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If You Tolerate This… the Commercial Open Source Window of Opportunity
“Misalignment between a business model and the community’s tolerance point will never be accepted. This will manifest itself in multiple distributions.” Read More »
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4 Money-Saving, Open Source Business Intelligence Suites
Knowledge is power, but spending a giant wad of money on fancy BI software won't do you any good. Read More »
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Wonkbook: Voters Like Their Single-Payer Health Care
Newsflash: Seniors like their single-payer health-care system. And other voters like the prospect of having the protection of a single-payer health-care system when they get older, too. Read More »
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Wanted: Health IT Entrepreneurs Seeking Capital
Morgenthaler Ventures, a venture capital firm, announced Wednesday a nationwide contest called "DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase" to find the best startup ideas in health IT. Read More »
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The California Researcher Who Could Save Health-Care Reform — and the Budget
Joe Selby has been named director of the — deep breath — Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Few sentences I’ve written on this blog read as uninteresting as that one. But Selby and his agency are really, really important. They’re the folks in charge of comparative-effectiveness research. Read More »
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Recombinant Partners with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to Complete First Phase of Large Scale Genomics Research Platform
Recombinant Data Corp., a Massachusetts-based healthcare data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions provider, today announced its continued contributions to innovative IT tools for clinical research, through the company’s key role in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Million Veteran Program (MVP). Read More »
Greater Use of Primary Care Can Reduce Deaths, Hospitalizations
As the primary-care workforce continues to be strained, new research shows that areas with higher levels of primary care have fewer patient deaths and preventable hospitalizations, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Read More »
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Federal Cloud Transition Will Save $5 Billion Yearly, CIO Says
Transitioning about one-fourth of the government's $80 billion information technology enterprise to the cloud will save at least $5 billion annually, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Read More »
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Defense, VA to Share Health Record System for Service Members and Vets
Members of a Senate committee expressed concern Wednesday that reforms taken by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have done little to cut the maze of bureaucracy experienced by many service members and veterans trying to navigate the military health-care system. Read More »
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Building a Scalable Open Government Process
After two years of open government (yes, others have been doing this much longer), we’re at a point where we’ve tried a number of tricks, and it’s time to assess what works and what doesn’t. Read More »
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An Open Source Web Application for the Surveillance and Prevention of the Impacts on Public Health of Extreme Meteorological Events: the SUPREME System
After conducting a detailed needs analysis, the Quebec National Institute for Public Health developed and implemented an integrated web application leveraging open source software for the real-time Surveillance and Prevention of Extreme Meteorological Events impacts on public health, called the SUPREME system. Read More »
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New Software Facilitates Mining of Image Data
Images stored on PACS networks contain a veritable treasure trove of information that could be invaluable in research and clinical practice.
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CSIR launches Open Source Drug Discovery
The Union government has sanctioned Rs 150 crore to the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Under this project, CSIR aims to provide affordable healthcare services to the developing countries . . . Read More »
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CGI Awarded US$5.7 Million Contract to Advance the CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Exchange Gateway
CGI will partner with FHA and strategic partners, such as Red Hat, to build and develop CONNECT into a robust open source solution that supports secure, standards-based health information exchange and “meaningful use” of health information technology. Read More »
VistA Needs ‘Dramatic Vision,' Programmers Say
Two longtime programmers at the VistA Community Meeting [...] offered a history of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system and a way forward for VA and military brass planning an estimated $28 billion retooling of VistA and a counterpart EHR within the Military Health System.
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