Over the past 18 months, the Mozilla community has been revising the Mozilla Public License. See earlier post. We recently announced, in true community development fashion, a release candidate--the text that we hope will become MPL 2.0 after one last set of eyes review it. Read More »

While many hospitals were evacuated over the weekend in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, that didn't prevent facilities up and down the East Coast from having their share of IT-related issues. Read More »

A California venture capital firm has selected 11 finalists in a nationwide contest to find the country's most promising health IT startups. Read More »

When President Obama named then-District of Columbia Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra to be the nation's first chief information officer in 2009, he cited Kundra's "depth of experience in the technology arena" and said the new CIO would "work to ensure that we are using the spirit of American innovation and the power of technology to improve performance." Read More »

For the nation's hospitals, information requirements of the federal government's imminent reimbursement reform initiative ­ called value-based purchasing ­are starting out easy. Deceptively easy. Read More »

You’ve probably already heard about the “Blue Button” offered by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Blue Button enables Veterans, service members, and Medicare beneficiaries to download their personal health record as a simple, human-readable file. Read More »

If in-house IT support is available, open-source PACS software and virtual computing technology may offer a reasonable option for digital image management for some institutions, according to researchers from the University of Patras in Rion, Greece. Read More »

We all have to celebrate the career of Steve Jobs and thank him for the tremendous improvements he has brought to computer interfaces and hardware. The guy's amazing, OK? But Apple is something of a control-freak environment with a hard-handed approach to things such as product announcements and the App Store. Read More »

At the Community Leadership Summit in Portland back in July, I moderated a session called “The Death Star User Group”, aimed at community managers working for large corporations in the various stages of their journey towards software freedom. Read More »

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has launched its program to approve organizations that want to certify electronic health records for meaningful use. ANSI will accept applications through Oct. 7, with its first organization accreditations anticipated in 2012, the standards-setting group said in an Aug. 25 announcement. Read More »