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Nokia leaks phone with full GNU/Linux distribution. Unlike Google's Linux platform, Nokia is not intentionally breaking compatibility with real distros.

Open source and healthcare reform: good news and bad. Could open source mess up a truly integrated digital infrastructure for healthcare?

How open source saved enterprise IT. Open source is becoming more like the market that it arose out of.

Open source equivalent applications for the average user. If you were weaned on proprietary Windows apps, what are the free, open source equivalents?



EpiSurveyor and the Call For Open Source Mobile Healthcare Applications

Have you ever heard of EpiSurveyor? It's an open source tool designed to allow anyone in the world to create handheld data entry forms, use them to collect data on mobile devices, and transfer the data to other devices for analysis. Developed by Dr. Joel Selanikio (shown), it's widely used in public health efforts all around the world, for disease surveillance and collecting public health data. Today, the Lemelson-MIT Program has announced?that Selanikio is the recipient of its 2009 $100,000 Award for Sustainability for his contributions to public health. Here is what's significant about EpiSurveyor, and how there is room for open source apps like it.


Open Source in Health IT: Not a Done Deal, But At Least a Chance to Make a Case

Though the use of open source software in federal health care programs is being considered far more seriously than it has been in the past, ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reminds us that landing a government contract requires more than the sympathetic ears of legislators and administrators.

So far, Blankenhorn explains, Obama has committed to creating interoperability between health records kept by the military and Veterans Administration, but not to a completely open (in terms of code, or standards) health information technology platform. The Obama Administration seems willing to investigate open source solutions, but government contracting procedures could be a major roadblock to adopting an open platform. The open alternatives could be out-lawyered, out-lobbied, and minimized by an army of salesmen.



Open Source in Healthcare IT Takes a Baby Step

There is plenty of enthusiasm surrounding the idea of open source solutions in healthcare, but getting policies in place hasn't been easy. Open source advocate Fred Trotter was prepared to do battle when he met recently with representatives of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), but got a pleasant surprise instead. [Several] issues were brought up in the meeting, he writes, and CCHIT is listening to everyone.

Trotter went to the meeting loaded for bear. The FOSS community, to the degree that such a thing is possible, had authorized me to go nuclear on the issue before the meeting, he writes. I had been given assurance that the community has been so frustrated with dealing with CCHIT that if they did not work with us that if I started an alternative certification program that I would be backed up with the dollars and brains from the community needed to make an alternative certification go.



Vodafone: Looking At Community and Open Source for Growth

BusinessWeek recently did an interesting article on a major shift in company strategy at telecom giant Vodafone, called Vodafone: Embracing Open Source with Open Arms. It focuses on how the company, following a string of huge acquisitions over the past few years, is looking away from doing more expensive deals and looking toward open source and crowdsourced strategies for introducing more innovative applications. From the conditions in the current economic environment to new opportunities on the mobile applications front, this makes a lot of sense, and more behemoth companies should be thnking this way. Here's why.


Connect: An Open Source Effort to Improve Healthcare Info Sharing

The Obama administration is committed to overhauling government spending on technology by adopting open source solutions, and healthcare professionals are increasingly heeding the call of open source. This week brings an important step in empowering healthcare IT organizations to tie into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal initiative to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information. The open source inititiative is called Connect. It consists of open source software and accompanying documentation, available here. As Matt Asay notes, the goal is to reduce the cost and complexity of tying into the U.S. national health information network, with three of the largest federal healthcare provider organizations, Defense and Veterans Affairs departments plus the Indian Health Service, each participating in Connect.


Three New Open Source Tools Aimed at Global Humanitarian Efforts

Today, a Silicon Valley non-profit group called InSTEDD?(Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) unveiled three new open source software tools targeted to help global humanitarian efforts. The group works with humanitarian organizations, local communities, and government ministries to improve disease detection and disaster response. Some of the tools are already in use in HIV clinics in Tanzania, centers for disease control in Kenya and Cambodia, and more. Here are the details on the tools, and how to get them.


Healthcare Conference to Focus on Open Source Solutions

DOHCS

Panels, presentations, and Birds of a Feather meetings are certainly the highlight of next month's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), but that's not the only thing happening during the event. The Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS) conference will be co-located with SCALE and both will get underway on Friday, February 20, 2009.



Healthcare Pros Heed the Call of Open Source Groups

If you're involved in healthcare IT and also have a fondness for open source, there's a newly formed group at LinkedIn that you may want to know about. The OpenVista Health Information Technology (HIT) group is looking for healthcare professionals who use the popular electronic medical record system and want to swap implementation and deployment ideas.



New Open Source Software Spots Health Epidemics

The next time evidence of a possible health epidemic rears it's ugly head, TriSano, Utah's new infectious disease reporting system, will help spread the word. Developed by the Collaborative Software Initiative, it's a much needed improvement over the current notification method -- the fax machine.