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University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Selects DSS to Provide EHR, Mental Health Solutions for Behavioral Health Department
Proven EHR technology based on an open source platform will streamline documentation and improve patient care for the state-wide behavioral health facility.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey– University Behavioral HealthCare (UBHC) today announced that is has selected Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS, Inc.) to provide the vxVistA electronic health records (EHR) system and integrated clinical mental health technology in addition to other modules that will enhance the performance of vxVistA. Read More »
Kitware Awarded $600K NIH Grant to Advance Neurosurgical Simulation
Kitware has received a two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling more than $600,000 to focus research efforts on developing approach-specific, multi-GPU, multi-tool, high-realism neurosurgery simulation. Read More »
Software is a Renewable Military Resource
Software is the fabric that enables planning, weapons and logistics systems to function: it might be the only infinitely renewable military resource. In particular, DoD must have a software environment that is easily adaptable to changing mission needs; this software must also evolve at lower cost and be delivered rapidly so it can be used when it is needed.
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Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government
This article summarizes when the U.S. federal government or its contractors may publicly release, as open source software (OSS), software developed with government funds. This article is intended for non-lawyers, to help them understand the basic rules they must follow.
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ONC Awards $60M for Health IT "Breakthroughs'
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT today announced $60 million in grant awards to four advanced research institutions to promote "breakthrough research" and innovative methods to solve health IT challenges.
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Pushing the Government Toward Open Source
A new not-for-profit lobbying group, Open Source for America (OSFA), is knocking on United States federal agency doors and reminding purchasers that there are often open-source alternatives available to satisfy government software needs.
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Medsphere Provides Enhanced Functionality and Crucial Interoperability in OpenVista 2.0
Meds Application, an Integral Part of OpenVista 2.0, To Be Showcased at HIMSS
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of Open Source healthcare IT solutions, today announced significant enhancements and upgrades to OpenVista, the company's flagship electronic health record (EHR). The improvements to OpenVista, based on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA system, bring the EHR in line with the expectations of the commercial healthcare market without escalating the cost. Read More »
Experts Available to Discuss Technology Helps Nurses Give Better Care
The effort to create a Nursing Minimum Data Set, the first attempt to standardize the collection of essential nursing data across care settings, will transform nursing. That's the contention of nursing informatics expert Roy L. Simpson, RN, C, FNAP, FAAN.
How Can a Community Organization Tap Into the Health Dev Craze?
I recently met A. Toni Young, founder and executive director of the Community Education Group here in Washington, DC. She has big dreams for harnessing the power of her clients’ health data but few resources to make the dreams come true.
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Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital Implements OpenVista EHR to Promote Patient Safety
Top psychiatric hospital goes live with open-source health IT solution and contributes best practice treatment protocols to Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem
Silver Hill Hospital and Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced the successful implementation of Medsphere’sOpenVista® electronic health record solution at the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital. Read More »
Columbia Basin Hospital Outsources IT Support to Phoenix Health Systems; Phoenix to Implement Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record
Affordable open-source-plus-IT-outsourcing solution will enable critical access hospital to automate clinical and recordkeeping processes, integrate EHR across multiple facilities and achieve meaningful use in time to qualify for federal stimulus funds Read More »
New Online Tool Helps Hospitals Calculate Health IT Stimulus Dollars Available to Fund EHR
Medsphere’s ‘Stimulus ROI Calculator’ makes estimating federal stimulus dollars and date of return on electronic health record investment free, easy
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open-source healthcare IT solutions, today unveiled a new Stimulus ROI Calculator designed to help hospitals make more informed, financially sound health IT decisions. Read More »
Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?
If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs. Read More »
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FHA Flexes Connectivity in HIMSS Demonstrations
The FHA was a part of an interoperability showcase set up at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference this week, which FHA program manager Vish Sankaran said was evidence of the arrival of "a new era of collaboration and innovation." Read More »
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers See Promise for VA in Open-Source Software
The Veterans Affairs Department—and quite possibly the world—would benefit from establishing an open-source software development program to carry forward with the 33 years of software development that created the VA's VistA electronic health-record system, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have concluded.