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Researchers Develop Low-cost, Portable Laboratory on a Phone for Faster Infection Testing in Low Resource Settings
Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a phone that works nearly as well as clinical laboratories to detect common viral and bacterial infections. The work could lead to faster and lower-cost lab results for fast-moving viral and bacterial epidemics, especially in rural or lower-resource regions where laboratory equipment and medical personnel are sometimes not readily available.
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Researchers from Human Longevity, Inc. Publish Paper Detailing Results of Deep Sequencing of 10,545 Human Genomes
Researchers from Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), the genomics-based, technology-driven company revolutionizing health, have published results today of their high quality, in-depth sequencing (30 to 40X coverage) of 10,545 human genomes. The paper, which represents the most genomes sequenced to date at high coverage, was led by first author Amalio Telenti, M.D., Ph.D., and senior author, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., and is published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
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Review: PTSD Resources Lacking for Nonveterans
Post-traumatic stress disorder remains a difficult, urgent, and prevalent problem among combat veterans, but millions of nonveterans experience the condition too. A new study in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry finds that compared to what the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department make available, treatment resources for nonveterans are much less cohesive and helpful. "For the other people affected by PTSD -- victims of sexual assault, child abuse and natural disasters -- there really isn't an organized body of research that generates guidance for how they and their caregivers should deal with their PTSD," said lead author Judith Bentkover...
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Rice U. Lab Creates Open-Source Optogenetics Hardware, Software
Nobody likes a cheater, but Rice University bioengineering graduate student Karl Gerhardt wants people to copy his answers. That’s the whole point. Gerhardt and Rice colleagues have created the first low-cost, easy-to-use optogenetics hardware platform that biologists who have little or no training in engineering or software design can use to incorporate optogenetics testing in their labs. Rice’s Light Plate Apparatus (LPA) is described in a paper available for free online this week in the open-access journal Scientific Reports...
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Ripple Foundation Launches EtherCIS To The World Of Healthcare
The world of healthcare can now begin to leverage the power and potential of the EtherCIS Clinical Data Repository. EtherCIS development has been supported by the non profit Ripple Foundation and this leading technology now provides the key foundation of its “showcase stack” and work towards an open platform in healthcare. EtherCIS development is led by Christian Chevalley of ADOC Software Development and the EtherCIS technology is now the leading open source implementation of the openEHR standard in action (including AQL support). The openEHR standard has been adopted and implemented across healthcare systems throughout the world, representing the future of health IT. Read More »
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Rivet Logic Customer AvMed Honored with 2016 Liferay Pulse Award for Best Omnichannel Experience
Rivet Logic Corporation, a leading consulting and systems integration firm focused on helping major enterprises build riveting digital experiences with leading open source and cloud-based software, announced that its customer, AvMed, has received a Liferay Pulse Award in the category of Best Omnichannel Experience. Presented during the 2016 Liferay Symposium North America, Liferay’s Pulse Awards are designed to distinguish the people and companies behind innovative and creative solutions built using Liferay Portal. The Customer Awards reward companies on the unique ways they are using Liferay to transform the way they do business...
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Rivet Logic Named in KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”
Rivet Logic Corporation (http://rivetlogic.com), a leading consulting, systems integration and design firm focused on helping major enterprises build digital experiences with leading open source and cloud-based software, announced today that it has been named in KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management” for the ninth consecutive year...- Login to post comments
RowdMap, Inc. Speaks at Health:Further Summit on Creating High-Value Care from Open Health Data
Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at RowdMap, Inc., will be speaking on how health plans and physicians and hospitals create high-value care with open data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), thirty cents of every dollar goes to low-value care, or care that has higher risks and costs but does not produce better outcomes. According to researchers, if low-value care were removed, there would be more than enough care to cover the population...
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RSNA Building an Open Repository of COVID-19 Imaging Data
The medical imaging community around the world is uniting to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) continues to build on its extensive body of COVID-19 research and education resources, announcing a new initiative to build a COVID-19 Imaging Data Repository. The open data repository will compile images and correlative data from institutions, practices and societies around the world to create a comprehensive source for COVID-19 research and education efforts. The image hosting, annotation and analysis framework will enable researchers to understand epidemiological trends and to generate new AI algorithms to assist with COVID-19 disease detection, differentiation from other pneumonias and quantification of lung involvement on CT for prognosis or therapy planning.
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RSNA Launches International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force today announced the launch of the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database (RICORD). RICORD is envisioned as the largest open database of anonymized COVID-19 medical images in the world. More than 200 institutions around the world have expressed their interest in participating. The database will include supporting clinical information and expert annotations. It will be freely available to the global research and education communities.
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Rush Medical Center Demoes Patient-Centered Blue Button 2.0 Mobile App at White House Event
Information technology has changed the world, and now it’s changing health care in dramatic and fast-moving ways. Rush is a nationally-recognized leader in using IT to achieve better outcomes, lower costs and improve the patient experience. This leadership reached the White House on Monday, when...Rab and Boutrs presented MyRush Mobile, an app for mobile phones developed by Rush’s information systems department, to representatives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including CMS director Seema Verma. The presentation was part of the Blue Button 2.0 Conference, a gathering of software developers held in the White House South Court Auditorium.
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RWJF Awards Grant to PatientsLikeMe to Develop New Measures for Healthcare Performance
PatientsLikeMe has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to help jumpstart changes that will amplify the patient voice in the measurement of healthcare performance. “We have an abundance of clinical measures, but we need to better incorporate the voice of the patient into performance measurement” A portion of the grant funds a collaboration between PatientsLikeMe and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to develop, test and facilitate the broader use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess patient-reported health status.
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Sage Bionetworks to Share Results of Mobile Health Research Study at Upcoming Precision Medicine Conference
In the midst of several colliding perspectives on personal data sharing from both patients and researchers, it is challenging to comprehend how clinical study designs should be conducted to benefit both stakeholders. Sage Bionetworks recently began sharing data from over 9,000 participants of mPower, a mobile health research study for Parkinson's Disease. As one of the first observational assessments of human health to achieve this scale, its success is attributed to the unique study design which emphasizes transparency and trust between participants and researchers...
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SAGE Publishing and Perusall Partner to Support Digital Pedagogy and Increase Class Preparation
SAGE Publishing announces a new agreement allowing access to a selection of SAGE textbooks through the award-winning eBook platform and social annotation tool Perusall. Perusall allows students and instructors to annotate digital texts together, connect with other classmates, and respond to questions directly on the text before coming to class, enabling students to come to class better prepared...
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SAHMSA Contributes Open Source Code for Omnibus Care Plan to OSEHRA
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA), a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to accelerating innovation through open source strategy, is pleased to welcome a major code contribution from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Agency (SAMHSA). The complete Omnibus Care Plan (OCP) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and SMART on FHIR Infrastructure, including the Care Coordination and Consent Management code package, contributed using the Apache License Version 2.0, has been delivered to OSEHRA and is now available for the healthcare community.
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