News Clips

HIStalk Interviews Todd Park, athenahealth Co-Founder

Tim HISTalk | HISTalk | September 15, 2008

...I think healthcare is incredibly broken. I can’t think of a word that does justice to how broken it is at so many levels. I think we all intellectually understand that, but it was really eye-opening for me in my walkabout when I talked to these 150 leaders, to understand just how broken it is looking at the underlying data in terms of cost and quality and access. Read More »

"Another Walter Reed-Type Scandal"

Niko Karvounis | Mother Jones | September 14, 2008

Soldiers at the military hospital languished in part due to incompatible databases and dismal record keeping. Welcome to the Pentagon's $20 billion medical-records boondoggle. Read More »

Make China Journals Open Access, Says Top Scientist

Jia Hepeng | SciDev.Net | September 2, 2008

A leading Chinese scientist has appealed for funding to make many Chinese journals open access and give priority to domestic science publications to boost the country's scientific journals.

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The New Invisible College: Science For Development

Francis Fukuyama | Brookings | August 1, 2008

The twentieth century was the era of "big science." Driven by strategic rivalries and fierce economic competition, wealthy governments invested heavily in national science establishments. [...] But the big science model left poorer countries out in the cold. Today the organization of science is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Read More »

Taking On The Overpopulation Myth

Joseph A. D'Agnostino | Washington Times | July 27, 2008

[...] This one quote from Steven W. Mosher’s “Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits,” from the former secretary of the Kenyan Medical Association, summarizes the state of Western-funded population control programs in the Third World... Read More »

Military Health System Seeks Options for AHLTA

Peter Buxbaum | Federal Computer Week | July 23, 2008

The Military Health System is actively pursuing alternatives to AHLTA, its electronic medical record system.  MHS officials have already received the recommendations of Booz Allen Hamilton, the consultant it commissioned to study whether the Defense Department should switch to a system that more closely resembles the Veterans Affairs Department’s Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA).

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Lilly’s Grid Goes Open Source

Kevin Davies | BioITWorld.com | July 14, 2008

 In an unusual move for big pharma, Eli Lilly has made its Discovery IT platform—known internally as the Lilly Science Grid (LSG)—open source . . . The move addresses a key question: “Do [biopharma] all really need to manage very similar resources or are there areas where we can work together?” . . . Says, Susie Stephens, principal research scientist with Lilly. Read More »

ONC: Open Source is Key to Agencies' NHIN Connections

Nancy Ferris | Government HealthIT | May 1, 2008

Federal agencies' shared connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network will be open, flexible and extensible -- characteristics that could make it useful to organizations outside the federal government in the future, Federal Health Architecture officials told a conference audience here yesterday. Read More »

Open-source Software Delivers 3-way (PET/CT/MR) Image Fusion

Rob Skelding | AuntMinnieEurope.com | April 25, 2008

There is a growing tendency for MR images to be viewed in combination with PET and/or CT in the quest for more accurate -- and therefore more useful -- diagnoses of complex diseases. While hybrid PET/MR machines have yet to reach the market, a new open-source software application offers radiologists a way to create three-way PET/CT/MR image fusion. Read More »

Jordan Picks Perot Systems to Implement VistA

Perot Systems | PRO Health Service | April 8, 2008

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has selected Perot Systems to manage the pilot deployment of VistA - an open source clinical and healthcare information management system - at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman. Read More »

‘It’s a New Way of Caring for People’: Clay County Gets Healthier With Clinic’s New Electronic Record System

Eric Eyre | The Charleston Gazette | February 11, 2008

A new study shows that Primary Care’s electronic record system has improved health care for Clay County patients with chronic problems and diseases. Read More »

VA Health Care Quality: The Road to Recovery

David Glendinning | amednews | December 10, 2007

Despite the challenges of caring for the veterans of today's wars, the VA health system is getting high marks for quality. Read More »

Federal Government Taps Ancient Healing Methods To Treat Native American Soldiers

Jennifer Miller | The Christian Science Monitor | September 13, 2007

The veterans administration teams up with medicine men to use sweat lodges and talking circles to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder...

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IBM And University Scientists Launch Global Computing Effort To Find Cures For Dengue, West Nile, And Hepatitis C Diseases

Press Release | International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) | August 23, 2007

Researchers Say the 50,000 Years of Computer Time Needed to Discover Cures May Be Achieved in One Year Using World Community Grid Read More »

RPMS: An Alternative to the VA VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) System

Peter Groen & Dr. Terry Cullen | Virtual Medical Worlds | July 1, 2007

If one were looking to acquire and implement a comprehensive ‘open source’ electronic health record (EHR) system, serous consideration should be paid to the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) used by the Indian Health Service (IHS). RPMS is an adaptation of the VistA health information system originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), modified to meet the needs of IHS. RPMS is an integrated health information system ideally suited for implementation in healthcare facilities of varying sizes and complexity. Patients treated at IHS facilities tend to include a diverse mix of all age patients, males and females. While RPMS is deployed at many IHS inpatient facilities, it is more heavily utilized in ambulatory care settings.  Read More »