MyVeHU Virtual Campus: Enrollment Hits 31,000 and Growing
Was that a typo? No it's a fact. Earlier this month, MyVeHU Campus enrollment hit 31,000, and the numbers are still climbing. You might be asking yourself, "Why would so many people be interested in online, virtual training?" MyVeHU Campus is designed to provide the very best learning on VA’s award winning VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. Read More »
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Participatory Medicine: Your Patient Is Your Partner
According to the Society for Participatory Medicine, 90 percent of health care takes place outside the doctor’s office. Read More »
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Amazingly Rapid Growth in Use of EHR Systems Across the U.S.
Until the President made investments in health information technology by signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, our health care system ran largely on paper. Read More »
Open source Geospatial Data
Open-source geospatial technology has proved its mettle in state and local government and the nonprofit and private sectors, providing significant services, value, innovation, transparency and a healthy return on investment. Read More »
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From Reactive to Preventative Health Care – a Role for Open Map Standards
Over the past decade, health authorities have used geospatial technologies to help respond to influenza outbreaks, plan responses to public health risks of extreme weather conditions, implement breast cancer programs, track West Nile virus, and much more. Wider use of OGC [Open Geospatial Consortium] standards by the health mapping community would make more data and processing resources discoverable, assessable and accessible. On May 31 the OGC will hold a free public webinar to review the charter for an OGC Health Domain Working Group. Read More »
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Sage launches open access Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
SAGE has announced the launch of a new international open access journal, the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM). Read More »
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Current State of Android Mobile Apps and mHealth Projects
According to data just released by Black Duck Software, development of new Android mobile projects have expanded by no less than 96% each year since 2007. See their chart showing cumulative growth for Android versus Apple iOS projects from 2007-2012 at Read More »
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Data.gov Launches New Catalog and APIs
Data.gov is launching two innovations today to mark both the anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy and the fourth anniversary of Data.gov. First is a comprehensive listing of the application programming interfaces (APIs) that were released from across the federal government as part of the Digital Government Strategy. Data.gov is also launching a new data catalog on an open source data management system called CKAN Read More »
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Driving innovation with Open Source
For the last ten years, Estonia has been ranked as the ‘Best of the Best’ for e-government applications by the United Nations. Sikkut said part of their success can be attributed to the use of open source in projects such as: e-health; e-police and e-justice; national citizens and business portals; e-procurement; document exchange systems; and digital culture portals and systems. Read More »
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Hagel Opts for Commercial Electronic Health Record Software
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel opted to run procurements for commercial electronic health record software, which will “likely” include software based on the system used by the Veterans Affairs Department. The move is considered a blow to VA and a boon to the healthcare information technology industry, multiple sources said. Read More »