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OpenMRS 2.0 Released-Major Milestone for the Open Source EHR

By Darius Jazayeri | March 4, 2014

The OpenMRS community is excited to announce the release of OpenMRS 2.0. [This] release brings a new focus to OpenMRS. Instead of just releasing a generic enterprise-grade platform and leaving it up to each implementation to configure, OpenMRS 2.0 includes more functionality “out of the box” that should help you be more productive, faster. Read More »

Healthcare Lessons from the Data Sages at Strata

By Dr. Bonnie Feldman | February 25, 2014

Most healthcare clinicians don't often think about donating or sharing data. Yet, after hearing Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks talk about involving citizens and patients in the field of genetic research at StrataRx 2012, I was curious to learn more...With this in mind, I arrived at this February's Strata conference wondering what I could extrapolate from other more sophisticated data users to healthcare.

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Open Health Presentations at HIMSS14

By Roger Maduro | February 23, 2014

As we outlined in our earlier article, "HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibit Opening with Open Source," open source software as well as collaboration and interoperability in health information technology (HIT) has reached break out levels and the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida. Below are some of the conference presentations related to open health. Note the large number of presentations the award-winning VistA EHR developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its derivative RPMS developed by the Indian Health Service (IHS). Read More »

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  • North Carolina's Central Regional Hospital Rolls Out VistA For Less Than $1 Million
    March 6, 2014 - Roger A. Maduro - Open Health News

    Central Regional Hospital, a state psychiatric and medical facility located in Butner, North Carolina, has just completed a full-scale...

  • VistA: From Start To Go In 5 Minutes
    March 5, 2014 - Roger A. Maduro - Open Health News

    [The] original two to three day process of trying to take home VistA EMR from yester year is now something that can be completed in the time it...

  • VistA: The Open Source EHR Hackable Platform
    March 4, 2014 - Roger A. Maduro - Open Health News

    [A]s a result of the work of Christopher Edwards, developing the OSEHRA Installer for VistA, which includes the suite of EWD.js products and a...

  • EWD.js and VistA: Now With No Barriers to Entry
    March 3, 2014 - Roger A. Maduro - Open Health News

    Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy.  Before explaining what I’ve been busy doing, I’ll start by stating my sincere thanks to Christopher...

  • A Review Of The Printrbot 3D Printer
    January 23, 2014 - Roger A. Maduro - Open Health News

    If you're looking around for 3D printers that are both inexpensive and open source friendly, the Printrbot Simple Kit will probably catch your...

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