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Seeking Prior Art Where It Most Often Is Found In Software

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | August 28, 2012

Open Invention Network plans to mine open source projects for patent busters Read More »

Senator Slams Pentagon for Its Electronic Health Record Strategy

Bob Brewin | NextGov | June 12, 2013

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., opened today’s Senate Budget Committee hearing on the Defense Department’s 2014 spending plan with sharp criticism over the Pentagon’s decision not to develop an integrated electronic health record with the Veterans Affairs Department. Read More »

Sensored Meetup #10 At A Glance: Data, Open Source And Hardware Startup Strategy

Mathilde Berchon | MakingSociety | April 9, 2013

I can’t believe last night was already the 10th edition of the Sensored Meetup. I went to the first one more than a year ago, which was a really great gathering of sensor experts. It’s this kind of meetup where you end up learning tons of things by just being around, and where everyone is working on super ambitious and high-level products. Read More »

Sequencing, cloud computing, and analytics meet around genetics and pharma Bio-IT World Shows What is Possible and What Is Being Accomplished

Bio-IT World shows what is possible and what is being accomplished...last week I took the subway downtown and crossed the two wind- and rain-whipped bridges that the city of Boston built to connect to the World Trade Center. I mingled for a day with attendees and exhibitors to find what data-related challenges they’re facing and what the latest solutions are. Here are some of the major themes I turned up...

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Sequenom Chose Open Source EDC System ClinCapture For Cost Efficiency And Team Commitment

Press Release | Clinovo, Sequenom | November 27, 2013

San Diego-Based Medical Device Company Sequenom Highlights Cost Savings and Team Responsiveness Using ClinCapture, Clinovo’s Open Source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) System Read More »

Seven For ‘13

Ewan Davis | eHealth Insider | December 20, 2012

Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond. Read More »

Shabir Launches e- Hospital Project At Gandhi Nagar Hospital

Staff Writer | Kashmir Times | July 22, 2013

Minister of State for Health and family Welfare, Shabir Ahmad Khan today launched hi-tech computerised services here at Gandhi Nagar Hospital created under the first phase of centrally sponsored e- Hospital Project. Read More »

Shahid Shah Predicts CMS Value-Based Payments Will Drive Adoption of Open Source in Health IT

Shahid Shah, the CEO of Netspective, is one of the most knowledgeable healthIT voices in the world, and he's also is optimist when it comes to open source in health care. Leonard Kish talked with Shahid about open source in health care and where it's headed in the hallways at HIMSS16. Shahid believes open source is just picking up steam because open source is about building connections and driving middleware. That's just the place that healthcare is at at the moment.

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Shield Therapeutics Selects OpenClinica Enterprise

Press Release | Shield Therapeutics®, OpenClinica® | January 4, 2013

OpenClinica, LLC and Shield Therapeutics announces that Shield Therapeutics has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise software for its clinical data management needs related to the company’s clinical trials. [...] Read More »

Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or...?

Margalit Gur-Arie | On Health Care Technology | July 12, 2013

After a lengthy foray into building its own EHR from scratch (AHLTA) [...] and another shorter detour through the fantasy land of an open-source integrated EHR (iEHR) [...], the DoD announced that it will begin looking for a commercially available product to suit the DoD’s unique needs. Read More »

Should The DoD Buy Epic, Or Cerner, Or GE, Or…?

Margalit Gur-Arie | HIT Consultant | July 23, 2013

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the market for an EHR solution… again. After a lengthy foray into building its own EHR from scratch (AHLTA), [...] and another shorter detour [...] with the Veteran Administration (VA), [...] the DoD announced that it will begin looking for a commercially available product to suit the DoD’s unique needs. Read More »

Should Your NGO Go Open Source?

Catherine Cheney | Devex | February 26, 2016

The open source model of universal access and collaborative intelligence has extended from Web development to global development. NGO leaders can maximize the impact of their organizations either by taking their models to scale or opening the books on their projects and programs and allowing peer organizations to take them and run with them. Whether proprietary information belongs in the business of fighting poverty is open to debate. On one hand, intellectual property can drive competition and innovation, but on the other hand, collaborative models can lead to greater success stories.

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Shutterstock's Chris Fischer: Making The Most Of Open Source's 'Huge Tech Edge'

Jack M. Germain | LinuxInsider | July 23, 2013

"Some of the most mature databases have been open-source-based. Also, the most mature Web servers in the market are open source software. Considering the level of maturity and the capabilities of the technology, I would take open source over any proprietary software. Read More »

Significant Distortions Discovered in Leading Genetics Study Method - Open Source Software can Detect and Correct Them

Press Release | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | April 24, 2018

Many conclusions drawn from a common approach to the study of human genetics could be distorted because of a previously overlooked phenomenon, according to researchers at the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. Their conclusions and a unique method they developed to help correct for this distortion were recently published in Nature Genetics.

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Silicon Therapeutics Announces Recipient of the First Open Science Fellowship

Press Release | Silicon Therapeutics | May 26, 2017

Silicon Therapeutics, an integrated computational drug discovery company creating novel small molecule therapeutics for diseases with challenging protein targets, is pleased to announce that the first Open Science Fellowship will be awarded the laboratory of Dr. John D. Chodera at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The fellowship is designed to advance the open science movement within the drug discovery industry, facilitating access to scientific knowledge, methods, and data. Patrick Grinaway, a graduate student in the Chodera Lab, will lead the development efforts of the project, entitled “Development of efficient open source free energy-based lead optimization algorithms"...

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