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Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says

Katherine Noyes | PCWorld | April 17, 2013

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »

Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says

Katherine Noyes | Computerworld | April 18, 2013

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »

Open Source Software Moves Into All Businesses

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | April 18, 2013

A Black Duck survey and the Linux Collaboration Summit both show that open-source software and the open-source method are moving well beyond where you think they live, and into all businesses. Read More »

Planning and Assessment of Mobile Phone Use: Effective SMS in Cambodia from World Vision UK

Joshua Pepall | FrontlineSMS | July 19, 2012

Assessing whether to use SMS is even more important than figuring out how to do it, as Joshua Pepall, World Vision’s United Kingdom Senior Accountability Advisor in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reports in a special guest blog post. Read More »

Policy And IT Challenges To Achieving Big Data Outcomes, Part 2

John Loonsk | Government Health IT | July 22, 2013

In part one of this series we provided a loose definition of Big Data, described some of the ways that Big Data tools can be used in health, and identified the high degree of alignment of Big Data capabilities with quality and efficiency analytics as well as observational health research... Read More »

Policy Conflicts Hurt Defense-VA Collaboration On Healthcare: GAO

Jessica Zigmond | ModernHealthcare.com | September 29, 2012

"Incompatible policies" in several areas are preventing the U.S. Defense and Veterans Affairs departments from collaborating effectively at sites where the two healthcare systems deliver care, a federal audit has concluded. Read More »

Providers Are Held Accountable. Why Aren't Technology Vendors?

Jordan Dolin | The Health Care Blog | July 26, 2013

As healthcare shifts from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, hospitals and physicians are increasingly being held accountable for outcomes by the government, payers and patients... Read More »

Quality, Disparity Reports Show Little Healthcare Improvement for Minorities

Kelsey Brimmer | Healthcare Finance News | April 24, 2012

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released two healthcare reports last Friday showing that overall in the years 2002 through 2008, quality, access and disparities in healthcare for most racial and ethnic groups improved minimally, if at all. Read More »

Return On Information: A Standard Model For Assessing Institutional Return On Electronic Health Records

Julia Adler-Milstein, Gregory Daniel, Claudia Grossmann, et. al. | Institute of Medicine | January 6, 2014

The views expressed in discussion papers are those of the authors and not necessarily of the authors’ organizations or of the IOM. Discussion papers are intended to help inform and stimulate discussion. They have not been subjected to the review procedures of the IOM and are not reports of the IOM or of the National Research Council. Read More »

Rural Hospitals Rule On Leapfrog List

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | December 4, 2013

For the second consecutive year, rural hospitals stood out, with 22 hospitals making the Leapfrog Group’s 2013 Top Hospitals list – a 69 percent increase from last year. Rounding out the list are 55 urban hospitals and 13 children’s hospitals. [...] Read More »

Scientists Are 'Less Inclined To Do The Tough Experiments' For Open Access Journals

Zulfikar Abbany | DW | May 2, 2013

As chief editor of the journal "Nature Medicine," Juan Carlos López knows his company has to change as the open-access model of publishing research papers takes hold. But he questions the quality. Read More »

Scorecard Reveals Wide Disparities in Care Across the Country

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | March 14, 2012

Healthcare access, cost, quality and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next, both within states and across states, depending on the performance of the healthcare system available to residents, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Read More »

Senate Hearing: EHRs Still Falling Short

Erin McCann | HealthcareITNews | June 27, 2013

Developing an effective framework for driving healthcare quality improvements proves a multifaceted, complex endeavor, and although EHR systems can play a positive role in the task, much of the technology still misses the mark. Read More »

Seven Ways For Health Services Research To Lead Health System Change

Joel Kupersmith and David Atkins | Health Affairs Blog | May 30, 2013

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act now at hand — and with it, the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) — health services research (HSR) has an especially important role to play.  As ACOs take steps that will substantially change health care delivery, the ability to measure and improve health system performance and acquire this data efficiently will be in greater demand.  Is HSR up to the challenge? Read More »

Survey Suggests Public Is Ready To Engage

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | December 18, 2012

As we noted yesterday, many policymakers are keen on the role patients can take in the health IT transition. Given that goal, patient engagement advocates are likely to feel encouraged by a new survey which indicates that a healthy majority of healthcare consumers are willing to make greater use of health IT. Read More »