News

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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Grading the Public Options That Already Exist

Sabrina Shankman | Pro Publica | October 28, 2009

Pundits and politicians from both sides of the fence have been hollering themselves blue about a potential public health care option. Instead of relying on private insurers, the government would insure people itself...Two of the three health care reform bills in Congress have a public option. What might a public option look like in practice? One way to find out is to look at what's already out there. Read More »

Grand Opening: Federal Cloud Innovation Center

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013

As more state and federal government agencies try to catch up with the private sector in using cloud-based IT, IBM is giving them a lift. Read More »

Grant Awarded To iCow

Matt O'Reilly | Indigo Trust | September 4, 2012

Before I started working here, I never thought I’d be quite so clued up about the gestation cycle of a cow. Thanks to iCow – Kenya’s innovative SMS platform for all things bovine – the Indigo team have become well acquainted with the highs and lows of cow pregnancy. Read More »

Grant Awarded To Kytabu

Matt O'Reilly | Indigo Trust | May 23, 2013

Ensuring children have access to educational resources is a huge challenge [...]. In Kenya, however, Kytabu are working to tackle some of those issues. Read More »

Grant Awarded To Project Lungisa – Cape Town SA

Louise Vickers | Indigo Trust | August 30, 2012

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded a grant of £12,000 to Cell Life towards project Lungisa.   Lungisa – which means “fix it” in isiXhosa – will provide a platform to enable Cape Town citizens to send text based, audio and video reports outlining challenges in service delivery. Read More »

Grant Awarded To Uganda’s HiveColab

Matt O'Reilly | Indigo Trust | September 3, 2012

The Hive is a community-owned, co-working space for young tech entrepreneurs with projects that they’re looking to get off the ground. Hive Colab Membership offer entrepreneurs access to tech events and conferences in Kampala, as well as a professional office environment, reliable internet and business mentorship and advice services.
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Grant Supports Development Of Software To Judge Quality Of Electronic Public Health Data

Press Release | Indiana University | September 10, 2015

With the growing need for early identification of emerging threats including those of bioterrorism, pandemic flu, Ebola and foodborne illnesses, public health departments nationwide are increasingly relying upon data captured from electronic sources. A $381,000, 2-year grant from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health supports development by the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health of open source software tools to measure and monitor the quality of electronic data being transmitted to public health departments across the nation from health care systems, medical laboratories, physician offices and other sources.

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Grants For Innovative Projects To Promote Open Access To Data

Press Release | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) | February 19, 2013

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has announced a Challenge Grant program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  Through the program, ICPSR will fund innovative projects to promote open access to data, support research transparency, improve data citation, and more generally build good practice in data management and stewardship. Read More »

Graph of the Day: Over-the-Top Health Costs

Aaron Sinner | Daily Planet | January 13, 2012

Today’s graph comes from National Geographic and shows just how far out of whack the U.S. health system is compared to other nations. Despite spending significantly more than any other developed country and lacking a universal health care system (which the blue-line countries have), we still rank in the bottom half in average life expectancy.

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Greece promotes Open Access Week 2012

Staff Writer | OpenAIRE | November 9, 2012

The National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) participated in the Open Access Week by hosting a series of events - informative sessions and seminars - which aimed to broaden understanding and raise awareness of open access issues. Read More »

Greed, Fear And Other Barriers To Health Care As A Human Right

Philip Caper | Bangor Daily News | April 18, 2013

Of all the wealthy countries, only the United States has so far failed to treat health care as a human right. A human right to health care means that everybody receives the same health care whatever their age, gender, health or employment status, racial or religious background, sexual orientation, or wealth and income level. Read More »

Green America Campaign Targets Starbucks Over GMO Milk

Staff Writer | Sustainable Pulse | March 4, 2014

Green America’s GMO Inside campaign today launched a major push to get Starbucks, America’s largest coffee chain with more than 20,000 stores in 62 countries, to serve only organic milk sourced from cows not fed GMOs.

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Green Light For £260 Million Technology Fund To Make The NHS Safer

Staff Writer | NHS England | May 22, 2013

Doctors and nurses are to get better information about patients so people get safer care thanks to a new £260 million NHS technology fund, announced by NHS England today. Read More »

Greenway Founding Member Of Carequality Data Exchange Initiative

Press Release | Carequality, Greenway | February 24, 2014

Greenway® is joining more than two dozen healthcare organizations representing providers, retail health, health information exchanges, health information technology, payers and other multi-platform networks in founding and supporting roles of Carequality (“care-e-quality”) during its launch at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS14) in Orlando. Read More »

Greenway Shows The Value Of Patient Data Beyond The EHR At HIMSS14

Press Release | Greenway | February 23, 2014

Company accelerates interoperability of data across platforms for care coordination, clinically driven financials and optimized population health; to demonstrate in booth 2503 Read More »