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Ebola Health Research Call
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has already claimed the lives of over 1000 people. Under-resourced health systems are struggling to cope, and the WHO recently declared the situation an international health emergency. In light of this, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Wellcome Trust, and ELRHA have opened a special funding window through the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme. Read More »
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Ebola Outbreak: Sierra Leone Confirms First Deaths
Four people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, the first confirmed cases in the country following an outbreak in Guinea, the health ministry has said. Read More »
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Ebola, EHRs, And The Blame Game
It’s time to think carefully and look at the large systems (human and technical), institutions, and individuals that contributed to Mr. Duncan’s death. Systems should be designed to protect people and prevent human errors...
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EC Calls For Use Of ICT Standards To Battle IT Vendor-Lock
All of Europe's public administrations should use ICT standards "to help alleviate the lock-in of their ICT systems, encourage competition and underpin the development of the European digital single market", the European Commission said today. [...] Read More »
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Eclipse Backs Open Source For Internet Of Things
The Eclipse Foundation is seeking to create a strong open-source developer community that is focused on the Internet of Things. Read More »
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Eclipse Foundation Announces Release Of Hudson 3.0
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Hudson 3.0. Used around the world with more than 30,000 installations, Hudson is a continuous integration (CI) server used to significantly improve the software development process. Read More »
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Economic Impact of Open Source on Small Business
A few months back, Tim O’Reilly and Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of Endurance International Group (EIG), had a discussion about the web hosting business. They talked specifically about how much of Hari’s success had been enabled by open source software. But Hari wasn’t just telling his success story to Tim, but rather was more interested in finding ways to give back to the communities that made his success possible... Read More »
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Economic Slowdown Tied To Rise In Obesity In Richer Nations: OECD
The rate of obesity continues to climb across the world's most developed countries, with certain nations and groups of people such as women and the poor hit harder by the recent economic crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday. Read More »
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Economist Explains How Much Innovation Is Being Held Back: Says We Need To Fix The Patent System
Part of the key argument in [economist Alex Tabarrok's Kindle short, Launching the Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast] is that through bad policy, we've really held back the pace of innovation. This is something we've pointed out before, but Tabarrok has some data to back it up. Read More »
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Economist, Why so Pessimistic about Open Source Medical Devices Software?
I read an interesting article in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly of June 2nd-8th of 2012, p. 17-18, on open source medical devices software. Let me summarise for you: the article starts by showing all the benefits of medical devices software that is developed using open source models, and there are many...The article concludes however that open source has no place in the current regulatory environment and points only to FDA regulation for that conclusion. Read More »
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ECRI Execs: Poor Usability, Missing Safeguards Lead Health IT Trouble Spots
Health information technology safety is much like highway safety: It's not just the driver or vehicle that causes an accident, but often other contributing factors that culminate into bigger problems. HIT errors don't have a single culprit like product malfunction or user error - all signs point to a bigger issue and call for behavioral and industry change. This is according to Ronni P. Solomon, executive vice president, general counsel, ECRI Institute, who opened a HIMSS16 session on Wednesday about health it safety hazards, by shedding light on elements that contribute to errors and promoting a call to action on how health IT is managed...
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ECRI Institute Committed to Building National Health IT Safety Collaborative
Building on the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, a multi-stakeholder collaborative, ECRI Institute is now responding to the call for a national program focused on improving health IT safety. ECRI Institute, together with the Alliance for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AQIPS), the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), and the Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a letter to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) informing them of their shared vision for a national health IT safety collaborative. The letter includes the key characteristics needed for its success.
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ECRI Institute Releases Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Report For 2013
While today’s health technology advances provide countless new ways to improve patient care, some also create new opportunities for harm. And with the evolution of healthcare information technology systems such as electronic health records (EHRs), there’s a growing level of complexity and opportunity for error.
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ED Physician Executive Slams EHRs
Electronic health records "are not effective communications tools—not effective at all," says a self-avowed technology optimist who holds a dim view of current EHR capabilities, but has hopes for better systems to come. Read More »
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EDC Scandinavia Uses OpenClinica for BYOD ePro
In a recent study involving several hundreds patients, we decided to offer patients the ability to collect their diary data using their own smart phones instead of the traditional paper diary. The patients who decided to participate in the study downloaded the app to their smart phone or could use their desktop to access the application.
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