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Your Records Follow You: Hampton VA, Bon Secours Team Up to Share Health Records Electronically
The Obama administration in 2009 tasked the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense to come up with electronic medical records that can be shared among patients' providers. The first pilot, in San Diego, proved the technology would work. Hampton Roads was chosen for the second pilot site, and several partners have been working on it for the past year. Read More »
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Live Medsphere OpenVistA Webinars
Interactive EHR Presentations
Medsphere hosts regular one-hour interactive Webinars on a variety of topics related to our OpenVista electronic health record solution. These live, interactive presentations are designed to help administrative, clinical and IT professionals understand how our open-source EHR system helps healthcare providers: Read More »
NSA Reveals Cloud Plans, May Open-Source Some of Its Software
The nation's cryptologic intelligence agency is moving towards a cloud-centric approach to computing. In an interview with Information Week, National Security Agency CIO Lonny Anderson talks about the cloud, cross-agency information systems and open source. Read More »
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In the meaningful-use vanguard
The Indian Health Service wasn't the first healthcare system to have its have its electronic health-record system certified as capable of meeting meaningful-use criteria under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but it is one of the largest. Read More »
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Leeds And ReStart Build Open Portal
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is working with consultancy ReStart to develop an open source portal to give clinicians a single view of data held in its PAS and departmental systems. Read More »
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Image Transfers to PACS Reduces Repetitive Testing to ED Patients
Researchers at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston showed that when CDs of radiology images were imported from outside emergency departments into the hospital's picture archiving and communications system (PACS), fewer repetitive studies were performed on patients transferred into the hospital. Read More »
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NSA CIO Pursues Intelligence-Sharing Architecture
In an exclusive interview, Lonny Anderson discusses plans for a shared development environment for U.S. intelligence agencies, cloud computing, and tech modernization. Read More »
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Can Hobbyists and Hackers Transform Biotechnology?
In his new book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, Marcus Wohlsen explores the new movement in garage-based biotech. Following in the footsteps of revolutionaries like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer in Jobs's garage, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who invented Google in a friend's garage, biohackers are attempting bold feats of genetic engineering, drug development, and biotech research in makeshift home laboratories.
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HealthTap Explores How Big a Community You Need to Crowdsource Health Information
A new company named HealthTap has just put together an intriguing combination of crowdsourced health advice and community-building... For me, although the venture is worthy in itself, it offers a model of something that might be even better as a national or international effort. Read More »
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Is the Future of Pharma Open Source?
The current approach to drug development takes too long, costs too much, and is too unpredictable for pharma to invest in small to non-existent commercial markets. So for diseases like these, open source drug development has become one of the most promising avenues and we're finding more who seem to agree. Read More »
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Smartphone PTSD App from VA, DoD 'Coaches' Vets
As part of their ongoing development of telehealth resources for veterans dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have created a smartphone app.
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Military Software Developers Get Enhanced Social Network
Military software developers are getting a social network that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) hopes will make them more productive and boost code sharing and reuse.
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Geek of the Week: Yaw Anokwa: UW Ph.D. Student, Open Data Kit and Change
My current project is Open Data Kit (ODK), a free and open-source set of tools which helps organizations create mobile data collection solutions with smartphones and cloud infrastructure.
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Connecticut Pilot Initiative a Success in Exchanging Data to Improve Health Care Quality, Safety and Efficiency
The pilot program, using an information technology system provided by Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS), is demonstrating the technology and functionality of exchanging health information to benefit patients who receive their care from multiple providers. The initiative gives health care providers access to information that is essential to offering their patients quality, safe, and timely care.
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Open Access: The Only Viable Option for Change
Why do we publish health research? If the editors of PLoS Medicine are correct that “medical journals have many roles, but, above all, dissemination of medical information is key,” then journals need to be accessible to the most important data consumers—frontline health workers. Read More »
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