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Organizing the open source troops in healthcare
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| Open source is organized from the bottom up, and in a project’s early stages
| users are barely organized at all. Few users of The Gimp, even large users,
| have any organizational structure, while those of Adobe do.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1578
Healthcare Pros Heed the Call of Open Source Groups
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| If you're involved in healthcare IT and also have a fondness for open source,
| there's a newly formed group at LinkedIn that you may want to know about. The
| OpenVista Health Information Technology (HIT) group is looking for healthcare
| professionals who use the popular electronic medical record system and want
| to swap implementation and deployment ideas.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/healthcare-pros-heed-the-call-of-open-source-groups
Recent:
PRISM, Public Health Entry Into Open Source
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| An application developed and deployed by the Florida Department of Health's
| Bureau of STD is Public Health's entry into the Open Source effort. Licensed
| under the GPL, the Patient Reporting, Investigation, Surveillance Manager or
| PRISM application an application designed for the management, surveillance,
| and reporting of infectious diseases aligned with the efforts of most public
| health programs. Its design to use automated work flows, business logic,
| external tools like Electronic Lab Reporting, are all part of the
| efficiencies and cost savings that are critical in a modern public health
| program.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1226327318
A prescription for lower costs
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| McKesson Corp. is a multifaceted healthcare company, a large distributor of
| pharmaceuticals and a thriving developer of healthcare-related IT systems.
| Its software and hardware are installed in more than 70% of U.S. hospitals
| with more than 200 beds, and handle everything from billing and scheduling to
| capturing MRI-machine images and preventing dangerous drug interactions. For
| the last five years, the company has used open source technology to deliver
| products at lower cost and greater speed, says Randall Spratt, executive vice
| president and CIO. After seeing open source, Spratt considers it an essential
| part of McKesson's product development strategy.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111008-your-take-mckesson-spratt.html?hpg1=bn
LinuxWorld: Health care IT solutions
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| At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, McKesson CIO Randal Spratt
| explains why his company deploys its health care applications on Linux. He
| says these applications are scalable, affordable on tight hospital budgets,
| and reliable--making better patient care possible.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-214546.html
Related:
McKesson First to Offer Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform
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| As a leading provider of technology solutions to the healthcare
| industry, McKesson has been at the forefront of innovative
| technologies, deploying many of its advanced Horizon Clinicals
| applications on Linux running on Intel-based hardware. Hospitals
| with these deployments have already realized cost savings of up
| to 60% compared with traditional system deployments.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070226/20070226005175.html?.v=1
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