Geoffrey Fowler wrote an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal: We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets. He describes how manufacturers have made it difficult for us to fix our personal tech gadgets (The Guardian concluded the same earlier this year), and discusses how he's managed to overcome some of those obstacles. As I was reading it, I kept thinking, boy, replace "gadgets" with "our bodies" and "manufacturers" with "health care professionals," and he could be talking about health care.
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Apple HealthKit Recovers Its Health With iOS 8.0.2 Release
Christian de Looper | Tech Times | September 29, 2014
After a series of problems with the software, Apple has finally released HealthKit in the new iOS update, iOS 8.0.2. HealthKit was supposed to be released in iOS 8, however for unspecified reasons the release was delayed at the last minute...
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How Medical Device Manufacturers Inject Copyright Into Treatments
By Andy Oram | June 8, 2015
Arguments for proprietary data hoarding have been aired in the computer movement for decades, and have been decisively overturned by open source advocates and security experts. The real question is why any patient should be denied access to data that can improve his quality of life and chances of survival. In an age where "patient activation" and "Quantified Self" are buzzwords uttered throughout the medical industry, it is inconceivable that it could tolerate the present situation.
Instead of a Weapon For Health Care Improvement, Monitoring Becomes Another Battleground
Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | September 3, 2015
If you wax enthusiastic about “patient engagement,” or work with health and fitness devices, or want to derive useful data from patient monitoring in the field, or–basically–read this blog for any reason at all, you should check out a recent study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. It warns about psychological and logistical factors that trip us up when we try to get patients to monitor their vital signs. The paper has a catchier title than most: “You Get Reminded You’re a Sick Person”: Personal Data Tracking and Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions (citation: J Med Internet Res 2015;17(8):e202)...
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OSEHRA 2015: Chairman of Open Source Health Speaks on the Future of Healthcare at Open Source Summit
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Open Source Health, OSEHRA |
July 28, 2015
Open Source Health Inc...is pleased to announce it’s Executive Chairman, Gary Bartholomew, will present on the main stage at the 2015 OSEHRA Summit in Washington on July 29, 2015. “This is an important summit relating to open source technology in the healthcare industry which is on the verge of a revolution”, states Executive Chairman, Gary Bartholomew, Open Source Health Inc. “We are re-defining the next generation healthcare platform by incorporating big data and artificial intelligence to deliver personalized medicine at the molecular level”.
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Personal Health Tech Plot Thickens
Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | June 17, 2014
Apple. Google. Samsung. WebMD. Each has made moves recently into personal health technologies. And they’re coming at a time when the nation’s healthcare is stressed and federal efforts are geared toward removing costs.
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The Elusive Quest To Transform Healthcare Through Patient Empowerment
Andy Oram | O'Reilly Strata | May 23, 2013
Would you take a morning off from work to discuss health care costs and consumer empowerment in health care? Over a hundred people in the Boston area did so on Monday, May 6, for the conference “Empowering Healthcare Consumers... Read More »
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The Growing Trend Of Clinical Research Crowdsourcing
By Margarita Kitova | September 15, 2015
The trend of open collaboration has led to innovation across multiple industries. For decades, big pharma has been known as conservative and slow to change. Today however, there is a growing movement toward open access and crowdsourcing scientific information to accelerate research and development. Open-source platforms have let developers create multiple crowdsourcing applications, that are further enabling the crowdsourcing trend in the life sciences industry, as well.
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The Right to Repair Ourselves
By Kim Bellard | September 13, 2015
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VetAdvisor Deploys SugarCRM to Create a World-Class Veteran Relationship Management Platform
By Paul Handly | November 24, 2014
VetAdvisor, the nation’s expert in veteran-centric holistic care, has rapidly expanded its reach to military veterans through its recent deployment of the SugarCRM customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Leveraging SugarCRM’s advanced open source CRM platform, VetAdvisor is able to provide proactive coaching services across behavioral health, wellness, financial, and all aspects of transition and career development.
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