpenMRS Contributor of the Month works on Rwanda eHealth Systems
• Dramatic Growth of Open Access
• England's NHS looks to U.S. for guidance on 'Open Source' EHR Software
• OpenClinica selected for use in Clinical Trials by Cancer InCITe
• CLIR Announces Report on Open Access to Images at Museums
• NHS in England to fund 'NHS VistA' Projects
• Johns Hopkins Releases 'Open Source' Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES)
• Breaking the Seal on Drug Research

To see other OHN News, Feature Stories, Calendar of Events, Resources, and more - go to the Open Health News (OHN) Home Page.

Roger Maduro
Publisher & Managing Editor, Open Health News