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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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Dutch PhD-Workshop on Research Design, Open Access And Open Data

Esther Hoorn | Open Foundation Knowledge Blog | February 1, 2013

For some time now the library at the University of Groningen is organizing workshops for PhDs to raise awareness on the shift towards Open Access. Open Access and copyright are the main themes. The question also to address verifiability of research data came from SOM, the Research Institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

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E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon An Advantage

David Streitfeld | New York Times | July 10, 2013

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs. Read More »

e-Global Goes Live with Authentic Open Development Payment Platform

Tabitha Naylor | Mobile Commerce Insider | November 5, 2012

Mexico’s largest electronic payment processor, Servicios Electronicos Globales, e-Global, has gone live with the Authentic Open Development Payment platform provided by Alaric International and Stratus Technologies Mexico. Read More »

e-Health Project In Malaysia To Monitor Medical Drug Preservation With Waspmote

Alberto Bielsa | Libelium | January 20, 2012

Medical drugs are very expensive, in special vaccines and others that need to be stored at a specific temperature. Therefore, real-time monitoring is vital to control whether the cold chain has been broken or not. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are capable of getting temperature, humidity or luminosity measurements and transmit the data to a remote server periodically. In this way, real-time conditions can be monitored in order to know when a problem in a freezer or a refrigerator happens, avoiding critical situations and saving a huge amount of money.

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E-Health Records Can Boost Care in Developing Countries, Study Finds

Press Release | International Business Times | March 22, 2011

Computer-generated reminders in electronic health record systems can help improve care in developing countries, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), the International Business Times reports. The study focused on an open-source EHR system, called OpenMRS, that is widely used in developing countries.

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E-Prescribing Continues Rapid Growth

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | December 3, 2012

While there are at least two sides to every story, one of the more one-sided stories in health IT is the degree to which e-prescribing has taken hold across the healthcare sector. Read More »

E-Prescribing Growth To Pop As Penalties Approach

Michelle McNickle | InformationWeek | January 14, 2013

E-prescription adoption will grow in 2013, but challenges persist in connectivity, funding and state regulations, says Black Book study.
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E-Records Project Taken From DoD Health Office

Tom Philpott | Military.com | May 3, 2013

After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record (iEHR) system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm. Read More »

EAC Mulls Project to Boost Maternal, Child Health

Press Release | East African Community (EAC) | June 6, 2012

The East African Community is set to launch before the end of this year a project to boost maternal and child health in the region. The project, named the Open Health Initiative, is envisaged to promote innovative interventions and enhance access to data and information for better results, better tracking of resources and stronger oversight of results and resources for women's and children's health nationally and regionall... Read More »

Early Bird Registration Now Open For ICT4D Conference

Press Release | Game Changers Summit, United Methodist Communications (UMC) | February 25, 2014

Registration is open for the Game Changers Summit, a technology conference designed to help churches, universities and organizations connect their global mission agendas with technology solutions for the developing world. Read More »

Early Career Researchers Making Their Own Luck – With Help From The Internet

Kathryn Eccles | Guardian | January 15, 2014

Launching our new blogging platform for early career academics, Kathryn Eccles, historian turned digital humanist, extols the career benefits of staying open minded and switched on Read More »

Earthquake Could Cause Los Alamos Plutonium Facility To Collapse

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 27, 2013

An earthquake could collapse the building at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., where plutonium cores of nuclear bombs are produced, releasing deadly doses of radiation, the Department of Energy’s inspector general reported on Thursday Read More »

Easier Access To PLOS Data

Liz Allen | PLOS.org | January 30, 2013

You’ve always relied on PLOS to make scientific and medical research freely accessible to all. Now we’re introducing a number of tools and services to unlock the full potential of the data that currently exists in the Figures and Supporting Information files of our journals but has to this point been just beyond easy reach and these include: Read More »

East African Community 'Open Health' Project to Boost Maternal & Child Health

Lusekelo Philemon | ippmedia.com | June 8, 2012

The East African Community is expected to launch before the end of this year, a special project named 'Open Health Initiative' geared to boost maternal and child health in the region. Read More »

Eastern Health Goes Live with NexJ Disease Screening

Press Release | NexJ Systems Inc., Eastern Health | July 23, 2012

NexJ Systems Inc...today announced that Eastern Health, the largest, integrated health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador, has begun use of the NexJ Disease Screening solution for its Colorectal Screening Information and Reporting System project. Read More »