Open Access And The Humanities
On Thursday, June 27th at 2 pm, Harvard will host a public talk about Open Access and the Humanities in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center. Presented by the Open Library of the Humanities Academic Project Directors, Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, they will discuss [the following]. Read More »
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Online Health Communities Improve Chronic Care Quality
Online health communities can be powerful tools for addressing chronic care issues as the number of people afflicted with such ailments rises, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Read More »
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Office Of The National Coordinator For Health IT Tackles Pressing EHR Issues
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to stimulate the adoption of health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
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Obesity And The AMA
Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »
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Nurses Demand Delay Of EHR Rollout
"There has been no planned increase in staffing and no decrease in elective procedures during the time of the transition." Read More »
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New York: A Look at One State’s Transformative Efforts To Combat The HIV/AIDS Epidemic While Leveraging Health Information Technology And Innovative Solutions
To commemorate National HIV Testing Day on June 27th, we wanted to highlight the State of New York’s efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic when it first emerged, and to celebrate the new and innovative tools the state is exploring to prevent HIV and to test, diagnose, treat, and care for those living with the disease. Read More »
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Open source EHRs empower America's community health centers
How the economics of open source make sense for large scale, national healthcare infrastructure projects. A recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, examined "the use of open source electronic health records within the federal safety net."
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New OSEHRA Technical Journal Submission: MTools
A new submission has been added to the OSEHRA Technical Journal. Read More »
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NASA Takes To Reddit To Spur ‘Grand’ Ideas For Finding Asteroids
NASA is going to put a man on an asteroid in the next dozen years, and, like Uncle Sam, it wants you to help. Read More »
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Mick Ebeling Interview - Open Source Tech & Changing Healthcare
Mick Ebeling is an executive producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. You may recognize him from his TED Talk for the EyeWriter (http://bit.ly/eFHK1b) a collaborative DIY project that "unlocked" TEMPT One, a well-known L.A. graffiti artist who was rendered unable to move, breathe or speak after being diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative nerve disease. Read More »
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