Impact Case Studies and Knowledge Transfer Case Studies
AHRQ-funded studies in the 1990s on electronic order writing and computer reminders helped to inform and inspire a growing, global open-source medical record system community known as OpenMRS.
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iHRIS and eLearning: A New Direction for Capacity-Building
Kabelo Bitsang, iHRIS administrator for the Botswana Ministry of Health, learned to maintain and customize the iHRIS software through studying documentation online, working with CapacityPlus developers both in-country and remotely, and attending a training in Ghana
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Big Data and Open Source Unlock Genetic Secrets
The world is experiencing an unprecedented data deluge, a reality that my colleague Edd Dumbill described as another "industrial revolution" at February's Strata Conference
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America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2011
Businesses that aim to tackle social ills and turn a profit are getting attention from mainstream investors. Our third annual roundup profiles 25 ventures.
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AHRQ Details New Health IT Research Grants
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering career development research grants focused on healthcare IT.
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AHLTA Is Not Alone, Part II: Ontario’s $1 Billion Health IT Fiasco
After the $4 billion Department of Defense AHLTA fiasco, (AHLTA is Intolerable), and the $17 billion UK National Health Service fiasco, here is a a scathing report on the eHealth Ontario spending scandal charges that successive governments wasted $1 billion in taxpayer money.
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AHLTA is Not Alone – UK NHS IT Fiasco Tops It As $17 Billion Fiasco
I had thought that DoD’s AHLTA held the record for being the world’s greatest health IT fiasco, spending $4-5 billion of taxpayer’s money on a system that was deemed Intolerable by the GAO and an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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AHLTA is Intolerable
30 years ago, in December 1978, I attended a meeting with folks from the VA, DoD, Indian Health Service, and others about building a shared software infrastructure for medical records.
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After Kundra: First CIO’s Legacy and Possible Successors
Kundra is turning in his White House ID for a fellowship at Harvard, The Washington Post reports, where he will continue to focus on issues such as cloud computing and open government.
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Advances, Setbacks, and Continuing Impediments to Government Transparency
I heard yesterday about the good, the bad, and the edgy in open government at Computers, Freedom & Privacy, being held this week in Washington, DC.
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