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Pronoia Health And AEGIS.net, Inc. Launch Open Library Of Health Information Exchange (OLHIE)

Press Release | Pronoia Health, AEGIS.net, Inc. | February 5, 2014

Pronoia Health and AEGIS.net(AEGIS) are proud to announce the recent launch of the Open Library of Health Information Exchange (OLHIE). OLHIE is an online ecosystem designed to accelerate connections to Health Information Exchanges (HIE) by facilitating the reuse of interfaces and other assets, particularly those developed with federal or state funding. [...] Read More »

Public sector in U.K. embracing open source

Daniel Robinson, Rosalie Marshall | V3.Co.UK | September 25, 2012

The [UK's] public sector is finally beginning to understand the security arguments for using open source software, according to experts participating in V3's Security Summit.

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Public, private sector innovators convene for FedScoop’s first U.S. Innovation Summit

David Stegon | fedscoop | June 21, 2012

FedScoop held its first U.S. Innovation Summit Wednesday at the Newseum, drawing more than 500 attendees from government and industry to provide a platform for thought leaders to collaborate on the best ways to encourage public and private sector innovation. Read More »

Pulling Back From Open Source Hardware, MakerBot Angers Some Adherents

Rich Brown | CNET | September 27, 2012

You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in the open-source hardware movement. Read More »

Python Versus R for Machine Learning and Data Analysis

Machine learning and data analysis are two areas where open source has become almost the de facto license for innovative new tools. Both the Python and R languages have developed robust ecosystems of open source tools and libraries that help data scientists of any skill level more easily perform analytical work. The distinction between machine learning and data analysis is a bit fluid, but the main idea is that machine learning prioritizes predictive accuracy over model interpretability, while data analysis emphasizes interpretability and statistical inference. Python, being more concerned with predictive accuracy, has developed a positive reputation in machine learning. R, as a language for statistical inference, has made its name in data analysis...

Qatar College Launches Healthcare Journal

Staff | TradeArabia | February 15, 2012

The journal is a peer-reviewed, international publication focusing on research concerning all aspects of global health practiced at local levels, in addition to the implications of local health issues within the global context. Its objective is to share innovative and emerging evidence-based approaches to public health issues which are likely to positively influence public health policy in communities around the world.

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R Consortium Launches 7 Community Projects

Press Release | R Consortium, Linux Foundation | March 23, 2016

The R Consortium, an open source foundation to support the R user community and a Linux Foundation project, today is announcing funding for seven community projects and the formation of two technical working groups. These milestones advance the R Consortium’s mission to support the R community through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects that drive standards and best practices for R code. The R programming language provides an unparalleled interactive environment for data analysis, modeling, and visualization. R is a top-20 programming language (see: TIOBE Ranking Index), and its popularity is expected to grow with data demand.

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Rackspace CEO: 'We're Playing a Different Game' than Amazon

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | July 31, 2012

The Rackspace Cloud is now based fully on the open source OpenStack platform. I recently spoke with CEO Lanham Napier, who discussed how his company doesn’t necessarily see Amazon Web Services as a direct competitor, and how OpenStack is changing his company’s entire business. Read More »

Rackspace Finally Goes Public with OpenStack Cloud Servers

Sean Michael Kerner | ServerWatch | August 1, 2012

Rackspace customers can now, at long last, benefit from the open source OpenStack project. Rackspace today announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack technology. Read More »

Rackspace Hands Over Keys To Open Source Cloud

Klint Finley | Wired | September 19, 2012

When Rackspace and NASA started OpenStack — a collection of open source tools for building Amazon-style clouds in any data center — Rackspace shouldered the responsibility for organizing the community. Read More »

Rackspace Launches OpenStack Amazon Cloud Rival

Tom Brewster | TechWeekEurope | August 1, 2012

Rackspace announced today it is going to make its OpenStack-based cloud services open to European businesses this August, as it looks to offer an alternative to popular proprietary clouds like that of Amazon Web Services. Read More »

Radiology Initiatives Illustrate Uses for Open Data and Open AI research

Fans of data in health care often speculate about what clinicians and researchers could achieve by reducing friction in data sharing. What if we had easy access to group repositories, expert annotations and labels, robust and consistent metadata, and standards without inconsistencies? Since 2017, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has been displaying a model for such data sharing. That year marked RSNA's first AI challenge. RSNA has worked since then to make the AI challenge an increasingly international collaboration. Organizers of each challenge curate and annotate medical imaging studies and ask the research community to come up with models to answer important questions.

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Raxa - Open source EMR software for rural healthcare systems

Many people in this world do not have ready access to healthcare providers and have little or no control over their personal health information.  The few who do have access are starting to see the potential benefits of using information technology (IT) like electronic medical record (EMR) system to improve their own health. These systems offer an opportunity to reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. This is particularly true of Raxa, an 'open source' EMR project based in India. Read More »

Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Continues to Impact the Open Source Movement

Nineteen years ago this week, at an annual meeting of Linux-Kongress in Bavaria, an American programmer named Eric Raymond delivered the first version of a working paper he called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." According to Raymond, the exploratory and largely speculative account of some curious new programming practices contained "no really fundamental discovery." But it brought the house down. "The fact that it was received with rapt attention and thunderous applause by an audience in which there were very few native speakers of English seemed to confirm that I was onto something," Raymond wrote a year later, as his treatise blossomed into a book...

Reach For The Open Skies: An Interview With Curtis Olson

Bill Toulas | Unixmen | October 17, 2012

FlightGear is one of the most amazing and most important open source projects in existence. With a huge community around it, and a group of talented aviation lovers to develop it, FlightGear is the greatest and most open way to travel our world! Curtis Olson who is one of the founders of the project, explains the technical uniqueness of FlightGear, the plans of the project and how his love for airplanes made him a big part of this huge effort. Read More »