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"The Veterans Affairs Department is looking for expert help in developing an open source software model for modernization of its long-standing VistA (Veterans Health Information and Systems and Technology Architecture) health records system."

Open Source healthcare government

"So far 200 software developers have expressed an interest, and 45 are signing on. Allscripts is also talking to major hospitals willing to share their intellectual property. “If you’re a small hospital in Alabama, you can benefit from that,” says Stephen Collins, vice president of strategy. Five applications that tie into Allscripts’ EHRs are now available, including a labor and delivery monitoring software, and a medication reconciliation app—which provides a patient’s complete list of medications. A customer no longer has to be locked into Allscripts’ products."

Open Source healthcare

"The CONNECT software is the outcome of a 2008 decision by federal agencies to begin work on connecting their health IT systems into the NHIN. Rather than individually build the software required to make this possible, the federal agencies collaborated through the Federal Health Architecture program to create a single solution that can be reused by each agency within its own environment."

OB healthcare Open Source

"At the moment, an effort is under way to create the Continuity of Care Document, an XML-based standard intended to become the equivalent of an RDF or ODF file that lets the various EHR vendors write to the same file format."

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"Physicians at Thy-Mors hospital in Denmark and IBM have developed patient record software that uses a three-dimensional computer model of the human anatomy to visualize a patient's medical information."

OB IBM healthcare 3D

"Only about 17 percent of the nation’s physicians are using computerized patient records, according to a government-sponsored survey published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine. The use of electronic health records is widespread in large physician groups, but three-fourths of the nation’s doctors work in small practices, of 10 physicians or fewer."

OB Walmart healthcare

"Dan Pelino, IBM general manager for global healthcare and life sciences, would fit right into that era. He’s still an optimist. In particular, he is optimistic about the President’s health reform proposals, especially its health IT provisions, because it takes the best practices of businesses and applies them to the rest of society."

OB IBM healthcare Obama

"OpenVista is supported by a large and growing Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem, a collaborative community of healthcare facilities, developers, value-added resellers, clinicians and other interested parties dedicated to improving patient care through Open Source tools. The Ecosystem enables participants to develop OpenVista according to particular needs and desires; use, modify and enhance it in support of internal processes and workflows; and communicate feedback, share enhancements and benefit from one another’s work."

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"Smarter infrastructure is by far our best path to creating new jobs and stimulating growth. We at IBM were asked to map this out by President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, and our research shows that a $30 billion stimulus investment in just three areas -- smart grids, health-care IT and broadband -- could yield almost one million new jobs within one year. That's possible because these kinds of infrastructure have significantly greater economic and societal multiplier effects than traditional infrastructure like bridges and highways."

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