HP's cloud strategy will rely heavily on its participation in OpenStack open source cloud community, the tech titan said Thursday at the OpenStack Conference in Boston. "We are completely committed and on-board with OpenStack," said John Purrier, HP's vice president of cloud infrastructure, at the event. Read More »

Dr. Thomas Meade of Chicago’s prestigious Northwestern University was on a mission. The Professor of Cancer Research, Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology & Physiology, and Radiology was designing a brand new, state-of-the-art imaging facility with the goal of bringing all biological molecular imaging at Northwestern together under one roof. Read More »

Conference organizer Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have launched two new developer challenges for health care: "One in a Million Hearts" and "PopHealth Tools Development." Read More »

A new type of company intended to put social goals ahead of making profits is taking root around the country, as more states adopt laws to bridge the divide between nonprofits and businesses. Read More »

...Remarkably, some thorny issues and pending points closely joining together trade and access to medicines in developing countries did not come up at the Forum. Might these be things for the WTO to consider as a way to help make itself relevant and interesting? Read More »

Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons'... Read More »

The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments are much more alike in the healthcare services they deliver than they are different. That is critical as they build the components of their integrated electronic health record (iEHR), which will be based on common services applications instead of a large proprietary technology system... Read More »

VA’s much publicized Oct. 1 target date to allow Apple iPad tablets on its networks created some big expectations among the department’s employees, reports Alice Lipowicz on FCW.com. VA CIO Roger Baker said that by talking about the plan, he might have inadvertently caused tens of thousands of employees to believe they would have instant access to VA networks on Oct. 1.
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[A] number of game-changing technologies are sprouting from grass roots efforts at universities...Tech leaders and investors alike are surprised to learn how the next big breakthrough in technology may not come from their own development teams, but from groups of students and educators collaborating through the Internet. Read More »

The crossroads of public health and technology have produced many innovations, but probably none as simple or powerful as the humble text message, which spans the globe and improves health care in a variety of ways. Read More »