UCLA researchers have developed a software program that simulates the response of the human thyroid hormone regulation system to a variety of treatments and diseases. The open-source program, Thyrosim, can be used by clinicians, researchers and educators to accurately gauge the impacts of thyroid treatments and to develop more effective remedies for thyroid problems. The research appears on the cover of the peer-reviewed journal Thyroid.
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U.K. Considers Adopting VistA
Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | July 5, 2013
The United Kingdom is considering the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA electronic health record system as it looks to expand open-source software for health IT. Read More »
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U.S. Army developing 'Open Source' Medical Simulation Solutions
Michael Peck | Army Times | March 12, 2013
An open-source physiology engine that anyone can use to develop medical simulations is being developed by the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center. Read More »
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U.S. Digital Services and Playbook: "Default to Open"
By Mark Bohannon | August 20, 2014
About this time last year, I laid out some trends I saw for the coming year in government take up of open source software. Looking back now, it appears those trends are not only here to stay, they are accelerating and are more important than ever. In particular, I wrote that "open source will continue to be the 'go to' approach for governments around the world" and that "increasingly, governments are wrestling with the 'how tos' of open source choices; not whether to use it."... Read More »
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U.S. Government Launches Code.gov to Showcase Its Open-Source Software
Jordan Novet | Venture Beat | November 3, 2016
The White House today is announcing the launch of Code.gov, a website that shows off U.S. government open-source projects and offers relevant resources for government agencies. By launching this site the White House is hoping to improve public access to the government’s software and encourage the reuse of software across government agencies...
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U.S. Government Seeks Reduced Use of Custom Software, Releases New Policy to 'Free the Code'
By Mark Bohannon | August 12, 2016
As I've written before, there has been a shift, going back almost a decade, away from the debate over whether to use open source to a focus on the how to. The release by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the U.S. Federal Source Code Policy on August 8th is the latest manifestation of this shift. It achieves the goal laid out in the Obama administration's Second Open Government National Action Plan (PDF) for improved access to custom software code developed for the federal government. The plan emphasized use of (and contributing back to) open source software to fuel innovation, lower costs, and benefit the public. It also furthers a long-standing "default to open" objective going back to the early days of the administration...
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U.S. Open Source Policy Seeks to Leverage Code Reuse
George Leopold | Enterprise Tech | August 12, 2016
The Obama administration has released a new federal open-source policy for improving access to software developed by or for federal agencies. The new policy released this week by Tony Scott, the Obama administration's CIO, "requires new custom-developed source code developed specifically by or for the federal government to be made available for sharing and re-use across all federal agencies"...
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Ubuntu 'Weaponised' to Cure NHS of Its Addiction to Microsoft Windows
Maxwell Cooter | The Register | June 30, 2017
A quiet revolution has been rumbling in Leeds, in the north of England. It may not seem revolutionary: a gathering of software developers is scarcely going to get people taking to the barricades in these uncertain times, but the results of this particular meetup could shape access to NHS PCs in the coming years...
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Ubuntu 13 Challenges Windows 8
Maria Korolov | Network World | July 1, 2013
Ubuntu is becoming a viable desktop replacement for Windows in certain enterprise scenarios Read More »
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UCLA Researchers Develop Sophisticated Open Source Program For Analyzing Thyroid Health
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UCLA |
March 28, 2016
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Uganda Adopts Free And Open Source Software For E-Governance
Hillary Muheebwa | Intellectual Property Watch | December 19, 2014
The population in Uganda has been growing rapidly. The country now has 35 million people. In order to provide quality services to its citizens and to improve the national competitiveness through administration innovation, the government has adopted free and open source software as the preferred mode of operation for electronic government (e-government) services and platforms. Read More »
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Uganda Launches iHRIS Train To Track Health Worker Training
Carol Bales | CapacityPlus | June 19, 2013
Health workforce decision-makers now have a new tool for their toolbox: iHRIS Train, software that tracks health worker training and reports on the number of health professionals being produced in a country. Read More »
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UK Government Finalizes Open Standards Principles: The Bigger Picture
Mark Bohannon | opensource.com | November 6, 2012
Last week, the UK Cabinet Office released its Open Standards Principles: For software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT specifications. Read More »
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UK Government Kicks Out Microsoft Office and Adopts LibreOffice
Silviu Stahie | Softpedia | October 20, 2015
The UK Government is looking to shed its dependency on proprietary software and entered into a new commercial deal with an open source software company Collabora Productivity that adapts LibreOffice for the use in enterprise environments. GovOffice is the name of the LibreOffice suite for the public sector, and it's actually more than just a simple adoption.
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UK Health Service Nurtures Open Source Communities
By Gijs Hillenius | August 3, 2015
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is nurturing a growing number of communities of software developers working on open source solutions. NHS’ Code4Health team is now supporting 17 communities that bring together health care providers, developers and supporters. Examples include Open Odonto, open source software for dentistry, and openMAXIMS, guiding the development of an open source electronic patient record system for the NHS. A third community working with Code4health is openEobs, a project that helps clinicians and managers ensure safer patients, safer wards and safer hospitals.
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UK NHS Delivers Ambitious Health IT Project - Believed to be the Biggest of its Kind
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HSCIC |
February 17, 2016
HSCIC has just completed an ambitious 18 month transition project to entirely rebuild and redevelop the Spine on Open Source software and to move it to in-house management. This was achieved without disrupting the service it provides to 28,000 organisations and enabled the secure transfer of almost 150TB of data, including the demographic details of 80m people. The new Spine is believed to be the biggest public sector IT system to be built entirely on Open Source software, making it easier for developers to work with. It is managed from the Health and Social Care Information Centre's headquarters in Leeds.
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