OpenEMR HQ to hold monthly product walkthrough

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

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Musings on Mark Shuttleworth interview that may inform this community

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.

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Health 2.0 October 6-7, 2009 – San Francisco

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.

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Hospital Improves Patient Experience by Adding Email and Web Access in Patient Rooms With Virtual Linux Desktops

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.
ARMONK, N.Y. – 01 Jul 2009: 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.

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New Jersey to make open source EMRs illegal

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

2. (New section) a. No person or entity, either directly or indirectly, shall sell, offer for sale, give, furnish, or otherwise distribute to any person or entity in this State a health information technology product that has not been certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

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