Over the last few years, groups nationwide have adopted the open-source mantra of the software world and started financing open-source books. Experts — often retired teachers or groups of teachers — write these books and allow anyone to distribute them in digital, printed or audio formats...But progress with these open-source texts has been slow.
Open Source Telemedicine
Chris Moses | The Fifth Conference | June 15, 2011
Sana, a student organization based at MIT, has developed a free, open source telemedicine system that connects community healthcare workers to medical professionals.
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Open Source + Cloud: Strong Medicine
Editors | FedTechBisNow | June 14, 2011
Veterans Affairs and DOD's efforts to create a common health IT framework won't just help improve care for warfighters and vets. It could help jump-start health information sharing nationwide.
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ONC popHealth tool automates physician quality measure reporting
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | June 17, 2011
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has made available a free tool to simplify the reporting by physicians and practices of clinical quality measures for meaningful use.
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Obama: Health Tech, Broadband Key To Rural Development
Neil Versel | Information Week | June 15, 2011
An Obama administration effort to coordinate federal programs for rural America is counting on healthcare technology and broadband Internet to help improve access to care and support economic development for people in rural areas.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education?
Audrey Watters | ReadWriteWeb | February 23, 2011
April will mark the 10th anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare, the university's initiative to provide free and open access to its core academic content - the syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures from over MIT 2,000 courses. Read More »
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Medical Smart Cards Find Their Niche
Kenrick Vezina | Technology Review | June 14, 2011
Unified health systems and limited infrastructure offer opportunities to medical-IT innovators. Read More »
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Infographic: The Affordable Future of College Textbooks
Nicholas Jackson | The Atlantic | May 16, 2011
Publishing pioneers and textbook innovators are pushing open textbooks, or works that students can read digitally, print out on their own or buy in a more traditional format. With reduced distribution costs, open source textbooks should save students some money while also allowing them to digest new information in their chosen format. Read More »
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In Defence of NHS IT
Robin Smith | Public Service | June 1, 2011
Amongst the ashes of the NAO report on the NHS National Programme for IT there are seeds of hope, writes Robin Smith, head of information governance at Northampton General Hospital Read More »
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iEHR Will Use DoD Enterprise Architecture
Molly Bernhart Walker | Fierce Government IT | June 15, 2011
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have agreed upon a common architectural framework for the integrated electronic health record system, or iEHR. Read More »
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