SMS To Improve Indonesian Health Care
East Indonesian district health offices are turning to text messages to deliver patient care following training from a team at Charles Darwin University. Read More »
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'Open Source' EHR Systems in Idaho
The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across Idaho and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in the state. Read More »
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Central New York Health RHIO Chooses Mirth's HIE Solution
HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) for Central New York, announced that it has successfully completed the migration to a new HIE system powered by Mirth. Read More »
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Open Source Developers Conference 2013
The Australasian Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) is one of the top conferences for developers in Asia Pacific. It’s primarily focused on development with open source tools and development of open source software, and is now in its 10th year.
For the first time, the conference is crossing the ocean and is landing in Auckland, New Zealand, 21st – 23rd October 2013, at the lavish Langham Hotel. This makes it truly an international event to that is a must attend. Read More »
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TEDMED 2014
TEDMED is a multi-disciplinary community of innovators and leaders who share a common determination to create a better future in health and medicine. So many of our great challenges in health and medicine are rooted in social and commercial causes as much as medical. We need everybody at the table for an inclusive conversation about how to get the future in health and medicine we all want.
TEDMED believes that the future of health and medicine will be shaped by vital input from leading medical colleges, teaching hospitals, government agencies, and non-profit institutions around the world. In a spirit of collaboration and information sharing, the entire TEDMED event is broadcast free to these institutions thanks to the generous support from our Partners. We call this TEDMED Live. Read More »
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OSCAR-CON 2014
The next OSCAR Canada Users Society (OCUS} Meeting is scheduled to be held in June 2014. Vancouver. This will be a 2 day users conference with updates on OSCAR, discussion of new features, and more. Details to be announced.
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OSCAR-CON 2014
The next OSCAR Canada Users Society (OCUS} Meeting is scheduled to be held in June 2014. Vancouver. This will be a 2 day users conference with updates on OSCAR, discussion of new features, and more. Details to be announced.
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How FrontlineSMS Helped An Indonesian Community Clean Up A River
FrontlineSMS has had a strong connection with environmental issues since our founder had the initial spark of an idea while working on an anti-poaching project in South Africa. We're delighted to share how Een Irawan Putra of KPC Bogor and the Indonesia Nature Film Society used FrontlineSMS in Indonesia to invite the community to help clean up the garbage clogging the Ciliwung River. Read More »
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Health Information For Remote & Rural Eastern Indonesia
The use of personal mobile phones has increased rapidly, even in remote parts of Eastern Indonesia, revolutionising the way people communicate. I work in a small regional university in Northern Australia (Charles Darwin University) very close to the Eastern Indonesian province of Nusa Tenngara Timur (NTT). Read More »
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Can Citizen Journalism Move Beyond Crisis Reporting In Traditional Newsrooms?
The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen journalism. Felix Salmon, in an excellent post on the Reuters blog, wrote that the manhunt for a suspect in the bombings “in many ways represented the first fully interactive news story.” The crisis again demonstrated the value — and risks — of citizen reporting via social media. Read More »
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