News

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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Weekly: Uchaguzi, Community Dev Live Meetup

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | January 17, 2013

Happy Week from Nairobi! We have updates about Uchaguzi and the upcoming Community Developer call. Read More »

Weill Cornell Study Finds Measuring Quality In EHR Era 'Challenging'

Mike Milliard | Government Health IT | January 16, 2013

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College spotlights the need for improving quality measurement from electronic health records. Read More »

Welcome To A Brand New PlanPhilly!

Matt Golas and Ashley Hahn | PlanPhilly | January 14, 2013

What you are looking at today is a thoroughly new, innovative PlanPhilly website that is designed to better connect the planning, design and development communities in Philadelphia through an integrated content package made up of breaking and investigative news, expert analysis and opinion, organizational and individual profiles, mapped neighborhood pages and enhanced photo and video packages. Read More »

Welcome To Medicine Without Boundaries

Simon Schurr | Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC) | July 1, 2013

Here at Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC), we’ve been dedicated to one thing for the past decade: Developing the disruptive and innovative information technology solutions necessary to facilitate a sustainable global healthcare system. Read More »

Welcome To The Age Of Open-ish Technology

Walter Frick | Technology Review | September 21, 2012

From Twitter's API and the Android OS, we live in an age when private companies reap the benefits of some openness while maintaining ultimate control. Read More »

Welcome Xen As A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

Jim Zemlin | The Linux Foundation | April 14, 2013

Today we’d like to welcome Xen as the newest Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Read More »

Welcoming The White House To Github

Sean Herron | open.nasa.gov | August 24, 2012

Yesterday, the White House open sourced its first project on Github, “We The People“, the popular e-petitions platform that powers petitions.whitehouse.gov. Read More »

Welcoming To USAID: White House Presidential Innovation Fellows

Maura O’Neill | USAID | August 24, 2012

This Thursday, the White House launched The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program (PIF), which pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in six months. Read More »

Wellcome Joins Chorus Calling for Free Online Access to Medical Research

Ryan McBride | FierceBiotechIT | April 10, 2012

Wellcome Trust no longer wants to pay for medical research that ends up guarded behind a pay wall, and the U.K.'s largest private funder of medical research is considering several ways to bring a proverbial wrecking ball to such pay walls and make research papers available for free online under an open-access framework. Read More »

Wellcome Library Funds A New Partnership To Digitise 800,000 Pages Of Mental Health Archives

Press Release | Wellcome Library, Borthwick Institute for Archives, Dumfries and Galloway Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives, Royal College of Psychiatrists, University of Glasgow Digitisation Centre | October 17, 2014

Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK from the 18th to the 20th centuries will be digitised and made freely available online as part of the Wellcome Library’s ambitious digitisation programme...

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Wellcome Library Pledges Support For Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Project

Press Release | Wellcome Trust, Knowledge Unlatched | December 5, 2013

Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. Read More »

Wellcome Trust Joins 'Academic Spring' to Open Up Science

Alok Jha | The Guardian | May 9, 2012

One of the world's largest funders of science is to throw its weight behind a growing campaign to break the stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared online. Read More »

Wellcome Trust Supports Open Access Award Programme

Press Release | Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) | May 2, 2013

The Wellcome Trust has joined with the Public Library of Science and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, that has led to innovations in any field that benefit society. Read More »

Wellcome Trust Walks The Walk On Open Access With Images Release

Paul St. John Mackintosh | TeleRead | January 23, 2014

Already a poster child for open access in the UK scientific and medical communities, the Wellcome Trust has made another public commitment to free access to information with its announcement that: “Over 100 000 images, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements, are being made freely available through Wellcome Images.” Read More »

Wellness Takes Hold Among Large Employers – And More Sticks Nudge Workers Toward Health

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | August 23, 2012

Employee benefits make up one-third of employers’ investments in workers, and companies are looking for positive ROI on that spend. Health benefits are the largest component of that spending, and are a major cost-management focus. In 2012 and beyond, wellness is taking center stage as part of employers’ total benefits strategies. Read More »