Open Source and the Federal Budget Squeeze, Part 2
The marketing stars appear to be coming into alignment for the vendors of open source offerings who are targeting the U.S. government. Significant barriers to adopting open source technology at the federal level are breaking down, and tight budgets provide an opportunity for vendors to emphasize the cost savings features of open technologies.
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Tech@State: Oh, the Places We STILL Need to Go...
The fact that the State Department hosted a conference last week on open source shows how far the U.S. Federal Government has come in terms of tech policy. Yet the content at Tech@State: Open Source often illustrated that the road ahead is still long and arduous.
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Don't Repeat the UK's Electronic Health Records Failure
Fueled by the economic stimulus passed by Congress in 2008, the federal government has embarked on a controversial $30 billion program to induce doctors throughout the country to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014.
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Richard Boyd, Chief Architect for Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs at HIMSS ’11
On the last day of 2011 Healthcare Information Systems Society’s Annual Conference & Exhibition, Richard Boyd shared his “Simulation Prescription," showing how gaming and simulation technology have the potential to further revolutionize health care.
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Share the Knowledge, Health Researchers Say
Medical researchers from Ottawa and Britain want all their colleagues to tell the world what studies they’re working on. Sometimes the left lab doesn’t know what the right lab is doing. The call to announce new studies publicly applies to “systematic reviews,” which are wide-ranging summaries of all the existing research on a given health topic.
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Saving Healthcare Billions: Let’s fork the VA’s Electronic Health Records System
Who, you might ask, is Ken Kizer? He's a former Naval officer and emergency medicine physician who became the US Veteran's Affair's undersecretary for health in 1994. While the list of changes he made is startling and impressive, what particularly caught my attention is that he accomplished what the Government of Ontario failed to do with $1Billion in spending: implementing an electronic medical record system that works.
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Red, White And Blue -- And Open
The group's name: Open Source for America. The group's mission: revolutionize the way we govern ourselves, from IT departments on outwards. Or at least just the IT departments.
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Red Hat, Oracle, Sun to Promote Open Source to U.S. Government
Yours Truly has often joked that the open source – or “open innovation” movement, as it’s sometimes called – sometimes resembles a quasi-religious cult. Now, however, it’s starting to resemble a political action committee.
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Q&A: Gunnar Hellekson on Open Source Adoption in Government
Open source software received a high-profile vote of confidence when WhiteHouse.gov chose to use Drupal as its web content management system. Agencies also warmed to open source solutions when the Defense Department released a 2009 memo dispelling some common misconceptions around open source software.
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Pushing the Government Toward Open Source
A new not-for-profit lobbying group, Open Source for America (OSFA), is knocking on United States federal agency doors and reminding purchasers that there are often open-source alternatives available to satisfy government software needs.
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