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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Hearing Looks at Ways to Help Veterans (NY)

Andrew Carden | The Legislative Gazette | March 5, 2012

In an effort to improve the treatment of soldiers returning home from combat with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, advocates and veterans last week testified before the state Legislature. Read More »

Heart A-Hack

Lis Evensted | E-Health Insider | January 28, 2013

A group of clinicians and developers won NHS Hack Day Oxford with an open source electronic patient record for cardiologists. Read More »

Heart Failure Breakthrough May Come From "Open Source" Cancer Drug Development: Discoveries

Brie Zeltner | Cleveland.com | August 19, 2013

A newly-discovered cancer drug may be a breakthrough in treating heart failure, thanks to a groundbreaking “open source” approach to drug discovery that allowed a Case Western Reserve University heart specialist free access to the compound for his research. Read More »

Heart Test Costs Rise As Cardiologists Flock To Hospitals

Alan Bavley | The Kansas City Star | December 29, 2013

It was late in 2009, and Willie Lawrence and the other heart specialists in his practice faced a dilemma. Should they renew their expiring office lease and commit themselves to their independent cardiology practice at Research Medical Center or shut down their business and take the jobs that local hospitals were offering? Medicare helped make the decision for them. Read More »

Heather Joseph On The State Of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | July 12, 2013

This is the fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. Read More »

Help A US Gov't Agency Switch To Open Source, Win $3 Million

Neil McAllister | The Register | January 11, 2013

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to upgrade the 25-year-old software that powers its nationwide health care system, and it's betting real money that open source is the way to do it. Read More »

HELP Committee Passes Patient Centered Care EHR Bill

Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | February 9, 2016

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee legislation on improved EHR use has passed, according to a public statement from the committee. The bill’s passage was unanimous. Earlier this year, the HELP Committee drafted legislation to improve EHR use. This legislation centered primarily on improving physician EHR use, decreasing data blocking, and making health IT patient-centered...

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Help Crowdfund This Open-Source Crowdsourced Environmental Monitoring Platform

Derek Markham | TreeHugger | June 5, 2013

By empowering communities to collect data from their local environment and contribute to an interactive, worldwide environmental database, the folks behind the Smart Citizen Kit are enabling a whole new level of participation from citizen scientists. Read More »

Help Spark Girls' Interest In STEM Careers: TopCoder Hosting $10,000 STEM-Themed Poster Contest

Press Release | TopCoder, Inc. | July 31, 2013

TopCoder, Google and the National Center for Women & Information Technology collaborate to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics Read More »

Help Support The Open Hardware Summit

Emcee Grady | SparkFun Electronics | July 17, 2013

Today, we have a call to action for all makers, hackers, hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts who value the ideology and/or benefits of open source technology – Help Support the Open Hardware Summit! Read More »

Help Translate ODK Into Multiple Languages

Waylon Brunette | OpenDataKit | May 27, 2013

We designed ODK to work all over the world and supporting multiple languages inside each tool has always been an important goal. With the community's help, we've made great progress. For example, ODK Collect has been localized into seventeen languages! Read More »

Help Us Put Blue Button On The Map

Peter Garrett | HealthITBuzz | September 16, 2013

How do we talk about the Blue Button Initiative in a way that really gets the attention of those who don’t already know about it or haven’t thought about its benefits? Read More »

Henry Ford Health System's Net Income Drops 15% In 2012

Jay Greene | Crain's Detroit Business | April 25, 2013

Henry Ford Health System, a five-hospital system based in Detroit, Thursday reported a 15 percent decrease in net income last year to $53.1 million from $62.9 million in 2011. Read More »

Here Comes Another Tech Bubble — In Education

Frank Catalano | GeekWire | October 23, 2012

I’m the kind of guy who worries when something gets too popular. [...] When anything rapidly accelerated in popularity with no clear tie to quality, I wondered how long it would take before that bandwagon crashed. I’m starting to ponder the same about technology in education. Read More »

Here Comes Tizen! Samsung To Host Its First Developer Conference In October

Matt Hamblen | Computerworld | July 23, 2013

Focus of Samsung Developers Conference could be on Tizen OS, not Android, and on building apps for unique Samsung utilities Read More »