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A Look At Integration Between Mi-Forms And OpenClinica

Staff Writer | Mi-Co | July 3, 2013

For those of you who work in the clinical research industry, you have probably already heard of OpenClinica, the world’s leading open source software for data capture and management in clinical trials. Read More »

Advanced Open Access Publishing Model

Staff Writer | Science Codex | October 23, 2013

There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web site in a repository or on his/her own website, and Gold Open Access, where articles are available for free download directly from the publisher on the day of publication. Read More »

Announcing ITK 4.4.0!

Press Release | Kitware | June 4, 2013

Kitware and the Insight Toolkit (ITK) team are pleased to announce ITK 4.4.0! The tarballs can be downloaded on the Sourceforge page. Major changes made in this release are detailed below, and there will be an ITK 4.4.0 release webinar on Tuesday, June 11th at 3PM ET to provide an overview of the new version. Read More »

Blue Button Codeathon: Unlocking Data And Empowering Patients

Maya Uppaluru | Health IT Buzz | November 8, 2013

Anyone who has struggled to remember the name of their medication or the date of their child’s vaccination, while juggling multiple doctor appointments for family members, knows firsthand how important it is that patients have access to their health information. We think our Blue Button initiative can help. Read More »

Building An Effective ACO: Longitudinal Records Enable Collaboration

Naveen Sarabu | Government Health IT | December 24, 2013

Once an accountable care organization (ACO) or other collaborative care entity has laid the foundation for a robust health data exchange by ensuring the electronic capture of complete clinical and financial information at the individual provider level, the next step is to build the core of the structure – the longitudinal patient record. Read More »

Free The Data: Patients As Consumers

Mark Braunstein | InformationWeek | December 24, 2013

Standard APIs are beginning to remove the barriers to effective Personal Health Record systems. Read More »

How Style Guides Sustain Effective Consistency In EHR Design

John B. Sparling | EHR Intelligence | January 6, 2014

Style guides have been described as an EHR designer’s “source of truth.” Many large healthcare organizations design their own unique style guide to create a framework used and recognized at various department levels in implementing an EHR to place orders and record clinical documentation. Read More »

IBM's Watson Wants To Fix America's Doctor Shortage

Russell Brandom | The Verge | October 15, 2013

The supercomputer's greatest opponent may be the American healthcare system Read More »

Introducing CrisisNET

Chris R. Albon | Ushahidi | June 9, 2014

At Ushahidi, we love helping people turn data into social impact. We’ve helped thousands of users gather and manage crowdsourced data during everything from natural disasters to political revolutions. When Ushahidi was founded in 2008, our tools provided a rare and valuable source of crisis-relevant data to citizens, policy makers, and responders. Since then, we’ve watched the volume and variety of crisis data go from a trickle to a flood. Read More »

Most Scientific Research Data From The 1990s Is Lost Forever

Danielle Wiener-Bronner | The Wire | December 23, 2013

A new study has found that as much as 80 percent of the raw scientific data collected by researchers in the early 1990s is gone forever, mostly because no one knows where to find it. Read More »

NoMoreClipboard Launches Enhanced Blue Button Capability

Press Release | NoMoreClipboard | May 4, 2012

In support of healthcare industry efforts to make consumer access to digital health data a top priority, NoMoreClipboard today announced that its users can download their personal health record information in five different file formats including ASCII, .pdf, CCD, CCR and PHR Extract. Read More »

Open Data Executive Order Compliance: The Bad And The Good.

Matthew Rumsey and Ginger McCall | Sunlight Foundation | December 2, 2013

The first major deadline for agency compliance with President Obama's open data Executive Order arrived this past Saturday. Agencies were required to, among other things, provide the Office of Management and Budget with an "Enterprise Data Inventory" and release a list of all their public data via a /data page on their websites. Read More »

The Promise of a Little Blue Button

John Moore | Chilmark Research | September 11, 2012

...despite some shortcomings, the event was focused around what may be the government’s (VA & CMS) finest contributions to promoting patient engagement – the Blue Button.
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Why Integrating EMRs And Digital Images Is An Ethical And Practical Imperative

Andrew Litt | Computerworld | November 13, 2013

We've all been there. Following an injury, you or a family member gets an X-ray or MRI but when you follow up with a specialist a few weeks later, he or she can't access the study (unless, of course, you made a special trip to pick up a CD from the other care provider). In this age of rapid-fast information sharing, it's hard to understand why this still happens. Read More »