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OpenIAM Helps Improve Patient Privacy and Collaboration Between Healthcare Providers and Patients
OpenIAM, a leading provider of Open Source IAG solutions, has successfully secured electronic privacy for patients at healthcare institutions. Additionally, the IAG stack has enhanced collaboration between medical personnel and their patients...The solution stack offered by OpenIAM has a proven track record in ameliorating these pain points. For healthcare customers, OpenIAM offers: Integration with other healthcare systems using standards such as SAML, and providing an Identity and Access infrastructure for health care portals; A flexible authentication and authorization engine which can be used to manage who can access a patient’s information...
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OpenID Connect May Usher In A New Era Of Federated Online Identity
OpenID Connect is designed to replace username/password authentication. The protocol, in use by Google and others, may solve governments' needs to authenticate users accessing digital services...
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Opening The ‘Black Box’ Of Health Care Data
Recent efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) provide clinicians, health plans and consumers with ready access to health data that was never before possible. In fact, CMS released millions and millions of lines of data that reveal important information regarding physician payments, prescribing patterns and geographic distribution of health care costs...
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OpenMRS Community Announces Malawi will be the Host Country for OMRS17
OpenMRS Global Events Manager Christine Gichuki announced yesterday that Malawi has been chosen as the host country for the OpenMRS 2017 implemeters meeting (OMRS17). This is a major milestone for the OpenMRS project. OMRS16 was hosted by the government of Uganda last year. The conference was a major success as I decribed in a presentation at the recent OSEHRA 2017 meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. This will be the second OMRS meeting that is hosted the by a national goverment. The incredibly successful meeting in Uganda is described in this article.
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OpenMRS Releases 2015 Annual Report
OpenMRS®, a free and open source health IT software platform built by volunteers around the world, is marking the start of its second decade by releasing its first annual report for 2015. The document highlights the achievements of the open source community in the past year, improvements to the OpenMRS software, and lays out the strategic goals for 2016...OpenMRS started in a single clinic in Western Kenya ten years ago. Since then it has grown into a global health IT solution with implementations in more than 80 countries and translations into multiple languages. Based on documented reports, OpenMRS is currently in use in 1,149 locations around the world.
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Openpump – An Open Source Syringe Pump With 3D Printing & Bioprinting Potential
Openpump, an open-source syringe pump made to dispense fluids over a set period of time, is just like the syringe pumps used to administer medication in hospitals and laboratory environments. Most often used to perform chemical or biomedical research, pumps like this open-source version could easily be used for 3D printing extrusion of paste or as part of a 3D bioprinter for outputting biological materials...
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Opinion: N.J., American Need High-Quality Infrastructure For Economic Recovery
With this week designated Infrastructure Week by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and more than a dozen allied organizations, now is the perfect time to contemplate the difficult job we face in restoring our infrastructure in New Jersey and nationally. We cannot afford to underestimate the importance of infrastructure in attracting and retaining jobs and in our overall quality of life...
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Oracle Doesn't Want Java EE Any More
Oracle wants to end its leadership in the development of enterprise Java and is looking for an open source foundation to take on the role. The company said today that the upcoming Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 8 presents an opportunity to rethink how the platform is developed. Although development is done via open source with community participation, the current Oracle-led process is not seen agile, flexible, or open enough. ”We believe that moving Java EE technologies to an open source foundation may be the right next step, to adopt more agile processes, implement more flexible licensing and change the governance process,” Oracle said in a statement...
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Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than Healthcare.gov
Oregon is set to become the first state to switch over to the federal Obamacare exchange. The state exchange, Cover Oregon, has been such a failure that moving to the once broken HealthCare.gov seems preferable to trying to salvage its system.
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Organizations Link VA Problems To Staff Shortages
Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson said last week that the quality of care at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center is in jeopardy because of a shortage of physicians and nurses, and national health groups say they know why the Augusta hospital is struggling to fill more than 100 vacant positions...
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Oscar, The Startup That's Trying To Shake Up Healthcare, Just Raised $80 Million
Oscar, the company dead-set on shaking up the broken healthcare industry, just announced an $80 million fundraise, bringing its valuation to nearly $1 billion. Oscar officially launched in New York City in January of this year, after founders Kevin Nazemi, Joshua Kushner, and Mario Schlosser decided that they wanted to use technology to create a better, more consumer-friendly health insurance company...
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OSEHRA 2012: 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop to Discuss Innovations in EHRs and Health IT
The Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA)...will host the 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 17th and Thursday, Oct. 18th. The Summit will feature more than 30 eminent panelists and speakers, including government officials, health care leaders, clinical care providers and policymakers as they engage with attendees from the public and private sector.
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OSEHRA 2012: Announces First Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop
The Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, today announced that registration is now open for the First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop....Conference accepting abstracts to discuss future of electronic health record development Read More »
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OSEHRA 2012: Innovation in Open Source EHRs and Health IT to be Focus at 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, kicked off its First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop. The event is the culmination of a year of growth for OSEHRA, which was launched as a result of an agreement between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense in 2011. OSEHRA's goal is to drive rapid innovation in electronic health records and health IT through an open source software process involving the community of software developers, clinicians, business leaders and other practitioners.
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OSEHRA 2014 Announces Sponsors for its Open Source Summit
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) is excited to announce the confirmed sponsors for the 2014 Open Source Summit: Global Collaboration in Health IT to be held September 3-5 at the Bethesda, Maryland North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Read More »
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