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FrontlineSMS User Community Connecting Across the World: Next User Meet-Up in Cambodia

Florence Scialom | FrontlineSMS | April 5, 2012

In the below post Sophie Baron, new FrontlineSMS user, reports on the first FrontlineSMS user meet-up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read More »

FrontlineSMS User Meet-up in Nairobi: A Mosaic of Social-Technology

Joseph Owuondo | FrontlineSMS | April 27, 2012

The FrontlineSMS user community has seen a growing number of user meet-ups across the world in recent months. It is exciting to see community members come together and share opinions and experiences on our software. In this post, FrontlineSMS user Joseph Owuondo shares his experience of attending recent meet-up in Nairobi, hosted at the FrontlineSMS offices. Read More »

FrontlineSMS:Credit Takes on Kisumu

Enock Musyoka | FrontlineSMS | July 27, 2012

A few weeks ago, the FrontlineSMS:Credit team and FrontlineSMS M&E Intern Juliana embarked on a trip to Kisumu to meet FrontlineSMS users and potential PaymentView users. Read More »

FrontlineSMS:Learn Now Available (in Beta)!

Cathryn Paine | FrontlineSMS | April 30, 2012

The FrontlineSMS:Learn team is excited to announce that our new software is now out in beta and available for download! Read More »

Fun With Data

Alastair Otter | MyBroadband | January 4, 2012

Crowdmap is not just a cool tool for mapping data but also a fantastic way to collect additional data. Crowdmap can be used to track geographic reports on just about any event. It’s built on the Ushahidi platform which was originally built to monitor election violence in Kenya, but is today used for a range of mapping services. Read More »

Geodata-Fueled Map Relates Storms To Energy Facilities

Reid Davenport | FCW | July 11, 2013

A new interactive map for tracking storms in real time, released on July 9 by the Energy Information Administration, aggregates some 30 sets of geodata from a wide range of agencies and organizations -- all in an effort to monitor the effect such storms could have on critical energy infrastructure. Read More »

Ginkgo CADx: Open Source DICOM CADx Environment

Carlos Barrales, Diego Morate, and Javier Velasco | Kitware Blog | April 20, 2012

Ginkgo CADx [1] is a multi-platform, open core medical visualization and image-based diagnosis framework designed for specialists, practitioners, and physicians. Developed by MetaEmotion Healthcare [2], this framework provides an end-user friendly interface and extensible application for visualizing DICOM [3] studies, diagnoses, and creation of new DICOM studies....Image integration is a mature deployment in radiology environments, where almost any image produced and consumed is integrated using HL7 and DICOM standards. Ginkgo CADx is willing to provide these workflows in other environments such as ophthalmology, dermatology, cardiology, pathological anatomy, etc.

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Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

David Talbot | MIT Technology Review | October 29, 2012

With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. Read More »

Gold Coast Medical Records System by Cerner 'Inadequate & Dangerous'

Stephanie Bedo | Gold Coast | July 6, 2012

Senior doctors say Gold Coast Health's new multimillion dollar electronic medical record system is 'inadequate and dangerous' and could put patients' lives at risk. Read More »

Hack the Programme

Staff Writer | EHealth Insider | May 28, 2012

The geeks shall inherit the world of NHS IT. Or that was the hope of NHS Hack Day 2012. Chris Thorne spent a day with the coders, and found that even the 'old guard' and 'big wigs' were having fun. Read More »

Hadoop Solidified for Production Duty

Joab Jackson | IT World Canada | January 4, 2012

After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday. Read More »

Hadoop: Bigger Than SpringSource, JBoss and MySQL Combined?

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | February 27, 2012

Bearden told me during a recent call he thinks the Hadoop market will be bigger than the open source application-platform and database markets because of how much value — and net new value — Hadoop brings to companies as they begin blazing their big data trails. 

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Handover System Wins NHS Hack Day

Chris Thorne | EHealth Insider | May 28, 2012

The NHS Hack Day 2012 was won by a group of clinicians and developers who produced an electronic patient task-list for doctors in just 24 hours. Read More »

Harris Corporation Unveils FusionFX - Advanced Healthcare Integration Platform

Press Release | Harris Corporation, Presence Health | February 24, 2014

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, launched an advanced integration platform for healthcare providers worldwide during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference being held February 23-27 in Orlando, Florida. Read More »

Health 2.0 and ONC Launch New Challenge Through the Investing in Innovation (I2) Initiative

Press Release | ONC, Health 2.0, Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative | July 11, 2012

Today, Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for HealthInformation Technology (ONC) announced the launch of a new Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative competition that challenges developer communities to create innovative health information technology (HIT) solutions. Read More »