Curious about the big Health Systems Meeting? What has the White House announced about Open Access? What is this “Nightmare Bacteria” in the news? All in this dose of blog buzz…
- On the HealthBlawg, David Harlow writes about the announcement at HIMSS of an RFI on increasing interoperability of electronic health records, announced by Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for Health IT. Interested parties are encouraged to comment by April 21.
- Harlow also wrote about the unveiling of the CommonWell Health Alliance at the conference. For another take, an opinion piece from the HealthCare Blog, which sees the unveiling of CommonWell as a missed opportunity, has generated an active discussion.
- In encouraging Open Access news, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a policy memo on February 22 in support of enhanced public access to federally funded research. The White House Blog has links to the full text memo and Chief Science Advisor Dr. John Holdren’s response to the We The People petition. Open Access advocate Peter Suber wrote this post explaining the difference between the White House announcement and the proposed FASTR legislation.
- National Geographic’s Phenomena blog has a great post from journalist Carl Zimmer explaining recent coverage of “Nightmare Bacteria”.