Vital Signs: Looking At The VA As A Model
State lawmakers struggling to create an affordable health care system may want to take a closer look at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA runs the largest integrated health-care system in the country, actively serving over six million Americans, about 24,000 in Vermont While the VA spends less per patient, this government-managed health-care program is managing to outperform the private sector on many fronts.
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7th WorldVistA Education Seminar
The 7th WorldVistA Education Seminar consists of a series of instructor led courses focused on the VistA Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), system administration, programming, and evaluation topics. The curriculum is designed for clinical application coordinators (CAC), system administrators, managers, developers and those sites evaluating VistA for future adoption. Read More »
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VA Launches Health Information Exchange Pilot
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to build its health information technology infrastructure to serve the veteran population, the department said it will start a pilot project in the Richmond region to improve the delivery of veterans' health information. The pilot, announced last week, involves the Richmond VA Medical Center and MedVirginia (MedVA). Read More »
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WorldVistA 23rd Community Meeting
The goal of VistA Community Meetings is for those involved in the VistA Community to network, collaborate, share ideas, and work together. The objective is to keep moving VistA and the 'open source' VistA community forward.
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The Health Graph: Mortal Threats & Signs of Life
Two years ago, I said that the executive branch of the U.S. federal government was the most interesting tech startup of 2009. That optimism started to bear fruit just a few months later, with one of my favorite examples being what I called "The Health Graph", the massive amount of new public health data being made available by the Department of Health & Human Services' open data project, the Community Health Data Initiative. Read More »
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Open Source: The Future of Drugs
The Science Translational Medicine Journal published this week a commentary about the recent Toronto Summit, where 43 research, pharma, funder and policy thought-leaders gathered on 16 February 2011 for a summit on pre-competitive disease biology and innovative strategies for drug discovery.
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Build Your Own Watson with Open Source Software
The key analytical technology underlying IBM’s Watson, winner of the Jeopardy! contest against two previously unbeaten contestants, is an open source program called UIMA, for Unstructured Information Management application. Read More »
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Six Reasons 'Open Access' Matters to the Medical Community
I would argue that one of the most neglected and important ways to improve our healthcare delivery and innovation is by opening access to research. "Open Access" is the free, immediate, unrestricted availability of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship over the Internet - combined with the rights to use this information to its fullest possible extent.
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eHealth Week
This year’s eHealth Week (www.ehealthweek.org) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 10-12 May, 2011.
Our parallel sessions will focus on ‘European Regions at the forefront of eHealth’ and ‘Developing Ideas for the Active and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership’.
About the eHealth Week’s sessions: Read More »
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Top 'Open' Health IT Picks for 2011
Based on number of users, community support, quality of software, and longevity, the following 'open source' health information technology (HIT) systems have risen to the top of our HITS List for 2011. Check them out –
caBIG CARE2X ClearHealth Epi Info FreeMed Globus Toolkit
iPath Mirth OpenClinica Open Dental OpenEMR OpenMRS
OpenHRE OSCAR RODS RPMS VistA WHO HealthMAPPER
*For more information on other 'open source' and 'public domain' health IT software solutions, go to OHN Resources
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