A Tale of Modern Electronic Medical Record Software
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| One day a Mr. FOSS came to town. Mr. FOSS said: “Why don’t we have all these
| companies use the same lighthouse design? Why don’t we have all the ship
| owners and the community own the design instead of all these companies
| re-inventing the same thing over and over?” So Mr. FOSS went to the town
| council and to all the ship owners and to consortia of passengers and showed
| them how to draw up a special contract.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1186374089
And here's the mess of proprietary software:
Trade in your software, urges UK reseller
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| Business software users are being offered the chance to trade in used
| software like they would a second hand car. A Staffordshire-based company is
| offering reductions on new software if old versions are handed in for resale.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/08/04/secondhand-software/
Why do they treat software like a commodity? How wasteful.
Related:
Is Your Big Company, CCHIT, Proprietary EMR Safe?
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| Think your CCHIT certified, proprietary EMR from a 'big' corporation is a
| safe bet? Think again. Remember Enron?
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1186107240
Stark Exceptions Establishing Cartels?
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| Traditional USA market forces already do not work well with Electronic
| Medical Record software. Aka "The Microsoft of Medicine" has not and likely
| will not emerge. EMR's are a public good and governed by those economic rules
| but are being treated as a private good. Those rules include susceptibility
| to market failure by among other things, the "noise effect" from too many
| competitors and by 'information asymmetry'.
|
| [...]
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| Approximately 8 vendors currently will support WorldVistA EHR/VOE 1.0. There
| are other EMR vendors smart enough and brave enough to use FOSS licenses
| exclusively such as MirrorMed/ClearHealth and Ultimate EMR with rumors that
| Misys will be FOSS licensing its product. Organizations such as these,
| WorldVistA and its participating vendors should be supported with service
| contracts, public and private funding to establish information symmetric,
| true markets for EMR's.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1186075465
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
|
| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
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