caBIG® Clinical Trials Management Systems (CTMS) / Population Sciences (PopSci) Joint Face-to-Face Meeting
The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is the official cancer center for the state of Arkansas and the only academic cancer institute in the state. The Cancer Institute also is one of six Centers of Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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Irish Government Should Emulate Obama's Open Data Strategy
The Irish Government is being called upon to open up all data to citizens and enterprising software developers. By embracing open data principles, open source technology and cloud computing, it is envisaged Ireland could follow in the steps of the U.S. government and European nations like Norway that have embraced open data principles to great success. Read More »
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Open Source Project Looks for Better TB Treatments
India's Open Source Drug Discovery(OSDD) collective is the driving force behind the Connect 2 Decode project that aims to pool research data and create a central repository accessible by any one organization in the world that's doing TB research of its own.
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Obama Calls for Lifetime Military e-Health Record
President Barack Obama asked the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to accomplish what for the last two years has been a mostly a struggle: building a "unified lifetime electronic record" for members of the military services. Read More »
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How Open Source Biology May Rock Your World
Here at OStatic, we're always interested in efforts to apply open source principles to efforts outside the software realm. Drew Endy, an open source biologist currently working at Stanford, is a good example of why. Along with several researchers at MIT, Endy is working on synthetic biology and the engineering of standardized biological components and devices, known as BioBricks. Read More »
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GlaxoSmithKline Using Open Source Principles To Further Drug Research
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced this week that it plans to rely on open source strategies to further drug research and to aid in the development of malaria drugs in an effort to help prevent disease-related death in third-world countries.
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EpiSurveyor and the Call For Open Source Mobile Healthcare Applications
EpiSurveyor...is an open source tool designed to allow anyone in the world to create handheld data entry forms, use them to collect data on mobile devices, and transfer the data to other devices for analysis
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VA's Baker Says VA, DOD Digital Record Systems Will Morph into Joint System
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments’ approaches to modernizing their health record systems may be slightly different, but their goals are aligned in developing a joint electronic health record (EHR) system, according to Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information and technology for the VA.
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‘I've Been Called a Girl Geek'
With her book Geek Nation just released, Angela Saini talks about India's aspirations to being a scientific superpower....[one example in her book] is that of Open Source Drug Discovery, a revolutionary project to collect research into tuberculosis from small-scale researchers across India, pool it on an open-access website and use this to come up with a possible cure...
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VA, DOD to Incorporate Open Source in EHR
The secretaries of the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will meet May 2 to determine their next steps toward developing a single electronic health record for the two agencies, according a senior VA official. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and DOD Secretary Robert Gates agreed in March on a commonn technical arcitecture, data and services and exchange standards for the joint system. Read More »
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