The University of Minnesota is expanding access to clinical trials and supporting the health research community by sharing its clinical trial resource, StudyFinder, with other institutions designated with Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), a program spearheaded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). StudyFinder is an online tool pooling clinical trials and research studies in one space, with easy-to-understand language and functions. It helps patients and healthy volunteers get involved and allows researchers to publicize their clinical trials and connect with study volunteers.
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Rebecca Todd | eHealth Insider | August 21, 2012
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 Harassment: Science, Technology And Women
Georgina Voss | The Guardian | October 24, 2013
The working cultures and structures of science and technology may be different, but they both feed sexist myths of meritocracy Read More »
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Open-Source Attack Dog Enters Ballmer's Inner Ring
Gavin Clarke | The Register | January 3, 2013
While Rudder helped build .NET, Mundie hit the headlines in 2001 when he tried to steer third-party programmers towards Microsoft’s new architecture by scaring them off using open-source and free software, which was raising its profile thanks to Linux.
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Open-Source Benefits To Govt Outweigh Misconceptions, Report Says
Miranda Neubauer | techPresident | November 27, 2013
Security challenges, lack of education, interoperability concerns and licensing and legal concerns are some of the top obstacles government officials see for adopting open-source software in agencies, according to a survey in a recent report from GovLoop. Read More »
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Open-Source Cancer Diagnosis
Pete Swabey | InformationAge | April 11, 2013
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 Code Leads to the Adoption of University of Minnesota's StudyFinder by Additional Translational Medicine Research Institutions
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April 26, 2016
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Open-Source Community Helps With Emergency VistA Patch
Kathleen Hickey | GCN | December 10, 2013
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 Could Be A New Avenue For Manufacturers
Chris Fox | Manufacturing.Net | July 23, 2014
Have you heard about the open-source revolution? Like 3D printing, it only recently made its way into the mainstream, but like the additive manufacturing machines, it has been around for a while...
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Open-Source Darwin Now Available to Download for Apple MacOS Sierra
Mark Coppock | Yahoo Tech | November 25, 2016
Although it may seem strange, Apple’s MacOS is at heart an open-source system. Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world and yet the core components of the operating system driving its Mac line is made up of freely available software. Called Darwin, these open-source components include major parts of the MacOS kernel, portions of Linux BSD, and various drivers. As such, Apple has always made these open-source software bits available for download ever since OS X 10.0 was released, and now the company has made MacOS 10.12 Sierra’s Darwin available as well, according to 9to5Mac...
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Open-Source Development: The History Of OpenOffice Shows Why Licensing Matters
Richard Hillesley | TechRepublic | October 2, 2012
Governance and licensing aren’t glamorous but getting them right is vital to open-source software’s long-term health. Read More »
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Open-Source E-Bike Uses Smartphone As On-Board Computer
Staff Writer | Springwise.com | October 9, 2012
Urban mobility startup Velo is hoping to make an open-source computer-aided e-bike available to road users in the form of the Velo-1. Read More »
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Open-Source EdgeX Foundry Seeks to Standardize Internet of Things
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | April 24, 2017
Security is the Internet of Things' (IoT) Achilles heel. One reason that's so is there is a lack of common IoT development standards. The Linux Foundation, along with 50 companies, is addressing this by building a common open-framework for IoT edge computing and an ecosystem of interoperable components under a new open-source consortium: The EdgeX Foundry. The new initiative has a common goal: The simplification and standardization of Industrial IoT edge computing, while still allowing room for vendors to add their own value-add features...
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Open-Source EHR: Benefits And Drawbacks
Charles Settles | HealthWorks Collective | August 14, 2014
As open-source software’s popularity grows, health IT has been slow to join the rising tide, even though EHRs were born open-source. What are the pros and cons of open-source EHR software?...
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Open-Source Everything: The Moral of the Healthcare.gov Debacle
Paul Ford | Business Week | October 16, 2013
The U.S. federal government, led by the executive branch, should make all taxpayer-funded software development open-sourced by default. In the short run, this would help to prevent the recurrence of problems like those that plague healthcare.gov. Longer term, it will lead to better, more secure software and could allow the government to deliver a range of services more effectively. And it would enrich democracy to boot. Read More »
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Open-Source Platform Gains Popularity In Government
Stuart Corner | The Age | September 24, 2013
So popular has a little-known open-source program become within federal government agencies that there is now a shortage of expertise in Canberra. Read More »
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