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Open-Source Community Helps With Emergency VistA Patch
While working on his final project for a master's degree in information security, Georgia Tech graduate student Doug Mackey discovered a security flaw in VistA, the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health records system. Read More »
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Open-Source Software Suite Aims To Improve Breast Health Management
An open-source software suite to be rolled out across Nova Scotia early next year could improve breast health management worldwide, its creators say in a UICC research summary.
The Breast Imaging Electronic Medical Record (BIEMR) comes from 20 years of work to fill voids in proprietary software offerings, according to Mohamed Abdolell, an associate professor in the radiology department at Dalhousie University. Read More »
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Open-Source Software: Could This Be The Glue That Holds The NHS Together?
Good news stories don’t come around that often for Connecting for Health [...]. But I think I might have found one in the making. This month marks the mid-way point in a two-year project to build an “open-source community” for the NHS. Read More »
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Open-Source Tool Enables Vendor-Neutral CT Does Archiving
Researchers in Boston have developed an automated radiation-exposure monitoring system that extracts detailed CT exposure data from image repositories. Thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) software, the open-source software scheme can gather data from virtually any CT scanner model, even older ones without DICOM-based dose displays. Read More »
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OpenEMR Continues to grow in Popularity and Use
OpenEMR recently posted a news release with data on the number of downloads of their popular open source electronic medical record (EMR) software. The number of practitioners using the system and the patient population they are treating are staggering – a real eye-opener. It's amazing that many noted management consulting & research organizations still fail to acknowledge or report on the rapidly growing number of high quality, open source health IT solutions now widely deployed. Read More »
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OpenFDA Backstory: Breaking The Paperwork Backlog
The startup Captricity uses a combination of crowdsourcing and OCR to digitize mountains of paper records, particularly for government agencies and healthcare. Read More »
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OpenHIM Released As Open Source!
As a part of the work Jembi Health Systems has been doing in Rwanda at the moment with the RHEA project they have been creating a health information exchange to enable interoperability between the OpenMRS systems implemented in some of the health facilities in the Rwamagana district. Read More »
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Opinion: VA System Inadequate To Meet Veterans’ Health Care Needs
The promise of access to high-quality, affordable health care is one we can deliver on for our veterans if we continue to work together in communities to understand and address the health needs of veterans and their families and if we pursue all avenues to increase health insurance options for veterans who are currently without adequate health coverage.
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OPSWAT helps San Francisco State University contribute to Healthcare Systems for Developing Countries
OPSWAT's donations to the Computer Science department help students get involved in the development community for OpenMRS, an open source medical records system. Read More »
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Orlando VA Medical Center To Install LiveData PeriOp Manager In All 10 Operating Rooms At New State-Of-The-Art Facility
LiveData, Inc., today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facility in Orlando has purchased LiveData PeriOp Manager, the company’s healthcare operational intelligence solution for perioperative suites. [...] Read More »
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Oscars Of Science: Breakthrough Awards Hands Out $21m To Transform Physicists Into Rockstars
In Hollywood this week, the talk was all about the Golden Globe nominations, but several hundred miles to the north, Silicon Valley’s biggest names were enjoying a new kind of awards ceremony – and they invited one of the film industry’s favourite sons to host it. Read More »
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OSEHRA & EHR: Finding Value in Open Source EHR
With federal funding and the support of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), OSEHRA challenges the US government’s traditional approach to publishing technology, “the museum approach.” According to Mun, in this method the government produces a technology, releases it to the public, and leaves it to users to continue its development. The establishment of OSEHRA represents a novel approach by the US government that embraces open source innovation.
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OSEHRA Announces Spin Systems As Newest Corporate Member ... Partnership Enables Community To Leverage World Class Expertise
OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, and Spin Systems, Inc., a leader in using analytics to convert complex “Big Data” sets into actionable information, announced today the addition of Spin Systems to the OSEHRA Corporate Forum. Read More »
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OSEHRA Welcomes Indian Health Service As Newest Collaborative Partner
OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record (EHR) software, announced today that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Indian Health Service (IHS) to facilitate the participation of IHS employees in the open source community... Read More »
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OSEHRA Welcomes MedicaSoft As Newest Corporate Member
OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, announced today that MedicaSoft, LLC, has joined the OSEHRA community as a Corporate Member. Read More »
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