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[News] Proprietary Medical Company Shows Why Open Source Software is Vital

  • Subject: [News] Proprietary Medical Company Shows Why Open Source Software is Vital
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:07:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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/


Related:

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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