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Open Source Medical Records
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| The idea is simple - take the the publicly available code from the Veterans
| Administration clinical information system, add new modules such as revenue
| cycle interfaces that are needed in practices outside the VA system and
| include support/implementation services. In effect, you'll have the "Red Hat
| Linux" of the electronic health record world.
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http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-source-medical-records.html
Proprietary software and medical records are an oxymoron. Software vendors
should not control people's medical files.
Open-Source Biomodels: Molecules First, Then the World
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| "We absolutely need to adopt this philosophy if we're going to build these
| kinds of detailed mathematical representations of biology," he said.
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| Though little b is now written for cellular research, Gunawardena said it
| could eventually be scaled up to describe organisms, even entire ecosystems.
| Written in LISP -- a programming language popular among artificial
| intelligence researchers -- the higher-level application of little b is
| fundamentally a challenge of data, not infrastructure.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/open-source-bio.html
Recent:
Open-Source Drug Safety?
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| More than a million Americans take Avandia every year; the risk
| Glaxo had found would mean thousands of extra heart attacks. But
| the company argued that the risk only occurred in patients who
| already had serious heart problems, and that it didn't show up
| in long-term clinical trials. The FDA made no decision, and no
| public statement.
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| [...]
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| It's an open source approach to drug safety.
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http://www.forbes.com/home/sciencesandmedicine/2007/05/21/fda-glaxo-avandia-biz-sci_cx_mh_0522fda.html
Related:
Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model
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| "Open source" as applied to culture defines a culture in which
| intellectual property is made generally available. Participants
| in such a culture are able to improve and modify those products
| and redistribute them back into the community.
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http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/
Biology Goes Open Source
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| Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that
| their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
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http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.html?partner=rss
http://tinyurl.com/2vqssl
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