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State of New Hampshire Votes for Open Source

Ed Henning | The H (h-online.com) | February 9, 2012

The legislative arm of the US state of New Hampshire has passed an act that requires the state's agencies to consider open source software for all new software acquisitions. The act itself spells out the benefits of open source over proprietary software in very clear and cogent terms, covering costs, long term data accessibility, interoperability and the use of open standards.

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StatRad to Participate in 2016 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting

Press Release | StatRad | June 16, 2016

StatRad®, a leading provider of teleradiology services and makers of the rapidly expanding RadConnect® medical image exchange application, will be welcoming clients at the 2016 SIIM meeting in Portland June 29 through July 1, 2016, in booth No. 605. StatRad’s cloud-based medical image exchange continues to gain rapid adoption as shown by the expansion of RadConnect’s national client base by 55 new hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the past 180 days...

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Steam Punks

Jeffrey Winters | Mechanical Engineering | June 1, 2012

How many of your possessions could you make yourself? A couple of amateur engineers  are working to design and build a set of tools that would enable the self-reliant to make everything they need. Read More »

Stevens Professor Joins Open Source Effort To Develop Low-Cost Drugs

Press Release | Stevens Institute of Technology | March 16, 2013

Professor A.K. Ganguly of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology is contributing his expertise and passion to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Open Source Drug Discovery initiative... Read More »

Stop Patent Mischief By Curbing Patent Enforcement

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | November 9, 2012

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Software patents are evil. They allow the work of innovators to be ambushed and raise the cost of technology innovation. But finding a viable solution to the software patent mess isn't easy. Read More »

Storming the Government Castle

Open source software seems like a perfect fit for government IT projects. Developers can take advantage of existing code bases and, it's hoped, mold that code to their needs quickly and at less cost than developing code from scratch. Over the last few years, governments in the U.S. and abroad have been more closely embracing open source. However, agencies at all levels of U.S. government are still wary of open source and can be reluctant to adopt it. It's still not easy for government projects to use open source or for developers employed in the public sector to contribute their work to open source project...

Strengthening The Health Workforce through eHealth Innovation: Reflections From The GETHealth Summit

Kate Tulenko | CapacityPlus | March 1, 2013

I recently had the privilege of representing CapacityPlus at the Global Education and Technology Health (GETHealth) Summit at the United Nations in New York City, speaking in sessions on distance learning in rural communities and leveraging social media to address the global health workforce gap. Read More »

Student Proposes Open Source Alternative To GPS Based On Seismic Waves

Carl Franzen | The Verge | February 19, 2013

Global positioning system (GPS) satellites are great for getting around and looking up directions and smartphones and tablets, but they are controlled by the US Defense Department, which has degraded public signals in the past, and one European art student thinks that an open source alternative based on ground vibrations would be better. Read More »

StudyCentric – Developing A Research-Oriented Open-Source Web-Based DICOM Viewer

Jeff Miller | Informatics 360 | October 24, 2012

CBMi designs applications to meet the diverse needs of many different users ranging from sophisticated research scientists to clinicians, office staff, and even patients. Recently during the development of the pediatric hearing impairment research tool, AudGenDB, we found ourselves challenged with a requirement to display anonymized medical image data inside the web browser. Read More »

Success Factors for Open Source Adoption

Claus von Riegen | Open Source Delivers | February 7, 2012

Long ago, we stopped questioning if open source should be adapted into mission-critical systems, and rather talked about how best to use it. 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 »

Sunlight Foundation's Eric Mill Scouts Out New Developments in Government

Jason Hibbets | opensource.com | August 1, 2012

Scout rapidly searches all kinds of government activity—bills, regulations, speeches—at the state and federal level, and can notify you about all of it.

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Super-Communities Debuting for Open Source Vertical Supply Chains

Paula Rooney | ZDNet | February 7, 2012

The emergence of super-communities — such as Polarsys, OpenMama and Genivi — will continue to evolve in 2012. These vertically-oriented super-communities, the Olliance Group point out, serve the needs of all players in open source supply chains.

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Surfing As a Business Model

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | October 2, 2010

...In the open-source world, part of the broader peer production movement, analogous situations occur. As we all know communities collaborate to create some form of "gift", which in our case is a useful piece of software. These systems are created for a variety of reasons including commercial (make money, develop a reputation), altruistic (benefit society, foster open science, help fellow developers), practical (scalable software process, ease of collaboration) and fun (community engagement, personal growth). Read More »

Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform for Medical Robotics Research

Hannah Hickey | HealthCanal.com | January 12, 2012

In a basement on the University of Washington campus perch seven identical robots. Named Raven, each has two winglike arms that end in tiny claws designed to perform surgery on a simulated patient. Read More »