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Open Innovation Is No Longer A Rallying Cry In Healthcare — It’s A Movement

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | August 31, 2012

It’s become a staple in the software industry. The telecommunications industry has done it. The automobile industry is doing it. And now, the healthcare industry as a whole has adopted the practice of open innovation — and it’s doing it with vigor. Read More »

Open Letter From A Small EMR Vendor To Our Customers And Our Friends In Washington

Hayward K. Zwerling | The Health Care Blog | December 5, 2013

ComChart EMR will continued to be certified as a Complete EMR for Stage I Meaningful Use. Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet the Stage 2 (or greater) Meaningful Use certification requirements as these requirements are technically extremely difficult to implement. [...] Read More »

Open Medicine Initiative Takes Top Prize In Santa Clara

Erin Wiley | Global Entrepreneurship Week | November 18, 2012

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Santa Clara County StartUp Cup held their event finals. From a pool of more than 50 applicants, three were recognized for their businesses models. Read More »

Open mHealth Popular Standard (Part 1)

Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | December 1, 2015

If standards have not been universally adopted in the health care field, and are oftenimplemented incorrectly when adopted, the reason may simply be that good standards are hard to design. A recent study found that mobile health app developers would like to share data, but “Less progress has been made in enabling apps to connect and communicate with provider healthcare systems–a fundamental requirement for mHealth to realize its full value in healthcare management.”Open mHealth faced this challenge when they decided to provide a schema to represent the health data that app developers, research teams, and other individuals want to plug into useful applications. This article is about how they mined the health community for good design decisions and decided what necessary trade-offs to make.

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Open Source Drug Discovery Gathers Steam

Staff Writer | BioSpectrum | July 6, 2012

The unique CSIR initiative, now has over 6,000 registered participants working on an open source platform for the discovery of drugs of diseases such as TB, malaria and more. Read More »

Open Source Effort Develops Affordable Drugs

Press Release | Stevens Institute of Technology | March 14, 2013

In order to accelerate the development of new drugs to combat and cure major infectious diseases, Professor A.K. Ganguly of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology is contributing his expertise and passion to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Open Source Drug Discovery initiative. Read More »

Open Source EHRs: Will They Support Clinical Data Needs of the Future? (Part 1 of 2)

Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | November 10, 2014

Open source software missed out on making a major advance into health care when it was bypassed during hospitals’ recent stampede toward electronic health records, triggered over the past few years by Meaningful Use incentives...As Meaningful Use ramps down and clinicians have to look for value in EHRs, can the open source options provide what they need?

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Open Source Goes Corporate: Can Open Healthcare Be Far Behind?

If you aren't in IT, you may have missed the news that IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a leader in the open source Linux movement, or that, a couple days prior, Microsoft closed on its acquisition of GitHub, a leader in open source software development. Earlier this year Salesforce acquired Mulesoft, and Cloudera and Hortonworks merged; all were other open source leaders. I must confess, I had never heard of some of these companies, but I'm starting to believe what MarketWatch said following the IBM announcement: "open source has truly arrived." What exactly that means, especially for healthcare, I'm not sure, but it's worth exploring. IBM is paying $34b for Red Hat.

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Open Source GP Project Takes Off [UK]

Rebecca Todd | eHealth Insider | October 18, 2012

A locum GP is co-directing a project to develop an open source GP clinical system to allow "true interoperability" with other healthcare systems. Read More »

Open Source Hardware : Less Costly Works Best

Staff Writer | The Customize Windows | December 8, 2012

[...] Richard Stallman initiated the Free Software Movement, for whom, we are now using various softwares, services for free or at lesser cost; in the same way, Open Source Hardware makes the devices less costly, affordable and breaks vendor lock in. Read More »

Open Source Hardware-The Next Frontier

You've heard of open source software. Open data. Open access. Open knowledge. With the origin of open source software, an entire culture with a distinct ethos and community of “openness” was born. But what exactly is open source hardware? Read More »

Open Source Hardware: Exploring New Territory

As momentum from the open source culture continues to snowball, it acquires new categories—the newest component being open hardware. While open hardware lacks the benefit of a unified movement and faces legal obstacles, it is based upon the same principles that made open source software a soaring success. It also promises to effect positive change in many different fields, including (to name just two) farming and healthcare. Read More »

Open Source Health Inc. Names Fred Trotter As Chief Operating Officer

Press Release | Open Source Health (OSH) | February 20, 2014

Open Source Health Inc. (CSE:OSH) a digital integrated healthcare company dedicated to advancing life-long solutions for women's health and wellness is pleased to announce the appointment of Fred Trotter as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Fred has served as an advisor to Open Source Health since December 2013. Read More »

Open Source Robotic Surgery System In The Works

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | February 11, 2014

While the Da Vinci surgical system is the only robot with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval--and the target of plenty of criticism--researchers are looking to develop surgical robots based on open source technology, reports Scientific American. Read More »

Open Source Skunkworks At EHI Live 2011

Staff Writer | eHealth Insider | September 14, 2011

EHealth Insider is bringing a new feature to EHI Live 2011: a healthcare skunkworks that will give visitors the chance to ask questions about how open source software can be used to solve healthcare problems. Read More »