Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehouse
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| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money. According to the article,
| no funds are changing hands. But the company will get to work with data
| -- a lot of it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=309
Good comment:
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| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money.
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| No, but when they're done that's going to be an awful lot of DoD data
| that won't be accessible without Microsoft's cooperation.
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http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31110&messageID=576835&start=-1
Didn't the US Government throw a lineline to SGI because of unfortunate
dependence? Also see:
our 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.
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| 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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