Maine Doctor Cuts Prices In Half By Refusing Health Insurance

Kristen Butler | UPI.com | May 29, 2013

Maine doctor Michael Ciampi stopped accepting insurance enabling him to cut prices in half and make house calls. Read More »

Lawsuit Says IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | May 15, 2013

A lawsuit filed in California accuses the Internal Revenue Service of illegal seizure of 60 million electronic health care records belonging to 10 million Americans. Read More »

Red Hat Innovation Award Finalists in the Healthcare Arena

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced the finalists of the seventh annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red Hat technology. The following are three of the finalists in the healthcare arena. Read More »

NSA and Your Healthcare Information

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | June 13, 2013

...Edward Snowden has made no mention in his recent revelations that medical records were captured in the NSA's dragnet searches, though medical records have been targeted by the intelligence community in the past... Read More »

Health Informatics South Africa Conference (HISA)

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 3, 2013 (All day) - July 5, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Port Elizabeth
South Africa

The Health Informatics South Africa Conference (HISA 2013) will be held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 3 – 5 July 2013.  This is a South African Health Informatics Association (SAHIA) event hosted by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). Read More »

OHNews Weekly Summary - 6/14/2013

June 14, 2013  -  The following is a brief summary of some of the hot news items, selected news clips, feature stories, and blogs posted on Open Health News (OHNews) over the past week. Read More »

HELM Open Source Code Orientation Webinar

Details
When: 
June 19, 2013 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Sponsor: 
Pistoia Alliance

The Pistoia Alliance would like to invite you to their HELM Open Source Code Orientation Webinar at 15:00 BST on Wednesday 19th June.

HELM which stands for “Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules” - along with a supporting software toolkit - was developed by Pfizer researchers to manage the challenges of dealing with large biological molecules. Pfizer has been working with the Pistoia Alliance to ensure these powerful tools are made freely available to the wider life science community. Read More »

Issues and Opportunities Toward Interoperable EHRs for Rural and Underserved Healthcare Organizations

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
June 20, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
Columbus Club at Union Station Washington, D.C.
United States

On Thursday, June 20th, 12:00 — 2:00 pm, Columbus Club at Union Station, the Capitol Hill “Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics” will host a panel discussion entitled: “Health Information Technologies: Ensuring Successful Transitions Between Hospitals, Home Care, Long Term Care”. The HIMSS Foundation, Institute for eHealth Policy is pleased to be collaborating with the eHealth Initiative to convene this program. Read More »

Connecting California to Improve Patient Care in 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 24, 2013 - 4:00pm - July 25, 2013 - 5:15pm
Location: 
Santa Rosa, CA
United States

Connecting California to Improve Patient Care is an annual conference featuring subject matter experts on electronic health records (EHR), personal health records (PHR) and health information exchange (HIE). Speakers will present practical solutions for securely sharing electronic clinical information between unaffiliated health care facilities, such as outpatient practices, hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, long term care, home health, and public health. Read More »

Indian Health Service (IHS) Plans to Modernize EHR

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | June 13, 2013

The Indian Health Service (IHS), the federal agency in charge of providing healthcare to more than two million Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, is currently in the process of upgrading its Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) to increase interoperability and streamline EHR adoption by 2014, promote health information exchang Read More »