Op-Ed: There’s A Leadership Void In Addressing Critical Geospatial Issues
Last month, nearly 1,000 global government and industry representatives from around the world attended a Mexico-hosted conference on the economic, societal and governmental benefits of geospatial...
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NHS Open Source Movement Gathers Pace As Trusts Set Up CIC [UK]
An NHS open source community interest company (CIC) has been set up to guide the development of an electronic patient record system, which NHS England hopes will ignite the open source digital health...
View ArticleLeeds and Ripple Pick Lockheed Martin to Help Build Open Source Digital Care...
Leeds City Council and the local Ripple community health initiative have picked Lockheed Martin to help them deliver aspects of an open source IT development to build an integrated digital care record...
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IBM & Ponemon Institute Study: Data Breach Costs Rising, Now $4 million per...
IBM Security Ponemon Institute June 15, 2016Original URLIBM Security today announced the results of a global study analyzing the financial impact of data breaches to a company's bottom line. Sponsored...
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How Cyber Hardening Can Protect Patient Privacy And Treatment
The abundance of internet-connected devices that collect and share patient data has greatly increased the “attack surface” (where an attacker inserts or extracts data) and number of possible...
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Good Things Can Come from Open Source Projects that Fail
Without realizing it, I joined the open source movement in 1999 during the midst of the Kosovo refugee crisis. I was part of a team helping route aid supplies to local humanitarian organizations...
View ArticleEbola Health Research Call
ELRHA Wellcome Trust UK Department for International Development (DFID) August 21, 2014Original URLThe current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has already claimed the lives of over 1000 people....
View ArticleDrug-resistant Superbugs Could Become Deadlier than Cancer
Superbugs are on track to kill 10 million people a year by 2050--more than those who die from cancer, warned UK Chancellor George Osborne, who urged for global and radical action to fight the threat...
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Defining An Open Platform for Health IT
It is widely agreed that the future of digital health lies in an “Open Platform”. However, it’s not clear as to exactly what an Open Platform is or how we get there. This blog aims to answer the first...
View ArticleCan Open Data Improve GPs' Take-up Of Innovations? [UK]
When we think about innovation, we tend to focus on creating and developing new ideas, tools and ways of doing things. While valuable, this alone it is not enough. To have impact, promising and proven...
View ArticleBeing smart about open source: 5 practical tips for government use
There is much written about the pros and cons of using open source software, generally with more emphasis on the pros. Open source evangelists have even convinced foreign governments (India and the...
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All Scientific Papers to Be Free by 2020 Under EU Proposals
All publicly funded scientific papers published in Europe could be made free to access by 2020, under a “life-changing” reform ordered by the European Union’s science chief, Carlos Moedas. The...
View ArticleAll Scientific Papers to Be Free by 2020 Under EU Proposals
All publicly funded scientific papers published in Europe could be made free to access by 2020, under a “life-changing” reform ordered by the European Union’s science chief, Carlos Moedas. The...
View Article'Virtual Doctors' Helping Patients in Zambia
The idea of a "virtual doctor" project might sound rather futuristic. But the inspiration for this scheme to improve health services in Zambia began in very low-tech and unhappy circumstances. Huw...
View Article'Moral Bankruptcy of Capitalism': UK’s Top Public Doctor Shames Western...
Western countries should tackle drugs firms’ “scandalous” reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK’s top public doctor said,...
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