NCI Asks for Help with Open Source Development Model
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has released a formal RFI (Request for Information) asking for help in the drafting of an open source development model for the software NCI has developed under their Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project. Although the request is very similar to the VA's "Custodial Agent" effort, it is significantly different in that the caBIG initiative has been in operation since 2003 and more than 70 open source tools have been already developed and enhanced through the program.
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Redwood MedNet Hosts HIE Conference
Redwood MedNet, one of the pioneers in open source Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is hosting their annual conference in Santa Rosa, California July 14 and 15. This is the fifth annual conference hosted by the non-profit organization. Redwood MedNet was established in 2005 by health care providers at hospitals, private practices, community clinics and public health in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma Counties, California.
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Military Open-Source Software Group To Hold Third Annual Meeting in Atlanta
Critical cyber-technology will be among the featured topics at the Military Open Source Software (Mil-OSS) organization's Third Annual Working Group Conference scheduled for Aug. 30 - Sept. 1 in Atlanta.
The conference is open to anyone utilizing or considering open-source/open technology to build military capabilities -- including civilians, academics, contractors and uniformed personnel. The three-day agenda includes numerous talks, meetings and presentations, several keynote addresses, and two evening socials.
Among the events already determined for this year's event will be a LexisNexis presentation on its high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) technology, which utilizes an open-source model. HPCC systems have been used for the past 10 years with enterprise-class organizations, including government agencies.
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Pfizer Launches Collaborative Virtual Clinical Trial
Pfizer is borrowing a page from open source collaborative projects and has launched an innovative approach to clinical trials as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Pfizer has adopted a series of tools and technologies that have enabled it to start an all-electronic, home-based clinical trial. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given approval to the remotely monitored trial, the first one ever. Pfizer recruited the participants through ads in the Internet and is monitoring the trial using smartphone and computer-based telemedicine tools.
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Google's Epic Graph Cruncher Mimicked with Open Source
This week, a Texas startup known as Ravel unveiled an open source project based on Google's 2010 paper describing Pregel. Open sourced under an Apache license at GitHub, the project is dubbed GoldenOrb.
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CSIR launches Open Source Drug Discovery
The Union government has sanctioned Rs 150 crore to the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Under this project, CSIR aims to provide affordable healthcare services to the developing countries . . . Read More »
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FierceGovernmentIT FOIAs OMB TechStat Meeting Info, Part II
Either we can accept the lack of access as a quirk of the current administration, or we can try to do something about it...And so, we're presenting the results of our second round of Freedom of Information Act requests about OMB TechStat meetings. Read More »
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Electronic Health Records: Getting the Detail to Make ICD-10 Work
One of the challenges that medical coders will face after ICD-10 implementation is getting enough detail out of documentation to assign the right codes. Read More »
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Army Unable to Create, Distribute the High-level Mobile Apps They Want
Apps for the Army has not delivered game-changing mobile applications for warfighters, Army officials told an industry audience March 17. Read More »
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Army Looks to Virtual Reality to Better Treat PTSD
One hundred and fifty six active duty Army soldiers committed suicide in 2010, according to data released by the Army on Jan. 20, and post-traumatic stress disorder continues to be a major problem among the active duty and veteran populations. In an effort to combat PTSD, 48 Army healthcare sites now use virtual reality as an alternative treatment. Read More »
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