The National Institutes of Health, in partnership with the Department of Defense, is building a central database focused on traumatic brain injuries (TBI) that officials say will aid in better prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Read More »

I was gearing up for a trial run of this satellite imagery analysis project for Somalia when my colleague Aaron Huslage decided to launch the Irene Recovery Map. He reached out to various communities for help and many groups  joined him to suppor this efforts. Read More »

What the VA is telling presumably any taxpayer who might ask is, "You don't get to see how we decide to spend your money. Trust us."...We shouldn't be in the business of handing over custody of a treasured public asset like VistA to a private contractor without total transparency. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be dodging its responsibilities to veterans in need of mental healthcare by seeking to appeal a ruling made by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last spring. The side effects of the VA’s stonewalling include an increased burden on the nation’s healthcare system and dire consequences for the veterans in need of services. Read More »

The Veterans Affairs Department open source electronic health record software website went live today with a pitch that it will serve as the nexus for an "open source community designed to unleash innovation in electronic health record software." Read More »

ARLINGTON, VA – The Department of Veterans Affairs is set to make its open source agent operational Tuesday and make available the software code of various applications in the electronic health records of VA and the Defense Department...The operational Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) is the next step in the two departments moving toward an open, modular architecture that use Read More »

Most enterprises are actively using open source solutions across IT departments and managers say they are likely to use more, according to a survey by FuseSource Corp., a provider of Apache-based open source SOA, middleware and messaging solutions. Read More »

The Veterans Affairs Department’s IT project oversight system started two years ago needs work, according to a new audit. Roger Baker, the VA’s assistant secretary of information and technology, asked the VA's Office of the Inspector General to review of the Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) he started in June 2009. Read More »

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Veterans Affairs Department is set to make its open source agent operational tomorrow and make available the software code of various applications in the electronic health records of VA and the Defense Department. Users of the applications will also have a method to report back to the open source agent changes to the software. Read More »

...The study shows that newborn babies in countries including Malaysia, Cuba, and Poland now have a better chance of survival than those born in the United States. "It's not that things are worse in the United States than before, it's that the U.S. isn't making progress like other countries," Lawn said. Read More »