...[O]pen innovation, as described throughout Chesbrough's book, was essentially invented by Linus when he started the Linux project in 1991. To see why, we need to look at the larger history of free software.

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In what read as a final pronouncement, the NAO reported that after nine years and £2.7bn, the NHS has failed to deliver its primary aim of an electronic care record for everyone in the country.

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The Department of Defense has a new assistant secretary for health affairs who supports developing systems for e-health records, now that the Senate has confirmed President Bush's nominee, Dr. S. Ward Casscells.

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A set of tools for building cell-phone apps that collect health-related information aims to change the way health information is stored, shared, and used.

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MinimPy is a free open source desktop application for managing the whole process of minimization.

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In Hampton Roads, Va., the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are staging the most far-reaching military health information mash-up ever attempted.

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The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are “in a better place now than we have ever been” in their effort to blend their electronic health records, said Navy Capt. Michael Weiner, deputy program manager and chief medical officer for the Defense Health Information Management System.

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The MedVirginia health information exchange has started sharing patient records with the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments in the Hampton Roads, Va., area, the second community to start testing the virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER).

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Vivek Kundra, the federal government’s first chief information officer, will step down from his post later this summer.

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Vivek Kundra, the U.S. Chief Information Officer for the past two and a half years, will be stepping down from his role to serve a joint fellowship at Harvard University this fall.

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