Impact Case Studies and Knowledge Transfer Case Studies

Editors | AHRQ | May 15, 2011

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

Carol Bales | CapacityPlus | June 15, 2011

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

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | June 24, 2011

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

John Tozzi | Bloomberg Businessweek | June 22, 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

Editors | Government Health IT | June 13, 2011

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

Tom Munnecke | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica | May 31, 2011

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

Tom Munnecke | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica | March 28, 2011

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

Tom Munnecke | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica | March 19, 2009

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

Jack Moore | ExecutiveGov | June 20, 2011

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

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | June 16, 2011

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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