GOSCON 2011

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 23, 2011 (All day)
Location: 
Convention Center Washington, DC
United States

The featured speaker at this years Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) is David Riley. He is the CONNECT Initiative lead for the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT). In this role, he facilitates consensus across a group of 20+ federal agencies and numerous private sector organizations and states to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis.

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Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) - 2011

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 16, 2011 - 8:00am - May 17, 2011 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Hilton San Francisco Union Square San Francisco, CA
United States

The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. For the 2011 OSBC, the agenda is built around four main areas: Big Data, Big Cloud, Big Legal Problems and Big Money. Read More »

mHealth Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
December 5, 2011 - 8:00am - December 7, 2011 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Gaylord National Convention Ctr, Washington DC Washington, DC
United States

The 3rd annual mHealth Summit brings together leaders in government, private sector, industry, academia, and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem to advance collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes in the United States and abroad.

The 2011 mHealth Summit will bring into focus the business, clinical research, and policy perspectives of mHealth. The Summit will foster an in-depth, interactive dialogue between prominent leaders in the industry who will discuss current technology innovation with an eye toward the future of wireless medical connectivity. The Summit will also focus on the research and evaluation needs of mHealth and facilitate the development and commercialization of clinically validated solutions and systems globally.

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'Prospero’, New International Register of Systematic Reviews

Dean Giustini | The Search Principle Blog | February 22, 2011

Last week at the 2011 Cochrane Canada conference, there was an announcement of a new international registry of systematic review protocols called PROSPERO.  The register is open to all researchers who are conducting systematic reviews, and--most importantly--is free.

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Disparities in Healthcare Among Minorities and the Use of Health Information Technology

David A. Dietz and Garth N. Graham | Online Research Journal | December 15, 2010

As the computing power and capabilities of information technologies continue to grow and improve, so do opportunities to modernize the US healthcare system through application of these technologies—in order to foster the health and well being of individuals in underserved minority communities.

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Wi-Fi Alliance, Continua Health Alliance Team on Wi-Fi-enabled Health Applications

Lynnette Luna | Fierce Broadband Wireless | February 23, 2011

The Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance have entered into an agreement that calls for the two to promote the adoption of Wi-Fi networking technology in connected health applications.

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Whitehouse.gov Could Be a Springboard for Open Source for America

Savio Rodriguez | InfoWorld | October 28, 2009

Like many of you, I awoke Monday to read that whitehouse.gov was now running on open source products, including Drupal, Red Hat Linux, Apache web server, MySQL, and Apache Solr.

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White House Uses Open Source To Open Government

 J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | October 26, 2009

The White House Web site now runs on open source. Over the weekend, Whitehouse.gov moved to a software stack that includes the open source Drupal content management system and Apache Solr search server.

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White House Opens its Website Programming to Public

Philip Elliott | USA Today | October 26, 2009

A programming overhaul of the White House's website has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze — you won't notice a thing.  The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for www.whitehouse.gov — meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.

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What's New With Open Source for America?

Savio Rodriguez | InformationWeek | October 14, 2010

Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage U.S. federal government support of and participation in open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad-reaching goal, it is. Nearly three months after the group's debut, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made toward this goal.

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