"free software" entries
popHealth open source software permits viewing and reporting of quality measures in health care
popHealth culls quality measures from electronic health records and formats them either for convenient display–so providers can review their quality measures on the Web–or for submission to regulators who require reports on these measures.
OSCON preview: Shahid N. Shah on medical devices and open source
Connecting medical devices to electronic health record systems, and the roles of open source software, regulation, and clinical improvement.
Open source personal health record: no need to open Google Health
Calls to "make Google Health open source" miss the point. Here are some bona fide open source projects in personal health records and electronic health records.
Feeding the community fuels advances at Red Hat and JBoss
Red Hat’s usual modus operandi is the precise inverse of most companies based on open source. This drives what I heard at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, solid progress along the lines laid out by Red Hat and JBoss in previous years.
Collaborative genetics, part 5: Next steps for genetic commons
The final installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on
the open-source sharing of genetic research, looks at what Sage
Bionetworks and its friends need to do.
Collaborative genetics, part 4: Private practice, how to respect the patient
The fourth installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on
the open-source sharing of genetic research, focuses in on the rights
of patients and how they want researchers to treat their data.
Collaborative genetics, part 3: Dividing the pie, from research to patents
The third installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on
the open-source sharing of genetic research, explores the barriers
that keep private companies and researchers from sharing their work.
Collaborative genetics, part 2: Five Easy Pieces, Sage's Federation
The second installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on
the open-source sharing of genetic research, looks at the reasons
collaborative research is critical to finding new treatments.
Collaborative genetics, Part 1: The ambitious goals of Sage Commons Congress
The opening installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on
the open-source sharing of genetic research, explains the elements of
modern research and how collaboration facilitates progress.
Wrap-up of 2011 MySQL Conference
Key themes from MySQL 2011. Plus, what you sacrifice when you use a NoSQL solution.
Two dominant themes emerged at MySQL 2011: Mix your relational database with less formal solutions and move to the cloud. This may actually be the best environment MySQL has ever enjoyed.