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In the Cloud: Sharing is Caring
At Accenture we are refreshing our Cloud Security & Data Privacy point of view. It’s been 2 years since we advocated ‘more caution,’ ‘less action’ in public cloud computing. Today, we are more optimistic and more realistic about the road ahead. Read More »
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CGI Federal to Upgrade HHS Health Info Program
CGI Federal Inc. has won a five-year contract worth $5.7 million to upgrade the health information exchange program at the Health and Human Services Department. Read More »
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Harvard Business Review Talks About Misys Open Source Solutions
"Our research suggests that firms thrive when senior teams embrace the tension between old and new and foster a state of constant creative conflict at the top. We call this leading ambidextrously." 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 »
Big Pharma Embraces "Open Innovation" Trend to Fix a Broken R&D Model
Just about every big pharma or biotech company that has earned an unwelcome reputation for building huge and unproductive R&D empires is taking a page from the household products behemoth Procter & Gamble and joining the shift to "open innovation." Read More »
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Mobile Web Content in East Africa [Report]
Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets” ...Traditional definitions of broadband have a narrow focus on bandwidth and speed. This paper uses a wider definition, as broadband policy needs to consider the entire ‘eco-system’ of internet and data services from both a demand and supply-side perspective. Read More »
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Will Doctors Heed IBM's Watson? History Indicates Otherwise
Watson, the IBM supercomputer that recently generated headlines by beating top Jeopardy players, is being groomed to advise doctors about diagnoses and treatments. But even if Watson delivers more accurate answers faster than other decision support tools, there's no guarantee that physicians will heed its advice. Read More »
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The Cancer Community and the Open Source Community
the NCI’s caBIG program was launched in 2003 with the goal of building a biomedical informatics network to allow cancer researchers to collaborate more effectively, particularly with regard to the meaningful exchange of information. The key principles of the program are: open source, open access, open development and federation.
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Scientists open to discussion on open source biology
Now along comes Stephen Friend, former senior vice president of cancer research at Merck & Co., saying...the only way biology can advance and help us develop better drugs is to break with tradition.
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HIStalk Interviews Jim Traficant, President, Harris Healthcare Solutions
...we were awarded the Nationwide Health Information Network Connect program. We were working on behalf of the Federal Health Architecture to integrate the largest creators of health information, like military health, the VA, and Indian Health Services, so they could share information securely with each other and then provide that information to the largest consumers of health information at the federal level...
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Caution on that "Call for Caution on Open Source"
The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. Read More »
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Opening up the Open Source Initiative
One of the ironies of open source over the years has been that the organisation formed to “educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source”, the Open Source Initiative, was itself perceived to be something of a closed shop. That is set to change as the OSI has publicly launched its plan to encourage greater participation by shifting to a membership model and elected board members. Read More »
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U.S. Department of Defense Details Open Source Lessons Learned
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a major report detailing its lessons learned and best practices for military software use of open technologies. Read More »
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The Ambidextrous CEO
...one of Lawrie’s first moves was to create a stand-alone unit for open source technology, which was a key component of his vision for the company’s future. He knew that open source was emerging as a serious disruptive threat in the software industry, especially in health care...
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Mali Joins Nearby Countries in Adopting CapacityPlus’s iHRIS Software
Mali is the newest country in West Africa to adopt CapacityPlus’s iHRIS software, a suite of Open Source tools for tracking, managing, and planning the health workforce. CapacityPlus supports the West African Health Organization (WAHO) in strengthening health workforce information in the region and implementing the iHRIS software in interested countries. Read More »