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Clinovo Launches New CDISC Express Service Packages
Clinovo...announced today the launch of three CDISC Express service packages, adapted to different needs and different budgets. The offer helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies streamline their clinical trials process by using CDSIC SDTM standards.
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How the Cloud, Government and Industry Leaders Can Foster Open Government
To [exchange best practices and identify ways to collaborate among government and industry leaders], government and industry partners must work together in a transparent and collaborative manner, in a similar way that the Open Government Directive requires federal agencies to interact with citizens. Read More »
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Call for Participation: 2011 SPIE Medical Imaging – CAD Demonstration Workshop
The SPIE Medical Imaging Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Workshop will be held on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, from 17.45 - 19.45 as part of the SPIE Medical Imaging conference in Orlando, Florida, USA. Read More »
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Technology's Role in Fighting Poverty is Still Ripe for Discussion
As technology blazes a trail, policy and procedure are playing catch-up to harness the benefits for development projects. Read More »
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2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?
What does 2011 hold for the field of robotics? Plenty, if 2010 is any indication. This will not be the year that mobile, artificially intelligent robot nurses assume the responsibility of caring for the world's growing elderly population, but it does promise to be a pivotal time for the development of the underlying technology that will enable safe and reliable automated elder care, not to mention other services that robots are expected to perform in the coming decade. Read More »
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Health care at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention--Call for Proposals is open
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is offering a health care track for the second year in a row. We had a wonderful health care track last year (summarized in our report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; I'll also post some links to videos, interviews, and blogs at the end of this article), and we're planning to build on our coverage of last year's topics as well as add some topics that got short shrift last year. Read More »
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The Unsung Heroes of Open Source
For many of us, the holiday season is a time to look back and savor meaningful experiences, and to look forward to the coming year. I also find it important to recognize the many people and organizations who enrich our lives. Read More »
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Report: Drug Discovery Industry Must Embrace Open Source Innovation to Speed Process, Boost Bottom Lines
To meet the challenges of research and development, the pharmaceutical industry must adopt more open source innovation—a concept that has been used for nearly three decades by the information technology sector—to promote innovation in the drug discovery process and boost bottom lines, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan.
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Cory Booker's Blizzard: A Prediction for Global Health Prosperity in 2011
Mayor Booker's success in Newark fuels the optimism with which I predict global health prosperity in 2011. Although funding will remain an obstacle in overcoming infectious disease and achieving quality health care for all, I foresee the following successes over the next year, especially in the poorest areas of the world. Every one of these technologies has already been created, tested, piloted, and evaluated in the field, across dozens of low- and middle-income countries around the world.
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Report: Drug discovery industry must embrace open source innovation to speed process, boost bottom lines
To meet the challenges of research and development, the pharmaceutical industry must adopt more open source innovation—a concept that has been used for nearly three decades by the information technology sector—to promote innovation in the drug discovery process and boost bottom lines, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. Read More »
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HIStalk Interviews Beth Raucher MD
...My role in the electronic health record was the lead physician on the project. I helped make some of the design decisions and work flow decisions, things that would work best for the hospital. I had previous experience doing that in another job before I came to Lutheran four and half years ago.
Yours is the largest hospital I’ve heard of that has implemented Medsphere’s OpenVista. You’re a teaching hospital, too. What parts of the system are you live on and how has it gone?
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City University London Calls for Open Health Informatics With New Research Programme
City University London’s Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) has launched a research programme and policy challenge paper, to explore how NHS IT services can be improved and made more cost-effective through a new combination of open standards, open source software, open systems interfaces and agile development.
Coming at a time of critical change for the NHS – and against a backdrop of wider interest in the use of open source software for health IT in Europe, the US and developing countries – the overall aim of the Open Health Informatics programme is to aid the development of future generations of clinical information systems, such as electronic health records.
City University Calls For Open Health Informatics
City University London’s Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) has launched a research programme and policy challenge paper, to explore how NHS IT services can be improved and made more cost-effective through a combination of open standards, open source software, open systems interfaces and agile development. Read More »
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Crowdsourcing Linked Open Data For Disaster Management
This paper shows how Linked Open Data can ease the chal- lenges of information triage in disaster response efforts. Recently, disaster management has seen a revolution in data collection. [...] Read More »
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ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature
On behalf of the ISCB members, this public policy statement expresses strong support for open access, reuse, integration, and distillation of the publicly funded archival scientific and technical research literature, and for the infrastructure to achieve that goal.
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