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Call for participation Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track (6-8 April 2011, Luxembourg)
If you are interested in Free/Libre Open Source Software in health care please consider joining us at the 2nd FLOSS in health care track at Med-e-Tel 2011, 6-8 April, Luxembourg. IF you are using or developing open source in health care systems, please consider presenting your work at the conference.
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Governments Want More Commercial Out of Commercial Open Source
The theme of this year’s GOSCON, from my perspective, was that governments remain eager to embrace open source software, and are no doubt already doing so in many cases, but there is still a great demand for more commercial backing of more open source. Even though we continue to see more official adoption and procurement of open source among public organizations, it seems clear after GOSCON there is a need for more awareness, but also for more commercial support of open source.
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Open-Source Approach to Professional Education
Within the technology sector, industry heavyweights including Sun, Oracle, and IBM support the highly collaborative Open Source Initiative, which grew into Linux, a global open source operating system. IBM alone has pledged to spend $1 billion this year pushing open source, particularly Linux. Read More »
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Getting Hooked on Open Source Prosthetics
A few months ago, I wondered: Can open source create better prosthetics? I've been meaning to revisit the topic and see what kind of progress the project is making. The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP) is now more organized and primed to foster worldwide collaboration for their efforts.
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FierceGovernmentIT FOIAs OMB TechStat Meeting Info
When earlier this year Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra began touting a series of Office of Management and Budget-led reviews of agency technology programs dubbed "TechStat," we were curious to know more. Read More »
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New Customer? What to Expect From Kitware
I am frequently asked by potential customers about the nature of a business relationship with Kitware. This is true for small support contracts all the way up to multi-million dollar consulting projects. In this blog I'll paint a general picture of what you can expect, and more importantly, what you should demand from your relationship with the Company. I'll also sketch the outline of a typical project with Kitware. Read More »
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Hospitals Consider Medical Homes' Costs, Benefits
When the patient-centered medical home care-delivery model arrived at the industry's doorstep a few years back, the concern by some was that the concept's potential for savings would come at the expense of medical specialists who would see fewer patients. But as data from pilot medical home projects are starting to show, the savings instead are coming out of the pockets of hospitals because fewer patients need inpatient care.
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Neutral Territory
The birth date of the Web is not nearly as relevant right now as its future survival, which is being threatened, according to Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with putting the Web together from a batch of old and new ideas.
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VA Provides Tools to Track Hospital Quality
The Veterans Affairs Department is “raising the bar” for its healthcare centers by providing online tools so veterans can compare how well the VA’s 153 hospitals perform, with the ultimate goal of spurring further improvements at those facilities. Read More »
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EMR-Driven Disease Management Reduces Mortality, Costs
EMRs keep on proving their mettle in the area of care coordination.The latest evidence comes from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, which improved outcomes by mining its EMR and electronic disease registries to match patients with heart disease to clinical pharmacy specialists and "personalized" nurses. Read More »
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VA's Baker: Modernize Rather than Replace VistA
The Department of Veterans Affairs won't be trying to replace VistA anymore, but instead will be looking for ways to improve the powerful EMR system via open-source collaboration with the private sector.
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Open Source for America Announces Winners of Inaugural Open Source Awards Program
Open Source for America (OSFA), an organization of technology industry leaders, non-government associations, and academic and research institutions promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. federal government, today announced the winners of its inaugural 2010 Open Source Awards program, recognizing individuals, projects and deployments for their role in advancing the adoption of free and open source software in federal government agencies. Winners were honored during a luncheon at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) 2010, in Portland, Oregon. Read More »
How Apple Can Fix The Usability Problem In Healthcare
I want clinicians to buy more Apple products. I want Macbooks to replace your PCs. Other than promoting Apple and angering PC-lovers, why would I say this? Read More »
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Sepsis a 'Hidden Public Health Disaster'
Older hospitalized patients who survive sepsis develop lasting, moderate to severe cognitive impairment and functional disability at 3.3 times the rate of patients hospitalized for other reasons, according to a report from University of Michigan researchers.
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HHS Earmarks $335M for Community Health Center Access
The Department of Health and Human Services said it will make available up to $335 million in Expanded Services grants for community health centers to boost access to preventive and primary healthcare.
The Affordable Care Act grant program is the second of two major initiatives announced this month totaling more than $1 billion for community health centers. On Oct. 11, HHS said it would provide $727 million to 143 community health centers across the country for construction, expansion, and renovation projects.
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