Carlo Daffara (http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/) the author of FLOSSMETRICS/OpenTTT which was adopted by the International Open Source Network (IOSN) ASEAN+3 and InWEnt Capacity Building International of Germany in their fosstoolkit project (includes a section on FOSS in healthcare) has come up with a Linux desktop named EveryDesk!
Read the rest of the article at: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=435
Read also Some EveryDesk Use Cases which includes a use case for healthcare among others.
From the National Telehealth Center
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time: 7:00am – 5:00pm
Location: College of Dentistry Auditorium, University of the Philippines Manila
Street: Pedro Gil St. Cor. Taft Avenue,
City/Town: Manila, Philippines
Coming from the widely successful first (April 
and second (May 21) Seminars on Health Informatics, the UP Manila National Telehealth Center is inviting more health and IT professionals and students to participate in the third offering at the UP College of Dentistry Auditorium on June 26th, 2010.
This third seminar aims to offer the same content as the first but with additional talks by professionals working in health IT. It also promises to provide participants with concrete action items that they can pursue to further sharpen their knowledge and skills in health informatics.
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From: iHealthBeat
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/4/13/new-technologies-spur-changes-in-health-care-research-delivery.aspx
New Technologies Spur Changes in Health Care Research, Delivery
Wall Street Journal recently featured several articles on new trends in electronic health tools. One of the articles discussed “a new open-source collaborative effort … aiming to advance medical research by allowing scientists to share disease data and models ..”
Open-Source Data Network for Medical Research
A new open-source collaborative effort called Sage Commons aims to advance medical research by allowing scientists to share disease data and models, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sage Bionetworks launched the project last year.
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From: The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-map-TB-genome/articleshow/5784651.cms
“The TB gene map, developed under the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be available in the public domain for drug makers.”
“This marks the beginning of the efforts of C2D to align R&D with public health and to use the full potential of the open source model for the development of medical technologies and drug discovery for neglected diseases,” Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR said.
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We have just formally launched the foss-for-health.org web portal last week.
foss-for-health.org is part of the Open Source and Standards PCTA (PANACeA Common Thematic Activities) that hopes to help create awareness of Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in eHealth, promote its use and build both capacity and support for those starting to adopt it.
PANACeA (PAN Asian Collaboration for Evidence-based eHealth Adoption and Application) is an initiative to generate evidence in the field of eHealth within the Asian context, by forming a network of researchers and research projects from developing Asian countries.
PANACeA supports multinational projects to evaluate eHealth solution in the field and generate evidence through methodologically sound research.
foss-for-health.org aims to build a FOSS for eHealth Online Community that can be a venue for networking and exchanging ideas and experience on FOSS use, best practices and business models for sustainability aside from providing online support to FOSS adopters and making available FOSS resources.
Knowing how long it usually takes to discover Linux / Open Source Applications especially for those just starting to use Linux, the author of this thread in Ubuntu Forum hopes it would be helpful to someone new to Linux or for those looking for programs they have never used.
The thread also contains links to the listed applications’ website / download page. Some even contains installation instructions. The listing is divided into: BitTorrent Clients, EyeCandy, File Browser/Search, Games, Graphics and Text Viewers/Editors, Music and Video Players, Network Programs, Programming IDEs, Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities, Web Browsers, Other Programs.
Yet another nice listing of Open Source / Linux applications: Top 100 Open Source Linux Apps
On the 100th (2008) year of the Premier State University in the Philippines
— The only University that has declared the use of Free and Open Source Software as a policy, providing continuously both organizational and budgetary support to an ongoing program towards migration to FOSS (that includes training and development of training materials, faculty grant and student thesis grant for FOSS related research projects and FOSS helpdesk) for the entire UP System that includes 7 constituent universities in 7 campuses all over the Philippines —
I will try to gather and list Free and Open Source Software developed in the UP and hopefully approximate a total of 100. This will be a continuous and evolving list that’s why I will devote a separate permanent page for this (see link below).
As the list grows, I will try to provide some details like description, the name of the unit or people behind the development and the design architecture / requirement. Will also try to provide links for downloading if possible.
Hopefully, others will contribute to this list or even give suggestions or corrections if ever I wrongly listed softwares that are not supposed to be in this list.
The List: 100 FOSS in UP
Bhutan has long ago gave up the idea of the Gross National Product as measurement of development. Instead the Bhutan King decreed that they use Gross National Happiness instead. This kind of Buddhist wisdom has started influencing international policy and development models, seeking to establish scientific methods of finding what makes people happy.
What is striking is that money or material wealth are not the main cause of happiness.
“Icelanders are just as happy as Swedes yet their country spends half what Sweden does (per capita) on social welfare,” according to Ruut Veenhoven, creator of the World Database of Happiness in 1999.
“Education, nutrition, freedom from fear and violence, gender equality, and perhaps most importantly, having choices” are as much as relevant to happiness as per capita income. “People’s ability to be an agent, to act on behalf of what matters to them is fundamental,” said Sabina Alkire of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Institute.
This just proves what FOSS advocates have already known (implicit or explicit), the freedoms guranteed by Free and Open Source Software should be protected and promoted as it can contribute to what really matters: Happiness.
No wonder FOSS people are a happy lot. 
Reference : tulsaworld.com – World happiness-scale: U.S. in top 15
DesktopLinux.com’s just completed a survey saying the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled compared to the 2006 survey.
Way to go Linux! For world domination not only in the servers but on to the desktop. This means a continuing popularity not only among sysadmins but also desktop users.
Excerpts: Based on our survey results, we think that everyone should be taking a closer look at desktop Linux. What we see here is a quickly maturing line of desktops that are capable of replacing Windows desktops for both home and business uses.
The Linux desktop is gaining quickly in popularity, and it’s not because of technology-happy fans. It’s gaining users because it’s an inexpensive, secure, and efficient alternative to today’s mainstream desktop operating systems. After all, 38,000 plus users and two major PC companies can’t be wrong.
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