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The President’s announcement of a coordinated system of Electronic Medical Records for both soldiers and veterans could be a big win for open source.
As ZDNet Healthcare reported early this week the military and VA records will transfer under NHIN-CONNECT.
Presidential commitment to open source still unclear | Open Source | ZDNet.com

The Federal Health Architecture project released into the public domain the code for Connect, a software gateway that will let organizations outside the federal government share health information via the National Health Information Network.
Any public or private sector organization can download the Connect software and tie into the NHIN once it goes into full [...]

The economic stimulus law mentions health information technology dozens of times, establishing an agenda to promote electronic health records, form standards committees and work out health information privacy and security impasses.
However, the $20 billion package also contains a more obscure provision that has buoyed hopes among advocates of open-source technologies projects that have struggled [...]

Whether vibrating in place or taking part in protein folding to ensure cells function properly, molecules are never still. Simulating molecular motions provides researchers with information critical to designing vaccines and helps them decipher the bases of certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, that result from molecular motion gone awry.
In the past, researchers needed [...]

The big open source struggle that began with Linux, moved to enterprise applications and then the consumer space, is now pointed directly at the heads of doctors and hospitals.
VistA, the public record EHR and hospital management software created by the Veterans Administration, is once again an open source movement with word that DSS, its biggest [...]