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OSI And FSF In Unprecedented Collaboration To Protect Software Freedom
Motivated both by the severity of the threat Novell's patents potentially represent in the hands of CPTN and by reports that the European competition authorities did not understand the anti-competitive potention of this acquisition, OSI has collaborated with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the first time and crafted a joint request to the US Department of Justice to investigate the re-filed application for approval of the acquisition.
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The VA Now Offers an Innovative Patient-Centered Model of Care for Veterans
Los Angeles veterans are now able to access a new patient-centered healthcare service. On January 19, 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it was creating a new office, which to develop personal, patient-centered models of care for Veterans who receive healthcare services at the VA’s more than 1,000 points of care across the U.S. Read More »
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VA Office Developing Innovative Patient-Centered Model of Care for Veterans
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is creating a new office to develop personal, patient-centered models of care for Veterans who receive health care services at VA’s more than 1,000 points of care across the Nation.
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Hacking for Health: Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
Following on their success last year, Health 2.0 is hosting code-a-thons in three cities as part of their Developer Challenge: San Francisco, CA on January 29th, Washington, D.C. on February 12th, and Boston, MA on February 19th.
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ONC Will Simplify Guides for Establishing Exchange Standards
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to develop a clearer set of technical descriptions for establishing the standard clinical document formats for exchanging summary information as patients move across settings of care.ONC will also consolidate into a consistent template-based guide the advice offered by multiple organizations for implementing the standard document formats used to share data about patients’ medications and problems. Read More »
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Information Builders and immixGroup Awarded Contract With U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 18, 2011) - Information Builders, Inc. an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced it will provide iWay Software enterprise integration solutions, premium maintenance support, professional and technical services, and education to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Repositories Program. The support comes under a new contract awarded to its federal sales partner immixGroup, Inc., a leading provider of technology products and services to the public sector. Read More »
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NDItech: On the Front Lines with FrontlineSMS
In the vast swaths of the world where only elites are on the internet, [FrontlineSMS] is a great way to build connections between organizations and their members, whether civil society groups, political parties, or other groups. Read More »
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Withdrawal of Journal Access is a Wake-up Call for Researchers in the Developing World
The news (see http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d196) that several publishers have withdrawn access to health journals from the academic communities in Bangladesh has come as a wake-up call about the limitations of the HINARI programme. Many on the HIFA-2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015) forum feel this annoucement is a disaster, and that the only way to resolve the situation is to launch a concerted effort to restore journal access to those in Bangladesh. Read More »
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Telemedicine: The Next Big Thing?
As billions of dollars are budgeted to reform health care, legislators in Washington are frantically looking for ways in which the money can truly change the broken health care system without too much of an upset to its key constituents: payers, providers, employers and patients.
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The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value
The solution lies in the principle of shared value, which involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.
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Executive Open Data Roundtable: The State of Open Government GOSCON 2010
GOSCON 2010 opened with a general session; “Executive Open Data Roundtable: The State of Open Government“. The Roundtable featured state, city and federal leaders exploring the successes and challenges of the open government directive.
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The Open Medicine Student Peer Review Program
Open Medicine has provided an opportunity to acquire experience in peer review for a group of graduate students in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. This particular department within the Faculty of Medicine cuts across the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) research categories of Pillar 3 (health services) and Pillar 4 (population health) and involves students with undergraduate science degrees (researchers in training) and medical school graduates in residency programs (clinician-scientists in training).
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Systematic Review: Comparison of the Quality of Medical Care in Veterans Affairs and Non-Veterans Affairs Settings
Background: The Veterans Health Administration, the nation's largest integrated delivery system, launched an organizational transformation in the mid 1990s to improve the quality of its care.
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Narayana Hrudayalaya & Harvard/MIT Join Hands to Launch m-Health Project
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) and SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT) had a collaboration on a mobile healthcare project to enable screening and early detection of chronic diseases in India. Said Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, NH, "The opportunities are unlimited and by using technology, we will enable provision of high quality medical care at minimal price." Read More »
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VistA Point
With all the advances in medicine, you might be surprised at how many hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices still perform an important function with medieval technology.
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