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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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InnerOptic and Kitware to Develop Needle-Guidance System that Targets Heptatic Tumors

Press Release | InnerOptic Technology, Kitware, National Institutes of Health Acknowledgement | May 8, 2012

InnerOptic Technology, a leader in 3D visualization for image-guided procedures, and Kitware, a leader in open-source software and solutions development, today announce Phase II SBIR funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a needle guidance system for hepatic tumor ablation. The operating room ready system will provide novel 3D visualizations for needle guidance in soft tissues.
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InnerSource: a practical application of open source techniques within organizational boundaries

Using open source methods within your own company--without offering up your resulting source code to the public--is called InnerSource. A report I wrote for O'Reilly Media titled Getting Started with InnerSource lays out some of the benefits of the open source model and how one company, PayPal, is carrying out both open source projects and InnerSource. Why would you want InnerSource? According to the report, your organization can grow and become more productive in several ways...

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Inno3 and Olliance Group Announce A Strategic Parternship to Provide FOSS Strategy AND Governance Services in France

Press Release | Inno 3, Olliance Group | May 30, 2012

Today, Inno³ and Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, announced a strategic partnership to provide open source strategy and governance services in France and enable organizations to make strategic decisions regarding the use of FOSS to achieve legal, technical and business goals. Read More »

Innovation And Trust In Open Source

Peter Lieberwirth | Open Source Delivers | December 11, 2013

It has been a fascinating year in Internet security, privacy, and related technologies. NSA revelations have given us a glimpse through the looking glass, leading to questions about the trustworthiness of the core technologies used to power the Internet. Read More »

Innovation At VA: App Offered To Hurricane Sandy Victims

Judi Hasson | AOL Government | November 7, 2012

A mobile app originally developed to aid veterans has been offered to mental health personnel helping Hurricane Sandy's victims, an example of how innovation and technology within the federal government can have a broader reach than ever before. Read More »

Innovation At VA: Collaboration, Data Aid Veteran Benefits Project

Judi Hasson | AOL Government | November 5, 2012

A collaborative effort to combine data previously scattered across multiple federal agencies has led to a single portal where veterans can access key benefits. Read More »

Innovation in Indian Healthcare: Using Health Information Technology to Achieve Health Equity

The U.S. Indian health system utilizes a diverse range of health information technology and innovative tools to enhance health service delivery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. This article provides an overview of efforts and experience using such tools to achieve health equity for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Specific attention is given to the Indian Health Service (IHS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) and to two examples of telehealth innovation. To read the full article go to the AHIMA Online Research Journal.

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Innovation in Indian Healthcare: Using Health Information Technology to Achieve Health Equity for American Indian and Alaska Native Populations

Mark Carroll, MD, et. al. | Online Research Journal | January 15, 2010

The US Indian health system utilizes a diverse range of health information technology and innovative tools to enhance health service delivery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. This article provides an overview of efforts and experience using such tools to achieve health equity for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Read More »

Innovation: What Is It?

John Moore | Healthcare IT News | December 6, 2012

If it is one thing that the healthcare IT industry doesn’t lack, it is innovation – or it least innovation on the edges. A quick search on Google for health IT innovation challenges will serve you up over 23K hits. [...] Read More »

Innovative App First Step On Way To Virtual Glaucoma Clinics

Press Release | Moorfields Eye Hospital | April 18, 2013

“Virtual clinics are a way of improving living with glaucoma by reducing the patient′s need for regular travel” - Moorfields Eye Hospital has worked with core tech partners to develop a prototype it says could revolutionise the treatment of one of the most common eye diseases Read More »

Innovative Financing Options For The Preservice Education Of Health Professionals

Kate Tulenko and Alex Preker | CapacityPlus | February 1, 2013

Many developing countries are making significant investments to increase the number of health workers available to provide care to growing populations. However, the available funding is far short of what is required... Read More »

Innovative Funding Begets Innovative Development

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | June 28, 2013

Chlorinating water, a bug-killing intervention that the industrialized world largely takes for granted, can be prohibitively difficult in the developing world. Read More »

Innovator's Dilemma: How SF's Rajiv Bhatia Pioneered Open Health Data And Ruffled Feathers

Sam Roudman | TechPresident | February 6, 2014

[....Dr. Rajiv Bhatia's] work contributed to today’s civic obsession with open data and transparency before those words began to buzz in the ears of bureaucrats, civic hackers and entrepreneurs. He looked at data politically, and searched for political fights to deploy it in. At least he did until June of last year. Read More »

Inside Anti-SOPA Darrell Issa's Laboratory For Digital Democracy

Adam Clark Estes | Atlantic Wire | December 19, 2011

Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, is quickly becoming known as the most outspoken proponent of a free and open Internet, and according to a new Fast Company profile, his tech-savvy could reshape how Congress writes laws. Read More »

Inside Big Pharma's Fight to Block Recreational Marijuana

Alfonso Serrano | The Guardian | October 10, 2016

Marijuana legalization will unleash misery on Arizona, according to a wave of television ads that started rolling out across the state last month. Replete with ominous music, the advertisements feature lawmakers and teachers who paint a bleak future for Arizona’s children if voters approve Proposition 205, a measure that would allow people aged 21 and over to possess an ounce of pot and grow up to six plants for recreational use. “Colorado schools were promised millions in new revenues” when the state approved recreational pot use, says the voiceover in one ad. Instead, schoolchildren were plagued by “marijuana edibles that look like candy”...

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