Baker: VA Lacks a High-Level View of Its IT Architecture
The Veterans Affairs Department lacks a fully documented, detailed view of its information technology architecture and does not consider such a high-level view critical to developing an IT strategy, said Roger Baker, VA chief information officer. Baker testified during a May 11 hearing of the House Veterans Affairs' subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Read More »
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An Open Source Web Application for the Surveillance and Prevention of the Impacts on Public Health of Extreme Meteorological Events: the SUPREME System
After conducting a detailed needs analysis, the Quebec National Institute for Public Health developed and implemented an integrated web application leveraging open source software for the real-time Surveillance and Prevention of Extreme Meteorological Events impacts on public health, called the SUPREME system. Read More »
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What's the Direction of ehealthopensource.org After September?
This is your opportunity to influence the long-term existence of an Open Source health and social care ecosystem following the closure of the KTP in September. Your contribution now will help inform who is involved and how it is delivered post-September 2011. Read More »
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The Health of Nations
Medicine may be hard, but health insurance is simple. The rest of the world's industrialized nations have already figured it out, and done so without leaving 45 million of their countrymen uninsured and 16 million or so underinsured, and without letting costs spiral into the stratosphere and severely threaten their national economies. Read More »
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ONC: Open Source is Key to Agencies' NHIN Connections
Federal agencies' shared connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network will be open, flexible and extensible -- characteristics that could make it useful to organizations outside the federal government in the future, Federal Health Architecture officials told a conference audience here yesterday. Read More »
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NHIN Users Will Need Tougher Security, Feds Warn
Healthcare providers and businesses that plan to use the nationwide health information network need to strengthen their security and privacy measures to ensure healthcare transformation succeeds, Julie Boughn, chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said today. Read More »
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Feds to Host NHIN Software Code-a-Thon
The Health and Human Services Department will sponsor a "code-a-thon" Aug. 27 so open source programmers can meet to collaborate on ways to improve the CONNECT gateway, software that lets organizations access the Nationwide Health Information Network. Read More »
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Cancer Research Faces Changes With Health Care Reform
Many doctors and medical researchers applauded a new federal focus on comparative effectiveness research that was boosted through the 2009 stimulus package and codified with the signing of the health care reform bill in March. The changing policies, however, present "a conundrum" for cancer work. Read More »
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Collaborating Globally to Address Breast Cancer in Latin America
It’s increasingly apparent that the most successful global health efforts require not just the best minds, but the best minds working collaboratively, to make a difference on the world stage. Read More »
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National Cancer Institute Develops A Research Cloud
Dr. Kenneth Buetow is leading an effort to develop caBIG - an ambitious community cloud platform designed to connect researchers and medical staff across the United States.The caBIG architecture is based on an open-source platform that allows the collaboration and exchange of data among 60+ cancer centers as well as government, educational and private oncology institutes. Read More »
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