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Latin American Conference on Health Informatics
The health IT community in Latin America will be holding a major conference in Mexico next week. The conference, titled "The Latin-American Conference on Health Informatics" will feature a large number of sessions and workshops on health IT collaboration with an impressive line up of speakers. Read More »
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Open Source mHealth Solutions Spreading Rapidly
There are already over 4 billion mobile devices in use around the world — 64 percent of them are in the hands of people living in emerging market economies — and the numbers are only growing. In the coming decade, innovative mobile health (mHealth) solutions will dramatically change the daily clinical practices of many health care providers and the lives of their patients. Many of these will be open source solutions, e.g. Sana, eMOCHA, JavaROSA. Read More »
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Irish Government Should Emulate Obama's Open Data Strategy
The Irish Government is being called upon to open up all data to citizens and enterprising software developers. By embracing open data principles, open source technology and cloud computing, it is envisaged Ireland could follow in the steps of the U.S. government and European nations like Norway that have embraced open data principles to great success. Read More »
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Baker and Levin to Speak at WorldVistA Meeting
WorldVistA just announced that the VA's CIO, Roger Baker, and its CTO, Dr. Peter Levin, will both be speaking at the community's upcoming meeting in Fairfax, VA. The 23rd VistA Community Meeting will take place at George Mason University May 23-25.
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OSCON Health Track Schedule Released
The schedule for the health track at O'Reilly's 2011 Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, has just been released. This is one of the most important open health conferences this year. There have been some fantastic developments in this area around the world from Africa, to Asia, Latin America, Europe, and here in the U.S..
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VA Releases Custodial Agent RFP
On Friday the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released its long-anticipated Request for Proposal (RFP) for an open source custodial agent. This custodial agent will manage the open source EHR ecosystem for VA's VistA system. Read More »
VeHU Training Site Pilot Opens April 26
Huge news for the VistA community. The VA's eHealth University will be launching a pilot for a new training web site on April 26. The site, MyVeHUCampus, will feature the VistA-based Health IT training materials available to the VA staff. Read More »
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RPMS Awarded Meaningful Use Certification
One of the most poorly-funded federal agencies, the Indian Health Service (IHS), has defied the odds once again and it has become the first federal agency to have its health information system certified for Meaningful Use.
IHS Director Yvette Roubideaux announced “the Indian Health Service is very proud to be the first federal agency to earn this certification, which is based on industry standards.” She emphasized that RPMS will “help us provide quality health care delivery to patients in the Indian health system,” adding that the “monetary incentives made available by this certification will also benefit IHS, tribal, and urban Indian health facilities.”
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Top 'Open' Health IT Picks for 2011
Based on number of users, community support, quality of software, and longevity, the following 'open source' health information technology (HIT) systems have risen to the top of our HITS List for 2011. Check them out –
caBIG CARE2X ClearHealth Epi Info FreeMed Globus Toolkit
iPath Mirth OpenClinica Open Dental OpenEMR OpenMRS
OpenHRE OSCAR RODS RPMS VistA WHO HealthMAPPER
*For more information on other 'open source' and 'public domain' health IT software solutions, go to OHN Resources
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RFP to Open Source VA VistA
The VA has released a draft RFP to create a new open source project around their electronic health record (EHR) system known as VistA. This is a landmark event for both the VA and the open source community. The need for cheap and robust EHR systems is clear, and the VA has one of the leading platforms out there. Stay tuned. Read More »
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