Five sites for open source healthcare
If you're browsing the web looking for sites about open source healthcare, here are five I found interesting. There are a ton of sites out there, and I tried to stay away from those that talked strictly about software--instead focusing on those that tackled the issues in open source ways beyond technology.
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Federal Health and Technology Leaders on Open Standards Successes; Encouraging Health IT Entrepreneurs at HIMSS ’11 Venture Fair
Proclaiming “today is the best time to be a healthcare entrepreneur in America”, U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Aneesh Chopra stood before a room of health IT and business leaders at the HIMSS 2011 Health IT Venture Fair & Strategic Partner Forum. Joining Chopra were Peter Levin, CIO of the Veterans Administration, and Farzad Mostashari, MD Deputy National Coordinator of the Office of National Coordinator, the office overseeing technical and policy aspects of US healthcare transformation efforts. The one-day venture forum preceded the HIMSS 2011 Annual Conference and focused on driving healthcare IT related innovation and economic development opportunities in the private sector based on opportunities presented in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts.
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Executive Spotlight: Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat U.S. Public Sector
Like many other IT professionals, Gunnar Hellekson’s interest in computers was born at an early age, but it was not until college he received formal training in the field. About four or five years ago, he[...] ended up working at Red Hat U.S. Public Sector as a chief technology strategist.
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VistA and the US Veterans Administration: Facilitating the Radical Transformation of Health Systems Through Evidence-based Software Evolution
The eHealthOpenSource.org is going to run the third event in its educational webinar series on Tuesday, 29th March 2011, in collaboration with WorldVistA. The webinar session is planned to start at 2pm GMT and to finish at 3pm GMT. Please feel free to forward this invite to anyone who might be interested. Read More »
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Defense & Energy Ranked Top Departments in Open Source Use
The U.S. Defense and Energy departments have been deemed leading agencies when it comes to transparency and the use of open source technologies, reveals a survey by Open Source For America (OSFA) examining which federal departments were making the most of open-source technologies. Read More »
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Defense Leads Open Source Push in Government as Politicians Fail
A new report being released by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a strategic think tank headed by former Sen. Sam Nunn, shows that outside the Department of Defense (DoD) open source is mainly being stymied. Apparently, when politicians get involved, money from proprietary software vendors talks loudest.
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Medical Industry Ties Often Undisclosed in Journals
Twenty-five out of 32 highly paid consultants to medical device companies in 2007, or their publishers, failed to reveal the financial connections in journal articles the following year, according to a study released on Monday.
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California eHealth Collaborative Webinar: Gigi Smith, Deputy Director, Information Management Services Division, California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (CADP)
On Tuesday, March 22, at 1:00 PM, California eHealth Collaborative is delighted to present Gigi Smith, Deputy Director, Information Management Services Division, at the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (CADP).
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How Can Cancer Research Be Open-Sourced?
Mark asked on Quora on how can cancer research be open-sourced. So, far I found Quora to be rather noisy, even after signing up only to science related groups, themes, whatever it is called. However, every now and then there is an interesting question like this one.
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Open Research Computation, ORC, #openrescomp
Yesterday, a new journal launched, but your regular new journal. This journal is about scientific software. Tested software. Documented software. Open Source software. I am on the editorial board, so I am biased here. But, this journal is special. This new journal is called Open Research Computation (ORC?).
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