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The Health Graph: Mortal Threats & Signs of Life
Two years ago, I said that the executive branch of the U.S. federal government was the most interesting tech startup of 2009. That optimism started to bear fruit just a few months later, with one of my favorite examples being what I called "The Health Graph", the massive amount of new public health data being made available by the Department of Health & Human Services' open data project, the Community Health Data Initiative. Read More »
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Richmond VA Hospital Opens Data Exchange with MedVirginia
The Veterans Affairs Department has started a pilot to share patient records between the Richmond VA Medical Center and MedVirginia, a central Virginia health information exchange, which expands the virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) program.
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Most Americans Have Government-Subsidized Health Care
Gallup posted this table alongside the headline, “In U.S., 1 in 4 Adults Have Government Health Insurance.” But they’re understating their case.
Most of the people who have health-care insurance and don’t get it from Medicare, Medicaid or the military/veteran’s systems are getting it from their employer. Read More »
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Clinovo Introduces CDISC® Express
Clinovo introduces CDISC® Express at PharmaSUG 2011 annual conference, an elaborate and easy-to-use SAS-based mapping tool for CDISC SDTM conversion.
CDISC Express source code is freely available to the large community of SAS programmers, reaffirming Clinovo’s dedication to global standards that contribute to accelerating clinical trials. Read More »
Open Source Biology Deserves a Shot
Gene sequencing has gotten incredibly fast and cheap, and researchers around the world are pouring huge volumes of genomic data onto their private servers, in the hope they will sift through it all to make groundbreaking discoveries. hould so much genomic data be so closely guarded, or should it be poured into a free and open database that all scientists share?
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Open Source: The Future of Drugs
The Science Translational Medicine Journal published this week a commentary about the recent Toronto Summit, where 43 research, pharma, funder and policy thought-leaders gathered on 16 February 2011 for a summit on pre-competitive disease biology and innovative strategies for drug discovery.
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Health IT crowd adds to Mostashari praise
Healthcare information technology leaders continued Friday afternoon to laud Farzad Mostashari's selection as the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT).
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Good News from the European Medicines Agency
The recent conference in Cork on conflict of interest was extremely interesting and will provide the basis for a few posts on this blog – the speakers’ presentation can be seen here. Read More »
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Virginia Providers Integrate Two Health Data Exchange Models
Three healthcare organizations in Virginia have demonstrated how small practices can share patient data through simple Internet connections and then hand the data to more technology sophisticated groups for expanded exchange. Read More »
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Defense Official Backs Commercial Software for Joint Health Record
Elizabeth McGrath, Defense deputy chief management officer, said Defense "will look first" at commercial software for the health record, followed by adoption of existing Defense and VA applications, with the last choice being in-house development. McGrath's emphasis on commercial software for the joint record conflicts with the open-source software approach backed by Shinseki and VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker.
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Joint DoD, VA EHR Agreement is for Common Architecture, Data and Data Centers
A senior Defense Department official revealed a few more details about what the joint DoD and Veterans Affairs Department electronic health record system will look like while testifying April 6 before a House panel.
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Acknowledging Changemakers: Ken Banks
“Successful social entrepreneurs must be creative; both as goal-setting visionaries and as problem solvers capable of engineering their visions into reality,” states the criteria for the Ashoka Fellowship program. For 25 years the Ashoka Fellowship has been investing in changemakers; those individuals providing innovative solutions to social problems. Read More »
Agencies Unveil Open Government Plans
April 7 was open government day, the day when federal agencies revealed plans for data transparency and citizen participation.
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In U.S., 1 in 4 Adults Have Government Health Insurance
As House Republicans put forth a budget proposal that seeks to reshape the government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid, Gallup finds that 1 in 4 U.S. adults, including at least 1 in 10 American adults across all age groups, benefit from one of these programs or military/veterans' benefits. Read More »
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Open Healthcare - Or Not.
As a tax payer, citizen and frequent user of healthcare services, I am terribly excited about the idea of a truly open source community creating a free platform for EHR for use around the world. The ability of open source to provide a worldwide, vendor neutral software platform that an ecosystem can thrive, compete and innovate upon is unparalleled.
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