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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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Citizinvestor: Disrupting How Governments Fund Civic Projects

Jordan Raynor | GovLoop | June 11, 2012

I am thrilled to be involved with an exciting new project called Citizinvestor (currently a candidate for Code for America's Accelerator) and I couldn't think of a better place to gain valuable feedback on the soon-to-launch product than right here at GovLoop.

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Citrix Takes XenServer Open Source

Sean Michael Kerner | ServerWatch | June 25, 2013

The world of fully open-sourced virtualized infrastructure is getting a new entrant today. Citrix is making the latest XenServer 6.2 release available under the GNU GPL v2 open source license. Read More »

City of Leeds (UK) Builds Open Source Integrated Digital Care Record for Local Communities

Press Release | UK Department for Communities and Local Government | September 23, 2015

Leeds City Council is at the helm of a ‘demonstrator’ project that is building an open source digital care record platform that will be made available to local health authorities, local authorities, and health and social care providers nationwide. The team behind the initiative, named Ripple, is made up of Leeds City Council – which is hosting the platform – the Local Government Association, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Its director is Tony Shannon, formerly clinical consultant for the NHS Connecting for Health programme and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Read More »

City Participatory Budgeting Takes Its First Steps

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | November 5, 2012

This past September, Vallejo, Ca., began the United States’ first citywide venture in participatory budgeting, allowing residents to directly decide how $3.4 million dollars of public money would be spent. Four years ago, the city declared bankruptcy. Read More »

City’s 911 Operators Use Pen And Paper As Computers Fail

Marc Santora | New York Times | May 30, 2013

Emergency operators in New York City have been forced on at least three occasions since Wednesday to resort to using pen and paper to record 911 calls and dispatch workers after their computer system went dark. Read More »

Civic Kickstart: Citizinvestor Wants to Help Your Local Project Get Funded

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | July 2, 2012

Citizinvestor is the latest startup to tackle public budget woes by offsetting lack of public funding with crowdsourced citizen donations targeted to specific projects. Read More »

Civil Society Urges World Trade Organization To Give The Poorest Countries In The World More Time To Implement International Intellectual Property Agreement

Carolina Rossini | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 23, 2012

The relentless expansion of intellectual property from the developed world to the developing world is rooted in a key international agreement: it’s called the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (colloquially, “TRIPS”), and it was enacted in 1994 by the World Trade Organization (WTO). [...] Read More »

Clear Health Costs Wants To Save You From Medical Sticker Shock

Kelly Faircloth | Observer.com | September 11, 2012

Ever opened a letter from a doctor to discover an unexpectedly, eye-poppingly enormous bill? Well, one New York startup wants to make sure that never happens again, by providing a platform that allows the average medical consumer to compare prices. Read More »

ClearCanvas RIS/PACS, Team Edition Commercially Released

Press Release | ClearCanvas Inc | October 30, 2012

ClearCanvas Inc., an innovative medical imaging informatics company announced today the commercial release of ClearCanvas RIS/PACS, Team Edition, an end-to-end radiology workflow management solution. Read More »

ClearCanvas To Showcase Its Imaging Informatics Infrastructure Portfolio At RSNA 2013

Press Release | ClearCanvas | November 27, 2013

Cleome and ImageDrive, ClearCanvas's Powerful New Informatics Solutions, Showcased at the World's Largest Radiology Innovation Gathering Read More »

Cleveland Clinic Taps IBM's Watson For Med School

Julie Bird | FierceHealthIT | October 30, 2012

The Supercomputer known as Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic to analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. Read More »

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Making Progress On Watson Supercomputer

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | October 15, 2013

A year after starting work with IBM to develop ways for the Watson supercomputer to support medical training and serve as a doctor’s assistant, the Cleveland Clinic has issued a progress report that includes two new technologies. Read More »

ClinCapture Awarded WHO Drug Medical Coding Certification

Press Release | Clinovo | August 26, 2014

ClinCapture by Clinovo becomes the first Open Source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) System to receive the WHO Drug Dictionaries Medical Coding Certification by Uppsala Monitoring Center (UMC). Read More »

Clinical Trial Reporting Failures Can Harm Research, Patients

Patrick Skerrett | STAT | December 18, 2015

Hospitals, medical schools, businesses, and even the National Institutes of Health are routinely violating a federal law requiring clinical trials to be reported to the public, a STAT investigation recently found. In response, we asked experts to offer their thoughts on why low rates of clinical trial reporting is a problem, and what can be done about it...