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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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Roy Kaufman: Shifting Revenues From Post-Publication To Pre-Publication: The Impact Of Open Access

Roy Kaufman | Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) | March 27, 2014

Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), writes here in a guest post about the shift of revenue to pre-publication and what that means to publishers. Read More »

Royal Berks Finances Hit By Cerner's Millennium

Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | February 13, 2013

[UK's] Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is facing significant operational and financial pressures after implementing Cerner Millennium and expects to spend another £6.2m implementing the system this year. Read More »

RTI Presents 'Open Source 2.0?' Complimentary Webinar: RTI's CEO Discusses The Business Factors Driving Open Source

Press Release | Real-Time Innovations (RTI) | October 9, 2012

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the real-time infrastructure software company, today announced a complimentary webinar titled, "Open Source 2.0?" Read More »

RTX Joins Continua Health Alliance To Boost Healthcare Communications

Press Release | RTX, Continua Health Alliance | November 8, 2012

RTX, a leading provider of wireless communications solutions, today announces that it has become a member of the Continua Health Alliance, a global consortium establishing an ecosystem of interoperable personal connected health systems. Read More »

Ruben Rosario: We're Quick To Send Them Off To War, But Slow To Help

Ruben Rosario | TwinCities.com | September 22, 2012

The following is an ongoing national disgrace: According to a weekly monitoring of government data by the Center for Investigative Reporting, there are 820,514 veterans -- including 11,488 here in Minnesota -- awaiting a response to claims of a disease, injury or illness suffered in the military. Read More »

Rubinstein On HP's Purchase Of Palm: 'Talk About A Waste'

Phil Goldstein | FierceWireless | June 11, 2013

As part of a forthcoming feature FierceWireless will produce that catches up with former top wireless executives, FierceWireless Editor Phil Goldstein spoke with Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm and a former executive at Apple, about what he's doing these days [...]. Read More »

Running NwHIN ought to be a public-private partnership

Diana Manos | Healthcare IT News | June 27, 2012

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone. Read More »

Running Open Technology Development Projects

John Scott, Dr. David A. Wheeler, Mark Lucas, and J.C. Herz | SoftwareTechNews | March 15, 2011

This article lays out the basic framework for running an open technology development (OTD) project for the military.  The first section describes how to establish an OTD program once a project proposal has been accepted. The next sections discuss establishing a technical infrastructure for collaboration, communication issues, technical management/​technical criteria, and continuous delivery.   Much more information on how to do this from an open source software (OSS) project perspective can be found in subsequent chapters.

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Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’

Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg | The Wall Street Journal | May 26, 2017

At the corner where East North Street meets North Cherry Street in the small Ohio town of Kenton, the Immaculate Conception Church keeps a handwritten record of major ceremonies. Over the last decade, according to these sacramental registries, the church has held twice as many funerals as baptisms. In tiny communities like Kenton, an unprecedented shift is under way. Federal and other data show that in 2013, in the majority of sparsely populated U.S. counties, more people died than were born—the first time that’s happened since the dawn of universal birth registration in the 1930s...

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Rural Hospitals Rule On Leapfrog List

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | December 4, 2013

For the second consecutive year, rural hospitals stood out, with 22 hospitals making the Leapfrog Group’s 2013 Top Hospitals list – a 69 percent increase from last year. Rounding out the list are 55 urban hospitals and 13 children’s hospitals. [...] Read More »

Rural Indian Villages Are About to Get Lifesaving Treatment Through an App

Selena Larson | CNN | October 3, 2016

Intelehealth, founded by students at Johns Hopkins University, makes an app that lets health workers in rural communities act as a proxy for doctors who are unable to work in underserved areas themselves. India has just one doctor for every 1,700 people, and while 70% of the population is in rural areas, about 60% of the healthcare infrastructure is in cities. Health workers in remote areas are trained on very basic care -- they can't offer tests or consults on things like diabetes or asthma, according toIntelehealth founder and CEO Neha Goel.

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Russia To Spend Billions On Asteroid Defense

Staff Writer | RT.com | February 19, 2013

Moscow believes an operable national defense against threats from outer space can be built within 10 years’ time. The 500-kiloton explosion of a space bolide above the Urals region has sped-up allocation of some $2 billion to prevent future threats. Read More »

Rwanda: Smartphones Still Not Fully Exploited in Rwanda

Eric Bright | AllAfrica | April 30, 2012

Siri has limitations [in Rwanda]...With increased penetration of smartphones, thanks to the fact that relatively cheap models are now becoming available, it is a pity and a nuisance that some of these quite useful apps are not available. And it can be pretty basic, too. iPhone owners, for example, will know the frustration that when one of their contacts sends them an SMS, what appears on the screen will be the number of that person, not his name - what is known as "ID mismatch."

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SA losing to Kenya in tech race

Duncan McLeod | TechCentral | June 9, 2013

South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. By Duncan McLeod. Read More »

Sacred Oak Medical Center Selects Medsphere's OpenVista EHR

Press Release | Medsphere, RedShift Healthcare Management and Consulting | June 16, 2016

Medsphere Systems Corporation...today announced that Sacred Oak Medical Center has chosen the OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) system for implementation. The brand new Houston-based inpatient behavioral health hospital will open later this summer with 20 beds and expand over time to an 80-bed capacity..."The benefits of EHR implementation apply to behavioral health care and addiction treatment, just as they do in acute medical care,” said RedShift Managing Partner Starsky Bomer. 

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