OpenEMR HQ, Inc., announced today that it plans to offer a second online training session for those interested in the OpenEMR software but who aren’t able to attend an in-person event at their Tulsa facility. More after the break.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
OpenClinica Community Surpasses 3,500 Members
OpenClinica Community Surpasses 3,500 Members; Increases 155% in One Year
Popularity Further Establishes OpenClinica as the Most Widely Used Open Source System for eClinical Research
(Cambridge, MA) April 22, 2008 — An increase in the interest and use of open source in clinical research has led to rapid growth of the community surrounding the OpenClinica open source clinical trial software from Akaza Research. In April 2007 this community comprised approximately 1,300 registered members. One year later, this figure has increased by 155 percent to over 3,500.
Multinational Collaboration Promotes Use of Open-Source Software in Health IT Projects
In an iHealthBeat Special Report, experts on open-source software discussed the next steps for Open Health Tools, an initiative designed to encourage the use of the software and promote interoperability in health care.
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Florida Hospital Migrates to Linux
Linux Insider has an article about a Florida hospital and others going Linux: The healthcare industry in general and hospitals in particular are very conservative about trying anything new. Healthcare officials are often reluctant to risk the reliability and security they perceive in their existing computer networks, according to Red Hat officials specializing in healthcare technology. Over the last two years, however, healthcare and hospital network administrators are discovering open source as more affordable than proprietary installations.
100 Top Open Source Tools for Med Pros
Laura Milligan lists “The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals” over at LiveSmarter.
List includes: Medical Billing and Electronic Medical Records; Antivirus, Security and Privacy; Communications; Graphics and Imaging; Content Management Tools; Research and Reference…and a whole lot more-
THX Dana
ClearHealth on iPhone Announced
According to this announcement, the ClearHealth practice management system may be available on the iPhone: ‘It is with great pleasure that I announce the first release of ClearHealth for the iPhone. This native iPhone application allows a provider to connect to your clearhealth installation and view schedules, select/search patients, and view lab results. This is an ALPHA quality release and there are several known issues detailed below. We would love to have feedback on the general structure of the application, installation deployment problems, feature requests, etc. Please report these in the forum or on this thread.
VistA Newsletter: Crisis in the VA, VistA in Arizona
Informative and wide-ranging Veterans Affairs VistA software newsletter (PDF) for January-February 2008 has been published. ‘We have some major news related to VistA� as well as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report in this issue. The news from the VA is rather significant and substantive so we have written a special In-Depth report on the subject, separate from the Commentary section…’
Tri-Continental Foundation of Experts, Open Health Tools, Collaborate on Global Health IT Solutions
Open Health Tools (OHT) announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, government-funded organizations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop common healthcare IT products and services. OHT’s mission is to provide software tools and components that will accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability platforms, which improve patient quality of care, safety and access to electronic health records (EHR).
Gartner Open Source Forecast
Over on the Enterprise Open Source Toolkit published by ZDNet UK is an article about a report from Gartner. Ths short version is that “By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms.” So much to read and so little time…
GNUmed Live CD – next generation
Postgresql has been added to the Live CD. Instead of bootstraping a database I used the restoration of a database dump. There is a script called ‘restore-db.sh’ in /home/user/gnumed-db.
Calling this script restores the database an can be used immediately. Next step will be to call this script during live CD creation and have it available after booting.
One can use GNUmed without internet connection right off the CD. V3 will be uploaded shortly.