Check Out Version 2.1!!!

Thanks to all that answered the polls and provided additional feedback through email and comments.

Check out VA MedPulse v2.1 incorporating changes from user feedback and additional datasets.

Free, as in Speech (Cool Tools)

We're halfway through day 2 of the 2015 Datathon Challenge and want to provide some information on the tools and resources we used throughout the challenge.

The cool thing about VA MedPulse is that it is completely free for commercial use. VA MedPulse uses open source technology for application programming interfaces (API) and free community licenses. A few of the useful tools include:

• Font Awesome - Fonts
• Blogspot - Blogging
• Rally Dev - Project Management | Community Version
• GitHub - Source E-Control
• Jvectormap - Mapping Tool
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition - Application Development

dmvdatadrivers.blogspot feeds - API

Note:These full-site feeds are real-time enabled; developers can subscribe to low-latency updates by using the PubSubHubbub protocol.

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Comments-only feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Label-specific site feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/privacy
• RSS 2.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss/-/privacy

Individual post comment feed:

Note: You can find the postId of an individual post from the Posting | Edit Posts tab. Simply mouseover the 'Edit' link next to a particular post, and that postId will be displayed in your browser's status bar.

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default?alt=rss