OpenClinical: knowledge management technologies for healthcare 

WHY ? The recent growth in the scientific understanding of diseases and their management has been unprecedented, but has not been matched by an equivalent ability to apply that knowledge in practice. It ... is now humanly impossible for unaided healthcare professionals to deliver patient care with the efficacy, consistency and safety that the full range of current knowledge could support. WHAT ? OpenClinical is an international organisation that has been created to promote awareness and use of decision support, clinical workflow and other advanced knowledge management technologies for patient care and clinical research. GOALS Openclinical.org provides a substantial and growing set of resources for technologists, clinicians, healthcare providers and suppliers who wish to find out more about this field. OpenClinical aims to build a community of users, researchers and suppliers, and to disseminate development tools and techniques for building healthcare applications that comply with the highe   [More...] [Less...]

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An Open Facebook API vs Google OpenSocial - Blog Maverick 

Probably about 5 months ago I had a conversation with someone at Facebook about licensing their API. The beauty of Facebook, as opposed to Myspace and other social networks is that the people on there ... are for the most part who they say they are, and Facebook does their best to dismiss those who aren't. This simple differentiation makes the membership base of Facebook far more valuable than any other social network. When you go to my Facebook profile, you get the real me. Thats not to say I answer every profile question. I don't. I'm not going to disclose everything about myself. However, the data that is available about me is the most comprehensive, self maintained database record about me on the internet or probably anywhere. Access to that information times the however many tens of millions of Facebook active users is worth a lot of money. So with this in mind, I talked to one of their VCs that I know, who referred me to someone at Facebook and we had a great conversation. I asked ab   [More...] [Less...]