From a personally-controlled social network to a mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations, open source software is meeting the needs of today's application developers, according to Black Duck Software, which today announced its 2010 open source 'Rookies of the Year' list. Read More »

PCAST recently released a report calling for the creation of a “universal exchange language,” to enable patients to access their information from wherever they are. That can’t be done now, since all those EHRs on the market are incompatible with one another. Read More »

As hospitals and doctors scramble to install EHRs to meet government-imposed rules and deadlines, a major concern for many hospitals is cost. Midland Memorial, a 320-bed hospital in Midland, Texas, struggles financially because it treats a high percentage of uninsured patients. It would have been hard for it to pony up more than $20 million to implement an EHR system, and qualify for government incentives. Then, the folks in its IT department came across Medsphere and OpenVistA. Read More »

Mirth Connect does some amazing things with XML. The Community behind Mirth Connect is worldwide and they are always willing to provide assistance and improve the product. Bugs that are found by the Community are quickly fixed and integrated into the new version. There are no fees for Mirth Connect and the intuitive creation tools even the recommended database and database tools being all open source, this contributes to the popularity of the product and the thousands of product sites up and running. Read More »

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 18, 2011) - Information Builders, Inc. an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced it will provide iWay Software enterprise integration  solutions, premium maintenance support, professional and technical services, and education to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Repositories Program. The support comes under a new contract awarded to its federal sales partner immixGroup, Inc., a leading provider of technology products and services to the public sector. Read More »

As billions of dollars are budgeted to reform health care, legislators in Washington are frantically looking for ways in which the money can truly change the broken health care system without too much of an upset to its key constituents: payers, providers, employers and patients.

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NEW CANAAN, Conn., and SAN DIEGO—November 5, 2010—Silver Hill Hospital and Medsphere Systems Corporation today highlighted a series of clinical and organizational improvements achieved by the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital since the implementation of Medsphere’s OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) in March 2010. Read More »

Within the technology sector, industry heavyweights including Sun, Oracle, and IBM support the highly collaborative Open Source Initiative, which grew into Linux, a global open source operating system. IBM alone has pledged to spend $1 billion this year pushing open source, particularly Linux. Read More »

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.

The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) program is "a huge success story," said James Herbsleb, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in an interview with the DorobekINSIDER.

Herbsleb refers to Phillip Longman's book "Best Care Anywhere" that explores how the VA's system could be a model to help save the U.S. Health care system.