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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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Continua Health Alliance Announces Changes To Board Of Directors

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance | October 25, 2012

Continua Health Alliance today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed two new members, effective August 2012, to serve a one year term. [...] Continua is the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability. Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Design Guidelines Now Available Free to Developers, Reducing Development Costs for Plug-n-play Personal Health Solutions

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance | April 12, 2012

Continua Health Alliance, the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability, today announced the availability of its most recent Design Guidelines (2011, ‘Adrenaline’) to the public as a free download. Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Southeast Asia Work Group Hosting Event To Highlight Market Opportunities And Advantages Of Personal Connected Health

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance (CHA) | October 8, 2013

Continua Health Alliancetoday announced its Southeast Asia Work Group is hosting a flagship event during HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week 2013, highlighting unique business development opportunities, policy initiatives and the advantages of personal connected health devices and solutions for the region. Read More »

Continua Lauds FDA's Medical Device Interoperability Standards

Chuck Parker | mHealth News | August 15, 2013

Reviewing media coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement that it will recognize standards for medical device interoperability could give a misleading impression that the measure is of little importance. [...] Read More »

Continua Publishes Open Health Tools On Website

Laura Pedulli | Clinical Innovation + Technology | June 4, 2013

Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open-industry organization of healthcare and technology companies, has announced new additions to its open source clearinghouse to encourage innovation by entrepreneurs, small businesses, students and universities working on health IT projects. Read More »

Continua, HIMSS Unveil Personal Connected Health Alliance

Tom Sullivan | mHealth News | February 24, 2014

HIMSS Board Chair and Partners HealthCare Deputy CIO Scott MacLean has unveiled a new collaboration between the Continua Health Alliance, HIMSS and the mHealth Summit. Read More »

Continua-CABA Partnership Pushes Connected Home Agenda

Ken Terry | Fierce Mobile Healthcare | March 21, 2011

Continua Health Alliance, an organization of 240-plus technology companies that are developing personal connected health solutions, has struck a "liaison agreement" with the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA). The liaison agreement will allow both organizations to benefit from CABA's collaborative research study, entitled "Aging in the Connected Home." The study will examine and determine potential home product, service and business opportunities based on the needs and expectations of the senior consumer market.

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Continua’s Chuck Parker on Connected Health (transcript)

David E. Williams | Health Works Collective | March 23, 2011

This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog.  I’m speaking today with Chuck Parker,  Executive Director of the Continua Health Alliance. This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Continua Health Alliance Executive Director Chuck Parker. Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry alliance of more than 200 of the world’s finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare.

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Continued Growth Challenges Ambulatory EMR Vendor Capacity

Press Release | KLAS | July 18, 2012

Half of purchases in the ambulatory EMR market will come from providers replacing their current vendor; many feel the honeymoon period is over
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Continuent Tungsten 2.0 for the Open Cloud

Press Release | Continuent | April 23, 2013

Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of clustering and replication solutions for MySQL™ and Oracle®, today announced Continuent Tungsten 2.0. Continuent Tungsten 2.0 adds important new capabilities that allow enterprises and Web companies running business-critical applications to achieve affordable, efficient high availability (HA) and performance scaling using MySQL. Continuent Tungsten 2.0 pushes the envelope in multi-master, multi-site MySQL database clusters, either on-premise or in the cloud, with the following new features:

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Continuent Tungsten Replicator Is Now 100% Open Source

Press Release | Continuent | April 22, 2013

Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of clustering and replication solutions for MySQL™ and Oracle®, today announced the availability of completely open sourced Tungsten Replicator 2.1. This release includes previously closed-source capabilities to extract data in real time from Oracle EE and SE servers, including RAC. Tungsten Replicator is a high performance, open source, data replication engine for MySQL and Oracle, released under a GPL V2 license and available for a free download at http://code.google.com/p/tungsten-replicator...

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Continuing Connectivity Struggles Lead To Declining Satisfaction Scores For HIE Vendors

Press Release | KLAS | November 6, 2012

Across the health information exchange (HIE) market, providers are expressing dissatisfaction with their vendors as connectivity issues persist. This and other key findings were released in a new KLAS report "Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces." Read More »

Continuity Of Care: 4 Benefits Of The DoD And VA's Integrated EHR

Benjamin Harris | Healthcare IT News | November 9, 2012

Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »

Contra Costa's $45 Million [EPIC] Computer Health Care System Endangering Lives, Nurses Say

Matthias Gafni | Contra Costa Times | August 14, 2012

Contra Costa's new correctional medical computer system recommended what could have been a fatal dose of a West County jail inmate's heart medication last week, a detention nurse said Tuesday, calling it one of many recent close calls with the month-old program...It's just one of a number of computer errors that medical staffers say are endangering inmates, medical staff and sheriff's deputies at the county's five jail facilities since Contra Costa switched on July 1 to EPIC... Read More »

Contract Management For The Healthcare Industry

David Miron | openSourceinc.com | September 25, 2012

Healthcare providers face a growing list of complex contracting challenges. These challenges create the potential for substantial revenue leaks, and the key to plugging most of those is improving contract management efficiency. Improvements can always be made at every level of the contract management life-cycle, its finding the problems that pose the real challenge. Read More »