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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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Action Plan Towards Open Access Publications - Global Research Council

Staff Writer | OpenAIRE | June 6, 2013

Those were the three key points set out in an Action Plan during the annual Global Research Council Summit held in Berlin on 27 - 29 May 2013.  Heads of 70 global science and research councils gathered. Discussions focused in particular on open access. Read More »

Actuate Enhances Open Source Eclipse BIRT With Connectors To MongoDB, Cassandra, POJO, And Emitters For Microsoft Office Documents

Press Release | Actuate | June 26, 2013

Just in time for BIRT 4.3, renovated BIRT Exchange developer community website sports new UI and easier access to downloads, forums and blogs Read More »

Acuo Technologies Selected In DoD Award To Deliver Vendor Neutral Archive

Press Release | Acuo Technologies, Dell, BRIT Systems | November 16, 2012

Acuo Technologies...announced today that the Defense Logistics Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has selected the Acuo Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) as a new vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution for enterprise patient imaging logistics. Read More »

Ad Industry, Privacy Advocates Spar Over 'Do Not Track'

Juliana Gruenwald | Nextgov | September 21, 2012

Lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission are being lobbied to intervene to help settle differences between some advertising industry representatives and privacy advocates over how to implement a “do-not-track” option giving consumers the choice of whether they want to be tracked online. Read More »

ADA: VA's MOVE Helps Block Diabetes

Kristina Fiore | MedPage Today | June 24, 2013

CHICAGO -- A weight-loss program that can be implemented over a large healthcare system may help prevent development of type 2 diabetes, researchers reported here. Read More »

Adarsh Desai, Program Manager, Open Development Techology Alliance At TechWomen

Staff Writer | World Bank | October 9, 2012

Adarsh Desai, Program Manager for the Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA), with the World Bank Institute's Innovation department will participate in an interactive discussion on “Tech for Social Good” at the 2012 TechWomen conference. Read More »

Adobe Open Sources Flash C++ Compiler

Staff Writer | The H | June 26, 2013

Adobe has open sourced its Flash C++ compiler, FlasCC. An open source version of the tool is now hosted as part of the CrossBridge project on GitHub; previously, FlasCC was part of Adobe's Creative Cloud product. [...] Read More »

Adobe Releases Its First Open Source Font

Randy Nelson | Tecca | August 3, 2012

We're used to open source software that can be modified by anyone, and even open source hardware like the upcoming Ouya game console, but an open source font? That's exactly what software maker Adobe released this week. Read More »

Adobe’s Open Innovation Concept and the Impact of Open Reach Development

Press Release | Adobe Systems, Legal IQ | July 26, 2012

Dave McAllister, Director of Open Source at Adobe Systems, joins Legal IQ to discuss Adobe’s open innovation system and open screen project and the impact and reach of open development such as Flex, Brackets, and PhoneGap. Read More »

Adoption Of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half Of US Hospitals Had At Least A Basic System In 2012

Catherine M. DesRoches, Dustin Charles, Michael F. Furukawa, et.al. | Health Affairs | July 9, 2013

The US health care system is in the midst of an enormous change in the way health care providers and hospitals document, monitor, and share information about health and care delivery. Part of this transition involves a wholesale, but currently uneven, shift from paper-based records to electronic health record (EHR) systems. [...] Read More »

ADVA Optical Networking, Ciena, Guavus And Versa Networks Join The OpenDaylight Project

Press Release | OpenDaylight Project | June 25, 2013

Increasing Participation Among Community and 27 OpenDaylight Members Is Fueling Rapid innovation for Software-Defined Networking Read More »

Advanced Manufacturing Re-tools with Open Source (Bit by Bit)

Michael Tiemann | OpenSource.com | June 14, 2012

Open source software and open source best-practices have become truly ubiquitous in the business world. Software used to be the new frontier, but open source software can be found leading up to the frontier, at the frontier, and beyond. My experience at CGI America 2012 (a US-focused subgroup of the Clinton Global Initiative) confirmed this.

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Advanced Open Access Publishing Model

Staff Writer | Science Codex | October 23, 2013

There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web site in a repository or on his/her own website, and Gold Open Access, where articles are available for free download directly from the publisher on the day of publication. Read More »

AdvanceNet Health Completes RightSourceRx System Conversion

Press Release | Humana, AdvanceNet Health Solutions, Inc. | August 19, 2013

AdvanceNet Health Solutions, Inc. today announced that it has completed the conversion of RightSourceRx, Humana's prescription home-delivery service by mail, to the ePostRx™ Enterprise Pharmacy Management Software platform. Read More »

Advancing Antimalarial Drug Research Through Open Source Initiatives

Jeremy Burrows | The Guardian | July 24, 2013

Open research can lead to new drugs tackling diseases that afflict the world's poor. But first, more scientists need to buy into contributing to something bigger than their careers Read More »