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Success Story of the UK’s First Open Source EHR/EPR to be Revealed at EHI Live

Press Release | IMS MAXIMS | October 26, 2015

Innovative healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are to share the story behind the successful deployment of the UK’s first open source electronic patient record (EPR) at eHealth major industry event, EHI Live. The trust’s director of information, Malcolm Senior, and the CEO of IMS MAXIMS, Shane Tickell, will address delegates in the digital health industry for the first time since the go-live of the system last month.

SunCoast RHIO

Suncoast is a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) that provides health information transfer and  technology interoperability solutions.  It is focused on government approved and certified software and employs clinicians who work with medical providers. Suncoast transmits quality measures in the form of PQRS, now MIPS, and for Hospital eCQM’s. Read More »

SunGard Makes Its Business Process Management Suite Available For Open Source Via The Eclipse Foundation

Press Release | Eclipse Foundation, Infinity, SunGard | October 23, 2012

SunGard’s Infinity Process Platform is now available from the Eclipse Stardust project, an open source business process management (BPM) suite designed to help improve the infrastructure behind many of the finance industry’s key operations. Read More »

Sunset Systems

Sunset Systems has been a prolific contributor to the OpenEMR project since 2005. Its owner, Rod Roark, has been one of the two administrators of the project since then. Rod is a very experienced software developer and visionary, having created several successful commercial software products in a variety of industries and now focuses on open source platforms, OpenEMR in particular, and the needs of its users. Sunset Systems is primarily focused on software development as opposed to production support Read More »

TajEmo Enterprises

TajEmo Enterprises is a web development, software development, and consulting firm established in 2010 is headquartered in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. They offer implementation, customization and support services for OpenEMR and other opens source solutions.

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Taking The Open Source Enterprise Plunge

Jay Lyman | LinuxInsider | May 27, 2013

Devops represents a dramatic change from the old siloed developers and script-heavy system administrators of yesterday. Any tools that can provide some common ground for developers and IT operations professionals can help, and it seems Chef and Puppet often do. Read More »

Talend & Neo Partnership: Open Source Solutions for Big Data

Christopher Tozzi | The Var Guy | June 26, 2013

NoSQL databases are a driving force in the evolution of Big Data. That could have important implications for Oracle (ORCL), as we wrote last week. Read More »

Talend Trade Agreements Act Ruling: A Major Step Forward On FOSS For US Government

Mark Radcliffe | Open Source Delivers | December 11, 2012

Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 (19 USC 2511 et seq.) (“TAA”). Read More »

Teaching The Open Source Creative Tool, Blender, To High School Students

Phil Shapiro | OpenSource.com | May 7, 2013

Blender is a powerful open source 3D drawing and animation program. This software was previously a commercial product, but is now available as a free download. Blender has been used to create stunningly beautiful 3D animated videos [...]. Read More »

Team Bahmni at the OpenMRS Worldwide Summit

ThoughtWorks first began contributing to OpenMRS in 2006 and since that time, we've had over fifty committers to OpenMRS in GitHub. Incidentally, one in every seven OpenMRS contributor in GitHub is a ThoughtWorker! Naturally, in 2013, when we had the opportunity to build Bahmni, an open source hospital information system, we choose OpenMRS as the underlying Electronic Medical Records System (EMR). Bahmni leverages the mature data model and APIs of OpenMRS, whilst providing an out-of-the-box system that can be immediately used by hospitals.

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Team Demonstrates Digital Health Platform for Department of Veterans Affairs

Press Release | Georgia Institute of Technology | January 31, 2017

“Liberate the data.” That was a principal design goal for a team of public-private health care technology collaborators established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Health Administration to develop a working and scalable proof-of-concept digital health platform (DHP) to support the department’s long-term vision. The open-source project demonstrated both proven and emerging technologies for interoperability and advanced functionality innovations from both the public and private sectors...

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Tech Giants Back Initiative For Funding Crucial Open Source Projects

Zeljka Zorz | Help Net Security | April 24, 2014

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project aimed to fund open source projects critical for the global information infrastructure, and a dozen of big tech companies have joined it and will be providing the funds.  Since the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug some two weeks ago, the one positive thing brought forth by it is a better understanding of the limitations of open source software development.

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Tech Surge To Fix Healthcare Needed To Fix Our Broken Election Systems

Christine Pelosi | Huffington Post | October 21, 2013

As millions of Americans sign up for lifesaving healthcare, it is right that President Barack Obama ordered a "tech surge" to fix glitches in the healthcare.gov website. As the president said "we didn't fight this battle over as website" but as he knows, if the portal doesn't inspire confidence the policy can be attacked. [...] Read More »

Technology Trumps Dogma, And Other Open Source Insights

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | September 13, 2013

A few weeks back I asked Marten Mickos (@martenmickos), CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, to comment on the changing face of open source. He did, and with the usual Mickos style. Unfortunately, a whole lot of great commentary had to be cut for space reasons. Read More »

TED Video – Ushahidi’s Juliana Rotich Speaks About Brck, An Internet Access Modem Built For Africa

Staffwriter | Celebrating Progress Africa | June 24, 2013

Juliana Rotich is co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, interactive mapping and data curation. Read More »