Dossia and Boston's CHIP Go Free/Open Source LGPL License
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| Dossia a consortium of companies for "Lifelong Personally-Controlled Health
| Record" has announced that they will be using the LGPL (a FOSS license)
| licensed Indivo personally controlled health record software for Boston's
| Childrens Hospital Information Program (CHIP)
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191175453
Related:
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.
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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
Editor's Corner (on Open Source in Healthcare)
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| Suggesting that a private healthcare provider switch from
| proprietary software to open source-based applications is one
| thing. But when an official affiliated with as august a body as
| the United Nations suggests that all member countries adopt open
| source for their healthcare applications, that's a much bigger deal.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-10-09
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