In the pursuit of increasing access to education, Education-Portal.com has recently launched an interview series with OpenCourseWare (OCW) providers around the world. These institutions are at the forefront of the open education movement, which provides free educational resources to any student or self learner with an Internet connection

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When he's not at his day job as head of clinical development at private equity concern Celtic Therapeutics, he's trying to fix our broken system of drug development by launching Transparency Life Sciences, an open-source drug development enterprise. His concept of "open" goes beyond computer code. He's reaching past software programmers and drug researchers to statisticians, patient-engagement web sites like Cure Together, and patient-driven disease-specific databases.

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A decade ago, the Linux operating system helped spark a revolution in how software is developed. A move by GlaxoSmithKline PLC could test how well similar open-source principles work for developing new drugs. The pharmaceutical giant last week opened to the public the designs behind 13,500 chemical compounds that it said may be capable of inhibiting the parasite that causes malaria.

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Akaza Research reports that its OpenClinica open-source software has hit the 10,000 individual-member milestone. That's a three-fold increase in two years. Users hail from 70 countries on six continents.

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For the past 12 months, the OpenClinica development team has been working diligently on the next major OpenClinica release. In a prior blog post (OpenClinica 3.1 (project “Amethyst”) Preview), I discussed some of the new functionality and key improvements this forthcoming release will include.

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John Scott, Director of Open Source Software and Open Integration at RadientBlue Technologies, joined Deb Bryant of Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab to discuss how open source software and development approaches are used in the US Department of Defense.

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The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is an open source electronic medical record system (EMR) platform for developing countries supported by a non-profit collaborative led by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners In Health. There is a rapidly growing 'open' community of OpenMRS software developers, users, and vendors around the world. Watch selected video presentations from several  OpenMRS community members that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGyNBYMTxM&feature=related

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The VistA Community is composed of a growing number of organizations that provide system implementation,  software development, training, and other support services for the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. Watch selected video presentations from several VistA organizations in the VistA community on their versions of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_eIik37X4

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Lightweight Portable Security. LPS is a simple, inexpensive tool to create trusted endpoints for government and the public. It is bootable, open-source software that can be used with most Windows, Macintosh or Linux computers to create a nonpersistent trusted end node for secure browsing, cloud computing or network access.

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Two leaders of the federally-funded CONNECT initiative to develop open source, downloadable health information exchange software now head a new foundation created to take the lead in promoting and expanding use of the technology. From the beginning, the government's plan was that a private sector organization would eventually take over management of CONNECT so the initiative could be more open to all participants in addition to federal agencies, but that hasn't happened until now. David Riley, president of The Alembic Foundation in Falls Church, Va., and Vanessa Manchester, COO, served as top staff for CONNECT in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

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