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Open Access To Data Can Break Down Barriers And Empower Patients
Without a technological shift to a new care model based on the open use of data, public health and social services will struggle to keep up with the needs of those with long-term health conditions and the looming problem of our ageing population.
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Open Data Probe Shows NHS Statin Bill Twice What It Should Be
A start up using some of the flood of new government data being published says the NHS could make considerable savings on its drug expenditure if it wanted. Does it have a point? Read More »
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Open Eyes And Raspberry Pis
An open source electronic patient record system developed at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be deployed across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries. Part of the project involves developing the EPR to run on the low cost Raspberry Pi computers and mobile devices.
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Open Letter to Chuck Hagel: DoD still doesn’t know what the hell they are doing
...I fear that you are paving a road to a hellish destination. Rather than lifting up the VA eligibility problem to a shiny new common information system, you are on the verge of dragging health IT into the same bureaucratic vortex that has already done so much damage in the past. AHLTA was declared “intolerable” in a Congressional hearing 4 years ago.... Read More »
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Open Source 'Mix Up' For Tech Fund 2 [United Kingdom]
The prospectus for the second round of what is now the 'ntegrated Digital Care Fund' includes a focus on open source solutions, and lists 11 open source suppliers that it is encouraging applicants to use...
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Open Source GP Project Takes Off [UK]
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 »
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Open Source in the Worldwide COVID-19 Response
February marks the celebration of creation of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in 1998. OSI created the standard definition of the term Open Source that helped guide many of LPI's initiatives today. Through the past year, open source provided many opportunities to organizations to continue to work, implement their projects, and continue reaching out to communities. Here are just a few examples of how open source provides opportunities through the face of COVID-19. The COVID-19 crisis brought out all the creativity of the open source movement. In every area of innovation--open source software, open data, open collaboration, and even open equipment--companies and research institutes have addressed medical and public health needs quickly. This article highlights some of the initiatives in each area.
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Open Source Is The Only Way Medicine
The software we use in medicine is now part of medicine. Medical software has, however, been noticeably exempt from the level of academic scrutiny we give the rest of medicine...
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Open Source Skunkworks At EHI Live 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 »
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Open Your Eyes
Bill Aylward’s experience as a “frustrated medical director” at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to him taking on an open source electronic patient record project. Rebecca Todd reports. Read More »
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Open-access prescription data can save Britain's NHS millions: study
A study backed by the NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) has found that the sharing of publicly-available prescribing data could save the NHS in England millions of pounds a year. Read More »
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Open-Source Cancer Diagnosis
The Free Diagnostic Pathology Software Project uses the open source principle to give doctors access to improved cancer testing workflows 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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OpenEyes Expands Capabilities With New Modules
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has added three new modules to OpenEyes, its open source electronic patient record system. The new modules deal with note taking, the creation of discharge letters and prescriptions for patients. Read More »
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OSEHRA 2013 Summit Shines, even as DoD Shuns the Summit
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit was held this past week in Bethesda, Maryland. The focus was on the use of the VistA electronic health record (EHR) and other open source solutions in healthcare. Read More »