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The theme of this year’s GOSCON, from my perspective, was that governments remain eager to embrace open source software, and are no doubt already doing so in many cases, but there is still a great demand for more commercial backing of more open source. Even though we continue to see more official adoption and procurement of open source among public organizations, it seems clear after GOSCON there is a need for more awareness, but also for more commercial support of open source.

A few months ago, I wondered: Can open source create better prosthetics? I've been meaning to revisit the topic and see what kind of progress the project is making.  The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP) is now more organized and primed to foster worldwide collaboration for their efforts.

I am frequently asked by potential customers about the nature of a business relationship with Kitware. This is true for small support contracts all the way up to multi-million dollar consulting projects. In this blog I'll paint a general picture of what you can expect, and more importantly, what you should demand from your relationship with the Company. I'll also sketch the outline of a typical project with Kitware. Read More »

The birth date of the Web is not nearly as relevant right now as its future survival, which is being threatened, according to Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with putting the Web together from a batch of old and new ideas.

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EMRs keep on proving their mettle in the area of care coordination.The latest evidence comes from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, which improved outcomes by mining its EMR and electronic disease registries to match patients with heart disease to clinical pharmacy specialists and "personalized" nurses. Read More »

Open Source for America (OSFA), an organization of technology industry leaders, non-government associations, and academic and research institutions promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. federal government, today announced the winners of its inaugural 2010 Open Source Awards program, recognizing individuals, projects and deployments for their role in advancing the adoption of free and open source software in federal government agencies. Winners were honored during a luncheon at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) 2010, in Portland, Oregon. Read More »

Older hospitalized patients who survive sepsis develop lasting, moderate to severe cognitive impairment and functional disability at 3.3 times the rate of patients hospitalized for other reasons, according to a report from University of Michigan researchers.