A “Malaria Box” that could hold the answer to discovering new drugs to treat tropical diseases and cancer has been created for researchers around the world. Griffith University tropical disease researchers have joined together with a host of international laboratories to advance drug discovery for major topical diseases through the creation and testing of the Malaria Box. In a paper published this week in the top journal PLoS Pathogens, the global team present findings on a panel of 400 chemical compounds – dubbed the “Malaria Box” – with potential application as therapeutic starting points for diseases like malaria, trypanosomiasis and toxoplasmosis.
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Global Health Delivery Offers Lessons on IT and Care in Remote Settings
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | July 28, 2011
The Global Health Delivery Project has released 21 teaching case studies that examine the complexity of bringing life-saving technologies and care to resource-poor settings around the world.
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Golden Age Of Healthcare: Open Health Data
Eugene Borukhovich | Eugene "B"-log | November 5, 2012
Healthcare is complex, complicated, and touches every single individual on this planet. The average spend per capita on healthcare costs is rising tremendously year over year and the governmental focus seems to be on increasing premiums, changing tax rates and focusing completely only on efficiency gains. Read More »
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Good News On Innovation And Health Care
Kathleen Sebelius | The White House Blog | May 28, 2013
A recent New York Times column [...] echoes what we’ve been hearing from health care providers and innovators: Data that support medical decision-making and collaboration, dovetailing with new tools in the Affordable Care Act, are spurring the innovation necessary to deliver improved health care for more people at affordable prices. Read More »
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Good Things Can Come from Open Source Projects that Fail
By Brent Phillips | September 16, 2016
Without realizing it, I joined the open source movement in 1999 during the midst of the Kosovo refugee crisis. I was part of a team helping route aid supplies to local humanitarian organizations running transit camps across Albania. These are the camps that refugees often arrived at first before being moved to larger, more formal camps. We found that refugees in the transit camps were not being registered or provided with any way of alerting family members of their whereabouts...
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Google Builds a New Tablet for the Fight Against Ebola
Cade Metz | Wired | March 20, 2015
Jay Achar was treating Ebola patients at a makeshift hospital in Sierra Leone, and he needed more time. This was in September, near the height of the West African Ebola epidemic. Achar was part of a team that traveled to Sierra Leone under the aegis of a European organization called Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders. In a city called Magburaka, MSF had erected a treatment center that kept patients carefully quarantined, and inside the facility’s high-risk zone, doctors like Achar wore the usual polythene “moon suits,” gloves, face masks, and goggles to protect themselves from infection...
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Google Fights Ebola
Staff Writer | Google | November 16, 2014
While governments around the world were unsuccessfully trying to make up their minds about the best approach, sitting around and debating and discussing about the most valid ways to combat Ebola …Google came up to the plate in November and its CEO announced it would pledge $2 for every dollar donated through its website. They set up a specific URL onetoday.google.com/fightebola to explain this original social action and invite people worldwide to contribute to this worthwhile, timely cause...
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Government as a Platform for Progress: HHS’s Open Government Plan
Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., RN | HHS Blog | October 6, 2016
One of the first actions President Obama took after taking office was to direct federal agencies to find new ways to increase transparency, collaboration and public engagement. Since then, one of our top priorities at HHS has been to make our Department more open and accountable to the people we serve. With the publication of our fourth HHS Open Government Plan, we’re building on our past performance in making government more transparent to the public and engaging in new ways of collaborating and partnering with our stakeholders.
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Grand Opening: Federal Cloud Innovation Center
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013
As more state and federal government agencies try to catch up with the private sector in using cloud-based IT, IBM is giving them a lift. Read More »
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Greenway Founding Member Of Carequality Data Exchange Initiative
Press Release |
Carequality, Greenway |
February 24, 2014
Greenway® is joining more than two dozen healthcare organizations representing providers, retail health, health information exchanges, health information technology, payers and other multi-platform networks in founding and supporting roles of Carequality (“care-e-quality”) during its launch at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS14) in Orlando. Read More »
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Griffith Scientists Unlock the “Malaria Box”
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Griffith University |
August 1, 2016
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GSK Expands Open-Source Research Project In TB
Staff Writer | PMLIVE | October 11, 2012
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has screened its entire pharmaceutical compound library of more two million compounds and identified about 200 hits with potential against tuberculosis (TB), which it will make available to external research teams as part of its drive towards an 'open innovation' approach to R&D. Read More »
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Guest Blog: Don’t Confuse Open Source With Open Standards
Amy-jo Crowley | CBR | August 28, 2013
The European Commission has recently published guidelines which will make it easier for public authorities to switch to Open Standards. This move should be commended, but with a caveat. Open Standards do not equate to Open Source, and vendor lock-in is still a probability... Read More »
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Guest Blog: Why I Publish Open Access
Simon Herald | BioMed Central | December 6, 2012
Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead Read More »
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Halamka Discusses His Guiding Principles
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 3, 2016
As I’ve aged and matured my approach to life, career, and family, I’ve evolved my rubric for organizing each day. Here’s what I’ve used for 2016: Avoid commuting delays as much as possible - leave no later than 6:00am in the morning and return either before 3pm or after 7pm. I generally go in early, return early, care for animals, then work in the evening. I work in Boston Tuesday/Thursday, in our suburban Metrowest office Monday/Wednesday and wherever the most urgent projects are happening on Friday...
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Halamka Sets Healthcare Innovation Priorities for 2017
By John D. Halamka, MD | January 4, 2017
As we begin 2017, what should be the focus of our work over the next year?... Regardless of the policies, repeals, and delays of the Trump administration, we’ll still need to optimize usability and support the four goals of value-based purchasing - quality measurement, total medical expense management, practice process improvement and technology adoption. BIDMC has already created a prototype of groupware documentation and we should complete our next generation inpatient documentation solution by mid 2017. Part of that work incorporates open source secure texting as part of the medical record. We’re also piloting Google’s G-suite so that our stakeholders can store/share, collaborate, and communicate on any device from anywhere using only a browser...
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