What happens after open sourcing? Do people from elsewhere actually show up, to ask questions, find bugs, and help out?

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Patient safety checklists are now state law, as Nevada signed the Patient Protection Checklist bill (AB 280) into legislation yesterday.

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An online, open access approach to publishing scientific and medical research is proving successful and will continue to develop, MPs have been told. Read More »

In particular, the U.S. military must have software that is easily adaptable to changing mission needs and can be evolved rapidly and delivered quickly at lower costs to meet mission requirements in a timely manner. Read More »

Microsoft has ended its deal to let the open source Asterisk PBX system work with Skype as of July 26, perhaps due to the launch of its own competing service. Read More »

One of the key components of the joint electronic health record planned by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments is a graphical user interface, and I've picked up strong signals that the two departments have three likely candidates in pilot mode. Read More »

In many hospitals, they don't have a strong system for dealing with vendors beyond paying the bills. So this would be a good time to document all your vendors and assign someone to work with them. Then assess their impact on ICD-10 compliance. Toward that end, Getz details some steps. Read More »

In a NY Times op-ed, David Hajdu posits that the spate of notable musicians all of the same age (turning 70 this year) is attributable to their turning 14 in the mid-1950s when rock 'n roll was just getting its start. "Fourteen is a formative age," his theory goes. What if that's not just for musicians? What about technology? And what does it mean for today's 14-year-olds? Read More »

Even a 10 percent increase in the hospital use of electronic medical records could save 16 babies for every 100,000 live births in the U.S. And, making a complete national transition to EHRs could save an estimated 6,400 infants each year nationwide, according to a new study published in the Journal of Political Economy. Read More »

At Accenture we are refreshing our Cloud Security & Data Privacy point of view. It’s been 2 years since we advocated ‘more caution,’ ‘less action’ in public cloud computing. Today, we are more optimistic and more realistic about the road ahead. Read More »