The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments continue to pursue individual health information technology systems rather than determine a common best approach, says a new Government Accountability Office report.

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The most recent Africa Gathering was hosted at the London-based Guardian building on Monday 20th June 2011.

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When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds.

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From human trafficking to organising scarce medical resources to mapping government shortfalls of essential drugs in Africa, FrontlineSMS is enabling activists, aid workers and NGOs to communicate effectively en masse. And all it takes is a computer, a mobile phone and a sliver of network presence. Read More »

This isn't the first time that the VA has looked into replacing MUMPS...it ran a pilot project in 2005 to look at the automatic conversion of MUMPS into J2EE Java.
Philip Newcomb, chief executive officer of the Kirkland, Wa.-based The Software Revolution Inc., which performed the pilot, recently wrote a case-study about it in "Information Systems Transformation," a 2010 book he co-wrote with William Ulrich, president and founder of the Tactical Strategy Group , of Soquel, Calif. Read More »

Ten-dollar cell phones are easier to obtain than Internet access in many parts of the developing world. And now, thanks to software conceived by Ken Banks, ...cheap phones are making the Internet unnecessary in those places. Grassroots groups are exchanging vital information from laptop to cell phone in areas the Internet doesn’t reach. Banks’s FrontlineSMS...has been downloaded more than 14,000 times, helping hundreds of thousands of people in a variety of ways. Read More »

In the war against serious, sometimes deadly, infections that can thrive in their midst, hospitals are turning to new techniques and technologies to subdue the enemy. Read More »

Physicians working under contract with the federal government practice less defensive medicine than their private sector peers, according to a new survey by Atlanta-based clinical staffing organization, Jackson Healthcare. Read More »

The takeaway message from this year’s insurer report card is that the current medical claims processing strategy is still too labor-intensive, error-prone and far too fragmented.

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Two Cambridge social enterprises have picked up funding of $250k each at a global media innovation competition backed by Google. FrontlineSMS and Open Knowledge Foundation were among the 16 winners of the Knight News Challenge, announced at the 2011 MIT - Knight Civic Media Conference yesterday. Read More »