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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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Barrett Brown, Political Prisoner Of The Information Revolution

Kevin M Gallagher | The Guardian | July 13, 2013

If the US government succeeds in criminalising Brown's posting of a hyperlink, the freedom of all internet users is in jeopardy Read More »

Bash Brothers: How Globalization And Technology Teamed Up To Crush Middle-Class Workers

Derek Thompson | The Atlantic | August 13, 2013

Globalizationandtechnology is often referred to like a monolithic thing. A new study shows they're very separate. Globalization increases joblessness. Computers increase inequality. Read More »

Battle Against Breast Cancer Goes Open Source

Ryan McBride | FierceBiotechIT | July 31, 2013

After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision shielded Myriad Genetics' genetic data on breast cancer from disclosure, the nonprofit coalition Free the Data! launched a campaign to open troves of molecular information about widespread tumors with the help of big data software outfit Syapse. Read More »

Battle Heats Up Over HealthCare.gov Paper Trail

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 13, 2013

A battle over the paper trail documenting the troubled building of the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace heated up on Friday as contractors declined to withhold some documents from congressional overseers and the lead investigating committee’s ranking Democrat accused his Republican counterpart of unfair dealing. Read More »

Bay Pines VA Doc Testifies Before Congress On Military Sexual Trauma

Bobbie O'Brien | WUSF News | July 20, 2013

More mental health programs are needed for male veterans who are living with Military Sexual Trauma (MST) according to a top psychologist and researcher from Bay Pines VA Health Care System. Read More »

BayCare Launches New Mobile Application for Patient Discharge Instructions

Press Release | BayCare, HealthGrid | September 22, 2015

To make it easier for hospital patients to transition back to their home environment, BayCare Health System is launching an application that allows people to receive discharge instructions on their mobile devices. Utilizing the cell phone number provided during patient registration, this new application securely delivers and confirms receipt of electronic discharge instructions so patients can see things like prescribed medications, diet, activity and recommended follow-up appointments. Meanwhile, BayCare providers can rest assured that this information can go anywhere their patients do.

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Be A Part Of The Blue Button Movement

Lygeia Ricciardi | Health IT Buzz | August 12, 2013

The use and awareness of Blue Button as a consumer engagement tool continues to skyrocket and we need your commitment to be an active partner in the Blue Button movement. Read More »

Beacon Partners Study Finds Healthcare Executives Dissatisfied With Efforts To Measure ROI In IT Clinical Systems

Press Release | Beacon Partners | October 24, 2012

Healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners today announced the results of their recent survey, “Finding the ROI in Clinical IT Systems.” Read More »

Beall’s List Of Predatory Publishers 2013

Jeffrey Beall | Scholarly Open Access | December 4, 2012

The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. Read More »

Bee Sharp Announces Open Access To Premiere Level Membership

Press Release | International Academy of Bee Sharp Teachers | July 3, 2013

Bee Sharp is giving educators free access to its premiere level for Summer 2013. The academy and its members focus on inspired teaching and providing teaching help to other educators. Read More »

Beepocalypse Redux: Honeybees Are Still Dying — And We Still Don’t Know Why

Bryan Walsh | Time | May 7, 2013

More than five years after it was first reported, colony-collapse disorder is still killing honeybees around the world. If scientists can't pinpoint the cause, the economic and environmental damage could be immense Read More »

Before Buying New Scheduling System, Va Plans To Kick The Tires

Jack Moore | NextGov | November 17, 2014

A request for proposal for the new scheduling system is “going to hit the street no later than" Nov. 21, VA Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren told reporters during a press call last week. The agency’s search for a new system is a “free and open” procurement, Warren said. Companies don’t need to have a preexisting relationship with the agency to compete.

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Before The Prescription, Ask About Your Doctor's Finances

Leana Wen | Capital Public Radio | December 16, 2013

At the dawn of managed care, worried patients wanted to know whether their doctors were getting paid more to do less. Now, as many doctors' salaries depend on how many procedures they perform, patients want to know whether their doctors are paid more to do more. Read More »

Behind Epic Systems, A Low-Key Health IT Company Called InterSystems

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | March 4, 2013

Phillip Ragon, known as Terry, has quietly built Cambridge, Mass-based InterSystems into a $443 million (2012 revenues) company, selling the guts of electronic health records: databases that can easily ramp up and allow doctors to quickly retrieve patient information. [...] Read More »

Behind The Ballooning Medical E-Records Cost

Gina Mangieri | KHON2 | February 10, 2014

A system that’s supposed to revolutionize health care in Hawaii is costing the state’s taxpayer-supported hospitals more than double the originally projected cost at the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation — the quasipublic agency that runs the state’s primarily rural hospitals. Read More »