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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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CMS: Meaningful Use EHR Incentives Hit $12.3B In February

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | March 15, 2013

With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through February since the program’s inception. Read More »

CMS: Stage 2 And Stage 3 Of Meaningful Use Will Be Extended

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | December 9, 2013

CMS and the ONC have announced that the next two phases of the EHR Incentive Programs will be extended in order to provide more time for professionals to adapt to the increased requirements and give rule makers a chance to examine the industry’s progress. Read More »

Co-op Scheme Aims To Boost Farmers’ Profits

David Boyle | The Phnom Penh | December 19, 2012

An ambitions new agricultural development project backed by a former US diplomat is aiming to dramatically revamp the sector and bring profits back into the hands of farmers. Read More »

Coalition: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Must Focus On Care Disparities

Staff Writer | HITECH Answers | August 28, 2013

Last week the Consumer Partnership for eHealth — a coalition of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor groups — published an action plan aimed at ensuring that Stage 3 of the meaningful use program focuses on health care disparities, Healthcare IT News reports. Read More »

COAR Presented At The ETD 2012 In Peru

Press Release | COAR | September 19, 2012

A COAR poster was presented by Fernando Ardito, from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, member of LA REFERENCIA, at the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2012) held in Lima, Peru. Read More »

COAR Response To EC Communication And Recommendation

Press Release | COAR | July 17, 2012

COAR acknowledges and very much  supports the open access vision of the EU Commission as a worldwide trend and will join the EU Commission effort  to develop an interoperable and sustainable global scientific infrastructure and to inspire other countries in the world to develop their own open access policies.

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COAR Strategy And Workplan Published

Press Release | COAR | September 24, 2012

The finalised COAR Strategy 2012-2015 and Work Plan 2012-2013 as approved by the Executive Board have been published now. Read More »

Coding Sub-Zero

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | January 29, 2013

Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis Evenstad reports. Read More »

Coffee Farmers to Receive Warnings on Storms Via Texts

Sam Wakoba | HumanIPO | May 9, 2012

More than 7500 coffee farmers in Kenya could start receiving message prompts with warnings on storms and plagues by the end of the year, says IICD. The automated SMS system that connects farmers mobile phones to a central computer is expected to enable farmers around Nairobi and Mount Kenya receive the messages on the phones through an early SMS warning system. Read More »

Cognitive Medical Systems Names Retired Navy CAPT Emory Fry CMIO

Press Release | Cognitive Medical Systems | June 26, 2012

Cognitive Medical Systems, an emerging specialist in standards-based, clinical decision support software solutions for healthcare organizations, today introduced recently retired U.S. Navy CAPT Emory Fry as their Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO). Read More »

Cognosante Acquires Business Information Technology Solutions to Expand Military and Veterans Health IT Business

Press Release | Cognosante, BITS | October 27, 2016

Cognosante and Business Information Technology Solutions (BITS) announced today that Cognosante has acquired BITS, a rapidly growing provider of IT services and solutions to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). BITS, also known as The BITS Group, has more than a decade of experience in healthcare systems, enterprise business systems, business intelligence, and data analytics in the public health sector. It is one of the prime contractors of the VA’s $22.3 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation (T4NG).

Colectica Releases Open Source Blaise to DDI Metadata Converter

Press Release | Colectica®, Metadata Technology North America Inc. | June 29, 2012

Colectica is proud to announce the launch of new open source metadata converter project hosted on GitHub. The first released component of the project is a Blaise survey system to Data Documentation Initiative (DDI-Lifecycle) converter. The Blaise to DDI utlity can produce standardized metadata documentation about the questions, codelists, and survey flow contained in a Blaise survey. Read More »

CollabNet Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner

Press Release | AlwaysOn, CollabNet | July 24, 2012

CollabNet...today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley.
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Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development

Press Release | CollabNet | June 25, 2012

Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development

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Collaboration To Develop Multi-Sensor Management Software Architecture

Alberto Vaccarella, Andinet Enquobahrie, Giancarlo Ferrigno, and Elena De Momi | Kitware | September 7, 2012

Kitware, in collaboration with the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, has developed a centralized, multi-sensor management software architecture for distributed computer-integrated surgery (CIS) systems. Read More »