Utilizing Social Media and Open Data for Public Health Situational Awareness Forum
Come join representatives from the private industry, government agencies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations in the first of a series of innovative discussion forums sponsored by the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Fusion Cell.
The forums will help identify pioneering ways to move from open source information into actual public health response – so everyone is better informed, better prepared, and better able to respond fast to protect health and save lives.
Ultimately, the question is: how do we efficiently and effectively manage large volumes of internal and external disparate data sources necessary for situational awareness, rapid decision support, and discover new indicators and warnings of events of public health significance? Read More »
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Open Source Technology in Healthcare
Professor Jeremy Wyatt of the Institute for Digital Healthcare at the UK-based University of Warwick, speaks with Managing Editor Mike Miliard about open source technology in healthcare; how it affects data security, the challenges of software development and what open source means for the future of healthcare IT. Read More »
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Open Source Personal Health Record: No Need to Open Google Health
The real future of PHRs is already here in the form of open source projects that people can take in any direction they want. Read More »
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Open Source Cellphone Networks are Now on Every Continent
Three men who believe that cellphone service should be cheap and accessible to everyone have found a way to make it happen. The creators of OpenBTS, the open-source cellphone network, launched a startup and have delivered cheap cellphone networks to the world's biggest mobile tech corporations, governments and other clients on every continent. Read More »
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ApacheCon 2011 Announces “Open Source Enterprise Solutions, Cloud Computing, and Community Leadership”
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced “Open Source Enterprise Solutions, Cloud Computing, and Community Leadership” as the theme for ApacheCon North America. Read More »
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Homeless Veterans Sue Over Neglected Campus
It is a 387-acre campus of green fields and low-lying buildings in a prosperous neighborhood, donated to the federal government more than 100 years ago for use as a Pacific Coast home for wounded veterans. But over the last 20 years, as Los Angeles has become inundated with homeless veterans, advocates for the homeless say the campus has become a symbol of a system gone wrong: as veterans sleep on the streets, many of its buildings lie abandoned and one-third of the land has been leased for commercial use. Read More »
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Effort To End Surgeries On Wrong Patient Or Body Part Falters
When the president of the Joint Commission, the Chicago-based group that accredits the nation's hospitals, unveiled mandatory rules to prevent operations on the wrong patient or body part, he did not mince words...some researchers and patient safety experts say the problem of wrong-site surgery has not improved and may be getting worse, although spotty reporting makes conclusions difficult. Read More »
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An Open Health Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine have been involved in a project designed to free health data from government archive silos and put it into the hands of innovators and entrepreneurs to facilitate growth and development of the healthcare ecosystem. The hope is that new applications, products, and services will be developed to advance healthcare education, to influence health behaviors, and to improve performance of the healthcare system and our health outcomes. Read More »
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Wide Open Future
Earlier this spring, David Riley and Vanessa Manchester, two leaders of the Federal Health Architecture’s open source CONNECT data exchange initiative, announced the formation of the nonprofit Alembic Foundation.
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VISTA Planning and Management Part 2: The Paradox of Success
The greater the past management success elsewhere, the greater the chance of failing to manage VISTA successfully.
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