Around a year ago, a school in the southeast of England, Westcliff High School for Girls Academy (WHSG), began switching its student-facing computers to Linux, with KDE providing the desktop software. The school's Network Manager, Malcolm Moore, contacted us at the time. Now, a year on, he got in touch again to let us know how he and the students find life in a world without Windows. [...] Read More »

Forty-six percent of U.S. physician groups plan to join a health information exchange, according to the "5th Annual U.S. Ambulatory Electronic Health Record & Practice Management Study," released by HIMSS Analytics, a non-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Read More »

In the midst of the doctor shortage and burnout epidemic, occupational medicine is the best-kept secret in U.S. health care. Read More »

Socrata, the cloud software company that's leading the shift to the data-driven government, announced today a multi-year strategic relationship with Microsoft that brings advanced open data technologies to public sector organizations worldwide, on the Windows Azure cloud platform. Read More »

[Todd Park's] role has taken on heightened importance after several recent developments, including the implementation of the new health care law, efforts to reduce the backlog in Department of Veterans Affairs claims processing, and privacy issues raised by disclosures about data collection by the National Security Agency. Read More »

In my previous post [...] I discussed a number of benefits to using an agile process to manage software development projects. In this post, I’d like to expand upon these benefits and illustrate why they are compelling reasons to consider Agile. Read More »

Open Access by Peter Suber was published by MIT Press in July 2012 and is an important resource for understanding the issue of open access.  A year later, Open Access has become open access, downloadable for free in several electronic formats: Read More »

Top officials at the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments said Wednesday they will create a system to exchange standard clinical health data, which will allow the departments to develop a single, shared electronic health record without the need to build a joint system from scratch. Read More »

Williams and Moreno Garcia meet once a week for an hour or so to discuss his progress in coping with post-traumatic stress disorder, the condition common to U.S. military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs [VA] has a lot on its plate.  From its rocky path towards interoperability with the Department of Defense to a disability benefits claims queue stretching into the hundreds of thousands, there is a great deal of work to be done in order to provide service men and women with quality healthcare.  Read More »