News Clips
OpenClinica Emerges as Fastest-Growing Open Source Software Choice for Clinical Trials
OpenClinica is the fastest growing open source software choice for clinical trials, according to data released by the company.
In Defence of NHS IT
Amongst the ashes of the NAO report on the NHS National Programme for IT there are seeds of hope, writes Robin Smith, head of information governance at Northampton General Hospital Read More »
- Login to post comments
Building an Information Framework to Drive Drug Discovery
A consortium of European organisations has come together to support next-generation drug discovery by providing a single view across data sources, bringing the semantic web to drug discovery.
India's Decade of Collaboration
On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. Indian CEOs and policy-makers inject this word into practically every sentence they utter. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Using Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: A New Model for Neglected Tropical Disease Surveillance
...A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and lack of resources have interfered with timely detection and reporting of dengue cases in many endemic countries. Surveillance efforts have turned to modern data sources, such as Internet search queries, which have been shown to be effective for monitoring influenza-like illnesses. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Apps for Development: Lessons from mPowering
Non-profit organization mPowering is developing customized mobile apps to help reach the ultra poor -- people living on less than $2 a day -- and connect them with funding opportunities and programs in the developed world.
- Login to post comments
MinimPy: A Minimisation Program for Subject Allocation in Randomised clinical trial
MinimPy is a free open source desktop application for managing the whole process of minimization.
- Login to post comments
AHLTA Is Not Alone, Part II: Ontario’s $1 Billion Health IT Fiasco
After the $4 billion Department of Defense AHLTA fiasco, (AHLTA is Intolerable), and the $17 billion UK National Health Service fiasco, here is a a scathing report on the eHealth Ontario spending scandal charges that successive governments wasted $1 billion in taxpayer money.
- Login to post comments
Devil is in the Open-Source Details
Although the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are equally committed to deploying a joint electronic health record system in the next four to six years, the VA is more enthusiastic about the role of open-source development in the process, according to VA CIO Roger Baker.
- Login to post comments
VA, DoD to Test Initial Joint E-health Record in July
Defense and Veterans Affairs department officials will meet June 23 to approve a major step in a four-to-six year marathon to have a joint electronic health record.
- Login to post comments
Why You Should Pay for "Free" Software
Free and open source software at its heart is a philosophy: it is software that enables and empowers through the provision of its own internal code.
- Login to post comments
VA, DOD Test Joint EHR Interface in Hawaii
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have started testing in their Hawaii facilities an application that will provide physicians from both departments a common view of patient information.
- Login to post comments
The Federal IT Dashboard is Open Sourced!
As promised, the code for the federal IT Dashboard has now been released to the public as open source software.
- Login to post comments
IT Vendors: Why You Need to Talk About ICD-10 Compliance Now
In many hospitals, they don't have a strong system for dealing with vendors beyond paying the bills. So this would be a good time to document all your vendors and assign someone to work with them. Then assess their impact on ICD-10 compliance. Toward that end, Getz details some steps. Read More »
- Login to post comments
OpenGov West Recap
Open Gov West, which took place earlier this month in Portland, Oregon, was by all accounts a success. It was full of passionate innovators, both inside and outside of government, and from all over: people who know that government can’t just be about keeping the lights on and are instead doing the hard work of changing it, both from the inside and the outside, to make it work better. Read More »
- Login to post comments