Source Code Escrow Absurdity
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| The fantastic gyrations of the EMR industry to accommodate proprietary
| business models continues. The concept of proprietary EMR source code escrow
| had to be dreamed up by proprietary EMR marketing departments. Source code
| escrows give a false sense of security and confuse buyers from getting the
| real thing: Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) licensed EMR software in which
| the source code is available all the time. Yet EMR RFP's seem to have a bias
| towards proprietary EMR software since there seems to be a check item
| for 'source code escrow available?', but not 'FOSS licensing available?'.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1192563466
10 Things You Should Know About Open Source
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=217105,00.asp
Related:
Experts are calling for product liability for software
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| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09
PP: Negative EMR ROI, Open Systems Needed
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| “There are no standard leaders in medical software as in many other
| industries,” says another. “There are too many variations and vendors. The
| interfaces are proprietary rather than open. It is difficult to spend that
| much money, knowing that the support in the future may be limited and that
| there may eventually be a standardized software out there.”
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191860931
Failed NHS project cost $12 billion
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=700
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
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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