Open Health News

22/09/2021

Infrastructure And Resilience - The New Pride And Prejudice

Curtis BartellI was going about my normal business the other day when an article from the Associated Press written by Matthew Daly And Hope Yen, and titled "Lawmakers: Ida damage shows need for infrastructure upgrades" landed in my inbox. I’m one of those weird people that sees “lawmakers” an...

21/09/2021

German Health System Adopts Open Source Matrix as Instant Communications Platform

Gematik, the provider of digital solutions for the German health care system has chosen the open source Matrix protocol to underpin Germany’s new instant communication platform, which will be used by over 150.000 organisations, such as general practitioner offices, hospitals, and insurance organis...

03/08/2021

The ‘privacy by design’ approach for mobile apps: why it is not enough

Dusty-Lee DonnellyThe mobile apps installed on our smartphones are one of the biggest threats to our digital privacy. They are capable of collecting vast amounts of personal data, often highly sensitive.

26/07/2021

ONC's Efforts to Advance Worldwide Digital Health - The Global Digital Health Partnership White Papers

Aisha HasanAs the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to see how digital health plays a vital role in care delivery. ONC recognizes the importance of advancing digital health at domestic and global levels. As discussed in a previous blog post, part of ONC's global engagement include...

25/07/2021

Micky Tripathi and Mariann Yeager detail timeline for TEFCA going live in 2022

Today we are pleased to announce the timeline for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). The 21st Century Cures Act, signed by President Obama in 2016, calls on ONC to "develop or support a trusted exchange framework, including a common agreement among health information networ...

25/07/2021

Moving Towards An Open Platform Paradigm: The Digital Health Strategy For Catalonia

Anže DroljcAt the 2021 Digital health & Wellness Summit 2021 (DHWS21) in Barcelona, it was clear that integrated care based on openEHR will be a major focus for Catalonia's healthcare. Catalonia is a globally respected region for its innovative approach to healthcare. The major challenge the region...

22/07/2021

Resilience Is An Opportunity For Early Bipartisan Success

Curtis BartellIn the past year Mr. Chuck Chaitovitz, Vice President of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has written two very important and insightful articles advocating a national resiliency agenda. The first article, titled Resilience Is Good Public Policy...

22/07/2021

Lessons In Openness From Japan's "Business Reinvention"

In The Business Reinvention of Japan, Ulrike Schaede explores Japan's approach to economic development in the late 20th and early 21st century. Her thesis is that this approach-what she calls an "aggregate niche strategy"-offers important lessons for the West by balancing the pursuit of corporate pr...

22/07/2021

Accessibility In Open Source For People With ADHD, Dyslexia, And Autism Spectrum Disorder

Rikard Grossman-NielsenFor a long time, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, Asperger syndrome, dyslexia, and other neurodiverse conditions were considered things that hold people back. But now, many researchers and employers recognize that neurodiversity is a competitive advanta...

21/07/2021

Emergency Open Source EMR Created In A Week To Respond To Covid-19 Crisis

A team from Regenstrief Institute leveraged OpenMRS, a global open-source EMR, to create -- in a week -- an emergency EMR for first responders preparing for a possible influx of COVID-19 patients. Lessons learned can be applied to future health crises.

21/07/2021

23 European Cloud Technology Companies form the European Cloud Industrial Alliance (EUCLIDIA)

Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Wien, July 8, 2021 - Today, 23 European companies have announced the creation of the European Cloud Industrial Alliance (EUCLIDIA) formed by independent European original technology manufacturers, for the promotion of digital independence and strategic autonomy. The foundin...

21/07/2021

Andy Oram on Open Source in the Worldwide COVID-19 Response

Andy OramFebruary marks the celebration of creation of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in 1998. OSI created the standard definition of the term Open Source that helped guide many of LPI's initiatives today. Through the past year, open source provided many opportunities to organizations to continue....

07/06/2021

Upstream Conference to Feature Open Source Maintainers

Josh SimmonsImagine the chaos that would occur if all open source software vanished with the snap of a finger. Picture the devices that would turn to bricks in our hands, the infrastructure that would fail, and the machinery that would fall silent.

31/03/2021

Is Environmental, Social, And Governance (ESG) Activity the New ESP?

Curtis BartellHarvard Business Review published an article How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability (January/February 2021 issue) written by Tensie Whelan and Elyse Douglas, both associated with the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. This excellent article opens assuming a universal com...

18/03/2021

The Importance of a Nursing Data Framework for Clinical Data Exchange giving providers a way to garner business intelligence save money and reduce risk by improving workflows, load-leveling personnel schedules, and improving patient safety

Dr. Luann Whittenburg, PhD, RN, FAANWith more than 4 million nurses in the U.S., nurses are the largest clinical segment of the U.S. healthcare sector. Nurses have indisputably demonstrated an ability to improve healthcare outcomes. We are just beginning to utilize data from healthcare information t...

18/03/2021

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the HL7 FHIR Messaging Standard

Jackie MulrooneyIt has been several years since we reviewed the progress of the HL7 FHIR standards adoption rate. Health Level Seven's (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is an emerging standard that has rapidly captured the mind-share of the Health Information Technology (HIT) s...

02/03/2021

OSI Approves Cryptographic Autonomy License and CERN Open Hardware Licenses

Pam ChestekAs the steward of the Open Source Defintion, the Open Source Initiative has been designating licenses as "open source" for over 20 years. These licenses are the foundation of the open source software ecosystem, ensuring that everyone can use, improve, and share software. When a license is...

26/02/2021

Why Linux is Critical to Edge Computing

Seth KenlonEdge computing is a model of infrastructure design that places many "compute nodes" (a fancy word for a server) geographically closer to people who use them most frequently. It can be part of the open hybrid-cloud model, in which a centralized data center exists to do all the heavy liftin...

10/02/2021

Meet /e/ an open source Android operating system that is independent of Google and prioritizes mobile data privacy

Don WatkinsAndroid and iOS devices are notorious for uploading your personal data to their cloud services without your permission. If you are concerned about your mobile data privacy, you have another option to consider for your next smartphone: the /e/ operating system, a free and open source, And...

10/02/2021

Incident Command System is designed to coordinate emergency response. It is not designed for Continuity of Operations following a disaster.

Curtis BartellHere is the backdrop for common understanding: INCIDENT Command System (ICS) is a nationally adopted standard command-and-control hierarchical structure for multi-agency RESPONSE during an incident. Continuity of OPERATIONS is a highly customized and personalized process to SUSTAIN/REC...

08/02/2021

What is openEHR and why is it important? https://buff.ly/3q0a1OF

05/02/2021

4 Reasons Businesses Adopted Open Source In 2020

05/02/2021

Is It Time to Purchase Your Own Quantum Computer? On the future of quantum technologies in healthcare and medicine

Kim BellardBy all rights, I should be writing about the battle between Reddit forum WallStreetBets and Wall Street hedge funds.  Depending on one’s point of view, it’s hilarious, frightening, or a searing indictment on stock trading – maybe all three. 

03/02/2021

3 Steps For Product Marketing Your Open Source Project. Marketing an open source project is mainly about education, and traditional marketing techniques do not apply.

Kevin XuI frequently get questions from open source project creators or new founders of commercial open source software (COSS) companies about the best way to market their product. Implicit in that inquiry lies more foundational questions: "What the hell is product marketing? How much time should I...

03/02/2021

How This Open Source Security Tool Halted Significant DDos Attacks. Configuration changes to stopped a 7,000-machine botnet in less than a minute.

01/02/2021

How Open Source Builds Distributed Trust. Trust in open source is a positive feedback loop.

01/02/2021

An Argument for Standardized Reference Terminologies. The Terminology You Use to Describe Healthcare Data Matters.

15/01/2021

Openness is the key to innovation History demonstrates the kinds of organizational structures that foster innovation: open, communal, and humble.

In part two of the series, I reviewed Ridley's assessment of the environments where innovation and discovery thrive, and I demonstrated some essential characteristics of the innovation process.

05/01/2021

The Goldilocks Problem of Mobile Security - Usability vs. Security

Simon HartleyThe “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” story begins with a girl tasting porridge. The first bowl is too hot, the second is too cold, and the third is “just right.” This article considers mobile device security for government and organizations.

23/12/2020

Rock Around The Resilience Wheel - Continuity of Operations Through Disruptive Change

Curtis Bartell“Tis the season” we like to say: a time of hope, joy, faith, and goodness. As 2020 comes to a close we are still faced with myriad issues pertaining to public health, elections, economic duress and recovery, unemployment, and living under persistent, pendular change.