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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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Intelesense CEO Announces European Beta Release Of Collaborate.org At 11th Annual INSPIRE Conference

Press Release | Collaborate.org, NASA WorldWind | June 27, 2013

During his presentation entitled “Worldwide Collaborative Geospatial Data Infrastructure,” CEO of Intelesense Technologies Dr. Kevin Montgomery introduced Collaborate.org to the attendees of this year’s INSPIRE conference in Florence, Italy on June 27, 2013. Read More »

Intelesense Technologies CEO Named Entrepreneur Of The Year By Future In Review Conference

Press Release | Collaborate.org | May 24, 2013

Mark Anderson, CEO of the Strategic News Service and the Future in Review conference, awarded Dr. Kevin Montgomery for his efforts in developing his next generation social collaboration platform Collaborate.org. Read More »

InterchangeSM By Kaiser Permanente Unleashes The Power Of Digital Health Through Open API

Press Release | Kaiser Permanente | June 3, 2013

Kaiser Permanente announced today the launch of its first application programming interface program, InterchangeSM by Kaiser Permanente. Read More »

Interconnected Health 2012 Program Highlights

Press Release | Health Level Seven (HL7) International, HIMSS, OMG | March 15, 2012

“Interconnected Health 2012: Enabling Health through High-Impact IT;” presented by OMG®, Health Level Seven® International (HL7), and HIMSS, features a full program of top-notch presenters and topics of interest to the healthcare IT community. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, Ill., on April 2-4, 2012. Read More »

Intermountain Healthcare Partners With Cerner To Provide Clinical Governance For Leidos Partnership For Defense Health

Press Release | Cerner, Leidos Partnership for Defense Health | September 24, 2014

Cerner today announced a strategic agreement with Intermountain Healthcare to provide clinical governance of solutions and workflow to be proposed for the Department of Defense's Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) initiative.  Cerner is a member of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, an alliance that includes Leidos, the domain experts in Military Health, and Accenture, a global IT and management consulting company and one of the largest EHR systems integrators in the world...

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Intermountain Healthcare Sued For Allegedly Blocking Competition

Kirsten Stewart | The Salt Lake Tribune | June 5, 2013

Hospital chain refused to refer stroke patients to urgent care clinic, causing patient harm and clinic to close, lawsuit alleges. Read More »

Intermountain, Deloitte Launch Comparative Effectiveness Tool

Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | June 25, 2013

Intermountain Healthcare, in collaboration with consulting firm Deloitte, unveiled a data analytics tool this week that will leverage information from electronic health records improve patient treatment efforts via comparative effectiveness research. Read More »

Internal integration woes seen in EHRs

Joe Conn | Modern Healthcare | January 23, 2013

Third-party components often don't agree with main systems. Read More »

Internal watchdog blasts DoD's health IT efforts

Jared Serbu | Federal News Radio | April 22, 2013

The Defense Department's current approach to achieving health record interoperability with the Veterans Affairs Department is "manifestly inconsistent" with White House directives to adopt and use open data standards, according to a memo from the Pentagon's top systems evaluator. Read More »

International Award for Online Food Safety Resource

Staff Writer | Voxy | March 9, 2012

An open source Food Safety Knowledge Network devised by a Massey University Professor has won a major international award for improving food safety practices in developing countries. Read More »

International Meeting Of Crowdsource Mapping Successfully Concluded

Press Release | UN-SPIDER, United Nations (UN) | December 6, 2012

On 5 December 2012, UN-SPIDER concluded a three-day international expert meeting on the topic of Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response. Read More »

International Open Government Data Conference 2012

Staff Writer | Development Gateway | July 26, 2012

From July 10-12, the World Bank hosted the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC) in Washington D.C. The event...convened innovators, policy makers, technologists, NGOs, and private sector organizations to talk about challenges and opportunities related to putting open data to work. Read More »

International Rescue Committee Open Sources First Of Its Kind Humanitarian Digital Tool

Press Release | International Rescue Committee | August 5, 2015

The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a leading crisis-focused humanitarian relief and resettlement organization, is open sourcing its Commodity Tracking System (CTS) technology. A first of its kind humanitarian digital tool designed to work in crisis locations, CTS is used to track essential, life-saving commodities such as medical supplies shipped into Syria. By open sourcing CTS, which was made possible by generous grants from the UK and US governments and Stichting Vluchteling, and making it available to all for free, the IRC is giving individuals and other organizations the opportunity to scale this technology and use it in other fragile and destabilized areas of the world.

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Internet Activist Death Places Spotlight On More Open Access To Information

Michael Geist | The Star | January 20, 2013

The Internet community has been reeling for the past week as it grapples with the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a prominent digital rights activist who left a remarkable legacy for a 26-year old. [...] Read More »

Internet For All: Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | October 7, 2013

The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. Read More »