Percona University Budapest 2017
Percona University Budapest 2017 is one of a series of free and low-key half-day technical events hosted by Percona since 2013. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from open source database experts, ask these experts questions, and learn about solutions to database challenges from peers. As an educational event, Percona University events include presentations designed for "students" of all kinds, from beginners to professionals with years of experience in the database industry...
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Percona University Berlin 2017
Percona University Berlin 2017 is one of a series of free and low-key half-day technical events hosted by Percona since 2013. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from open source database experts, ask these experts questions, and learn about solutions to database challenges from peers. As an educational event, Percona University events include presentations designed for "students" of all kinds, from beginners to professionals with years of experience in the database industry...
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LinuxFest Northwest 2017
LinuxFest Northwest is an annual open source conference featuring presentations and exhibits on a variety of open source-related topics, Linux distributions, and Linux applications. The conference will also feature tutorials, social events, the Linux Game Den, Arduino hacking, and a robotics lab. This year's event will be held in the Campus Center, The Haskell Building, and G-Building on the campus of Bellingham Technical College...
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Red Hat Summit
The Red Hat Summit is an open source technology conference designed to showcase the best and latest technology in virtualization, cloud computing, platform, middleware, storage, and systems management. The 2017 Red Hat Summit is the 13th annual summit since its start in 2005. Themes for 2017 include big data, internet of things (IoT), OpenStack, containers, culture of collaboration, IT strategy, management tools, security, integration, infrastructure, DevOps, business automation, application platforms, delivery, and development. Attendees can have access to breakout sessions, general sessions, hands-on labs and trainings, keynotes, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, discovery sessions, and the Partner Theater...
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The Right Way to Modernize VA's VistA EHR: Shift Development to the Private Sector and the Cloud
While changes to VistA are warranted and necessary, trashing the entire system because one component may be flawed makes little sense from technological or financial perspectives. The VA scheduling scandal was the product of an agency overwhelmed by veterans returning from two theaters of war. In that scenario, the scheduling system became a scapegoat for organizational and human resources challenges that were bound to manifest in one way or another.The VA should not heed calls to replace VistA for these key reasons...
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Europeana adds 470,000 images to Creative Commons Search
CC Search beta has added 470,000 images from the millions of materials contained in Europeana’s collection of Creative Commons images. Europeana is Europe’s digital platform for cultural heritage, collecting and providing online access to over 54 million of digitised items ranging from books, photos, and paintings to television broadcasts and 3D objects. As an important cultural partner to CC, Europeana’s platform strengthens the commons through its large, searchable collection of digital records from nearly 4,000 European libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual galleries...
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12th DoD/VA and Gov Health IT Summit
Held since 2011, DSI’s Health IT Summits are a unique forum that allows for personnel from DoD, VA, Federal and State agencies to convene in one location along with leaders from Industry and Academia that support them. As the healthcare industry continues to evolve to better suit the needs of the patient, the role of information technology will continue to be an integral part in the efforts to link innovative IT solutions with advanced lines of communication to achieve a patient centered health system that focuses on enhancing delivery of healthcare. Although delivering military health care in an efficient and cost-effective manner is important, the goal is to first and foremost build a health care system focusing on improving the overall the health of the patient. In the efforts to support this health care system, tremendous strides have been made from multiple organizations ranging from the DoD, VA, Government Agencies, Private Industry, and Academia.
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Merger of TranSmart, i2b2 Aims to Provide Informatics Boost to Precision Medicine Efforts
As genomic tools continue to make their way from the research lab into clinical practice, the recently announced merger between the TranSmart Foundation and the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) aims to provide researchers and clinicians with an open-source resource that could benefit precision medicine efforts. Earlier this month, the two organizations announced their plans to combine into a single foundation focused on providing open-source biomedical software and databases for precision medicine...
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Boston Scientific’s Connected Patient Challenge: Big Data Takes Center Stage
Big data, artificial intelligence and patient-engagement technologies were among the systems featured at yesterday’s Connected Patient Challenge hosted by Boston Scientific at Google’s Cambridge, Mass. facility. The Shark Tank–style event featured 6 companies competing for a chance to work with Boston Scientific to develop their proposed products or systems...
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Open-Source EdgeX Foundry Seeks to Standardize Internet of Things
Security is the Internet of Things' (IoT) Achilles heel. One reason that's so is there is a lack of common IoT development standards. The Linux Foundation, along with 50 companies, is addressing this by building a common open-framework for IoT edge computing and an ecosystem of interoperable components under a new open-source consortium: The EdgeX Foundry. The new initiative has a common goal: The simplification and standardization of Industrial IoT edge computing, while still allowing room for vendors to add their own value-add features...
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