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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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Open Source Health gains access to over 300,000 Medical Providers in the United States

Press Release | Open Source Health, The DocGraph Journal | January 12, 2015

Open Source Health Inc. (OSH), a cloud based integrative healthcare platform that puts control into the hands of women to educate, advocate and collaborate on their own healthcare is pleased to announce its partnership with The DocGraph Journal DocGraphan open source big data project that has identified all medical providers in the USA.

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Open Source Health Inc. Names Fred Trotter As Chief Operating Officer

Press Release | Open Source Health (OSH) | February 20, 2014

Open Source Health Inc. (CSE:OSH) a digital integrated healthcare company dedicated to advancing life-long solutions for women's health and wellness is pleased to announce the appointment of Fred Trotter as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Fred has served as an advisor to Open Source Health since December 2013. Read More »

Open Source Health launches the myAVA healthcare platform for Personalized and Integrated Health

Press Release | Open Source Health | November 10, 2015

Open Source Health Inc...is pleased to announce the launch and demo of the myAVA Healthcare platform for personalized and integrative medicine. “The myAVA platform will play a critical role in the management of the PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) patients we are onboarding with our partner clinic, Medici Medical in Atlanta, Georgia,” says Sonya Satveit CEO and Founder of Open Source Health Inc. “There is no doubt that a personalized and integrative approach is required and we are leading with the application of a scalable, cloud based platform to support this revolution.”

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Open Source Health's CEO Sonya Satveit and Patient Advisory Board Panel Discussion at PCOS Challenge Symposium in Atlanta

Press Release | Open Source Health Inc., PCOS Challenge | September 23, 2016

Open Source Health Inc. a cloud based precision medicine platform for women that puts control into the hands of women to educate, advocate and collaborate on their own healthcare is pleased to announce the participation of myAva’s Patient Advisory Board, along with CEO, Sonya Satveit and Medical Advisor, Dr. Fiona McCullough and in discussion panel at PCOS Challenge’s PCOS Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia...

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Open Source Hobbyists Now In High Demand

Brian Proffitt | ITworld | October 5, 2012

You know what? They're not calling us "hobbyists" anymore. It struck me this morning when I was reading up about this cool little open source operating system called Contiki, a very lightweight embedded OS designed to work well with the Internet of Things... Read More »

Open Source Hospital Information System to be Packaged for Debian

Gijs Hillenius | Joinup | July 17, 2012

The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), an open source hospital information system used in 160 hospitals, several hundreds of clinics and more than a hundred nursing homes, will become part of the Debian free software distribution. This was announced at the Libre Software Meeting (LSM/RMLL) in Geneva, last week Wednesday. Read More »

Open Source in Good Health and Vice Versa

Glyn Moody | ComputerWorld UK | April 5, 2011

Last week I wrote about the UK government's “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the past. And as far as the latter go, there aren't many bigger or costlier than the NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NpfIT).

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Open Source in Health Care Explored at HC 2011 - Book Now

Press Release | HC 2011 | March 22, 2011

HC2011 is one of the UK's largest, most powerful and rewarding industry events for health & social care informaticians, ICT professionals & clinicians. Since open source development based on standards seems likely to re-emerge as a key mechanism for cost-effective delivery, HC2011 will feature a set of workshops and presentations on the final day of the conference to explore current thinking and developments.

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Open Source Is Eating The Software World

Michael S. | LinkedIn | April 19, 2013

It's been said software is eating the world. This year’s Future of Open Source survey points to the fact that open source is eating the software world. Read More »

Open Source is Helping to Drive the Artificial Intelligence Renaissance

Sam Dean | Ostatic Blog | January 4, 2017

We're only a few days into 2017, and it's already clear that one of the biggest tech categories of this year will be artificial intelligence. The good news is that open source AI tools are proliferating and making it easy for organizations to leverage them. AI is also driving acquisitions. As Computerworld is reporting, in the past year, at least 20 artificial intelligence companies have been acquired, according to CB Insights, a market analysis firm. MIT Technology Review is out with its five big predictions for AI this year. Here is a bit on what they expect, and some of the open source AI tools that you should know about...

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Open Source Is So Much More Than Free Code

Roger Baker | FCW | December 6, 2016

In 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs officially moved its most critical software, the VistA electronic health record system, into open source by establishing the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA). Along the way, VA officials solicited and followed advice from numerous open source experts, including Red Hat, Carnegie Mellon University and the Industry Advisory Council...

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Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says

Katherine Noyes | PCWorld | April 17, 2013

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »

Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says

Katherine Noyes | Computerworld | April 18, 2013

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »

Open Source Is Woven Into The Latest, Hottest Trends

Jay Lyman | Linux Insider | September 12, 2013

If open source software were still so relevant and meaningful to enterprise IT, one might expect that it would be part of what's arguably the top trend in the industry: Big Data. Well it is. Much of the trend toward greater effectiveness and efficiently in collecting, storing, managing and analyzing data centers is spurred by open source software technologies. Read More »

Open Source Leads The Way Into The Cloud

Arsalan Farooq | Computerworld | August 29, 2012

Virtualization is now a well-established technology in enterprise computing. And in virtualization, VMware is the established leader. But virtualization has begat cloud computing and now the field of play in cloud computing is far more open thanks to open source technologies. Read More »