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Open source explained
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| The Open Source Entrepreneurship Forum in Hyderabad last Saturday was a
| unique event that targeted people who ran or planned to start companies in
| the open source software (OSS) space. Organized by the Twincling Society for
| Open Source, the annual event aims to provide entrepreneurs insights into the
| open source model and help with the right selection of licensing, marketing
| and resources while building a company.
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http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/26235305/Open-source-explained.html
“An Introduction to Health Commons” by John Wilbanks
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| What is Health Commons?
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| Health Commons is a coalition of parties interested in changing the way basic
| science is translated into the understanding and improvement of human health.
| Coalition members agree to share data, knowledge, and services under
| standardized terms and conditions by committing to a set of common
| technologies, digital information standards, research materials, contracts,
| workflows, and software. These commitments ensure that knowledge, data,
| materials and tools can move seamlessly from partner to partner across the
| entire drug discovery chain. They enable participants to offer standardized
| services, ranging from simple molecular assays to complex drug synthesis
| solutions, that others can discover in directories and integrate into their
| own processes to expedite development — or assemble like LEGO blocks to
| create new services.
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| The Health Commons is too complex for any one organization or company to
| create. It requires a coalition of partners across the spectrum. It is also
| too complex for public, private, or non-profit organizations alone -
| reinventing therapy development for the networked world requires, from the
| beginning, a commitment to public-private partnership. Only through a
| public-private partnership can the key infrastructure of the Commons be
| created: the investments in the public domain of information and materials
| will only be realized if that public domain is served by a private set of
| systems integrators and materials, tools and service providers motivated by
| profit. And in turn, the long-term success of the private sector depends on a
| growing, robust, and self-replenishing public domain of data, research tools,
| and open source software.
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http://sciencecommons.org/projects/healthcommons/
Recent:
Multinational Collaboration Promotes Use of Open-Source Software in Health IT
Projects
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| In an iHealthBeat Special Report, experts on open-source software discussed
| the next steps for Open Health Tools, an initiative designed to encourage the
| use of the software and promote interoperability in health care.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1208899847
NHS launches open source development
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| The NHS is a major Microsoft customer, and last year signed a large deal to
| upgrade to Windows Vista. But, it always maintained it would continually
| evaluate open source.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=8620
Related:
A call for open source values in health care
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| The Committee for Economic Development, a 65-year old advocacy group which
| claims to represent “the best in business thinking,” has issued a clarion
| call for open source values in medicine.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=689
Red Hat enters healthcare sector
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| Red Hat Software Services, provider of Linux and open source technologies, is
| foraying into the Indian healthcare sector.
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| Red Hat's Global Support Services vice-president Lain Gray said the company
| plans to facilitate the sharing of patients' data and history within various
| hospitals to promote better healthcare services.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/dec/06yup.htm
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