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Maxims Code To Be Released On GitHub
IMS Maxims will release the source code for its electronic patient record system on GitHub, the company announced today. Speaking in the open source pavilion at the HC2014 conference in Manchester Paul Cooper, IMS Maxim’s head of research, said the company has been in talks for several months about how best to go about open sourcing parts of its Maxims EPR.
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Medical Device Experts and Their Devices Converse at Boston Conference
I'm looking forward to Medical Device Connectivity conference this week at Harvard Medical School. It's described by one of the organizers, Shahid N. Shah, as an "operational" conference, focused not on standards or the potential of the field but on how to really make these things work. Read More »
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Medical Informatics 20/20
Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality and Electronic Health Records (EHR) through Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation (COSI) - Imagine a healthcare system in which digital and mobile technologies, medical knowledge at the point of need, and collaboration among providers deliver safe, high-quality care for everyone—a healthcare system that does not Read More »
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Medical Intelligence Center Monitors Health Threats
From a windowless building behind barriers and fences here, scientists, physicians and other experts monitor a range of intelligence and open-source channels for threats to the health of U.S. forces and the homeland. Read More »
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Medicines for Malaria Venture and EMBL-EBI Establish One-stop Shop for Malaria Drug Data
ChEMBL, the online drug-discovery database based at EMBL-EBI, now makes it easy to access all data pertaining to compounds from MMV’s open-access Malaria Box and other open-source malaria research initiatives. Read More »
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Medsphere to Grow Interoperable Healthcare IT Platform with $40 Million Preferred Equity Investment from TPG Sixth Street Partners
Medsphere Systems Corporation...today announced new $40 million funding to support organic growth and pursue opportunistic strategic acquisitions through a preferred equity investment by TPG Sixth Street Partners. "We are pleased to add a new partner to our software solutions-driven campaign for quality, affordable healthcare," said Medsphere President and CEO Irv Lichtenwald. "Our technology and business model allow all providers to address core needs and we are energized by the support of institutions like TPG Sixth Street Partners." "Medsphere represents a compelling opportunity to support a differentiated healthcare technology platform," said Michael McGinn, Partner and Co-Head of TPG Sixth Street Partners' Capital Solutions business.
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Medsphere Welcomes Emma Cartmell to Board of Directors
Medsphere Systems Corporation...today announced that healthcare information technology advisor and investor Emma Cartmell has joined the company's board of directors. Cartmell is the former chief operating officer for NantHealth and is currently a managing director at Cappello Group, a global M&A investment bank, and a member of Morgan Stanley's Equity Expansion Fund advisory board. "I'm very excited about the opportunity to contribute to Medsphere's mission and goals," said Cartmell. "At this point, the global healthcare ecosystem is looking for comprehensive solutions the can be implemented at a reasonable cost, which is essentially Medsphere's mission statement. I look forward to working with company leadership and the board to expand company products and services that don't ask healthcare providers to choose between technology and patient care initiatives."
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Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software
From the outside looking in, it appears that Microsoft has indeed turned the corner. The company recently added two open source platforms to Windows Azure — its new-age web service for building and hosting applications on the net — and it’s actually contributing open source code to these projects — as well as others. These aren’t minor open source projects. Read More »
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Meet OwnCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox
ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. Read More »
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Mentors Fuel Growth for Open-Source Communities
Mentorship programs help people working on open-source projects build a community, make decisions and to maintain projects beyond their initial idea. Some communities use programs that require one-on-one mentorship, while others allow existing members to on-board new members at their own pace. Either way, these programs all aim to ensure the success of the projects.
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Mentors Fuel Growth for Open-Source Communities
Mentorship programs help people working on open-source projects build a community, make decisions and to maintain projects beyond their initial idea. Some communities use programs that require one-on-one mentorship, while others allow existing members to on-board new members at their own pace. Either way, these programs all aim to ensure the success of the projects.
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Merck Millipore Introduces 'Open Source' Development At New Plant
CMOs and Pharmas will own the manufacturing processes developed at a new facility as part of an ‘open source’ ethos Merck Millipore has introduced. Read More »
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Merger of TranSmart, i2b2 Aims to Provide Informatics Boost to Precision Medicine Efforts
As genomic tools continue to make their way from the research lab into clinical practice, the recently announced merger between the TranSmart Foundation and the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) aims to provide researchers and clinicians with an open-source resource that could benefit precision medicine efforts. Earlier this month, the two organizations announced their plans to combine into a single foundation focused on providing open-source biomedical software and databases for precision medicine...
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MI-Squared Dev Talks: How To Develop And Submit Changes To The OpenEMR Project
“I want to develop for the OpenEMR project, how do I get started?” [...] Whether you’re a novice or an expert, we welcome your participation in the OpenEMR project. This MI-Squared “Dev Talk” is the first in a series of OpenEMR-related lessons, created by one of our senior developers, Ken Chappell. Ken will walk you through the entire life cycle of contributing a code change you develop to the OpenEMR open source project. Read More »
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Michigan Tech Engineering Team Joins Open Source Ventilator Movement
As COVID-19 continues to spread, the research community is looking for solutions. In addition to work on vaccines and medicine, medical technology is needed. In severe cases of COVID-19, the disease attacks the respiratory system, and one of the major bottlenecks in treatment is having enough ventilators. The open-source hardware community wants to change that. Joshua Pearce...an open-source hardware expert and co-editor-in-chief of HardwareX [explained] that 3D-printed lab hardware and other open-source tech can be cost-effective and encourages design improvement. "Even complex medical devices are not outside the realm of possibility anymore."
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