Texas doc brews up funding for Houston RHIO
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| "He gave this chat on why (proprietary) electronic medical software is not
| going to work and probably never will," Valdes recalled. "It's a public good
| and not a private good. People are going at this like it is a piece of
| furniture when it is really like a lighthouse. What he said was, according to
| economic theory and practice, you need to treat it like a public good, and
| free and open source shifts it toward a public good."
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http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070914/FREE/309110001/0/FRONTPAGE
http://tinyurl.com/2nmsg3
Related:
AcerMed is officially dead.
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| The important thing to note here is what did NOT matter. The AcerMed people
| seemed decent enough: did not matter. AcerMed was CCHIT certified: did not
| matter. AcerMed was recommended in the industry press and by industry
| experts: did not matter. Companies get sued, people get sick. When will the
| medical community wake up to the fact that proprietary medical software is
| incompatible with medicine, incompatible with free thought and dangerous to
| patient data?
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http://www.gplmedicine.org/articles_20/
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
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
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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