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'Huge Growth Potential For Open Source Hospital Information System'

Gijs Hillenius | European Commission Joinup | April 26, 2013

GNU Health, an free software hospital information system, medical record system and health information system, is rapidly becoming popular in hospitals around the world, says one of its developers, Sebastian Marro. "This project has the potential to grow really large." Read More »

'Sandbox For Geeks' Powers Open Medical Research

Alex Woodie | Datanami | July 10, 2013

The people behind Sage Bionetworks hope that a new community-driven approach to research that features a big pool of scientific data that is open to all--or a "sandbox for geeks" as its founder put it--will result in progress being made in the battles against diseases such as arthritis, Alzheimer's, and breast cancer. Read More »

A Few Ways The Government Shutdown Could Harm Your Health (And The World’s)

Maryn McKenna | Wired | October 1, 2013

There’s going to be a lot — a lot — of coverage today on the federal shutdown, what it means and how long it might go on. I thought it might be worth quickly highlighting how it affects the parts of the government that readers here care most about: public health, global health, food safety and the spread of scary diseases. Read More »

ASAP Awards – Interview With Nitika Pant Tai

Fabiana Kubke | PLOS.org | October 21, 2013

Communities with limited wealth suffer of diseases in a way that many of us may never come to be confronted with. Poverty befriends disease, and many diseases befriend shame. Read More »

Calling Obesity A Disease: Is This About Health Or Is It About Money?

William Anderson | Huffington Post | July 9, 2013

In case you've been on vacation the last month and incommunicado, the New York Times on June 18 reported that the AMA has officially declared that obesity is a disease, not just a physical condition. Since then, the media, the Internet and the medical community have erupted in a frenzy of stories and opinions. Read More »

China Arrests 900 In Fake Meat Scandal

Jonathan Kaiman | The Guardian | May 3, 2013

Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton Read More »

Developer Of Sensitive Devices To Detect Diseases, Proteins Gets In-Q-Tel Funding

Dawn Lim | Nextgov | November 15, 2012

Biotech firm Quanterix raised $18.5 million in a funding round joined by CIA venture capital wing In-Q-Tel, the company announced. Read More »

Distinguishing Brain From Mind

Sally Satel | Nextgov | May 31, 2013

From the recent announcement of President Obama's BRAIN Initiative to the Technicolor brain scans ("This is your brain on God/love/envy etc") on magazine covers all around, neuroscience has captured the public imagination like never before. Read More »

Global Alliance Formed To Create Framework For Genomic Data Sharing

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | June 7, 2013

More than 70 major research and healthcare organizations from 41 countries have signed a letter of intent to create a framework for sharing genomic data worldwide, posted at the Broad Institute's website... Read More »

Health Records Of Every NHS Patient To Be Shared In Vast Database

Sarah Knapton | The Telegraph | January 10, 2014

The health records of everyone in the NHS will be pooled in a vast database which can be accessed by researchers and pharmaceutical companies. But campaigners warn it could breach privacy. Read More »

Is Big Pharma Standing In The Way Of Curing The New SARS?

Alexander Abad-Santos | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Middle East Respiratory Symptom coronavirus (MERS-CoV), better known as the new SARS cousin that is efficiently killing people in Saudi Arabia, has been described by the World Health Organization as "a threat to the entire world." Read More »

Is Big Pharma Standing In The Way Of Curing The New SARS?

Alexander Abad-Santos | Atlantic Wire | May 29, 2013

Middle East Respiratory Symptom coronavirus (MERS-CoV), better known as the new SARS cousin that is efficiently killing people in Saudi Arabia, has been described by the World Health Organization as "a threat to the entire world."... Read More »

Pakistan Uses Smartphone Data To Head Off Dengue Outbreak

Susan Young | MIT Technology Review | October 30, 2012

Algorithms tell government workers where to seek out the telltale mosquito larvae that causes the disease. Read More »

Perspective: HIE, 'Omics' And Personalized Medicine

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | April 26, 2013

Oregon Health & Science University and Intel are partnering on a genomics computing project that’s very much following IBM's Watson in its processing largess and medical ambition — a sign of the evolving relationships between patients, doctors and computers, and also, pretty much, health information exchange applied scientifically. Read More »

Rancho BioSciences Will Present The TranSMART Open Source Platform At TM Forum’s Digital Disruption 2013, Oct 28-31, San Jose

Press Release | Rancho BioSciences | October 22, 2013

Rancho BioSciences will be demonstrating the open source clinical omic's platform, tranSMART at the TM Forum Digital Disruption meeting. Rancho will be show how this platform can make a difference in the Personalized Medicine Space and the IT infrastructure needed to support it. Read More »