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Open source ideals at HIMSS12

A not-so-intimate group of healthcare IT professionals (a record-setting 37,032 attendees) gathered February 20 at the 2012 HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. They kicked off a week of talks, discussions and collaboration sessions addressing ways to tackle the challenges in the healthcare IT industry.

Silos and proprietary systems have long prevailed in healthcare IT--encompassing everything from patient data to labs and medication management systems. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 27 Feb 2012 by Lori Mehen (Red Hat)

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on success, failure, and the future of social

Twitter (as well as Xanga, Odeo, and Blogger) co-founder Biz Stone keynoted this week’s 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference with the history of Twitter alongside advice on the future of the social web and what it means to be successful.

"The story of Twitter... this is a weird story," he began. Stone left Google “at a time when it was silly to leave,” as he put it, and with Evan Williams started Odeo, which used RSS to aggregate and publish podcasts. Then Apple created iTunes, and the Odeo founders started looking for the next project. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 23 Feb 2012 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

HIMSS12 in Las Vegas

The most comprehensive healthcare IT event, the HIMSS12 Annual Conference & Exhibition, is happening this week in Las Vegas at the Venetian Sands Expo Convention Center.

This Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) event offers information, education sessions, and talks focused on critical health IT topics, and among this year’s top priority issues are connectivity, interoperability, engagement, and collaboration.

Some not-to-be-missed highlights include:
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0 CommentsPosted 21 Feb 2012 by Lori Mehen (Red Hat)

Join the M revolution

Are you a geek?

If so, driving the future of healthcare is now within your grasp.

What do you have to do?

Learn the M programming language, and teach it to others.

What’s the M programming language?

The M programming language is also known as MUMPS. Which stands for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System.

M is a multi-user, strongly imperative language designed to » Read more

31 CommentsPosted 2 Feb 2012 by Luis Ibanez

2011 People's Choice Award: And the winner is...

Thanks to everyone who voted for a People's Choice Award winner last week! Looking at the votes took some time due to a few folks who appear to have been dedicated enough to set up vote-bots. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but our authors are champs on their own, no additional help needed. But now that the votes are all in, we're pleased to announce that this year's winner is David Doria, who wrote several stories for our Education channel last year. » Read more

6 CommentsPosted 30 Jan 2012 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Vote for the 2011 People's Choice Award

It's the time of year when we like to celebrate our community. And as we did last year, we want you to choose your favorite author for the 2011 People's Choice Award.

Voting will be open through January 27, 2012.

The winner will be announced on January 30, 2012 on opensource.com.

Voting is now closed.

0 CommentsPosted 23 Jan 2012 by opensource.com Admin (Red Hat)

BioCurious? The DIY garage biology movement

Would you enjoy reprogramming lab bacteria with DNA from a jellyfish to make them glow green? How about hacking your own genetic data to find out what percentage of the Neanderthal genome you share? Or building a device that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen? » Read more

7 CommentsPosted 20 Jan 2012 by Lori Mehen (Red Hat)

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3 CommentsPosted 16 Jan 2012 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Department of Veterans Affairs goes social

In an effort to help break down long-perceived barriers between the Department of Veterans Affairs and its stakeholders, the VA announced that it has established Facebook pages for all 152 of its medical centers. By leveraging Facebook, the department hopes to continue expanding access to the VA and embrace transparency and two-way conversation. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 12 Jan 2012 by Lori Mehen (Red Hat)

Open*Health: 2011 in review

This year has seen a good deal of discussion about the escalating costs of healthcare and shrinking access to it. Most of the discussion has centered around how to fix the problems with a series of buzzwords entering our lexicon, ACO, patient-centered health, EHR-EMR-HIT interoperability, and pay-for-performance among them. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 29 Dec 2011 by Lori Mehen (Red Hat)