There has been a lot of interest in governments liberating data. The overall intention is: Data owned by the government in many cases is locked up and could be better by third parties (example Ordnance Survey data).
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This week brings the news that an US radar that launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon.

Behind the innovation and bleeding edge headlines must lie a lot of seemingly mundane collaboration between technologists in India and USA.
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One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: legal, cultural, administrative, financial, organizational, and of course technical constraints not to omit the lack of incentives. Hence an interesting Norwegian paper by Riita Hellmann which speaks of “ubiquitous heterogeneity.”
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Five years ago the eHealth solutions shown on this map of the world: http://tinyurl.com/wwxds did not exist, but they now provide better quality and more productive healthcare for millions of patients. The happy accident that led to the Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) and XDS for Imaging (XDS-I) profiles in Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise would not have occurred without the supporting International communication standards and the dedicated experts and companies that supported their development. Many regional and Federal initiatives in the US successfully adopted the previously mentioned profiles and their underlying standards.
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Most European patients are still experiencing the healthcare of yesterday in which the patient was patient, the doctor knew best and the technology was outdated. But the attitudes and drivers needed to push us into a new healthcare experience are coming fast. The leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron, has called this
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part III: Openness, implementation and governance
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part II: eHealth in an international perspective
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part I: The Future of eHealth
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The Obama Administration has made eHealth deployment a prioritized issue and through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, approximately $ 19 billion was made available for spending in Healthcare IT infrastrucure.$ 17 billion were earmarked for incentive payments for the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs); this program is now starting to take shape.
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I have been invited to attend a conference called EuroCPR: Policies for a digital Europe: lessons learned and challenges. The agenda (pdf) has a session called Policy benchmarking and policy learning which I hope to attend. The basic idea of this session appears to be to learn from each other and to create conceptual and empirical Foundations of Cross-National Benchmarking of policy.
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