Health IT News

News clips about general health IT products, organizations, and activities [not open source health IT news] from various news sources, e.g. newspapers, news web sites, magazines, journals, blogs, etc.

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New Open Knowledge Hub Launches At Open Development Camp

Kelly Shephard | Institute of Development Studies | October 9, 2014

IDS launches new open knowledge hub at this year's Open Development Camp. A key aspect of the hub’s design is to raise the profile of diverse perspectives on development, paying particular attention to research content from developing countries...

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New open source tools available for openEHR archetype development

Press Release | Marand | September 15, 2015

As part of an effort to expand the global openEHR community, Marand has decided to open source ADL Designer, a web -based archetype development tool. The tool allows visual authoring of ADL 2 archetypes and templates including full archetype parsing, validation, flattening and serialisation. Backward compatibility for existing ADL 1.4 archetypes and export to Operational Template (1.4 OPT) is also supported. Previously, Marand had also open sourced ADL2 core libraries to provide a java based reference implementation of the Archetype Definition Language ADL 2.0 and AOM specifications.

New Open-Source Tool Makes It Easy To Tap Into Docker, The Cloud’s Next Big Thing

Klint Finley | Wired | August 12, 2014

...[N]ow Docker has a helper of its own, an open-source project called Panamax that makes it easier to use Docker on the cloud.  Docker packs applications into software “containers,” which contain everything required to run the application...

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New Platfora Release With Open Data Access And Flexible Workflow Options Makes Big Data Analytics Available For All

Press Release | Platfora | May 14, 2014

Platfora today announced an update to its full-stack analytics platform with significant feature enhancements to tightly couple Big Data Analytics into core production workflows within the enterprise. 

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New Resource Aims To Provide Quality Insight Into OA Resources

Sian Harris | Research Information | April 24, 2014

Ever since the concept of open-access journals began gathering steam, the question of journal quality has been an issue for sceptics and advocates alike. It has become a normal part of our daily lives to delete emails inviting submissions to a new open-access journal with obscure origins and questionable relevance to the email recipient.

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New Smartphone App Promises Easy Eye Testing Worldwide

Tim Chester | Mashable | November 26, 2014

The team behind a smartphone-based portable eye examination kit have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for new innovation...

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New Software Traces Origins of Genetic Disorders 20 Times More Accurately

Editor | eHealthNews.eu | October 24, 2013

In a bioinformatics breakthrough, iMinds-STADIUS - KU Leuven researchers have successfully applied advanced artificial intelligence to enable the automated analysis of huge amounts of genetic data. Read More »

New Species Of Metal-Munching Plant Found In Philippines

Staff Writer | RT News | May 12, 2014

Scientists in the Philippines have discovered a plant that can absorb large amounts of metal without itself being poisoned, a species called the Rinorea niccolifera, that can be used to clean up polluted soils and harvest commercially viable metals.  

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New Study: 'Cloud Of Things' Could Make Customer Service Better, Humanity Worse

Adrienne Lafrance | The Atlantic | May 14, 2014

Experts predict technology will improve daily transactions by 2025, but there are major caveats...

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New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates The Constitution

Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | July 21, 2014

John Napier Tye is speaking out to warn Americans about illegal spying. The former State Department official, who served in the Obama administration from 2011 to 2014, declared Friday that ongoing NSA surveillance abuses are taking place under the auspices of Executive Order 12333, which came into being in 1981, before the era of digital communications, but is being used to collect them promiscuously...

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New Tool Takes Measure Of Public Health

Staff Writer | Healthcare IT News | August 26, 2014

It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to  gauge whether their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...

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New UN-Backed Open-Source Tool Will Support Community Resilience-Building

Staff Writer | UN News Centre | November 27, 2014

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Programme (FAO) is teaming up with a coalition of partner agencies to develop a new data crunching tool to help national governments, development and relief organizations in their efforts to prevent and respond to crises such as animal diseases, plant pests and even conflict...

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New V.A. Secretary Says Hiring Spree Is Needed To Meet Patient Demand

Richard A. Oppel | The New York Times | September 8, 2014

The new secretary of Veterans Affairs said Monday that the department needed to hire “tens of thousands of new doctors, new nurses, new clinicians” — emphasizing the significance of a shortage of employees who are directly involved in treating patients, a factor many experts said was a main driver in the waiting-list scandal that rocked the agency this year...

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New VA Secretary Sets Sights On Major Agency Reforms

Dan Verton | FedScoop | September 8, 2014

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald outlined for the first time Monday his strategic vision for a new, efficient and innovative VA that is no longer hamstrung by old-fashioned hierarchy and a complex maze of websites and systems that prevent veterans from accessing VA medical services...

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New York Police To Carry Heroin Antidote As Overdoses Double

Laila Kearney | Reuters | May 27, 2014

New York City police will begin carrying large amounts of anti-opiate drugs in an effort to combat a recent spike in heroin deaths, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday...

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