Many observers have noted the incongruity of the US federal government paying out billions upon billions of dollars in the Meaningful Use program to convert...
Tag - Open Source
I celebrate and try to report on each addition to the pool of open source resources for health care. Some, of course, are more significant than others, and I...
The previous section of this article covered the history of HLN’s open source offerings. How can it benefit from this far-thinking practice to build a...
Open source is increasingly understood to be the future of software, because communities working together on shared needs can produce code that is at least as...
The first section of this article introduced the common schemas for mobile health designed by Open mHealth, and the second section covered the first two design...
The previous section of this article introduced the intensive research and consultation strategy used by Open mHealth to develop a common schema for exploiting...
If standards have not been universally adopted in the health care field, and are often implemented incorrectly when adopted, the reason may simply be that good...
A recent article of mine celebrated a clever educational service offered on the Web by the US Department of Health and Human Services. I ended with a list of...
By some measures, OpenMRS may be the most successful of the open source EHRs, widely deployed around the world. It also has a long experience with its API...
New devices are democratizing health. We see it not only in the array or wearable fitness gear that an estimated 21 percent of Americans own (and that some...