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Open Source Network Management Solutions Expand
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| Network management has been an ongoing challenge for many small and medium
| businesses. While many often need such tools, they have usually found them to
| be expensive, difficult to deploy, and hard to maintain. Open source
| solutions have been trying to address those problems and one vendor enhanced
| its system.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/open_source_net.html
IntraHealth OPEN Initiative and Youssou N'Dour Release Charity Album to Fund
Open Source Training for Health Workers in Africa
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| Global non-profit IntraHealth International is partnering with Grammy
| Award-winning artist Youssou N'Dour on a charity album titled "OPEN Remix"
| benefiting a new initiative created to address critical health issues in
| Africa by putting the latest open source software technologies directly in
| the hands of health workers.
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| Nas, Duncan Sheik and Peter Buck of R.E.M. are among the headliners donating
| remixes of N'Dour's song "Wake Up" to raise funds and visibility for the
| IntraHealth OPEN Initiative.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138672/
Recent:
Getting Electronic Health Record Standards Right
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| As of this writing, $20 billion of that amount is included in the current
| House draft of the Economic Stimulus bill called for by the new
| administration. The full cost of EHR implementation, including private
| expenditures, has been estimated to be $156 billion over five years, not
| including $20 billion in operational costs. With such a price tag, the
| promise of EHRs had best be realized, or the new administration will have
| some significant explaining to do.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090204070214423
Rewiring the VA
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| Much of the attention of the healthcare industry over the past several weeks
| has been focused on Washington and the various proposals before Congress to
| boost the faltering economy, including spending billions of dollars
| subsidizing health information technology.
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| [...]
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| The question is whether the Veterans Health Information Systems and
| Technology Architecture, or VistA—the clinical information system that powers
| the VA health system—will wither or bloom in the months and years ahead. It’s
| an issue that has implications not only for millions of veterans but also
| millions of other potential users of open-source and proprietary versions of
| VistA, both in the private and public sectors in the U.S. and abroad.
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http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090202/REG/901309967&nocache=1&nocache=1&nocache=1
'Rockefeller Amendment' for Studying Open Source in Stimulus Bill
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| About page 701 of the stimulus bill is a provision for studying Open
| Source: "...(A) the current availability of open source 6 health information
| technology systems to Fed7 eral safety net providers (including small, rural
| 8 providers); 9 (B) the total cost of ownership of such sys10 tems in
| comparison to the cost of proprietary 11 commercial products available; 12
| (C) the ability of such systems to respond 13 to the needs of, and be applied
| to, various pop14 ulations (including children and disabled indi15 viduals);
| and 16 (D) the capacity of such systems to facili17 tate interoperability...'
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http://linuxmednews.com/1233670177
GNUmed Live CD 0.3.9 released
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| A new GNUmed live CD is out. With the help of this CD one can test drive
| GNUmed without altering the currently running environment such as operating
| system. No installation necessary.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1232437244
Conficker seizes city's hospital network
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| Staff at hospitals across Sheffield are battling a major computer worm
| outbreak after managers turned off Windows security updates for all 8,000 PCs
| on the vital network, The Register has learned.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/
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