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Location, Location, Location: Want To Help Mozilla Break The Ecosystem Locks?
The MozStumbler app is one way Android users can assist Mozilla with its quest to open up the walled gardens of Apple and Google. Read More »
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Machine Learning in Healthcare: Part 1 - Learn the Basics
This article is the first in a three-part series that will discuss how machine learning impacts healthcare. The first article will be an overview defining machine learning and explaining how it fits into the larger fields of data science and artificial intelligence. The second article will discuss machine learning tools available to the average healthcare worker. The third article will use a common open source machine learning software application to analyze a healthcare spreadsheet. Part I was written to help healthcare workers understand the fundamentals of machine learning and to make them aware that there are simple and affordable programs available that do not require programming skills or mathematics background...
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Maintaining Application Security While Leveraging The Use of Open Source Software
Building better software faster by automating, managing and auditing the selection, use and governance of open source across the application lifecycle isn’t just a lofty goal, it’s a prerequisite for today’s shortened development cycles with high expectations of innovative, game-changing applications. Read More »
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Makerbot Clone Tests The Limits of Open Source Hardware
Most people who know of Makerbot know them as a one of the leaders in the home 3D printing market. Fewer people realize that they are also one of the highest profile examples of another movement: open source hardware. Read More »
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Making It Real With 3D Printing
With a 3D printer that costs less than $3,000, you can start your own mini manufacturing operation -- and use open source software to create surprisingly complex designs Read More »
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Making Transparency Work for Harvard's Dataverse Project
A culture of transparency permeates the Dataverse project, contributing to its adoption in dozens of research institutions around the world. Headquartered at Harvard University, the Dataverse development team has more than a decade of experience operating as an open source project within an organization that values transparency: the Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). Working transparently helps the Dataverse team communicate changes to current development efforts, provides opportunities for the community to support each other, and facilitates contribution to the project...
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Man Overboard: GNOME Cofounder Joins The Mac Side
It seems fair to say that the FOSS community sees its ranks expand just about every day, as new fans of free and open source software join the fold. Just look at the fledgling Linux Advocates site for a shining example. Read More »
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MapBox Continues To Innovate, Improve With OpenStreetMap
MapBox has a straightforward business model: take a good, open source solution; mix in open data and make a better map. It uses OpenStreetMap as a foundation to build open source mapping services that companies like Foursquare and USA Today find very appealing. Read More »
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March 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Lluis Martinez
Every month the OpenMRS community highlights one of its contributors in the OpenMRS so you have the chance to learn to learn more about the people involved in the project. This month, OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey introduces you to Lluis Martinez from Spain... Read More »
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Max Healthcare is 1st hospital in India to receive 'Stage 6' recognition from HIMSS
As reported in Business Wire India and IT News Online, Max Healthcare has become the first hospital in India and only the sixth in Asia to achieve “Stage 6” on the EMR adoption model from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), indicating that a significant portion of patient records are now electronic with minimal usage of paper charts. They rely heavily on the use of open source health IT solutions, e.g. VistA, Mirth.
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Maxims Code To Be Released On GitHub
IMS Maxims will release the source code for its electronic patient record system on GitHub, the company announced today. Speaking in the open source pavilion at the HC2014 conference in Manchester Paul Cooper, IMS Maxim’s head of research, said the company has been in talks for several months about how best to go about open sourcing parts of its Maxims EPR.
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McMaster University Announces Strategic Alliance with WELL Health to Support Canadian Doctors and Patients
WELL Health Technologies Corp....is pleased to announce it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") with McMaster University's Department of Family Medicine that authorizes WELL to use the OSCAR brand...OSCAR, an acronym for "Open Source Clinical Application Resource", is an open-source EMR or Electronic Medical Records system created by McMaster and the open-source community to enable better care, connect clinicians and data for continuous learning, and deliver improved outcomes for patients and the health system. By using the OSCAR brand, WELL affirms its commitment to the core brand principles of open collaboration, clinician-driven innovation and ethical data practices. The MOU outlines a Strategic Alliance between WELL and McMaster for Technology Enabled Positive Health and Social Impact. Through this strategic alliance, WELL and McMaster will collaborate on initiatives that leverage OSCAR in ways that strengthen their shared commitment to ethical, innovative leadership in health and society. Read More »
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Medical Information Integration, LLC
Medical Information Integration (MI2) has been consulting and developing solutions for the healthcare industry since 1995. We have been instrumental in the development of open source Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and are the recognized experts in providing services, support and setup of Librehealth EHR and Meaningful Use (MU-2) Certified OpenEMR. Our cost-effective solutions offer freely accessible data, an open ecosystem of solutions providers, as well as reliable hosting and support!
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Medium Healthcare
Medium Healthcare is a company based in Nepal with specialization in creating new and innovative tools to help meet the needs of modern days healthcare organizations. Their mission is to create healthcare environment more secure and meet the modern day requirement by creating IT solution to meet hospital information system needs. Read More »
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Medsphere and Silver Hill Hospital Partner to Enhance Discharge Summary, Interoperability, in OpenVista EHR
-MedsphereSystems Corporation and Silver Hill Hospital this week introduced an improved Discharge Summary module as the most recent innovation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) built specifically for behavioral health hospitals. Designed in close collaboration with clinicians at Silver Hill, OpenVista Discharge Summary (DSum) both automates the summary creation process and gives Silver Hill clinicians greater control over how the final discharge summary looks and what patient information it includes.
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