Medication non-adherence is a major public health issue, and measuring non-adherence is a crucial step toward improving it. A paucity of retrievable data prevents researchers from effectively measuring, tracking and sharing outcomes on medication management. High quality data derived from prescribing patterns, including behavioral and technology-based interventions, is necessary to support mean...

Akogrimo is an FP6 EC-Project that implements a mobile Grid middleware. Beside the grid and mobile related challenges there are also interesting knowledge management questions to be addressed. The first knowledge management challenge is to coordinate the distributed software development of 13 partner organisations in Europe in a highly sophisticated domain. The second challenge is to support de...

Around the world, e-learning is becoming popular, especially among higher education institutes (universities). Many highly ranked universities have either already deployed an e-learning system and are fully operational, or they are in a process of deployment where e-learning-based and non e-learning-based educational environments co-exist. It is also possible to find a few virtual universities....

This paper proposes OCR++, an open-source framework designed for a variety of information extraction tasks from scholarly articles including metadata (title, author names, affiliation and e-mail), structure (section headings and body text, table and figure headings, URLs and footnotes) and bibliography (citation instances and references). We analyze a diverse set of scientific articles written ...

As metagenomic studies continue to increase in their number, sequence volume and complexity, the scalability of biological analysis frameworks has become a rate-limiting factor to meaningful data interpretation. To address this issue, we have developed JCVI Metagenomics Reports (METAREP) as an open source tool to query, browse, and compare extremely large volumes of metagenomic annotations. Her...

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The very first 'One Health Day' will be organised on 3 November 2016 across the globe. It is held to promote a change in the assessment of global health challenges and how to address them, and aims to 'bring global attention to the need for One Health interactions'. It is intended as 'a day of declaration and action wherever possible to bring global attention to the crucial need and benefits of...

This paper investigates the contribution of stakeholder collaboration during an open source software migration using a case study. The case study is based on the Presidential National Commission, a South African government department that migrated from proprietary software to open source software in 2007. The organization was one of the few that migrated to open source software as part of a Sou...

The success of open source software in other fields has generated a surge of interest in open source for healthcare. Open source initiatives not only help reduce costs for the patients and healthcare providers but also establish standards that are necessary to prevent vendor lock-in. The National Health Information Network (NHIN) project is aimed at modernizing the US Healthcare Information Inf...