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Region Not Ready For Health Reform In 2014
About 227,500 Sacramento area residents will be eligible for health coverage in 2014, but an already strained regional safety net is not prepared to care for them, a new market analysis of the region concludes. Read More »
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Request for Proposals for Next OpenMRS Conference
OpenMRS is requesting proposals to host the 2013 OpenMRS Implementers Meeting! Our annual Implementers Meeting began in 2006 as a way to bring members of the community together for an opportunity of face-to-face time to collaborate, share implementation experiences, and to find ways to improve the OpenMRS platform and community. Read More »
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Rethinking Open Source Collaboration
...Although the spotlight is shone on open source more than ever before and the technology and tools have evolved, the core fundamentals of how we build open source software are still the same at their core – yet the rigor and quality expectations have changed. I think this is a great opportunity for our wider community as well as an organization...
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Rewriting The Journal
With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction? Read More »
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Rivet Logic Named in KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”
Rivet Logic Corporation (http://rivetlogic.com), a leading consulting, systems integration and design firm focused on helping major enterprises build digital experiences with leading open source and cloud-based software, announced today that it has been named in KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management” for the ninth consecutive year...- Login to post comments
Sage Commons Congress 2012
I was at the Sage Commons Congress the last few days. Meetings should be full of challenging new ideas and full of spontaneous discussion. [...] This congress was very interesting, driven by the passion of those people taking part to do science in new ways. Read More »
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Scaling Up Health Knowledge at European Level Requires Sharing Integrated Data
...Dr Menditto continues "Combining databases from multiple countries exploiting common structural elements will help increasing the cohorts both on numerical and geographical coverage aspects. At the moment there is not a gold standard to perform multiple healthcare database integration among different countries and different health systems. The EIP-AHA represents an opportunity to compare practices, identify common needs and establish good practices and harmonized approaches with a view to maximize the effective exploitation of large data sets and provide the basis for studying population cohorts at European level...
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School Systems Desperate for Standards-Aligned Curricula Find Hope
Open Up Resources is a nonprofit collaborative formed by 13 U.S. states that creates high-quality, standards-aligned open educational resources (OERs) that are openly licensed under CC BY 4.0. Unlike other providers, Open Up Resources provides curriculum-scale OER options; they believe that while many people seem to know where to find supplemental materials, most curriculum directors would not know where to look if they were planning a textbook adoption next year. After an article I wrote about OERs last year, I had the opportunity to interview their community evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer, Karen Vaites. In this interview, Karen elaborates on this...
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Scientists Are Accidentally Helping Poachers Drive Rare Species to Extinction
If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for sale” – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large number of animals being pushed to extinction in the wild by animal trafficking. What’s shocking is that the illegal trade in Chinese cave geckoes began so soon after they were first scientifically described in the early 2000s. It’s not an isolated case; poachers are trawling scientific papers for information on the location and habits of new, rare species...
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Seagate Embraces Open Source: Joins The OpenStack Foundation And Open Compute Project
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced it has become a corporate sponsor member of the OpenStack Foundation and Open Compute Project as part of a collaborative effort to partner with industry leaders to define and promote open source standards for cloud computing. Read More »
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Session on Ushahidi and Crisis Mapping Write-Up
In early 2008 some Kenyan developers were concerned about the levels of violence following the disputed elections in their country. They wanted an independent source of reports of what was happening and where. They built a platform that allowed people to SMS reports which could then be placed on a map. They called it “Testimony” in Swahili (Ushahidi). Read More »
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Should Learned Societies be in Charge of Peer Review?
How, then, might we rethink academic publishing to increase accessibility while maintaining the benefits of peer review? More important, how might we do this while recognizing the fundamental dual realities that (1) universities are already too stretched to devote significant resources to peer reviewing and (2) publishers are companies whose right to thrive financially should be respected? One solution is to cut the Gordian knot of review and dissemination.
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Silicon Valley Was Going to Disrupt Capitalism. Now It’s Just Enhancing It
The tech giants thought they would beat old businesses but the health and finance industries are using data troves to become more, not less, resilient. The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting with a technology company became considerably smaller after recent announcements of two intriguing but not entirely unpredictable partnerships. One is between Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline...
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Smart Notebooks For Linking Virtual Teams Across The Net
Kickstarter project promotes open-source, standards-based collaboration tool Read More »
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Software Forethought
Here's an all too common scenario. A bunch of really smart scientists and medical researchers get together. They envision a research program of unprecedented scale. They obtain funding, tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, from academic, commercial, non-profit enterprises, and from investors and philanthropists. The plans are drawn up, brick and mortar is under design and soon to be built! Read More »
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