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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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Superstar Programmers Are Getting Paid Like Pro Athletes—Tens Of Millions Of Dollars A Year

Leo Mirani | Quartz | September 6, 2013

It’s always nice to be paid your “true value.” Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says that is what is happening now in the technology industry, where some engineers are drawing multi-million dollar paychecks. Read More »

Support California's New Open Access Bill

Adi Kamdar | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | April 25, 2013

Good news: we are finally seeing real progress toward improving the public's ability to access to the research we pay for. In February, we saw both a White House memorandum and the introduction of bipartisan legislation designed to promote open access to taxpayer-funded research on the federal level. Now California has stepped up to try and secure the same public access rights to state-funded research. Read More »

Support Material: How One Company Built The 3-D Printer Market Layer By Layer

Joseph Flaherty | Wired | May 14, 2013

Upstart 3-D printer companies have captured the attention of makers, but a 30 year old company called 3D Systems is having a record year on Wall Street. The company just announced an 81 percent increase in sales of their 3-D printers, catapulting their market capitalization over $4 billion. [...] Read More »

Supporting an open source approach to development

Staff | SciDev | August 14, 2012

An Open Source Development (OSD) model that connects problem-solvers with local challenges could be key to tackling poverty, promoting democracy and reducing child mortality, says Rajiv Shah, Administrator at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Read More »

Surgeons Warming Up To Use Of 3-D Technology

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | March 8, 2013

A new study out of Germany finds surgeons warming up to the idea of wider use of 3-D technology. Read More »

Surprising New Research Uncovers Two Types Of Gulf War Illness

Kathleen Blanchard | Digital Journal | June 16, 2013

Gulf War veterans have reported symptoms of illness that are still mysterious. Researchers, for the first time, have uncovered two types of Gulf war illness from research findings that they say come as a surprise and are the result of brain atrophy. Read More »

Survey Finds Big Opportunities For Government In Mobile Apps

Brittany Ballenstedt | Nextgov | February 6, 2013

Satisfaction with federal websites dipped slightly in the fourth quarter of 2012 but has remained relatively steady since 2009, according to a new report released Wednesday by consultancy Foresee. Read More »

Survey Finds Docs Struggling To Meet MU

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | June 4, 2013

As of early 2012, only about 10 percent of U.S. physicians were meeting meaningful use standards with their digital health record systems, according to a survey in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read More »

Survey Says Physicians Prefer 'Open' VistA Enterprise EHR over Epic Systems

Edmund Billings | HIT Consultant | November 19, 2012

2012 Medscape survey says physicians prefer VistA Enterprise EHR Over Epic Systems based on 21,000 physicians in 25 specialties evaluating enterprise EHRs Read More »

Survey Suggests Public Is Ready To Engage

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | December 18, 2012

As we noted yesterday, many policymakers are keen on the role patients can take in the health IT transition. Given that goal, patient engagement advocates are likely to feel encouraged by a new survey which indicates that a healthy majority of healthcare consumers are willing to make greater use of health IT. Read More »

Survey: Less Than 10% Of Physician Practices Ready For ICD-10

Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | February 5, 2014

Less than 10 percent of practices responding to a survey issued by the Medical Group Management Association are ready for the transition to ICD-10 [...]. While the number is up from 4.7 percent who indicated readiness last summer, it adds to a growing chorus of providers and payers who indicate they aren't ready to switch from using ICD-9 coding. Read More »

Survey: Local, State Gov CIOs Underprepared For Attacks

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | April 30, 2013

Only about half of state and local government CIOs polled in a recent survey said they’re prepared for a cyber-attack — even as 28 percent of them reported experiencing a system hacking or attack attempt in the previous year. Read More »

Survey: Physicians Say EMRs A Key Factor To Their Declining Income

Jasmine Pennic | HIT Consultant | July 3, 2013

Physicians feel reimbursement, EMRs and hospital employment as key factors to limiting physician pay according to a recent survey by Medicus Firm. The survey entitled, 2013 Physician Practice Preference and Relocation Survey was conducted with over 2,500 doctors revealed several workforce trends and practice preferences. Read More »

Survey: Quarter Of US Consumers Has Heard Of Bitcoin — And Majority Of Them Trust It

Natasha Lomas | TechCrunch | June 28, 2013

Depending on your view, Bitcoin is either A) an elaborate Ponzi scheme or B) the currency of the future. Or, if you’re the average man on the street, it’s probably C) something you’ve never heard of. Read More »

Surveys point to struggles in adoption of EHRs

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | June 25, 2012

Surveys are intended in part to give researchers a snapshot understanding of what is going on in a given part of society, or any single topic. Sometimes, though, it seems more productive to consider more than one survey at once in the name of getting at potentially broader implications.

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