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HHS to sponsor open source 'code-a-thon' for NHIN
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| The project's initial strategy will be guided by Brian Behlendorf, an open
| source advocate and contractor to the Administration's Open Government team.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/hhs-sponsor-open-source-code-thon-nhin/2009-08-09
White House tells agencies, think 'open innovation'
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| The White House is telling its agencies, which are set to prepare budgets, to
| pursue an "open innovation"-approach to government, be visionary in their
| spending requests, and focus on "transformative" projects that help the
| climate, energy, life expectancy and the economy.
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| [...]
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| The "open innovation" concept is akin to that used in open source circles.
| But longtime open source advocate Eric S. Raymond, author of The Cathedral
| and the Bazaar, read the White House memo and said he believed its call for
| open innovation is largely meaningless.
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http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=0657E040-1A64-6A71-CE0A5E2587A0B7E1
Obama, open source & healthcare
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| Linux-based and open-source healthcare software has been around for years.
| Unless you were in health IT, however, chances are you never even heard of
| it. It's time to pay attention, because it may soon be tracking your medical
| records.
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| With the passage of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009),
| $19-billion dollars has been ear-marked for Medicare and Medicaid technology
| incentives over the next five years. Collectively, this program is known as
| HITECH. If open-source, medical software advocates have their way, some, if
| not most, of that money will be going to free software and open standard
| based EHR (electronic health records).
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14525/obama_open_source_healthcare
Special Report: Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?
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| This is the sort of question you might ask after trying to actually verify
| his supposed MS in Information Technology from the University of Maryland,
| College Park campus. The registrar has no record of it. In fact the current
| University of Maryland grad department doesnât even show this degree as being
| commonly available to anyone. A search of his college records shows no
| attendance after he received his BS degree in Psychology on 12/20/98. In fact
| his last day of school 12/19/98 wrapped up the six years it took Kundra to
| obtain his undergraduate degree.
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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
Recent:
Swiss Government Has Microsoft "Dependency"
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| Also commenting on the ongoing case, Karsten Gerloff from the Free Software
| Foundation said that the Swiss department concerned should break free from
| its dependance on one vendor.
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| "Free Software offers users strategic control over their infrastructure. This
| problem is by no means limited to Switzerland. Across Europe,
| itâs quite common for public bodies to either hand out contracts to
| proprietary software vendors without a proper public bidding procedure," he
| said in a blog posting.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/swiss-government-has-microsoft--dependency--1579
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