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If The US Gets the Cloud, Why Not You?
Under the leadership of US CIO, Vivek Kundra, the US government has decided to go full bore into the Cloud with what Kundra has termed a “Cloud First Policy.” Yet many private-sector IT Pros still don’t trust the Cloud in theory or practice. Read More »
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Healthcare Organizations Use Open Source to Control Costs, Increase Reliability
Healthcare organizations face constant pressure to reduce costs and, like most organizations, they are typically looking for these cost-reduction opportunities within expensive IT infrastructures.
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The FrontlineSMS: Credit Story
Mobile money is spreading quickly across the globe. The ability to transfer funds from a mobile handset has been hailed as the key to extending financial services to the base of the pyramid. Read More »
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User Support Remains Priority as FrontlineSMS Team Grows
FrontlineSMS has recently appointed Florence Scialom into the role of Community Support Coordinator, to focus on connecting and supporting the dynamic global community of those using our software. Here, Florence shares what drew her to work at FrontlineSMS, and outlines the plans she has for her new role. Read More »
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Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge Happening This Weekend in Boston
The Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge is happening this weekend, Feb 19th, in Boston. The day is bringing developers, designers, makers, researchers, care providers, sensor-geeks, hardware hackers, patients, and anyone else interested in improving healthcare by building new applications and tools.
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Webcast Recap: General Hugh Shelton
General Shelton first encountered open source software while serving on the USS Mount Whitney. After some problems with Microsoft's unchangeable, proprietary code not meeting his team's requirements, they found the right solution with open source software, which let them change the code as they needed. Many years later, in 2003, General Shelton was elected to serve as on the Red Hat board of directors and in 2010 was selected to serve as chairman of that board.
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Open Source at the State Department: Loud, Timely, Not Your Parents’ State Department
There seemed to be equal excitement on the part of the State Department staff, the organizers, the speakers and the audience, all aware that this was a new kind of hybrid, maybe a new kind of government, and a time for more cross-cutting collaboration and engagement around innovative, impactful ideas, partnerships and initiatives.
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VA Health IT Receives Budget Boost
With budget cutting the buzzword of the day, Department of Veterans Affairs information technology projects nonetheless received healthy increases in funding in the proposed fiscal year 2012 federal government budget released Feb. 14.
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Fort Wayne Firm to Open Health Info to Patients
...[Fort Wayne-based NoMoreClipboard] has been named the lead contractor on a $1.25 million grant from the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The grant was made to Indiana Health Information Technology Inc., a not-for-profit group coordinating statewide efforts to expand the use of electronic health records.
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Open Source Model in Healthcare Can Create Shared Value
It is well known that sections of society are driven below the poverty line due to unbearable costs of healthcare and medicine in India. This is largely because millions of people pay out-of-pocket in the absence of social security guaranteeing health as a fundamental right.
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Open Source Medical Software – OpenMRS
The article starts by presenting the medical domain and its corresponding software applications, their usage in improving patient care, as well as the unique advantages that an Open-Source approach brings to the field.
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Open Medicine Endorses PROSPERO
On 22 February 2011, the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York launched PROSPERO, an international prospective register of systematic review protocols. The registry was developed to address the excessive duplication of systematic reviews, improve transparency and minimize reporting biases
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Open Source Software Is Commercial
Nearly all publicly-available open source software (OSS) is commercial software. Unfortunately, many government officials and contractors fail to understand this. This misunderstanding can result in higher costs, longer delivery times, and reduced quality for government systems. Read More »
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Implementing Open Standards in Open Source
In the case of software industry standards, morphing transforms a written specification into working code through a mental process conducted internally by programmers and engineers. The end result – functional software – is a created outcome of human intellect that starts with a written specification and ends with a working implementation.
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Direct Model or HIE Model
There’s a pretty fierce battle going on right now between all the various stakeholders interested in exchanging patient data. The stakeholders range from very large companies to government initiatives to startup companies.[...]With this said, I found it interesting that my favorite open source healthcare IT advocate, Fred Trotter, has chosen to get behind the Direct Project.
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