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Microsoft TechDays 2014 Showcases Work With Open Source Technologies

Frederic Aatz | Openness@Microsoft | March 4, 2014

Microsoft TechDays 2014, the largest annual tech event in France dedicated to developers, IT professionals and business leaders, recently brought together 19,000 attendees with 60,000 online participants for three packed days of sessions. Read More »

Microsoft To Open Source A Big Data Framework Called REEF

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | August 12, 2013

Microsoft has developed a big data technology that sits on top of Hadoop’s new YARN resource manager. Called REEF, it’s designed to let users build jobs that can maintain state even after they’re done, and that can grab data from wherever they need it. Read More »

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce Issue Joint Statement Making Commitment to Open Source Healthcare Interoperability

Josh Mandel | Microsoft Industry Blog | August 13, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference here in Washington, DC, we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined with Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce in support of healthcare interoperability...

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Minister Of Science And Technology Supports Open Access [South Africa]

Press Release | Stellenbosch University | November 8, 2012

Without open access young scientists in Africa will be disadvantaged in their collaboration with their European counterparts, Mr Derek Hanekom, Minister of Science and Technology, said at the gala dinner of the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference on Wednesday evening, 7 November 2012. Read More »

MissingMaps: Chart a Course to Disaster Relief From Your Phone

Wired Brand Lab | Wired | June 1, 2017

Delivering life-saving aid to the middle of a war-zone or disaster area is no easy task. First, there’s the challenge of actually getting there. While navigation software now offers detailed maps of most cities, the uncharted villages and remote conflict zones served by Doctors Without Borders/Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) are another beast entirely. Even though a remote village or unmarked street might be visible in satellite imagery, it can take MSF mappers months to locate, sketch, and code the kind of detailed digital maps aid workers rely on...

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MIT Hackathon Tackles HIV, CHF, Parkinson’s With Open-Source Technology

Neil Versel | MobiHealthNews | February 13, 2013

It seems counterintuitive for those who proudly wear the “hacker” label to seek ways to work with established industry players rather than being disruptive in a healthcare sector badly in need of radical change, but that was what happened at Health and Wellness Innovation 2013, the recently concluded 11-day event better known as MIT Media Lab’s Health and Wellness Hackathon. Read More »

MIT Sets Sights On Open-Source mHealth During Innovation Event

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | February 5, 2013

The MIT Media Lab’s eleven-day Health and Wellness Hackathon is not your average gadget exhibition.  Bringing together eighty participants from around the world, the annual event, which was held in January, is designed to inspire new ways to fix an age old problem: how to use technology to prevent illnesses before they start. Read More »

MIT's Answer to Global Health Issues: Democratizing Big Data Analytics

Michael Kassner | Tech Republic | June 24, 2016

If you think it's hard to keep up with all the new software and hardware innovations, imagine doctors trying to stay abreast of medical advances. "While wonderful new medical discoveries and innovations are in the news every day, doctors struggle with using information and techniques available right now," writes Leo Anthony Celi, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, in the Conversation commentary Improving patient care by bridging the divide between doctors and data scientists...

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MITRE crowdsourcing analytics to bolster cybersecurity

Jessica Davis | HealthcareITnews | January 16, 2018

Threat detection response has historically been more reactive than proactive. Organizations often wait until suspicious activity occurs on the system to find bad actors, and intrusions are commonly difficult to detect. While perimeter security is crucial, in this era of highly-sophisticated cyberattacks, it’s no longer enough. To that extent, MITRE has been working to partner with the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) to research cyberthreat tactics and share those results with hospitals and communities through its Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) analytics method.

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Mobile Apps to Support Community Health Workers: Adapting Trusted Content to New Mediums

Lily Walkover and Robin Young | IntraHealth | July 10, 2012

[In] the emerging field of mHealth—the use of mobile phones to support health—the focus has veered significantly toward data collection.  At Hesperian Health Guides (publisher of Where There Is No Doctor), we’ve been part of a conversation to expand that focus and include using mobile phones to deliver health information to community health workers and the people they support. Read More »

Mobile Health (mHealth) - Establishing An OSEHRA mHealth Working Group

Peter Groen | OSEHRA | October 24, 2012

I would like to propose that an OSEHRA  mHealth Working Group be established as soon as possible. It may already be in the works, for all I know. Read More »

Mobile Health Around The Globe: Magpi Data Collection System Helps Thousands Worldwide

Joan Justice | HealthWorks Collective | June 10, 2013

DataDyne boasts that their mobile data system, Magpi, is the fastest, easiest least expensive way to collect data on mobile devices. Read More »

Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) Suite

Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) Suite is an open source enterprise software package designed by the Grameen Foundation to connect popular mHealth technologies to strengthen healthcare systems by streamlining patient data collection and improving patient engagement. MOTECH has the capacity to reach illiterate patient populations as well as patient populations in rural areas and works by connecting frontline worker systems such as CommCareHQ, eHealth systems such as OpenMRS and DHIS2, and communication systems such as IVR, SMS, and email to improve healthcare delivery. The MOTECH platform is designed to work effectively in low-resource settings, apply to a broad range of health domains, and meet the needs of large patient populations.

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Modified Open Source Laser Cutter Prints 3-D Objects from Powder

Press Release | Rice University | February 22, 2016

Rice University bioengineering researchers have modified a commercial-grade CO2 laser cutter to create OpenSLS, an open-source, selective laser sintering platform that can print intricate 3-D objects from powdered plastics and biomaterials. The system costs at least 40 times less than its commercial counterparts and allows researchers to work with their own specialized powdered materials. The design specs and performance of Rice’s OpenSLS platform, an open-source device similar to commercially available selective laser sintering (SLS) platforms, are described in an open-access paper published in PLOS ONE.

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Molecular Craigslist

mattoddchem | Intermolecular | April 19, 2012

I think we need an eBay for molecules. Or maybe a Craigslist. Read More »