The number of health information exchanges has increased by 9 percent to 255 in 2011 from 234 last year, with a rising tide of patient data being shared as physicians and hospitals strive to meet the requirements of a changing healthcare system. Read More »

A decade ago, the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack began to transform web startup economics. As new open-source webservers, databases, and web-friendly programming languages liberated developers from proprietary software and big iron hardware, startup costs plummeted. Read More »

Last month, our iHRIS team lead, Dykki Settle, participated in the Ethiopian eHealth Standards and Interoperability Workshop in Addis Ababa at the invitation of the World Health Organization. Read More »

The number of health information exchange (HIE) initiatives rose 9 percent to 255 in the past year, according to the latest national survey by the eHealth Initiative. At the same time, the number of "advanced" or operational HIEs advanced to 85 in 2011 from 73 in 2010. Read More »

During a web presentation last week regarding getting on board the Nationwide Health Information Network, Holt Anderson, executive director of the North Carolina Health Information & Communications Alliance (NCHICA), discussed the requirements for joining and exchanging data. Read More »

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is falling down on the job when it comes to telehealth, the American Telemedicine Association believes. Read More »

Am I a socialist? I don’t think so, but I did inch in that direction during the four days I spent in northern Norway last week, visiting the local hospital in Bodø and speaking to about 20 of the nation’s hospital CEOs. Here’s what I learned.... Read More »

...Through its RANET (Radio and Internet for the Communication of Hydro-Meteorological Information) Project, the Zambia Meteorological Department is tapping remote communities across several provinces to collect climate information. Read More »

The Sunlight Foundation just dug up some interesting recommendations from U.S. Read More »

 In an unusual move for big pharma, Eli Lilly has made its Discovery IT platform—known internally as the Lilly Science Grid (LSG)—open source . . . The move addresses a key question: “Do [biopharma] all really need to manage very similar resources or are there areas where we can work together?” . . . Says, Susie Stephens, principal research scientist with Lilly. Read More »