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Open Innovation—The Passion Behind the Civic Commons Community

Nick Grossman | opensource.com | February 22, 2012

From the beginning, Civic Commons has been a dynamic community initiative. Read More »

Open Source and the Enterprise: A Call to Action

Colin Hope-Murray | Open Source Delivers | February 2, 2012

...The companies that have gone down the open source trail are those that have managed to maintain platform integrity from the outset. For established industries to follow suit, they need to do two things: understand the value of platform integrity and why open source is the optimal base, and how to build a strategy to get there and migrate from their non-open legacy systems. Read More »

Open Source Data Solutions Offer Enterprises More than Cost Savings

Loraine Lawson | IT Business Edge | June 4, 2012

Forrester predicted earlier this year that we’d see more open source data tools find their way into the enterprise this year, thanks in no small part to the fact that open source rules the Big Data space.

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Open Source Funding Streams

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | December 27, 2011

During the holiday season it's natural to consider giving back and reflecting on what we've accomplished. According to ohloh.net the open source community has done an amazing job on both counts. For example, a partial tabulation of some open source projects related to medical image analysis yields a total of over $350 million and over 12 million lines of code, the result of years of hard work. Read More »

Open Source Hardware-The Next Frontier

You've heard of open source software. Open data. Open access. Open knowledge. With the origin of open source software, an entire culture with a distinct ethos and community of “openness” was born. But what exactly is open source hardware? Read More »

Open Source Health IT Solutions for Governments to Consider

Peter Groen | GovLoop | January 5, 2012

Healthcare is a major budget item for government at all levels. There are now many high quality, free and open source Health IT systems that community hospitals and clinics should consider using as an alternative to more expensive commercial systems. This could save state & local governments 'big' bucks...

Open Source Libraries for Health Analytics

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPAA | December 19, 2016

According to Health Catalyst’s Director of Data Science Levi Thatcher, the main author of the project, these tools are tried and tested. Many of them are based on popular free software libraries in the general machine learning space: he mentions in particular the Python Scikit-learn library and the R language’s caret and and data.table libraries. The contribution of Health Catalyst is to build on these general tools to produce libraries tailored for the needs of health care facilities, with their unique populations, workflows, and billing needs. The company has used the libraries to deploy models related to operational, financial, and clinical questions. Eventually, Thatcher says, most of Health Catalyst’s applications will use predictive analytics based on healthcare.ai, and now other programmers can too...

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Open Source Programs Aim To Meet Global Demand For Developers

Jim Zemlin | Linux.com | September 28, 2012

It is software that differentiates one device or computing experience from another. And since nearly all software today is built using open source projects and code, knowing how to collaborate and contribute to an open development community is a requirement for any developer or company regardless of industry. Read More »

Open Source Reporting Tool Simplifies MU Quality Measures Reporting

Staff | Inside Healthcare IT | February 9, 2012

Reporting on Meaningful Use quality measures is getting a little easier for healthcare providers, thanks to the latest version of an open source solution. popHealth, an open source reference implementation software service developed by The MITRE Corporation in 2009 with funding from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) released its latest version earlier this month.

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Open Source Thrives in Asia

Kirsten Newcomer | Open Source Delivers | June 13, 2012

The [LinuxCon Japan] conference was truly an excellent experience. It’s great to see the tremendous energy around FOSS here in Japan. There’s no question that Asian companies are taking full advantage of the innovation and game-changing opportunities that FOSS creates. Read More »

Open Source Visionaries

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | May 20, 2011

Creating, extending and maintaining modern computational tools is really hard. It used to be that a motivated person could envision a solution, knock out some code, and have a useful prototype running in a short time (days or weeks). Read More »

Open Source: Not Just for Tech Anymore

Jay Lyman | LinuxInsider | January 10, 2012

In pharmaceuticals, the debate over open source research, results and data continues. There are also some interesting ventures, technology and tools in pharmaceuticals, such as an open source image-sharing effort in clinical research

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Open Source: Not Just for Tech Anymore

Jay Lyman | E-Commerce Times | January 10, 2012

Politics is experiencing a growing presence and impact from open source software and ideas. Many of the central tenets of the Occupy movement parallel open source software, including transparency, openness and collaboration. "Occupy" has been described as a type of "open source brand."

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Open Sourcers Drop Software Religion for Common Sense

Cade Metz | Wired | February 15, 2012

But in 2009, Olson founded Cloudera — the first outfit to commercialize Hadoop, the open source data-crunching platform based on Google’s software infrastructure — and he dropped the GPL in favor of the Apache license, a license that doesn’t require contributions back to the community. You might think that such licenses would stunt the growth of the open source world. But Olson believes the opposite is true.

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Open-Access Method Toolbox Software

Press Release | Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. | March 20, 2013

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. has released the Method Toolbox, the newest addition to its Open Solutions family of open-access software. Method Toolbox is purification method scouting software that assists with method optimization to increase the productivity of pharmaceutical laboratories and contract research organizations. Read More »