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OpenVista Goes Live in New TaraVista Behavioral Health Hospital
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the company’s OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) is live in TaraVista Behavioral Health Center, a new inpatient facility in Devens, Massachusetts. Originally conceived and launched by Health Partners New England (HPNE), TaraVista utilizes the creative forefront of architecture, design and medicine to exemplify the future of behavioral health care...
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Opinion: 'Teach Young People To Be Innovative'
The world has an insatiable appetite for innovation. To feed this desire for technologic and scientific breakthroughs, nations invest in our celebrated universities. Tax and tuition dollars go to educate students -- the next generation of open-minded thinkers -- but also toward fostering research. After all, academia is the quintessential innovation incubator. Isn't it? 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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OSDD Starts Youtube Competition For TB
India's Open Source Drug Discovery initiative and Vigyan Prasar have called for videos based on the theme, 'The need for TB drugs'. Participants need to be at least 18 years of age and can either upload the video on Youtube or send the video as an email attachment to the authorities, before Nov 26 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 2015: Zoeticx CEO to Speak during Open Health Panel at the Open Source Summit
Thanh Tran, CEO of Zoeticx will speak as a member of the Open Health panel discussion on Wednesday, July 29, at the upcoming OSEHRA Open Source Summit. His participation on the panel will be followed by a more extensive presentation on the topic of “Healthcare Open Access Architecture” to take place during one of the breakout sessions. The OSEHRA Summit, now in its 4th year, has become the leading conference addressing issues of open solutions, open source, collaboration, transparency, and innovation in healthcare information technology. The conference will take place at the Bethesda Marriott North Hotel and Conference Center in Maryland from July 29 to the 31st. Keynote speaker at the conference will be Robert A. McDonald, Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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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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Outgoing Federal CTO Talks Transparency, Bottom-Up Change
As the first ever federal chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, who steps down this week, was responsible for advising the President on technology and innovation. In a lengthy interview published earlier this week, Chopra spoke with The Atlantic's Nancy Scola...
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Pahlka Named Deputy CTO Of Innovation
Jennifer Pahlka, founder and executive director at Code for America, announced May 30 she is joining OSTP to serve as deputy chief technology officer for government innovation under U.S. CTO Todd Park. Read More »
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Palomar Health And Qualcomm Launch Glassware Medical Incubator
Glassomics Will Discover How Wearable Computing Devices Can Impact the Healthcare Industry Read More »
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Park, VanRoekel on unlocking government’s ‘innovation mojo’ (VIDEO)
U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and Chief Technology Officer Todd Park discuss government innovation with FedScoopTV. Park and VanRoekel touch on the White House Presidential Fellows Program, open data, mobile, consumerization of technology and changing the culture of government. Read More »
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Park, VanRoekel Seek Next Class Of Change Agents
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is again looking for top innovators and entrepreneurs from the private sector, non-profits and academia to collaborate with government officials for 6-month to 12-month tours of duty focused on developing solutions to nationally important issues. Read More »
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Patent Trolls Are Now Crushing Parts Of The Developer Economy
News that Boston University is suing Apple AAPL -0.59% over parts for the iPhone and iPad (the component in question is called “highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films”), is one more dull thud of the patent lawyers’ dossier on the smartphone scene. [...] Read More »
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Patent War Goes Nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-Owned “Rockstar” Sues Google
Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack. Read More »
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Patents As Weapons: How 1-800-CONTACTS Is Using The Patent System To Kill An Innovative Startup
We've talked many times about how patents are often used as weapons to kill innovative startups that threaten legacy players. Ryan alerts us to a perfect example of this in practice. 1-800-CONTACTS, the giant online contact lens/glasses space, is trying to kill off an upstart innovative competitor called Ditto... Read More »
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