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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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Just Four Companies Will Produce The Microchips On Which The Global Economy Depends

Christopher Mims | Quartz | April 25, 2013

Making advanced microchips has always been hard. But it’s now so difficult that the number of companies with the knowledge and cash to do it is about to shrink to precisely four. Read More »

Just How Closely Can The NSA Really Watch You?

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | June 20, 2013

Leaks that suggest the NSA is vacuuming up personal information from the phone records and online-service data of U.S. citizens have some people concerned about the prospect of an Orwellian surveillance state that can track our every move. Read More »

Just What The Doctor Ordered: Med Students Team With Chefs

Kristin Gourlay | NPR | September 18, 2013

[...] "I think it's forward thinking to start to see, to view food as medicine," he says. "That's not something that's really on our radar in medical education. But with the burden of disease in the United States being so heavily weighted with lifestyle disease, I think it's a very, very logical next step." Read More »

JustGiving Data Transfer More Efficient With Blood Cancer Charity’s New CRM Xtension

Lucy Smeddle | Charity Digital News | September 17, 2013

Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, a UK-based blood cancer charity, has developed specialist CRM integration software that aims to make JustGiving data transfer more efficient. Developed as a free extension to the open source software system CiviCRM, the technology means that any charity using JustGiving can pull the data on donors and donations that come through JustGiving directly into their CRM system.

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Justice Department Websites May Go Open Source

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013

The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show. Read More »

Justice System "Overreach" Blamed In Suicide Of Open-Access Technology Activist

Declan Butler | Scientific American | January 15, 2013

Aaron Swartz faced an imminent trial for having downloaded some four million articles from a not-for-profit scholarly archive, and a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and a $1-million fine, which some call disproportionate to his actions Read More »

K&L Consulting Services, Inc. Of Fort Washington, PA Selects OpenClinica Enterprise Clinical Trial Software

Press Release | K&L Consulting Services, LLC, OpenClinica, LLC | February 13, 2013

K&L looks to leading commercial open source player to support its growing global CRO practice. Read More »

Kahn to MIT Graduates: Open Content is the Future

Stephen Carson | OpenSource.com | June 11, 2012

Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT graduation ceremony on June 8, a speech that included both a nod to the power of open education as exemplified by MIT's OpenCourseWare program and Khan's own web site, and an homage to the importance of the unique academic community that is MIT.

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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | June 3, 2013

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Launches Open API

Staff Writer | Rock Health | June 3, 2013

Today, on stage at Health Datapalooza in Washington, DC, Kaiser Permanente, a Rock Health partner, announced the launch of its first application programming interface program, InterchangeSM. Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Launches Open API For Health App Development

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobile Healthcare | June 10, 2013

Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health plans, has released an open application programming interface (API) that will allow developers to collaborate with the healthcare system on apps, according to an eWeek article. Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Launches Open Health API With Facility Info, Self-Tracking Data Coming Soon

Jonah Comstock | MobiHealthNews | June 3, 2013

Integrated health system Kaiser Permanente is launching an open API, called Interchange, that will enable developers to use publicly available information from Kaiser Permanente in their own apps... Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Releases Open API For Health App Developers

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | June 6, 2013

Kaiser Permanente's open API Interchange provides the code for developers to create health apps that help consumers to manage their lifestyle. Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Research Method Has Potential To Transform U.S. Health Care System

Sandy Kleffman | MercuryNews.com | June 10, 2013

It was a nuisance and David Gassman put it off for three weeks, but he finally put a little stool sample into a tube and mailed it to a Kaiser Permanente lab. It's a good thing he did. The test indicated he had colon cancer. Read More »

Kaiser Permanente, Qualcomm Life, WellTok And More Support Open mHealth To Catalyze An Open Mobile Health Ecosystem

Press Release | Open mHealth | May 30, 2013

With 6 billion phones in people’s pockets worldwide, and over 20,000 health apps now in the marketplace, tracking everything from fitness to stress to sleep is becoming a part of modern life. But without an easy way to integrate these applications or their data, we have yet to unlock the full potential of mobile health (mHealth). Read More »