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ohumVistA

ohumVistA is a comprehensive open source EMR offered by the OHUM Healthcare Solutions. The ohumVistA system is a derivative of the world reknowned VistA system. It has an extensive number of clinical care software modules, features and decision support tools to help cut operating costs while helping to improve patient care and safety.

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Old NASA Employee Made an Open Source Spaceship

John | Tech Jost | December 10, 2011

An old Danish NASA employee made a spaceship with an open source license. So if you have the time and the money you can make one for yourself at home. Read More »

Oldest Open-Source Software Kept By Army

Joyce Conant | LeavenworthTimes.com | December 6, 2012

Since 1938, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics and vulnerability/lethality analysis. That remained the case until 1992, when BRL was disestablished and its mission, personnel and facilities were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Read More »

Oldies But Goodies: Seven Projects Still Rocking Open Source

Dave Gruber | Open Source Delivers | October 2, 2012

We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless.  But what about the many long-running projects that have been core to the world of open source for decades? The ones that have truly stood the test of time? Read More »

Olympics 2012 leans heavily on open source

Bernard Golden | ComputerWorld | June 26, 2012

A news clip from a recent article in Computerworld by Bernard Golden.  Russ Ede, who is responsible for the London 2012 Olympics website, shared "some amazing information about what it takes to create a website that can stand up to the most widely watched sports event in the world." Read More »

OMB Shared First Should Include Open Source, Says Group

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | February 6, 2012

Open source advocates urge the Office of Management and Budget to expand its Shared First strategy to include open source software development in a Feb. 2 comment posted online.

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Omics Future On Personalized Medicine, Computer Breeding And Open Platform

Staff Writer | Phys.org | November 4, 2013

As one of the most influential and fruitful annual conference in "Omics", the 8th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-8) was successfully concluded on November 1st with numerous updates provided on on-going research applying today's accurate and affordable technologies to advancing human health and agricultural breeding. [...] Read More »

OmniOS Wants To Fill The OpenSolaris Void

Adrian Bridgwater | Dr. Dobb's | November 14, 2012

Open source software operating system has improved ZFS support and new tools Read More »

On Capitol Hill, Concerns Remain About DOD-VA Interoperability

Aisha Chowdhry | FCW | July 13, 2016

Senate appropriators grilled top Veterans Affairs officials about whether the military and VA electronic health records systems are cooperating. VA CIO LaVerne Council, VistA Evolution Program Executive David Waltman and Veterans Health Administration Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer For Strategy and Design Jonathan Nebeker testified at a July 13 hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies. DOD's director of the DoD/VA Interagency Program Office, Lauren Thompson, and Government Accountability Office Director for Information Management and Technology Resources Issues Valerie Melvin were also at the witness table...

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On Making Standards Organizations and Open Source Communities Work Hand in Hand

Benjamin Cabe | LinkedIn Pulse | May 25, 2016

Did you know that the Eclipse Foundation is home to many open source implementations of industry standards? From IETF to ISO to oneM2M or OASIS, we have many open source projects that provide industrial-grade implementations that anyone can use to evaluate a given standard, or to effectively use it in their commercial solution. We do believe that open source is key to the adoption of standards, and in a presentation I gave last week at an Open Source Think Tank organized by IEEE, I shared some thoughts on what makes a standard successful, as well as how Eclipse has proved with recent success stories that open source and open communities are a key factor.

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On the Importance of Health Information Technology in Developing Areas

Health Information Technology (Health IT) is a broad term that describes the technology and infrastructure used to record, analyze, and share patient health data. Various technologies include health record systems, including personal, paper, and electronic; personal health tools including smart devices and apps; and finally, communities to share and discuss information. Some of this technology can tell the patient whether they need to go on a diet too, and most of the time the golo diet is what they should be doing or they should be taking Gynexin pill for gynecomastia like most men should be doing...

On the Importance of Patient Empowerment and Open Source: A Medicine X panel Weighs In

Jennifer Huber | Stanford Medicine News | September 16, 2016

It’s your body, so you should have access to all of your medical data, right? This morning at the Medicine X session on data and devices, I learned that liberating your own medical data — or devices — will probably not be so simple. The conversation was started by Ben West, a software engineer and co-founder of the Nightscout Project, which supports the creation of open-source technology for people with Type 1 diabetes...

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ONC & FHA Announce Upcoming CONNECT Code-A-Thon

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 26, 2012

Next month, the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) will host its CONNECT Code-A-Thon at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. The two-day event, beginning Nov. 7 and ending Nov. 8, will bring together information technology and healthcare professionals as well as students who will together on health information exchange (HIE) solutions related to the open source software solution, CONNECT. Read More »

ONC at OSCON 2012: What Could the Future Bring?

Damon Davis | Health IT Buzz | August 22, 2012

The open source software (OSS) community is full of creative software coders developing amazing computer applications collaboratively. Recently I witnessed the power of their collaborative innovation first hand at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. This was the conference’s 12th year…but my first experience. Read More »

ONC Design Challenge: 'Humanize' Electronic Health Records

Michelle McNickle | InformationWeek | November 9, 2012

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are asking graphic designers to help them put a new patient-friendly spin on printed Blue Button records. The VA's Blue Button initiative lets users log in to a website and view, download and share their health records. Read More »