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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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Computer Training Seminar Opens Doors For Tanzanian Community

Press Release | Peace Corps/Tanzania, Peace Corps | October 18, 2013

Peace Corps volunteer Elizabeth Crompton of Woodstock, Ga., is opening doors to job opportunities for university students and local community members in Tanzania. Together with local faculty, Crompton recently led a seminar on how to operate, navigate and program computer systems using a free, open source computer operating system that is accessible in developing countries like Tanzania [...]. Read More »

Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" On Medical Devices In Hospitals

David Talbot | MIT Technology Review | October 17, 2012

A meeting of government officials reveals that medical equipment is becoming riddled with malware. Read More »

Computer Woes Hit Banner Hospital System

Ken Alltucker | USA Today | February 20, 2014

Banner Health grappled with a widespread computer outage Wednesday as hospitals and doctors resorted to backup paper systems to provide care for patients. Read More »

Computerization In Health Care Demands High Data Standards

Thomas C. Redman and Donald Nielsen | Harvard Business Review | February 25, 2013

Recent reports bookend the promise and peril of computerization and the electronic medical record in health care. On the truly positive side, the Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealth Group have teamed up to form Optum Labs, a research group aimed at mining (initially) claims records for over 100 million people and 5 million clinical records... Read More »

Computerworld Honors 2013: Critical Health Data Sent To Rural Ghana Via Mobile

Mary K. Pratt | Computerworld | June 3, 2013

This mobile health platform, the 21st Century Achievement Award winner for health, aims to improve the availability and quality of healthcare services in rural Ghana and demonstrate best practices. Read More »

Concern Grows Over ‘Epidemic' Veteran Suicide Rate

Rob Hotakainen | The News Tribune | May 26, 2011

With veterans now accounting for one of every five suicides in the nation, the Department of Veterans Affairs is under pressure from both the courts and Congress to fix its mental-health services in an attempt to curb the death toll. Read More »

Concerns Linger About Corporate Involvement In OpenStack Foundation

Paula Rooney | ZDNet | September 19, 2012

The official debut of the independent OpenStack Foundation was welcomed by most as a big step forward to establishing an open cloud but the inclusion of two big league proprietary vendors, namely VMware and Cisco, has raised a few eyebrows. Read More »

Concordia University Librarian Checks Out Open Access

Press Release | Concordia University (CU) | January 30, 2013

From Wikipedia to shareware, the Internet has made information and software more widely available than ever. At the heart of this explosion is the simple idea that information should be open and free for anyone. Yet with publishers charging exorbitant fees for subscriptions to academic journals, university libraries are struggling to keep up. Read More »

Condom Airborne Meds: 6 Ways Drones Could Change Health Care

Max Blau | STAT | June 13, 2017

Drones have been used to deliver sunscreen to a conference in Palm Springs, Calif., and pizza to a family in New Zealand, but they’re also in the air for far more urgent purposes — such as saving lives. In fact, in some cases, drones could carry defibrillators to heart attack victims faster than an ambulance, according to a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers simulated emergency situations and found they could get automatic external defibrillators to the scene an average of 16 minutes faster by drone than by ambulance...

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Cone Health CEO: We're Reinventing In Face Of Challenges

Owen Covington | The Business Journal | January 8, 2013

Through initiatives such as the Triad Healthcare Network and technological investments like the $120 million EPIC electronic health records system, Cone Health is reinventing itself for an evolving health care landscape, Cone's CEO Tim Rice told the Triad Association of Health Underwriters Tuesday. Read More »

Cone Health Joins WFBMC In Suffering From Epic Costs

Owen Covington | The Business Journal | May 10, 2013

A second Triad health system has fallen into the red following its implementation of the popular Epic Systems Corp. electronic medical records system, with Cone Health posting a $13.2 million operating deficit midway through its fiscal year and implementing plans to cut $20 million in costs by this fall. Read More »

Cone Remains 'Confident' In The Future Despite S&P Report

Kelly Poe | News & Record | November 15, 2013

It’s been a tough year for Cone Health. The health care provider spent $90 million implementing an electrical medical records software system called Epic. It eliminated hundreds of jobs. It had to deal with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement at the state and national level. Read More »

Cone Sees Drop In Income; Cites Electronic Health Records System

Richard Craver | Winston-Salem Journal | May 10, 2013

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is not alone among Triad hospitals in struggling with the implementation of a complex electronic health records system. Read More »

Conemaugh Health System One Of First Hospitals To Join Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN)

Press Release | Conemaugh Health System | September 11, 2012

The Conemaugh Health System is the first Pennsylvania non-government health care system and one of just 30 in the United Systems to go “LIVE” on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) Exchange. Read More »

Confusions In The OSTP OA Policy Memo — Three Monsters And A Gorilla

David Wojick | The Scholarly Kitchen | February 25, 2013

The US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), part of the Executive Office of the President, has issued a sweeping policy memo entitled, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.” It directs all federal research agencies to develop and implement open access (OA) plans over the next 2-3 years. Read More »