Category Archives: Open Data

Institute of Medicine- Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care

The Institute of Medicine released:
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care, a report that describes a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety information (…includes the reporting of “near misses” as well as errors.) The report is available on line.

“Open Source” is not mentioned in the report. However, there is a note about possibly putting VISTA into Public Domain (page 66.)

The press briefing was webcast live and is archived. No mention of Open Source at the briefing either.