OpenMRS®, a free and open source health IT software platform built by volunteers around the world, is marking the start of its second decade by releasing its second annual report, for 2016. The document highlights the achievements of the open source community in the past year, improvements to the OpenMRS software, and lays out the strategic goals for 2017. For over 10 years, people around the world have leveraged OpenMRS to improve health status and achieve health equity through the use of health information technology. OpenMRS is a global leader in open technologies and open standards in healthcare...
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OpenMRS Releases 2016 Annual Report - Shows Explosive Growth of Open Source EHR
Press Release |
OpenMRS |
March 23, 2017
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OpenMRS – Watch the continuing progress of this global eHealth solution
By Peter Groen | October 2, 2012
OpenMRS is a collaborative 'open' community of people working to apply health information technologies (IT) to solve problems, primarily in resource-poor environments. It is a proud community of developers, implementers, funders, and users all trying to make the world a better place by using their expertise to improve the health and wellness of the planet.
OpenSSF Gathers US Government and Industry Leaders at Secure Open Source Software Summit 2023
Press Release |
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) |
September 13, 2023
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry initiative of the Linux Foundation that focuses on sustainably securing open source software (OSS), brought together US Government (USG) officials from the National Security Council (NSC), Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) among others with industry leaders at the Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Summit 2023. Participants at the Summit discussed the security challenges for the consumption of OSS in critical infrastructure sectors and beyond and highlighted the shared responsibility needed to ensure the resilience of OSS in critical infrastructure.
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OpenSSF: On A Mission To Improve Security Of Open Source Software
By Gaurav Kamathe | September 26, 2022
Open source software (OSS), once a niche segment of the development landscape, is now ubiquitous. This growth is fantastic for the open source community. However, as the usage of OSS increases, so do concerns about security. Especially in mission-critical applications— think medical devices, automobiles, space flight, and nuclear facilities—securing open source technology is of the utmost priority. No individual entity, whether developers, organizations, or governments, can single-handedly solve this problem. The best outcome is possible when all of them come together to collaborate. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) formed to facilitate this collaboration.
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OpenStack As Sangria And Without NASA
Penny Jones | DataCenterDynamics | December 5, 2012
Co-founder documents the events that could have had a serious effect on the success of the OpenStack open source cloud project Read More »
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OpenStack Reaches Milestone With Launch Of Foundation
Brandon Butler | Network World | September 19, 2012
Sept. 19, 2012 will go down as a big day for OpenStack... Read More »
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OpenStudent Replaces Traditional Student Achievement System
Jen Wike | opensource.com | February 20, 2013
The province of British Columbia started out with a vision over 10 years ago to have "one student record, stored in one location, accessed by all authorized users." And all but four districts in the province, and many independent schools, followed this vision [...]. Now, after eight years in production, the system will be discontinued by the vendor in 2015... Read More »
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Oracle Says Open Source Has No Place In Military Apps
Simon Sharwood | The Register | October 15, 2013
Oracle has popped out a white paper that may well turn some heads, because it contains robust criticism of open source software. Read More »
Oracle Switches Berkeley DB License
Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | July 5, 2013
Oracle had the right to change the BerkeleyDB license to AGPL, but many will view Oracle's switch as a betrayal of trust Read More »
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Oracle Won’t Block Open Source In The Public Sector
Ed Boyajian | Tech Week Europe | January 24, 2014
Last year, Oracle flamed out in its attempt to stall the adoption of open source technology by the US Department of Defense (DoD) when a White Paper surfaced, in which Oracle warns the DoD about the dangers of hidden costs and inefficiency of open source software, and tries to explain the proper handling of such technology. Read More »
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Oroville Hospital CEO Tells the Story of their Successful VistA EHR Self-Implementation at VistA Expo 2011
One of most exciting presentations at the VistaEXPO 2011 conference was given by Robert Wentz, Hospital Administrator and CEO of Oroville Hospital, a regional hospital in the beautiful mountains of Northern California. Oroville Hospital has achieved a whole series of milestones in close partnership with the VistA community. These range from a full implementation of VistA in the hospital and most of its 20 clinics, to the achievement of full meaningful use certification.
Posted November 20, 2011 - 1:53pm by Roger A. Maduro
Oroville Hospital Named One of the Winners of the VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest
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Oroville Hospital |
October 4, 2013
Oroville Hospital was named one of the three winners of the innovation challenge issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the agency develop a new medical appointment scheduling application for its award-winning Electronic Health Record (EHR), VistA. Oroville was declared a winner based on the open source, web-based scheduling program it is currently developing and testing at its medical facilities in Oroville, California. Read More »
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Oroville Hospital rolls out CPOE for their open source VistA Implementation
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Oroville Hospital |
June 25, 2013
Oroville Hospital has gone live with CPOE on VistA, the open source EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Read More »
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Oroville Hospital's CMO Discusses VistA Implementation and CPOE - Part 1
Matthew N. Fine | Russ Cucina MD, MS | November 28, 2012
On October 16, 2012, Oroville Hospital turned on the CPOE component of its EHR, becoming the first individual US hospital to successfully adapt the Veterans’ Administration’s highly regarded electronic medical records system. How did a small, 153 bed semirural California hospital serving a mostly Medicare and MediCal population arrive at this place? Read More »
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Oroville Hospital's CMO Discusses VistA Implementation and CPOE - Part 2
Matthew N. Fine | Russ Cucina MD, MS | December 10, 2012
This is the second in Dr Fine’s two-part series describing Oroville Hospital‘s implementation of VistA, the open-source EHR developed by the Veterans’ Administration. In his first post, he discussed their strategic approach and initial experiences with electronic documentation. Here, he picks up with Oroville Hospital’s CPOE go-live. Read More »
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