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Federal Government Releases Open-Source NHIN Software
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| On Monday, the federal government made available for download and public use
| the software code that will connect organizations to the Nationwide Health
| Information Network, Modern Healthcare reports.
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| The no-cost, open-source software, called Connect, was developed under the
| Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Federal Health
| Architecture initiative (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 4/8).
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http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Articles/2009/4/8/Federal-Government-Releases-OpenSource-NHIN-Software.aspx
Feds take health care open source
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| President Obama has made transparency a hallmark of his presidency, with open
| source an integral part of this pledge. Obama has also expressed a desire to
| overhaul the U.S. health care system.
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| This week those two goals came together this week in Connect, "a(n
| open-source) gateway between multiple federal organizations and the proposed
| national health information network," according to Modern Healthcare.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10215926-16.html
Connect: An Open Source Effort to Improve Healthcare Info Sharing
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| The Obama administration is committed to overhauling government spending on
| technology by adopting open source solutions, and healthcare professionals
| are increasingly heeding the call of open source. This week brings an
| important step in empowering healthcare IT organizations to tie into the
| Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal initiative to
| facilitate the electronic exchange of health information. The open source
| inititiative is called Connect.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/connect-an-open-source-effort-to-improve-healthcare-info-sharing
Recent:
NHIN software released to open-source community
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| The Federal Health Architecture project released into the public domain the
| code for Connect, a software gateway that will let organizations outside the
| federal government share health information via the National Health
| Information Network.
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http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/04/07/nhin-open-source-software.aspx
Sun Microsystems Helps U.S. Federal Government Build Interoperable NHIN
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| Open source software from Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is enabling
| the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to build a
| secure, open technology platform to connect federal government agencies and
| health information exchanges in a "network of networks"--the Nationwide
| Health Information Network (NHIN)--built over the Internet.
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http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33921&Itemid=16
HIMSS day1: Medsphere
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| In reality there is a component of HIMSS that is FOSS-friendly and FOSS runs
| as an under current at every HIMSS conference that I have attended. It can be
| hard to find but it is there.
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| [...]
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| Two less people die every day at Midland b/c of the systems in place to
| handle central-line infections inside OpenVistA. Wow. That means that
| Medsphere clients are starting to get VA-like improved outcomes. All at a
| fraction of the cost of the proprietary alternatives
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http://www.fredtrotter.com/2009/04/04/himss-day1-medsphere/
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