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Sage Starts Takeda, CHDI Work
Sage Bionetworks, the Seattle-based nonprofit seeking to spark an open source movement for biology, said today it has begun work for a couple of partners—Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical and the CHDI Foundation.
Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development
Despite improved access to the Internet, researchers in the developing world continue to face two problems—gaining access to academic publications due to the high cost of subscriptions, and getting their research published in “international” journals, because their work is either considered to be only of local or regional interest or does not meet the quality standards required by the major commercial indexes.
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On the Path to Global Open Access: A Few More Miles to Go
It has been a couple of months now since the withdrawal of access via HINARI to medical journals in Bangladesh by several publishers caused an upset in the medical publishing world...
Although traumatic for the researchers who lost access, the incident has triggered a useful debate on the value of open access (OA; immediate, permanent free access and permanently guaranteed unrestricted reuse...
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Telescope Makers, Telescope Users
Okay science aficionados and practitioners let me ask you a simple question: Who's more important, the telescope maker or the telescope user? Is it the person who discovers the astronomical body or the person who enables the discovery?
Let me take a radical stance: they are equally important. Read More »
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AHLTA is Not Alone – UK NHS IT Fiasco Tops It As $17 Billion Fiasco
I had thought that DoD’s AHLTA held the record for being the world’s greatest health IT fiasco, spending $4-5 billion of taxpayer’s money on a system that was deemed Intolerable by the GAO and an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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Open Source Gets Its Day
I wrote a story for this week's Modern Healthcare magazine about the Alembic Foundation, which is assuming a caretaker role in the future development of the government-founded Connect Gateway project.
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In Tech-Savvy Japan, Citizens Utilize Crisis Mapping
Open source software called Ushahidi allows people to add and update information to maps that anyone with an Internet connection can access. In Tokyo, a crew of volunteers is using the software to map everything — from health services to the location of emergency aid workers — in Japan's hardest hit areas
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Big Data Will Transform Healthcare, Says ONC
Big data will revolutionize healthcare, says a new five-year strategic plan from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Read More »
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Video Presentations Posted by VistA Community Members
The VistA Community is composed of a growing number of organizations that provide system implementation, software development, training, and other support services for the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. Watch selected video presentations from several VistA organizations in the VistA community on their versions of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_eIik37X4
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Todd Park on Unleashing the Power of Open Data to Improve Health
What if open health data were to be harnessed to spur better healthcare decisions and catalyze the extension or creation of new businesses? Todd Park, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Heath & Human Services (HHS), has been working to unlock innovation through open health data for over a year now.
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Digital Revolution: Bringing The NHS Into The 21st Century
Why is health care so far behind the times? This was the topic we recently explored at a breakfast session at the Nuffield Trust’s 2011 Health Strategy Summit. [...] In a time of financial pressure and need for efficiency savings, why are the vast majority of [...] appointments still carried out in person? Read More »
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Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
The official YouTube channel for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The site offers access to a wide selection of videos from VHA officials, researchers, and healthcare providers. Read More »
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Foundation for NIH and mHealth Alliance Announce 3rd Annual mHealth Summit
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the mHealth Alliance announced today that the 3rd annual mHealth Summit will be held from December 5-7, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, DC area. Read More »
Ken Getz to Deliver Keynote Address at OpenClinica Global Conference
Kenneth A. Getz, Chairman of the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation CISCRP, and Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Research Professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, will be the Keynote Speaker at this year’s OpenClinica Global Conference, May 8-9 at the Metro Meeting Centers in downtown Boston. The OpenClinica Global Conference brings together users, developers, and other stakeholders from this community to share knowledge and best practices. OpenClinica is the world’s most popular open source clinical trials software. It facilitates web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) in all types of clinical research across a diverse array of settings.
OpenMRS Video Presentations Posted on the Web
The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is an open source electronic medical record system (EMR) platform for developing countries supported by a non-profit collaborative led by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners In Health. There is a rapidly growing 'open' community of OpenMRS software developers, users, and vendors around the world. Watch selected video presentations from several OpenMRS community members that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGyNBYMTxM&feature=related
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