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Sutter’s $1 Billion Boondoggle-New Electronic Records System Goes Dark
A controversial electronic health records system on which Sutter corporation has said it is spending $1 billion went completely dark Monday at Sutter hospitals in Northern California exposing patients to additional risk beyond problems reported with the system in July, registered nurses reported yesterday. Read More »
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Swan Song For Connectathon In Windy City
Anticipation about the IHE North American Connectathon’s move to Cleveland in 2015 is running high among the event’s organizers, though they insist that they are not looking past their final year in Chicago Jan. 27-31, 2014. Read More »
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Sweet Snacks 'Link To Bowel Cancer'
Fizzy drinks, cakes, biscuits, crisps and desserts may increase the risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study. Read More »
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Swiss Assembly Wants Access To Source Code Of e-Gov Software
Thirteen members of the Swiss parliament are asking the government to demand the right to adapt the source code of GEVER, the record management system commissioned by the government and under development since 2008. [...] Read More »
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Syapse Joins Free The Data! Initiative and Provides Software To Power Participant-centric Hereditary Gene Mutation Data
Syapse, the leader in software for bringing omics into routine medical use, announced that it has joined the Free the Data! initiative. [...] Read More »
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SynApps Signs Up To Health and Social Care Interoperability Charter To Ensure A Better NHS
Content management leader SynApps Solutions has signed up to techUK’s Health and Social Care Interoperability Charter in order to demonstrate its firm belief that integrated health and social care information systems are a key driver of better patient care. As a signatory to the Charter, a voluntary commitment of key health IT vendors being organised by the trade group and representing the voice of the UK tech supplier community, SynApps commits to helping make its health IT systems more open and easier to integrate.
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Systematic Review Shows Text Messaging May Help Prevent Disease in Developing Countries
There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of mobile phones being used in the developing world over the past decade. As a result, millions of people are now connected in ways they have never been before. This brings new opportunities for disease prevention efforts, through means such as short message service (SMS), also known as texting. Read More »
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Systems Need To Be Simplified To Maximise Anaesthetics Efficiency
The way data is handled by healthcare services needs to simplified in order to efficiently utilise new technologies. One way to do this is by introducing greater collaboration between software developers and users. Read More »
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Take Long View On Health Reform
Americans, especially the press, seem to be obsessive regarding the Affordable Care Act — or the sobriquet "Obamacare," as it has been dubbed. At first I was slightly disheartened by this, but, given further thought, it is only natural. For far too many years, we had no cohesive "system" for our health care, and now everyone, so it seems, is looking at a real system. Read More »
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Takeaways From Medicine 2.0
When I was invited to join a panel on the role of social networks in global health at the Medicine 2.0 conference this weekend in Boston… I was delighted to join former colleague Kavitha Nallathambi, who is with Knowledge for Health (K4Health) at John Hopkins, [and] Bruno Meessen, an economist who runs an online community for performance-based financing supported by the Harmonization for Health in Africa initiative. Read More »
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Taking On The Overpopulation Myth
[...] This one quote from Steven W. Mosher’s “Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits,” from the former secretary of the Kenyan Medical Association, summarizes the state of Western-funded population control programs in the Third World... Read More »
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Taking Stock: Interoperability and National Health IT Week
During a two-hour panel discussion hosted by ONC this week, yours truly provided views on the current state of interoperability. In celebration of National Health IT Week, panelists were asked to provide their thoughts on the biggest advancements made in interoperability, ways that government and industry should work together, and concerns about future challenges...
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Taking The Open Source Enterprise Plunge
Devops represents a dramatic change from the old siloed developers and script-heavy system administrators of yesterday. Any tools that can provide some common ground for developers and IT operations professionals can help, and it seems Chef and Puppet often do. Read More »
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Talend & Neo Partnership: Open Source Solutions for Big Data
NoSQL databases are a driving force in the evolution of Big Data. That could have important implications for Oracle (ORCL), as we wrote last week. Read More »
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Talend Trade Agreements Act Ruling: A Major Step Forward On FOSS For US Government
Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 (19 USC 2511 et seq.) (“TAA”). Read More »
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