World AIDS Day: Battling the Disease with MobileTech
MobileActive.org has put together some of the mobile projects and organizations we've covered recently that are innovating with mobile tech in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
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Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Empower Social Workers in Tanzania
In this paper we describe a text message (SMS) based solution that harnesses the prevalence of mobile phones coupled with several Open Source tools to empower these para-social workers.
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Geek of the Week: Yaw Anokwa: UW Ph.D. Student, Open Data Kit and Change
My current project is Open Data Kit (ODK), a free and open-source set of tools which helps organizations create mobile data collection solutions with smartphones and cloud infrastructure.
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Africa is Saving Lives By Turning Mobile Phones into Hospitals
Mobile phone manufacturers, networks and software developers have joined forces with the United Nations to place the mobiles at the heart of a multi-million pound drive to tackle HIV/AIDS, malaria and deaths during childbirth. Read More »
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Is the Future of Pharma Open Source?
The current approach to drug development takes too long, costs too much, and is too unpredictable for pharma to invest in small to non-existent commercial markets. So for diseases like these, open source drug development has become one of the most promising avenues and we're finding more who seem to agree. Read More »
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IT to Support Greater Collaboration Between VA, Indian Health Service
Interoperable health IT is a major component of an expanded partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service to improve the health of Native American and Native Alaskan veterans. The two government agencies last week signed a memorandum of understanding that spells out a plan for better coordination of care, resource sharing and collaboration based on the strengths of each entity. Read More »
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Your Records Follow You: Hampton VA, Bon Secours Team Up to Share Health Records Electronically
The Obama administration in 2009 tasked the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense to come up with electronic medical records that can be shared among patients' providers. The first pilot, in San Diego, proved the technology would work. Hampton Roads was chosen for the second pilot site, and several partners have been working on it for the past year. Read More »
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ClearHealth, the First Open Source EHR Meaningful Use Certified
I am happy to report (a little late) that ClearHealth is now the first commercial Open Source EHR product to be meaningful use certified. Read More »
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Baker and Levin to Speak at WorldVistA Meeting
WorldVistA just announced that the VA's CIO, Roger Baker, and its CTO, Dr. Peter Levin, will both be speaking at the community's upcoming meeting in Fairfax, VA. The 23rd VistA Community Meeting will take place at George Mason University May 23-25.
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BC OSCAR Users Group Meeting - 2011
This upcoming British Columbia (BC) OSCAR User Group Meeting will be held in Vancouver on May 29-30, 2011. The meeting is for OSCAR users, MOAs, office managers, support providers, practitioners, and any others interested in using the open source OSCAR electronic health record (EHR) system. OSCAR is Canada’s coolest EMR solution! Read More »
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