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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 Systems You May Have Taken for Granted: 10 Examples

Chris Preimesberger | eweek.com | October 4, 2013

A key moment in IT history took place in Mountain View, Calif., on Feb. 3, 1998. That was the day a small group of Silicon Valley software developers (which included Dr. Larry Augustin, now CEO of SugarDB, Eric Raymond and Christine Peterson) sat down to decide that there needed to be an actual name for a new software development genre. The now-familiar term "open source" was first coined at this meeting.

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Open-source Work Aims To Align CQM, CDS

Frank Irving | Healthcare IT News | February 25, 2014

Providers and hospitals pursuing EHR incentives know about clinical quality measures (CQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS) in terms of reporting measures required under Stage 2 of meaningful use. [...] Read More »

Open-Source: Driving The Connected World

Stuart Rowe | Computing Now | July 15, 2013

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications continues to evolve, connecting ever more devices and equipment to the Internet-of-Things (IoT). One of the industry trends that can help power the rapid growth of M2M/IoT connectivity are the Open-Source and Open Hardware movements. Read More »

Open-source: So Much More Than Just Software and Freebies

Stephen Chapman | ZDNet | July 20, 2012

Open-source is so much more than just Linux and free software. Learn more about open-source and how it positions itself to better people, businesses, and much more. Read More »

OpenChem, Open Curriculum, And The Value Of Openness

Cable Green | Creative Commons | June 27, 2013

I recently spoke with Larry Cooperman, director of OpenCourseWare at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Larry also serves on the boards of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the African Virtual University. I asked Larry about UC Irvine’s new OpenChem project. Read More »

OpenClinica And TraIT: A Dutch National Research Infrastructure

Jan-Willem Boiten | OpenClinica | August 5, 2013

Is it possible to set up an IT infrastructure for translational research for an entire country? The Dutch Translational Research IT (TraIT) project (http://www.ctmm-trait.nl/) believes it is. Admittedly, The Netherlands is not exactly the same size as China or the US, but nevertheless already 26 partners from industry and academia to collaborate in this consortium to organize, deploy, and manage a nationwide IT infrastructure for data and workflow management targeted specifically at the needs of translational research.

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OpenClinica Announces 2013 Global Conference

Press Release | OpenClinica | February 7, 2013

The 2013 OpenClinica Global Conference will take place June 21-22, 2013 at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. This event is open to all who are looking to obtain insight, learn useful new skills, and build relationships within the growing OpenClinica clinical trial software community. Read More »

OpenClinica At Netherlands CTMM Annual Event

Rob Rittberg | OpenClinica Blog | October 16, 2013

On September 12, 2013, The Center for Translational Molecular Medicine (CTMM) held their annual meeting at the Media Plaza, Jaarbeurs Utrecht in the Netherlands. The theme,  ‘Let’s talk about Value,’ celebrated the implementation of proven results in a clinical practice, the benefits they will bring for patients, and the real value they will add to society and the Dutch economy.

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OpenClinica Enterprise Works For Boutique CROs Like Cancer InCITe

Press Release | OpenClinica | July 2, 2013

OpenClinica, LLC announces that Cancer InCITe, LLC of San Antonio, Texas has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise Edition for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and clinical data management for phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials. [...] Read More »

OpenClinica Launches New Website Feature Rich Motor On Drupal

Press Release | OpenClinica, Isover | March 8, 2011

When two innovative organizations who live and breathe open source go together to build a web site, great things. Open-source web and enterprise development OpenClinica Isover, the world’s most popular open source clinical trial, recently launched the new site OpenClinica. The two groups are very enthusiastic about the results. The new OpenClinica website is based on free open-source technologies, including the platform Drupal social publishing.

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OpenClinica Launches Program Designed to Match OpenClinica’s Enterprise Technology with CRO Services

Press Release | OpenClinica | April 5, 2011

OpenClinica is launching an expanded partner program designed to match OpenClinica’s Enterprise technology with Contract Research Organization (CRO) services to deliver enhanced customer offerings.

Ben Baumann, OpenClinica’s director of business development, says this program will be appropriate for both domestic and international organizations.
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OpenClinica Releases Enhancements To Clinical Trial Software

Press Release | OpenClinica, LLC | December 3, 2012

OpenClinica, LLC, announces the availability of the latest version of its popular open source clinical trials software. The OpenClinica v3.1.3 release contains over 100 fixes and enhancements, including [the following]: Read More »

OpenClinica to Offer First Large-Scale Demo of its 3.1 Beta at European Conference

Press Release | OpenClinica, Drug Information Association | March 20, 2011

OpenClinica, the world’s most popular open source clinical trials software for web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM), will be demonstrating OpenClinica 3.1 Beta 2 at the Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual EuroMeeting March 28-30 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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OpenCollab At Open Apereo 2013 Annual Conference In San Diego, USA

Jaco Gillman | OpenCollab | June 20, 2013

On June 2 – 6, Jaco Gillman, software developer at OpenCollab, attended the Open Apereo 2013 Annual Conference, held at the San Diego Westin hotel located the heart of downtown San Diego, CA. Read More »

OpenDaylight Debuts Hydrogen SDN Software

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | February 4, 2014

First version of open source SDN/NFV software debuts amid debate about OpenDaylight's aims, Cisco's participation in the project Read More »