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.

See the following -

Harris Corporation Awarded $60 Million IT Contract To Expand National Healthcare Mobility Infrastructure

Press Release | Harris Corporation | October 17, 2013

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded the final phase of a three-phase program that will enable the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct critical services wirelessly. The contract is valued at $60 million over four years, with all options exercised. Read More »

Harris Corporation Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering and Enterprise Support to Veteran Affairs's VistA Imaging System

Press Release | Harris Corporation | March 2, 2011

Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing advanced software engineering and enterprise support to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging System. This multi-year contract was originally awarded to Harris in August 2008.

Read More »

Harris Corporation Solution To Help Improve Communications Between Veterans And U.S. Department Of Veterans Affairs

Press Release | MicroPact, Harris Corporation | September 25, 2013

Harris to provide enterprise Correspondence Tracking Software across Veterans Affairs.
Will improve efficiency in handling thousands of daily inquiries and requests.
Three-year, $8 million contract awarded under T4 contract vehicle. Read More »

Harris Healthcare Solutions Achieves Critical Milestone In Secure Exchange Of Health Information

Press Release | Harris Corporation | October 7, 2013

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has successfully deployed its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite solution enabling the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to securely exchange health information. Read More »

Harry Greenspun's 4 Forces Driving Personal mHealth

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | June 11, 2013

In a world boasting seemingly futuristic technologies such as Wi-Fi-enabled pill bottles and pills that trigger an e-mail alert upon hitting the stomach, there are still hospitals that have yet to grant patients access to their electronic health records. Read More »

Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses

Lauren Landry | BostInno | May 2, 2012

By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two have announced EdX, a new tool designed to build on both schools’ experience in online learning. Read More »

Harvard Docs: Time Is Right for Patient-Centered Health Repositories, Not Portals

Jonah Comstock | MobiHealthNews | January 26, 2016

A number of public and private initiatives have been launched over the years in the name of a personal health record for patients. But one way or another, they've all failed to gain traction, according to Drs. Isaac Kohane and Kenneth Mandl of the Harvard-affiliated Boston Children's Hospital, who published an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. The authors believe now might be the time to finally realize that ambition...

Read More »

Harvard Law Conference Surveys Troubles With Health Care

Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | March 30, 2016

It is salubrious to stretch oneself and regularly attend a conference in a related field. At the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, one can bask in the wisdom of experts who are truly interdisciplinary (as opposed to people like me, who is simply undisciplined). Their Tenth Anniversary Conference drew about 120 participants. The many topics–which included effects of the Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act and other cases, reasons that accountable care and other efforts haven’t lowered costs, stresses on the pharmaceutical industry, and directions in FDA regulation–contained several insights for health IT professionals...

Read More »

Harvard University Says It Can't Afford Journal Publishers' Prices

Ian Sample | The Guardian | April 24, 2012

Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. Read More »

Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Artifacts

Joseph Flaherty | Wired | December 10, 2012

Indiana Jones practiced archaeology with a bull whip and fedora. Joseph Greene and Adam Aja are using another unlikely tool — a 3-D printer. Read More »

Has EHR Usability Suffered For The Sake Of Adoption Speed?

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | September 13, 2013

The need for speed may have left truly meaningful use of electronic health records in the dust, says Larry Pawola, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Informatics in a blog for The Information Daily. Read More »

Has Open Hardware Finally Made Its Big Splash?

Staff Writer | Opensource.com | March 19, 2014

Chris Clark is the IT director at SparkFun Electronics in Boulder, Colorado. He talked with Opensource.com community manager Jason Hibbets, late last year during the All Things Open conference about open hardware.

Read More »

Has Open Source Gone Mainstream?

Adam Shepherd | IT Pro | September 8, 2016

Open source has officially made it. While open source advocates may have faced an uphill battle to convince their colleagues in the past, the technology has now become a legitimate component of the mainstream technological scene. That's according to GitHub's senior director of infrastructure engineering Sam Lambert, who told IT Pro that open source software is no longer the niche field it once was...

Read More »

Has the Internet Become an Epidemic?

Jeff Stibel | LinkedIn | July 10, 2017

It seems obvious that internet companies would calibrate their apps to keep you using them as often and as long as possible. But did you realize that these companies have become so good that your relationship with the internet has crossed from an affection to an addiction? Scientists across the globe have demonstrated that shifting the internet from our computers to our phones has created an epidemic worse than the one created by smoking, albeit attacking our minds instead of our lungs...

Read More »

Hatch Wants To Pause, Reassess Meaningful Use

Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | July 18, 2013

Despite lauding technology's potential to transform healthcare for the better, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he thinks Meaningful Use needs to be reassessed. Read More »