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Jisc Collections And Open Access Key To Collaborate On UK Gold OA Article Payments Pilot
Jisc Collections, the UK academic community’s shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), the online payment platform for open access publishing, to run a 12 month pilot project, Jisc APC, to test its role in managing and processing Gold OA article payment charges made by its member institutions. Read More »
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Job Opportunities - Join the deployment of VistA at the New York State Office of Mental Health
New York State is currently performing the largest deployment of VistA in the United States (outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs).This development is taking place at the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and it is bringing together State Government, Industry and Academia in an open and agile collaborative environment, creating the perf Read More »
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Joe Conn-DoD Should Make Right Decision and Adopt VistA
I think what's needed now remains as obvious as it has for decades, which means Shinseki and Panetta got it only half right, because they were half wrong. There should be one EHR for the military and the VA, but it shouldn't be the just dispatched Frankenstein's EHR that was to be built out of custom-made and off-the-shelf parts. It should be VistA. The VA has a demonstrably superior EHR system, so the Defense Department brass should swallow their bureaucratic pride and adopt it. Read More »
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Joeffice, An Open Source Office Suite One Developer Built In 30 Days
Software developer Anthony Goubard may be one of the most ambitious DIYers on the planet. How else can you explain it? One man looks across the landscape of productivity suites—from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice to Google Docs—and says: "I'll just make my own." Read More »
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John Bohannon’s Peer-Review Sting Against Science
An extraordinary study has come to light today, showing just how shoddy peer-review standards are at some journals. Read More »
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Johns Hopkins APL And Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Release Open Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings. Read More »
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Johns Hopkins: Thanks To EHRs, Time With Patients Seems “Squeezed Out” Of Medical Training, Investigator Says
Question: Who would have thought it? That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT hyper-enthusiasm? Read More »
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Join EFF’s Efforts To Keep 3D Printing Open
Thanks to the open hardware community, you can now have a 3D printer in your home for just a few hundred dollars [...]. This incredible innovation is possible because the core patents covering 3D printing technologies started expiring several years ago, allowing projects such as RepRap to prove what we already knew—that openness often outperforms the patent system at spurring innovation. Read More »
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Join IHI For 27Th Annual National Forum On Quality Improvement In Health Care
Successful health and health care organizations of the future will be those that can simultaneously deliver excellent quality of care, at lower total costs, while improving the health of their patients and communities. But to achieve IHI’s Triple Aim, health systems and leaders must adopt a new set of strategies that extend beyond the walls of the health care system to form community-level partnerships; these partnerships can bring greater focus and attention to patients’ daily lives and to the upstream social determinants of health. The 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care will shine a light on important new work in the US on population health as well as strong examples from around the globe that everyone can learn from.
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Join The Crisismappers!
Crisismappers of all map forms, organizations and disciplines will be converging on Nairobi in November 2013 for the 5th Annual International Conference of Crisismappers (ICCM) . Join important humanitarian, human rights, development and media organizations along with the world’s best technology companies, academics, journalists and hackers. [...] Read More »
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Join The Movement : Open Source Drug Discovery
OSDD or Open Source Drug Discovery is a community of students, scientists, researchers, academicians, institutions, corporations and anyone who is committed to discovery of drugs in an open source mode. [...] Read More »
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Joint Commission Warns About Dangers From Alarm Fatigue
The nation's largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a warning to hospitals about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms. Read More »
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Joint EHR Costs Skyrocketed To $28 Billion, DoD Says
Physicians spending a paltry twenty or thirty thousand dollars on their EHR implementations can take comfort in the fact that they don’t have to foot the bill for the recently abandoned joint VA-DoD EHR system, which would have cost the taxpayers $28 billion, according to Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions. Read More »
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Joint iEHR Spending Was Focused On Service Contracts
The bulk of spending on the joint EHR proposed by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs went to support service contracts in 2012, according to a new report from the Interagency Program Office (IPO), the agency in charge of modernizing the Military Health System's EHR software. Read More »
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Jon Stewart On The VA’s Hand-Cranked Disability Claims File System
Last night, in his second “Daily Show” episode focused on the Veterans Affairs Department, comedian Jon Stewart illustrated the disability claims backlog -- which stands at 885,068 this week -- with a look at the Veterans Benefits Administration office in Winston-Salem, N.C., where mountains of paper files threaten the structural integrity of the building and the safety of employees. Read More »
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