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OpenClinica to Offer First Large-Scale Demo of its 3.1 Beta at European Conference
OpenClinica, the world’s most popular open source clinical trials software for web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM), will be demonstrating OpenClinica 3.1 Beta 2 at the Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual EuroMeeting March 28-30 in Geneva, Switzerland.
OSCON 2012 Video Clips
OSCON has become one of the most important places to make open source related announcements, and to unveil projects and products. Open source is a fundamental principle at the core of many established and emerging technologies, driving the future of the computer industry. At the O'Reilly OSCON, the open source technologies that are here to stay are explored, along with what will broaden the foundation, and what will lead the way to unexpected places and innovations. Watch selected OSCON 2012 videos posted ont YouTube.
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Peeking In On The IT Dashboard Community, Six Weeks After Release.
What happens after open sourcing? Do people from elsewhere actually show up, to ask questions, find bugs, and help out?
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Write code. Save lives.
Google Summer of Code is an annual program that gives university students studying computer science and related fields a chance to use the skills they learn to solve real-world problems and participate in active open source development communities.If you are a currently-enrolled university student, you are likely eligible to participate in the program, organized by Google’s Open Source Programs Office. Read More »
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Brief of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America As Amicus Curiae In Support of Respondents
In this case, the Supreme Court will decide how difficult it will be to invalidate a patent.
OpenMRS Road Map Update
The OpenMRS leadership team met in Boston earlier this month to review OpenMRS priorities. Before meeting, we asked for your feedback on OpenMRS priorities to help guide the road map over the next year. Your feedback really helped inform our discussion and focus our priorities.
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Electronic Medical Records Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Limited Countries
A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact of electronic record systems (i.e. OpenMRS) on quality of medical care in a developing country. Read More »
Software in the Public Interest: FrontlineSMS Founder Wins Pizzigati Prize
As the founder of FrontlineSMS, Ken Banks has been widely recognised for his work in giving grassroots groups the world over the capacity to interact, cheaply and simply, with constituents in remote communities. As a result of his impressive work Ken has recently become the fifth annual winner of the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Read More »
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ONC's Fridsma on Security for HIEs
Different security approaches are required to protect the privacyof health information "pushed" -- or exchanged directly between two organizations -- and information that is "pulled" as a result of complex queries, says Doug Fridsma M.D., Ph.D, of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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Three Trends on Fostering Innovation through Open Government
Last Sunday, economist Dick Thaler wrote an article in the New York Times highlighting the many ways innovators are using government data to create platforms, applications, and other useful tools that touch the lives of our friends and neighbors. Read More »
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Kundra on White House White Board: IT Dashboard Saved $3 Billion
In the latest episode of White House White Board, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra highlights costs savings in technology and its impact on government transparency.
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CTO Shares Lessons Learned From Freeing HHS Data
The Health and Human Services Department has been “freeing” massive amounts of its data and pushing it to developers and the public on the Web for the last two years with good results, HHS Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said at a new media conference Thursday.
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Excellence.gov Awards: VA's Baker on IT in the Budget Battle
This week DorobekINSIDER host Chris Dorobek hosted ACT- IACT's Excellence in Government Awards. The annual event honors programs that have pushed the boundaries of innovation in the federal government's management and use of IT.
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The Open Source Initiative Took the Next Step in Its Evolution This Past Weekend.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board meet this weekend in San Francisco for its annual face-to-face meeting. Since its inception, OSI's role has been one of stewardship of the Open Source Definition supported by community volunteers reviewing licenses. For that mission, the Board has been a self-selecting one, with the current Board evaluating nominations and electing its own successors. But it's gradually become obvious that the OSI needs to look beyond that role to act instead as a meeting point for the global open source communities at large. As you ma yrecall, that switch was exactly the one I joined the Board to assist, following earlier unsuccessful attempts.
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Defense/VA Health Record Decision Day?
From Bob Brewin's Blog - I'm picking up medium strength signals that top managers at the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments have a meeting this week -- possibly today -- on development of a single electronic health record for the two departments. The odds favor such an agreement -- which probably won't be announced until later this month -- with the VA VistA system used as the building block for the joint electronic record. But, I'm also told -- but cannot yet confirm -- that the entire Congressional delegation from a state that is the home to a major electronic health record company is trying to derail this and plans to modernize VistA using open source software.
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