The University of Minnesota is expanding access to clinical trials and supporting the health research community by sharing its clinical trial resource, StudyFinder, with other institutions designated with Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), a program spearheaded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). StudyFinder is an online tool pooling clinical trials and research studies in one space, with easy-to-understand language and functions. It helps patients and healthy volunteers get involved and allows researchers to publicize their clinical trials and connect with study volunteers.
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Open Source Persistence: Resistance Is Futile
Jack M. Germain | Linux Insider | June 9, 2014
Software developers routinely use open source components to boost productivity and improve the quality of their code. The problem for enterprises is that companies using open source must properly manage it and comply with its licensing, as with any third-party code...
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Open Source Pharma And Prizes
mattoddchem | Intermolecular | May 13, 2014
I’m involved in a meeting happening next month in Italy that is asking “Can we develop a new open source pharmaceutical industry?” We’ll be talking amongst other things about incentives (such as prizes) and new ideas for the structure of pharma (legal and economic) and trying to come up with some pilot projects.
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Open Source Push in the UK 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'
Matthew Sparkes | The Telegraph | January 30, 2014
The [UK] Government is investigating how open source software could be adopted to save tens of millions of pounds a year and make communication between departments easier. Since 2010 government departments have spent £200m on Microsoft Office alone, claimed Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in a speech yesterday.
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Open Source Revolution – 3 Ways Humanity Will Never Be The Same
Jefferey Jaxen | RiseEarth | December 4, 2014
Taking a pulse check of the conscious awakening of humanity on all levels, it is sometimes difficult to describe the feelings and experiences we are all encountering. As covered in the recent documentary Collective Evolution III, many signs and yardsticks seem to concur with the filmmakers’ findings that we are riding the wave of something big...
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Open Source Summit 2017 Combines LinuxCon and Three Other Events
Press Release |
The Linux Foundation |
November 17, 2016
The Linux Foundation today announced it will combine LinuxCon with two other events and a brand new Community Leadership Conference in 2017. Now called Open Source Summit, the event will bring LinuxCon, CloudOpen, and ContainerCon together under one umbrella and in three locations: North America, Europe, and Japan. The Community Leadership Conference, led by community-building expert and consultant Jono Bacon, will also join the Open Source Summit in North America and Europe...
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Open Source Survey Launched
Sam Sachdeva | eHealth Insider | July 28, 2014
The second edition of a survey about open source within the NHS will help to measure how attitudes towards its use are changing following NHS England initiatives, its creator has said. The survey is being conducted by John Pyle, an open source consultant for NHS England, as part of his MSc thesis at the University of Leeds...
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Open Source to the Rescue in Puerto Rico
Darius Tahir and Arthur Allen | Politico | October 16, 2017
This week, a collaboration of private sector companies, the government, and not-for-profits hopes to deliver an EHR system to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, project leader Luis Belen told Morning eHealth's Darius Tahir. Belen, CEO of the non-profit, D.C-based National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, has been personally touched by the disaster: two of his aunts died because of the storm. The organization is coordinating with teams from HHS to bring a package of satellite phones, pre-loaded laptops, Amazon cloud storage, and an open-source software, OpenEMR+.
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Open source tools, OSEHRA gain momentum at VA
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 18, 2012
Todd Park, the White House chief technology officer, spoke briefly at the conference and said that...“OSEHRA is catalyzing another ecosystem for open source software and health IT innovation that no closed system could do," Park said. "This is unbelievably cool."
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Open Source Touch Screens To The Rescue
Casey Hare | EDN Network | April 7, 2014
"...We need a stand-alone electronics box that can connect to our data logging systems, drive the main mechanism motor and measure a few other sensors. We're very worried about the end customer damaging the hardware so we're going to need voltage limits, torque limits and other safety features that change over the mechanism travel…and we need it right away. This was one of my favorite clients talking so I want to give them everything they wanted, but already the project sounded like a mess.
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Open Source's 2014: MS 'Cancer' Embrace, NASDAQ Listings And A Quiet Dog
Matt Asay | The Register | December 27, 2014
...Another year, another slew of open source announcements that prove the once-maligned development methodology is now so mainstream as to be tedious...And yet in 2014 we had a few events in open source that managed to surprise us, and suggest an even brighter future...
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Open Thread: Microsoft Health's Big Advantage Is Cross-Platform Support
Stuart Dredge | The Guardian | October 31, 2014
Microsoft has been winning generally approving headlines for its Microsoft Band fitness tracker and accompanying Microsoft Health platform, since both were revealed – seemingly unintentionally at first – on Wednesday...
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Open TreeMap Launches In Canada, Adds Stewardship Activities And Green Infrastructure Tracking
Press Release |
Azavea |
May 9, 2014
Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, announces the launch of OpenTreeMap, its collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory, ecosystem services calculations, urban forestry analysis in Edmonton, Canada...
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Open-source Code Leads to the Adoption of University of Minnesota's StudyFinder by Additional Translational Medicine Research Institutions
Press Release |
University Of Minnesota Academic Health Center |
April 26, 2016
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Open-Source Could Be A New Avenue For Manufacturers
Chris Fox | Manufacturing.Net | July 23, 2014
Have you heard about the open-source revolution? Like 3D printing, it only recently made its way into the mainstream, but like the additive manufacturing machines, it has been around for a while...
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Open-Source EHR: Benefits And Drawbacks
Charles Settles | HealthWorks Collective | August 14, 2014
As open-source software’s popularity grows, health IT has been slow to join the rising tide, even though EHRs were born open-source. What are the pros and cons of open-source EHR software?...
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