Direct Project completes first models of simple NHIN
The first version of the software that will allow simple information exchange between providers, a crucial enabler for the first stage of meaningful use of electronic health records, was announced by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Read More »
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Report: Drug discovery industry must embrace open source innovation to speed process, boost bottom lines
To meet the challenges of research and development, the pharmaceutical industry must adopt more open source innovation—a concept that has been used for nearly three decades by the information technology sector—to promote innovation in the drug discovery process and boost bottom lines, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. Read More »
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Health care at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention--Call for Proposals is open
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is offering a health care track for the second year in a row. We had a wonderful health care track last year (summarized in our report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; I'll also post some links to videos, interviews, and blogs at the end of this article), and we're planning to build on our coverage of last year's topics as well as add some topics that got short shrift last year. Read More »
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Webinar: How To For Physicians: Creating Personal Medication Quick Orders
Physicians will become familiar with the process of creating Personal Medication Quick Orders in vxCPRS. Personal Quick Orders streamlines the ordering process for physicians.
Audience: Physicians
Estimated duration: 30 minutes
Presenter/s Name: Jeanette Klement, MAEd
Presenter: Jeanette Klement, MAEd
Date:Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Time:11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
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Allscripts has not launched open source medicine
I didn’t think it was possible. The people at Forbes are getting dumber. A Forbes blog post titled “open source makes debut in health care” is making its rounds about the Internet this morning. It describes an effort by Allscripts to build the equivalent of an “app store” within its online Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It’s called the “Application Store and Exchange.” Apple’s app store is not open source. Even if Allscripts were making all its code visible (which is what open source means) this would not be its introduction to the health care market, either. Read More »
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Meeting: Open Health Tools
Open Health Tools is an open source community with a vision of enabling a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed.
Technical Meeting and Introductory Sessions will take place on February 24.
Board Meeting will take place on Fecruary 25.
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22nd VistA Community Meeting
The goal of VistA Community Meetings is for those involved in the VistA Community to network & collaborate, i.e., to share ideas and work, with the objective of moving VistA & the VistA community forward. VistA Community Meetings are highly interactive, hands-on, working meetings. Please come prepared to contribute as well as to learn.
This meeting will have a focus on the development effort towards certification and will include presentations by VistA domain experts from the VA discussing their current work an plans for the future. Read More »
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Networking out of natural disasters
-Open-source software could transform response to disease outbreaks and natural disasters. Read More »
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17 Leading EHR Vendors
The Basics: OpenVista is used by hospitals and their affiliated doctors' offices, as well as long-term rehabilitation and psychiatric care facilities. It runs on laptops and desktop clients and can be used by large facilities. Partnerships between Medsphere and other companies allow smaller facilities to run OpenVista as a remotely hosted solution if they don't have enough internal IT staff. It uses one of two databases: InterSystems Cache on Windows or FIS GT.M on Linux. OpenVista is not available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, but Medsphere said it likely will be in the future.
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HIStalk Interviews Beth Raucher MD
...My role in the electronic health record was the lead physician on the project. I helped make some of the design decisions and work flow decisions, things that would work best for the hospital. I had previous experience doing that in another job before I came to Lutheran four and half years ago.
Yours is the largest hospital I’ve heard of that has implemented Medsphere’s OpenVista. You’re a teaching hospital, too. What parts of the system are you live on and how has it gone?
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