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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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Stage Set For Big Interoperability Push

John Andrews | Healthcare IT News | January 3, 2014

The push for meaningful use Stage 3 has reached a point where a confluence of power structures are ready for more breakthroughs – hence, the impetus for collaboration among IHE USA, ONC and S&I Framework, officials from these groups say. Read More »

Stakeholders Divided On Speed Of Implementing Meaningful Use

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | July 25, 2013

Pressure is ramping up on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to reassess the current implementation timelines for the next stages of the Meaningful Use program, with industry stakeholders and others using a Senate hearing on patient care to call for a reexamination of the issue. Read More »

Stakeholders Look to Improve C-CDA as FHIR Matures

Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | August 2, 2017

As the healthcare industry continues to wrestle with interoperability challenges, two standards are poised to play a central role in facilitating the electronic exchange of health information—one is a blunt tool for data sharing, while the other is a surgical instrument. First adopted in 2012 as part of the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT’s 2014 Edition final rule, the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) version 1.1—developed through the joint efforts of ONC and Health Level Seven (HL7) International—is now widely used among healthcare providers...

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Stallman, Andreessen, Swartz Among Internet Hall Of Fame’s Latest Inductees

Nur Bremmen | Memeburn | June 27, 2013

It’s easy to forget that there was a time before the internet, but everything we take for granted now [...] comes off the back of seriously pioneering work. Read More »

Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?

Richard Stallman | Wired | October 14, 2013

The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use. Read More »

Standards and Open Source Make Advances in Apps and Data Exchange for Health

I try to be optimistic about health care, and I managed to move my mood meter in that direction last month after talking about advances in data sharing, standards, and interoperability with a few people involved in the open FHIR standard: Grahame Grieve from the Core FHIR Development Team, David Hay from the FHIR Management Group, and Josh Mandel, a research scientist working on the open-source SMART Platform. Read More »

Standing Out With Open Source

John Noerenberg II | Open Source Delivers | March 26, 2013

All companies, regardless of size, know differentiating themselves from their competition is a key to their success. [...] When FOSS becomes a key component of an enterprise’s business, minor annoyances for a small organization become major problems which must be solved in order to do Open Source “right”. Read More »

Stanford Conference To Explore Right To Information And Technology

Sadaf H. Minapara | CDDRL | March 4, 2013

A global movement has been underway to use innovative technology platforms to record, store, process, and disseminate public information to advance transparency and accountability... Read More »

Stanford Makes Coursework Available On New Open-Source Platform

Brad Hayward | Menlo Park-Atherton Patch | June 11, 2013

Stanford online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open-source platform, OpenEdX, the university announced Tuesday. Read More »

Stanford Online Course On Statistics And Medicine Teaches Students Worldwide How To Interpret Data

Lia Steakley | Stanford Medicine | July 23, 2013

This summer, nearly 16,000 students are learning how to interpret data and analyze provocative medical questions through Stanford’s free online course “Statistics in Medicine.” Read More »

Stanford Online Coursework To Be Available On New Open-Source Platform

Brad Hayward | Stanford Report | June 11, 2013

As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it. Read More »

Stanford Researchers Show Fracking's Impact to Drinking Water Sources

Press Release | Stanford University | March 29, 2016

Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources of drinking water – hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Concerns about this practice have riled the U.S. political landscape and communities around the country, perhaps nowhere more so than in Pavillion, Wyoming, population 231. A new study by Stanford scientists published in Environmental Science & Technology finds for the first time that fracking operations near Pavillion have had clear impact to underground sources of drinking water.

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Start Up Pharmaceutical Company Hallux Chooses ClinCapture As Their Electronic Data Capture Solution for Its Ease of Use, and Do-It-Yourself Tools

Press Release | Hallux, ClinCapture | July 13, 2016

California-based pharmaceutical company Hallux Inc. selected ClinCapture as its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system for its Do-It-Yourself study build features, ease of use and real time data exchange. ClinCapture is the only cloud-based, validated electronic data capture software, available for free. Startup pharmaceutical company Hallux develops a new terbinafine dosage form and subungual route of administration for the treatment of onychomycosis (toenail fungus). Having an EDC system that they could easily deploy, and fast, allowed Hallux to focus where it matters most: creating drugs that the community needs.

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Starting An ACO With '24 Different EMRs'

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | March 4, 2014

One CIO offers perspective on making nearly two-dozen different systems talk with each other Read More »

Starting An Open Hardware Company And Building In The Open

Maniacal Labs | OpenSource.com | October 22, 2013

For nearly as long as the three of us have known each other, we have talked about the things we would make when we had our own company. The seriousness of that statement grew and waned over time. But early this year, a friend who was just getting into working with the Arduino microcontroller platform built an 8-bit binary counter and an idea was born [...].

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