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Impact of Open Source Software on Clinical Trials Grows With Release of OpenClinica 3.0 Electronic Data Capture Software
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Latest release of popular clinical trials software adds new features, enhanced performance
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Industry Meeting on Upgrading VistA/CPRSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Recently there was a meeting with Tech companies to discuss upgrading the VistA/CPRS system. The implications of their conclusions are very high stakes for those advocating for VistA as the basic seed for continued open source EHR development.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091014_6336.php
A few rays of hope seem to have emerged including discussions on:
1. Updating VistA for public and private sector use
2. What are possible deployment models for VistA to the wider public?
3. Is VistA suitable as a national standard?
4. What are appropriate strategies for modernizing VistA? etc.
Very important questions, indeed.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Open Source for America Request for Working Group ParticipationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today we are happy to report that we are ready for the next phase in our mission to establish a more effective voice supporting the use of free and open source software in the U.S. Federal government. Since our launch more than 1,250 individuals and organizations have joined OSFA and that is what we would like to discuss with you today.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Excellence Awards for Open Source Business Use in GovernmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 "Excellence Awards for Open Source Business Use in Government". The Awards will recognize government employees who have made significant accomplishments in the application of Open Source Technology to meet government business or mission requirements. To Be Awarded November 5, 2009 Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON DC) Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. http://goscon.org/awards
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
MOSS 8 Seminar October 31, 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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it is a pleasure for me to announce the 8th Medical Open Source Software
Seminar (MOSS8) in Tokyo, Japan as follows:.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
OSCAR's Potential Savings in the NewsEmail this article to a colleague.
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CBC article quotes Dr. David Chan on how OSCAR could help save Ontario, Canada, money in their eHealth initiative.
Slashdot adds their .02.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
TedxNashville Inaugural Event: Innovators in Health Care and Collaboration Planning EventEmail this article to a colleague.
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We’re seeking the greatest, most innovative minds in our community for mind-altering, life-changing discussions. We are reaching out to key community members and requesting their suggestions regarding potential speakers for our events. For our first event, our theme is innovation in health care and collaboration. If you have in mind a person in your network that is truly a world-class innovator in their field, please contact us here.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New certification process for self-developed EHRsEmail this article to a colleague.
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CCHIT has announced a new program to certify EHRs for those who roll-their-own, or modify existing systems. Now all we have to do is figure out if they'll be used meaningfully.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 8, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
FT: Enabling Open CoreEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fred Trotter writes: "For VA VistA we have a conundrum, the originator of the code, the US government, has left the code basically licenseless. I believe this means that the choice if preferred license should be up to the most substantial third-party developers. I believe that the most substantial way to make VistA better is to make contributions that make further development easier. MUMPS is a great language but it makes VA VistA inaccessible to most programmers. Given that I believe the most significant third-party contributions to VA VistA are (in no particular order):
Medsheres OVID – because it lets you code f...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 4, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
TriSano 2.0 ReleasedEmail this article to a colleague.
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TriSano 2.0â„¢ (http://www.trisano.org) is available.
TriSanoâ„¢ is an open source, citizen-focused surveillance and outbreak management system for infectious disease, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism attacks. It allows local, state and federal entities to track, control and ultimately prevent illness and death.
Highlights include:
* ELR (Electronic Lab Reporting) Management
* Web API (the basis for integration with other systems such as EMR)
* Entity Management
* Numerous enhancements
We are currently planning the next major release of TriSano. Please let us know if you have feature ideas, or if you are...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Enterprise LAMP Summit & Big LAMP CampEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Enterprise LAMP Summit for CTOs (Nov. 5-6) will feature a case study about the use of several parts of the LAMP software stack in a sophisticated and highly effective patient white board developed by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Informatics Center.
The Enterprise LAMP Summit (Nov. 5-6) and Big LAMP Camp for developers (Nov. 7), featuring global leaders in open source software, will focus on the business value, security and enterprise readiness of the LAMP software stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python and Perl).
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Enterprise LAMP Network EventEmail this article to a colleague.
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On Saturday, Nov. 7, approximately 600 top LAMP developers from around the U.S. will converge on Nashville suburb Franklin, TN, to learn from innovative companies that will share their on-the-ground reports about the latest developments in LAMP offerings and implementation. Note: Nashville, TN is home to some 150+ healthcare companies (many of which can trace their roots back to HCA. This is the FIRST broad open source integration event in this area (there was a Red Hat Summit in recent years). You'll note, as of now, there is no open source healthcare representation. Let's change that!
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Open-source software may unify the medical-records realmEmail this article to a colleague.
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Computerworld has an article that discusses Open Source EMR's and one persons experience in not choosing VistA due to missing parts.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 15, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Nominations Open for 2009 Linux Medical News Freedom AwardEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nominations are officially open for the 9th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 14th-18th AMIA Fall conference in San Francisco, CA. Deadline for entries is September 30th, 2009. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA. This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. Free and open source software isn't 'magic pixie dust'. There are people making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work to make free software in medicine a reality. This award is intended to honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards the g...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 10, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The HIMSS HIE Open Source Task Force is seeking volunteers!Email this article to a colleague.
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The purpose of the FY10 Open Source task force is to develop a white paper focused on open source deployments and opportunities of this technology solution within HIE. The monthly call is the first Thursday of every month at 1:00pm (ET). Contact Holly Gaebel <mailto:hgaebel@himss.org> to join this task force.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medical : Sourceforge Project of the MonthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Medical, the Open Source Health and Hospital Information System, has been the winner in SourceForge project of the month.
In the latest release, Medical includes a new section on genetics (NCBI / genecards) and family history. It also contains perinatal and puerperium information.
Medical is part of the GNU solidario project, a non-profit effort to provide Health and Education to emerging economies with free software.
Thank you to all of you who collaborate in the project and, if you want to contribute (documentation, translations, testing... ), please contact us.
Thanks,
Luis Falcon
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 4, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
8th National Medical Banking Institute Call For PapersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The 8th National Medical Banking Institute is an exciting cross-industry educational forum for the banking and healthcare communities. At the Institute, we explore how banks are improving healthcare by reducing costs and increasing access and the quality of healthcare.
The International Journal of Medical Banking (http://www.mbproject.org/journal) is intended to educate commerce, government and academia about medical banking principles and technologies.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - September 2, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Feds to host NHIN software code-a-thon August 27thEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to this article in Government Health IT: "The Health and Human Services Department will sponsor a "code-a-thon" Aug. 27 so open source programmers can meet to collaborate on ways to improve the CONNECT gateway, software that lets organizations access the Nationwide Health Information Network..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
VistA HTML Note Rendering Now AvailableEmail this article to a colleague.
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A whole new era for Veterans Affairs VistA has begun with Kevin Toppenberg, MD's new TMG-CPRS 1.0.26.76 (TMG v1.1) client. The new tmg-cprs client enables clinical notes to be rendered in html. This allows mixed typefaces, bold, center, right justification, left justification and italics in clinical notes while maintaining compatibility with Veterans Affairs cprs.
Dr. Toppenberg announced on the Hardhats list.
"Features (including older additions):
HTML viewing
HTML Editing
Add a patient,
Edit patient demographics
Simple page
Advanced page (allows editing of all fields in PATIENT file)
Multilingual support
Colored tabs
U...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
VistA Community Members Propose VistA Installation SpecificationEmail this article to a colleague.
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A broad range of VistA community members with diverse VistA backgrounds have proposed VistA Standard Base specification release candidate 8. The proposed document is intended to guide installation of Veterans Affairs VistA system on Linux using the Free/Open Source GTM mumps compiler. The text and public comment can be found here under the auspices of the Liberty Health Software Foundation a 501 c3 corporation.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CONNECT open source software gatewayEmail this article to a colleague.
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CONNECT is an open source software gateway that connects an organizations health IT systems into health information exchanges using Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) conventions, agreements and cores services to better serve patients throughtout the country. Built through collaboration of more than 20 federal agencies, the CONNECT gateway can help organizations reap the benefits of health information exchange with other healthcare institutions nationwide.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 8, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The Light at the End of the Tunnel......Email this article to a colleague.
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....is the oncoming train.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/manhattan-community-college-offer-ehr-program
People aren't really thinking about the ongoing maintenance and the real lack of training that 60 hours of lab can provide.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Live from FOSSHealth in Houston TexasEmail this article to a colleague.
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We are live from the FOSSHealth conference in Houston, schedule here. Bill Vass of Sun (still not Oracle yet he confirms) NHIN CONNECT Efforts is talking about the difference between FOSS and proprietary in which RSA was openly and rigorously examined by experts and remains quite secure except for brute force methods, while the the closed proprietary Clipper chip was not and was broken within 48 hours...competition for support occurs with FOSS licensing whereas proprietary vendors can sit back and say hmmm, how much to have an America's Cup entry this year?... More after the break.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 1, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Houston Confirms VistA GUI-Scheduling Has LandedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Worldvista.org reports that after a long wait, Graphic User Interface scheduling works in VistA: "..."Yes, it's teeming with bugs, but it works!" Habiel from California wrote on the VistA Hardhats email list. Valdes, who lives in Houston, Texas responded: "Roger Sam, Houston confirms on a fresh install that GUI scheduling has landed." and posted a screenshot. Calling it a "very significant event. Not only does this add GUI-scheduling, it also enables .Net client programming." and "Many small steps for a software engineer, one giant leap for VistA." Valdes notes that this will greatly broaden the reach of VistA, facilitatin...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Open Source for AmericaEmail this article to a colleague.
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(OSA) is an effort to raise awareness in the U.S. Federal Government about the benefits of open source software. We hope to encourage the government's utilization of open source software participation in open source software projects, and incorporation of open source community dynamics to enable transparency. http://opensourceforamerica.org
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Pigs FlyEmail this article to a colleague.
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A PC World article here states that: "Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, said on Monday it has released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel community..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 22, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
RedHat Joins the S&P 500Email this article to a colleague.
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Redhat has joined the S&P 500, article here. "Standard and Poor’s announced that Red Hat would join the S&P 500 as of the close of trading on Friday. Red Hat replaces lender CIT Group, which had a market capitalization below $275 million, ranking it 500th in the index..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
OpenEMR HQ to hold monthly product walkthroughEmail this article to a colleague.
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OpenEMR HQ, a consulting company focused on the popular open source OpenEMR EMR application, will present the first of a series of monthly product walkthroughs on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 6:00pm EDT. The company said, in a statement released yesterday, that it had been receiving a lot of questions about the product and those questions showed a good bit of confusion around the software
"OpenEMR is a fantastic product", said CEO Anthony Papillion, "but there seems to be a good bit of confusion in the market about its capabilities and how it can integrate well into a small to mid-sized practice".
Papillion said he also be...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
HDM: Lawsuit Filed Against Stimulus ActEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health Data Management reports that: "A registered nurse in Durham, N.H., has filed a civil suit against three officials of the Obama Administration alleging the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's health information technology provisions unconstitutionally violate the HIPAA privacy rule, Privacy Act and Federal Common Law..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Musings on Mark Shuttleworth interview that may inform this communityEmail this article to a colleague.
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This is an interview with Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth that talks about resource allocation in an open source environment. I am curious about how he handles and solves things because I have personally encountered similar problems and wondered about how others
solve the volunteer/anarchy vs. order/resources/damned if you do, damned if you don't problems attendant with Free/Open Source.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Health 2.0 October 6-7, 2009 - San FranciscoEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's officially summer and there's a lot happening behind the scenes at Health 2.0 as we prepare for our biggest event yet! Our annual San Francisco Fall Conference will be held on October 6th and 7th at the Concourse Exhibition Center. Just two years after its first conference, Health 2.0 has become the must-see showcase for consumers and providers' use of new web and mobile tools in health care, and the venue where new products are launched, new concepts are developed and new movements are built.
Now taking submissions for Launch! Launch! is one of the most popular sessions at Health 2.0. Attendees get a rapid-fire prev...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 8, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Hospital Improves Patient Experience by Adding Email and Web Access in Patient Rooms With Virtual Linux DesktopsEmail this article to a colleague.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM), NoMachine and Novell announce today that Glendale Adventist Medical Center (GAMC) in Glendale, California has improved the experience of its hospital patients by delivering email and Web access in patient rooms, while saving significant information technology (IT) maintenance and energy costs.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 8, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medical project is finalist in sourceforge 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Medical, the Universal Health information system, is finalist on Sourceforge 2009 Community Awards.
With over 47,000 nominations, the community has chosen 85 finalists in 12 categories. Medical is among the best 10 projects this year for government.
This is very exciting and rewarding. To be among the 10 best projects (sharing the space with projects like Open Office) shows the recognition from the community to humanitarian projects like Medical, and positions open source in health sector, an area limited to proprietary vendors until now.
I would like to thank all the doctors, biochemists and computer scientists ...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CCHIT: New Paths to Certification: Dialog with the Open Source CommunityEmail this article to a colleague.
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June 16 at 1:00 PM Eastern, will focus on concerns regarding certification of applications licensed under open source models. During the Web conference, Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., Commission chair, and Dennis Wilson, the Commission’s technology director, will discuss the new concepts from the perspective of technology developers. More information here.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
VistA GUI Registration Status Improved!Email this article to a colleague.
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For you VA VistA fans, here is the status of GUI-registration which has recently changed with tmg-cprs. In case you didn't know, patient registration up until recently was text-based and somewhat annoying in an otherwise good system:
tmg-cprs: works now and so far works very well in clinical situations. Point-click client installer available now and should work out of the box as of Astronaut WorldVistA server Beta 6 installer. It is not browser-based so client deployment is not as simple as browser-based. The non-browser based client is both an advantage and disadvantage for deployment reasons. Local IT staff and managem...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New Jersey to make open source EMRs illegalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Editor's note: it actually does not appear to specifically make open source illegal but the side effect may be that. Unless they are CCHIT certified.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A4000/3934_I1.HTM
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
VistA electronic health record system : Filling the Skills-GapEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Veterans Health Administration's open-source electronic health record system VistA is a fully integrated, enterprise-wide healthcare information system that has been developed and used for the past 20 years by the Veterans Health Administration, the largest, centrally directed, healthcare system in the U.S. VistA has been deployed in about 1,500 care sites. More private-sector oriented, open-source versions such as WorldVistA and OpenVista, whose source code is freely availabe could be an effective and low-cost option for non-Veterans Affairs hospitals that are seeking to implement a complete hospital information syste...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
PatientOS OpenEHR Demo @ HIMSS VirtualEmail this article to a colleague.
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PatientOS Inc. will be demonstrating with a live system which users can log into, the interoperability between two distinct systems using OpenEHR Archetypes.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medsphere Raising $15 MillionEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to this article Medsphere Corp. is raising $15 million in venture capital: 'In a regulatory filing this week, Carlsbad, CA-based Medsphere Systems says it has raised about $1.9 million of a $15 million secondary venture round. Medsphere CEO Michael Doyle told me recently that existing investors have committed $6 million for the round so far. Since it was founded in 2002, Medsphere has raised $50 million from investors that include Azure Capital Partners, Epic Ventures, and Thomas Weisel Partners. The company is commercializing an open source software version of VistA, the electronic health record system developed...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Dangerous Games and Health IT FeudalismEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dr. Koppel,
This is an open letter that I plan to publish on Linux Medical News and elsewhere. As you probably know, your JAMA 'Hold Harmless' article presents just the tip of the iceberg. Your article and more data from the Washington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051503667.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
make it abundantly clear that proprietary vendors are intent on establishing private property rights for something that private property rights are clearly not appropriate for. It leads to the logical absurdities, expense, and moral hazards we are experiencing now. The...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Technology on Unconsented Patients and CliniciansEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scot Silverstein has a must-read article reacting to the recent Washington Post article on Health IT lobbying: "...A lot of voices were left out of that trade group's lobbying. That trade group's massive conflicts of interest also seem to have blinded it to the longstanding concerns of experts in medical informatics that current approaches to health IT are insufficient and may impair healthcare quality initiatives (let's be frank about what that really means - it means patient harm)..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
WP: The Machinery Behind Health-Care ReformEmail this article to a colleague.
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"How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records" The Washington Post has an eye-opening article on what really happened with the Health IT stimulus bill. It looks like Buckminister Fuller's GRUNCH of Giants is alive and well. I now see the connection between HIMSS, Partners and AMIA. I've often wondered why AMIA has always been dominated by the Northeast/Massachutsetts crowd, why things like the Linux Medical News Freedom Award has been given such a cold reception year after year, and why AMIA leaders seem to hold such contradictory positions to AMIA's mission. Things ...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The Health Care Blog: Should Health Care Standards be Open Source?Email this article to a colleague.
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Alan Viars puts up a post Should Health Care Standards be Open Source? over a the Health Care Blog.
Using the CCR as an example, he goes on to address standards in general.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
GNUmed 0.4.4 releasedEmail this article to a colleague.
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GNUmed EMR for medical offices has been updated to version 0.4.4. Fixes include reenabled path sanity check that fell off when fixing Windows and a fix that makes recent notes in SOAP plugin copy-able for pasting. A new Live-CD has been released as well. More info can be gotten from
http://wiki.gnumed.de
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medsphere Lands Another HospitalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Full announcement here: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nationally Recognized Psychiatric Hospital Selects Medsphere's Open Source Electronic Health Record to Transform Clinical Care
Silver Hill Hospital Chooses OpenVista to Improve Efficiency and Patient Care
CARLSBAD, California - April 29, 2009 - Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced a five-year contract with Connecticut's Silver Hill Hospital for implementation, training and support of the company's OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) solution.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Senator Rockefeller Introduces Open Source EHR ActEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to this press release: "Washington, D.C. —Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV today introduced legislation that will facilitate nationwide adoption of electronic health records, particularly among small, rural providers. The Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009 will build upon the successful use of “open source” electronic health records by the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as the “open source exchange model,” which was recently expanded among federal agencies through the Nationwide Health Information Network-Connect initiative..."
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Testifying on 'meaningful use'Email this article to a colleague.
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Fred Trotter writes: I have recently been asked to testify at the NCVHS hearings on meaningful use (see forwarded message below). This is very likely because I have been working as a representative of the FOSS community with CCHIT to resolve the basic incompatibility with current CCHIT certification and FOSS EHR systems. For a decent summary you can read the CCHIT category on my blog or read some of the mainstream blogs: slashdot and ZDnet
Now I will be asked to testify on what 'Meaningful Use' of EHR systems means from a FOSS perspective. I am having discussions on what I should cover on both Hardhats (VistA community) a...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 21, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
OpenEMR releases version 3.0Email this article to a colleague.
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The OpenEMR project has released version 3.0 on SourceForge. The new release has integrated practice management, improved multi-language support, and E-Prescribing. We have packaged a very easy to install Windows version using Xampp version 1.7.0. Thanks! “Friends of Apache.”
What we have in the works is a Debian package, an RPM package and integration of the HHS required interoperability module, laboratory communication module, and with some infrastructure improvements are hoping to be compatible with CCHIT certification by the end of this summer. Sam Bowen, MD
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Misys is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer - OS of courseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Misys Open Source Solution is seeking to hire an experienced Open Source developer to lead our community facing initiatives. We've made progress towards delivering on our OS work and we need someone who can help it grow.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Towards fair EHR certificationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fred Trotter has a wrap up of the recent HIMSS CCHIT certification meeting on F/OSS. "Take away lessons:
Under the current model it is difficult to have the cost and benefit of the certification evenly distributed.
There is no way to easily ’share’ the certification
There is no maintainable benefit to being the organization that sacrifices to get a certification for a particular FOSS codebase.
It is not possible to prevent other organizations to certify a system that has already been certified.
Proprietary ontologies, like CPT, are a problem for the distribution of FOSS EHR systems.
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
