Open Source
Kobayashi S, Tatsukawa A. Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 16(1)
The openEHR project has developed specifications for future-proof interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. This project provides the specifications and implementation on which the ISO/CEN 13606 standards are based. The implementation has been formally described in Eiffel, C# and Java, but not in scripting languages (which are popular because of their higher efficiency and faster development).
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Japan | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Open Source, openEHR, Standards
Roger A. Maduro, OpenHealthNews
“The VistA community took major steps towards a unified VistA core during the 24th VistA Community Meeting in Sacramento, California this past weekend. The first speaker at the conference, Dr. Seung Ki Mun made a call for the VistA community to unify around one core version of VistA. The leading commercial VistA solution providers, Medsphere and DSS, Inc., quickly stepped up to the place supporting the idea.
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17 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Open Source
Peter Murray, Singularity Hub
“What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past summer a group of talented students put their heads together to tackle the Global Health grand challenge. What they came up with was a hardware platform built into a t-shirt for which developers might design sensory applications.
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Monitoring, Open Source, Platform, Sensors, Telemedicine, Tricorder, Wearable
Michael Downey, OpenHealthNews
“Earlier this year, OpenMRS participated once again in Google Summer of Code, a worldwide program organized by Google’s Open Source Programs Office to expose university students to the world of free and open source software, and encourage those students to become long-term contributors to projects that interest them.
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11 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Open Source, Students
e-Health Insider Acute
“Leeds Teaching Hospital has released the open source code related to its Opensource clinical portal after a successful development phase.
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21 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Hospitals, Open Source, Portal
Tom Sullivan, Government Health IT
“The massive undertaking to create a dual-agency EHR that serves both DoD and VA patients with a system woven from existing proprietary and open source components might demand something to which the federal government is largely unaccustomed.
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8 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Open Source
Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“Estoy muy contento de anunciar una nueva liberacion de Open EHR-Gen Framework, la herramienta libre para crear sistemas de Historia Clínica Electrónica basados en estándares internacionales como openEHR, HL7 CDA y CIE 10.
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25 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Open Source, openEHR
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“I spent the past few days in Boston at the Harvard Medical School Conference Center speaking audiences at the Medical Device Connectivity Conference (I presented lectures on how to design next-generation medical devices and gateways).
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12 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Devices, Open Source
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“In a decisive break with the past, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), which operate the two largest healthcare systems in the country, on Aug. 30 officially launched an open-source community to help them revamp and unify their electronic health records.
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9 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Applications, mHealth, Open Source, Website
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“As we know, FDA regulated medical devices are considered safety-critical systems due to their ability to affect patient lives. Given the nature of scrutiny and the requirement to play it safe, most medical device vendors end up choosing proprietary or custom solutions for operating systems, databases, messaging platforms, alarm notification systems, and event logging.
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5 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Devices, Open Source, Safety
Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur.
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2 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Open Source
Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The Veterans Affairs Department is set to make its open source agent operational Tuesday and make available the software code of various applications in the electronic health records of VA and the Defense Department.
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30 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Open Source
Roger A. Maduro, OpenHealthNews
“After more than a year of upgrades and enhancements and months of testing at the ICSA Labs EHR Certification Program, OpenEMR version 4.1 received full ‘meaningful use’ certification for ambulatory care settings on Friday, August 19.
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23 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Certification, Open Source
John, EMR and HIPAA
“This is a really big announcement for the open source ambulatory EHR community. A number of other open source EHR are certified, but they’re mostly for the hospital EHR space.
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21 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Certification, Open Source
Kathleen Miller, The Washington Post
“Electronic health record vendors Epic Systems and Cerner may face competition from a joint patient information-sharing network being developed by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments, analysts said.
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15 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Sharing, Open Source
Asiimwe C et al, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 85(1)
Quality health management requires timely and accurate data, and paper-based reporting does not fill this role adequately. The introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests and the availability of wireless communications present an opportunity to open direct data transmission and feedback between peripheral health workers and central managers. In November 2009, the Uganda Ministry of Health deployed a short message service-based reporting system in two districts. At a set-up cost of $100/health facility, local technician support of $ 400 per month, and a cost of $0.53/week/clinic, the SMS reporting system was started at more than 140 clinics.
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8 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Uganda | Tag(s): Malaria, mHealth, Open Source, SMS
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“An integrated delivery system in Connecticut is taking the extraordinary step of encrypting its clinical databases before launching an ambitious health information exchange effort.
Hartford Healthcare, owner of Hartford Hospital and numerous other facilities, sees its internal HIE effort as the way to become a “truly integrated” delivery system, says John DeStefano, director of software development and integration.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Encryption, Health Information Exchange, Open Source
Craig Newmark, Huffington Post
“The Dept of Vets Affairs runs VistA, which is one of the most effective, and widely-used electronic health record (EHR) systems in the world.
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13 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Innovation, Open Source
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“I will be presenting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland at the end of the month. As an avid reader of dozens of O’Reilly’s technical books over the years I was excited when they reached out to ask if I would talk about open source in the healthcare world.
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12 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data, Devices, Effectiveness, Meaningful Use, Open Source, Research
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“In yesterday’s blog post, I posed the question: Why hasn’t the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department taken its vaunted VistA electronic health-record system down to the neighborhood ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body to put it through its paces?
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9 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Certification, Open Source
