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Sander Olson Interviews Charlie Kemp about the future of Healthcare robotics
Here is the Charlie Kemp interview by Sander Olson. Sander Olson has provided dozens of first hand interviews to Nextbigfuture. Sander is an online journalist who has been working parttime with Nextbigfuture.
Dr. Kemp is a Professor at the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech and Emory University. His lab is focused on developing robots that would be capable of aiding the sick and elderly. His lab has developed several custom robots, and has also received a PR2 robot from Willow Garage. Dr. Kemp believes that the healthcare industry could become one of the primary drivers of robotics development.
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Gov't, Google Give Rx for Health Care IT
Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, talked on the panel about his work on a White House panel that delivered a report on health care IT. "Eighty percent of doctors have no IT systems at all in their offices, and even large providers have closed system that are not interoperable," Schmidt said.
The report called for the Administration to adopt a series of interoperability standards such as using metadata tagging. "Government is going to force a disaggregated industry to become interoperable," he said. Read More »
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JP Morgan Healthcare: Google’s Schmidt on Open Source and Health IT
Current health-care information technology systems don’t work well with one another. And that’s a big obstacle to the creation of a truly universal electronic-medical record system, which proponents say could theoretically lead to more efficient care and allow for data mining to see trends, measure outcomes and show the comparative effectiveness of different treatments.
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DCMTK 3.6 Released
Our friends at OFFIS have just announced the release of DCMTK 3.6. This is exciting news for the medical imaging community and particularly for those who use Kitware's open-source medical imaging projects such as CTK and Slicer. Read More »
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Next on Google Maps: Hospitals, Roads and Kiosks of Korogocho Slum
After mapping various key locations and landmarks in the country, Google is now mapping Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s informal settlements.
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Going Open Source with Medsphere
As hospitals and doctors scramble to install EHRs to meet government-imposed rules and deadlines, a major concern for many hospitals is cost. Midland Memorial, a 320-bed hospital in Midland, Texas, struggles financially because it treats a high percentage of uninsured patients. It would have been hard for it to pony up more than $20 million to implement an EHR system, and qualify for government incentives. Then, the folks in its IT department came across Medsphere and OpenVistA. Read More »
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Linux for DoD?
Time has come for DoD to start considering the adoption of an open source version of Operating Systems software, such as one of the versions of Linux. Read More »
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A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats
At the end of 2010, the "open-source" software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe academics and ponytailed computer geeks, found an unusual ally: the Russian government. Vladimir Putin signed a 20-page executive order requiring all public institutions in Russia to replace proprietary software, developed by companies like Microsoft and Adobe, with free open-source alternatives by 2015.
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Kundra Encourages Open Source...& Proprietary
White House officials on Friday sent agency chief information officers and senior procurement executives a memo directing them to weigh open source options when buying technology.
Open source refers to technology based on nonproprietary parts, which allow third-party developers to improve and modify the product without having to pay the technology's maker. Advocates have said a move toward open source in the government could save taxpayer dollars and bolster security.
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HHS announces Health Center Planning Grant opportunity
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced up to $10 million in funding for a Health Center Planning Grant (HCPG) opportunity for organizations across the country that would like to become a Community Health Center. The HCPG opportunity is intended to support organizations in the future development of a health center and will support approximately 125 HCPGs in FY 2011.
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Black Duck Software Names Open Source Rookies of 2010
From a personally-controlled social network to a mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations, open source software is meeting the needs of today's application developers, according to Black Duck Software, which today announced its 2010 open source 'Rookies of the Year' list. Read More »
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Brazil Chooses OpenEHR for EHR at All Levels of Government
Brazil has chosen to use openEHR and archetypes for the shareable EHR at three levels of government - federal, state and municipal. Read More »
Brazil Chooses OpenEHR for EHR at All Levels of Government
Brazil has chosen to use openEHR and archetypes for the shareable EHR at three levels of government - federal, state and municipal. Read More »
John Scott Discusses OSS in the Military with Deb Bryant
John Scott, Director of Open Source Software and Open Integration at RadientBlue Technologies, joined Deb Bryant of Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab to discuss how open source software and development approaches are used in the US Department of Defense.
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today's News
The Best And Worst In Federal IT, 2010 Edition. NextGov (12/30, Sternstein) asked, “What were the best federal IT initiatives of 2010? Read More »
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