Over the past few months, I’ve been in England, China, Denmark, New Zealand, and Canada. Each of them is rethinking their healthcare IT strategy and is not entirely satisfied with past progress. I’m often asked by senior government officials to help harmonize IT strategy at the country level. That I can do. I’m also asked to discuss the US Presidential campaign, but that defies rational explanation. I frequently say that healthcare IT issues are the same all over the world. Here’s a few common observations..
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By John D. Halamka, MD | November 2, 2016
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Open Government Data And Statistical Data: Haven't We Been Here Before?
Brand Niemann | AOL Government | October 15, 2012
The future of the federal statistical system in an era of open government data was the subject of the recent Association of Public Data Users Conference (APDU). It gave me the unique opportunity to pose three questions about the ironic state of federal statistics to an august panel of experts. Read More »
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Open Source Data Solutions Offer Enterprises More than Cost Savings
Loraine Lawson | IT Business Edge | June 4, 2012
Forrester predicted earlier this year that we’d see more open source data tools find their way into the enterprise this year, thanks in no small part to the fact that open source rules the Big Data space.
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Open Source EHR Generator Delivers Healthcare Big Data with FHIR
Jennifer Bresnick | Health IT Analytics | September 8, 2017
Healthcare data analysts frustrated by the lack of access to large volumes of clean, trusted, and complete patient data can now take advantage of an open source EHR data generator platform called Synthea. One million synthetic patient records are currently available within the free online system, which uses HL7 FHIR to allow access to standardized datasets that mimic real electronic health records...
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Open Source Electronic Health Records For Education And Training
By Bob Hoyt | July 2, 2014
In spite of being very involved in the field of Health Informatics I only recently became aware of VistA for Education (VFE), which has all of the aforementioned attributes of an excellent solution for EHR education purposes. VFE was developed as a result of a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) to supplement the ONC Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum. Electronic health records (EHRs) are more than just the electronic equivalent of paper-based health records. Electronic health data is easier to search, share and archive, compared to paper records. Additionally, EHRs can be embedded with clinical decision support to alert and remind physicians of patient safety and preventive medicine measures.
Open Source Enables High-volume Searches
Stacy Collett | Computerworld | May 7, 2012
Twitter, Facebook, the Library of Congress -- all of these institutions have mind-numbing amounts of structured and unstructured data that must be indexed and searched quickly...So it's not surprising that such institutions would venture into the seemingly untamed world of open-source search applications, not just for the cost savings, but also for the ability to customize and modify applications quickly...But what about other enterprise users? Read More »
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Open Source GIS Challenges Proprietary Vendors: Interview with Paul Ramsey of Boundless
By Jason Baker | November 30, 2014
In the world of geospatial technology, closed source solutions have been the norm for decades. But the tides are slowly turning as open source GIS software is gaining increasing prominence. Paul Ramsey, senior strategist at the open source company Boundless, is one of the people trying to change that.
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Open Source Has Changed Everything
Samuel Greengard | CIO Insight | February 21, 2014
In today's world of increasingly connected homes, connected machines and connected devices, any IT leader who can't grasp an open source mindset is doomed to fail. Read More »
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Open Source Hobbyists Now In High Demand
Brian Proffitt | ITworld | October 5, 2012
You know what? They're not calling us "hobbyists" anymore. It struck me this morning when I was reading up about this cool little open source operating system called Contiki, a very lightweight embedded OS designed to work well with the Internet of Things... Read More »
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Open Source Is Eating The Software World
Michael S. | LinkedIn | April 19, 2013
It's been said software is eating the world. This year’s Future of Open Source survey points to the fact that open source is eating the software world. Read More »
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Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says
Katherine Noyes | Computerworld | April 18, 2013
It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »
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Open Source Is Woven Into The Latest, Hottest Trends
Jay Lyman | Linux Insider | September 12, 2013
If open source software were still so relevant and meaningful to enterprise IT, one might expect that it would be part of what's arguably the top trend in the industry: Big Data. Well it is. Much of the trend toward greater effectiveness and efficiently in collecting, storing, managing and analyzing data centers is spurred by open source software technologies. Read More »
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Open Source OpenStack ARMs the Cloud
Sean Michael Kerner | ServerWatch | July 18, 2012
...OpenStack now has the support of major IT vendors including Cisco, HP, Dell, AT&T, IBM, Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE. And while OpenStack has been an x86-based technology for the entire length of the project's history, that is now set to change.
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Open Source Summit 2017 Combines LinuxCon and Three Other Events
Press Release |
The Linux Foundation |
November 17, 2016
The Linux Foundation today announced it will combine LinuxCon with two other events and a brand new Community Leadership Conference in 2017. Now called Open Source Summit, the event will bring LinuxCon, CloudOpen, and ContainerCon together under one umbrella and in three locations: North America, Europe, and Japan. The Community Leadership Conference, led by community-building expert and consultant Jono Bacon, will also join the Open Source Summit in North America and Europe...
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Open World Forum Extend Call For Papers
Staff Writer | Meshed Insights & Knowledge | July 2, 2013
Open World Forum has been bringing together European decision makers to explore the impact and potential future impact of free and open source software since 2008. This year it’s grown again, is moving to a larger venue and will be taking place on October the 3rd, 4th and 5th in Paris, France. Read More »
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