Misys Delivers on Promise to Release Open Source Code at Southern California
Linux Expo
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| To lead the company's vision, Misys has chosen former IBM executive and
| healthcare business developer Tim Elwell to position Misys at the nucleus of
| the healthcare open source development debate.
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http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080207/ukth114.html?.v=2
News from the Australia conference:
50 Kiwis cross ditch for Linuxconf
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| The conference kicked off last Monday with two days of mini-conferences on
| topics as varied as community wireless, education, embedded, Fedora,
| multimedia, Debian, security, virtualisation, distro, gaming, LinuxChix and
| MySQL to name a few.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3CB16792C660822BCC2573E200126565
Related:
[on Misys:] The Prescription for Health Care: Open Software or Forklifts?
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| Linux and Apache, the big hits of open source, are basic server software and
| the people working with Linux and Apache are technical people.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/the-prescription-for-health-care-open-software-or-forklifts/?hp
Linux in Healthcare
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| Linux in healthcare is a tale of things seen and unseen. Linux/Open
| Source have enjoyed tremendous popularity in embedded systems and
| networks for major technologies used in healthcare that healthcare
| providers may not even be aware of.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3215/
A call for open source values in health care
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| The Committee for Economic Development, a 65-year old advocacy group which
| claims to represent “the best in business thinking,” has issued a clarion
| call for open source values in medicine.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=689
Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets
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| At first, convincing hospital executives to go with McKesson's Linux-based
| applications was difficult because of fears that Linux wouldn't be as
| reliable as Unix, which had been in their IT shops for years, Simpson
| said. "It took some time for them to understand that open source is safe,
| that open source has support," he added.
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| The deal with Red Hat "really kicked the program into gear," he said,
| allowing McKesson to offer its software with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a
| top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052142&intsrc=hm_list
Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
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| The change occurs on the back-end, where Linux is the OS, and where customers
| may even choose MySQL or Ingres as their database technology.
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| McKesson says 75% of its roughly 2,500 hospital customers have embraced the
| change, with Oracle as the company’s current database of choice. “The best of
| both worlds” the company says.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=564
Red Hat enters healthcare sector
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| Red Hat Software Services, provider of Linux and open source technologies, is
| foraying into the Indian healthcare sector.
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| Red Hat's Global Support Services vice-president Lain Gray said the company
| plans to facilitate the sharing of patients' data and history within various
| hospitals to promote better healthcare services.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/dec/06yup.htm
Leading Healthcare Technology Provider Chooses Red Hat
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| Sage Software provides integrated electronic health records, electronic
| data interchange (EDI) applications and practice management systems to
| more than 20,000 ambulatory care practices throughout North America.
| These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better
| manage their practices and improve profitability.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070123/20070123005179.html?.v=1
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. Announces Migration of CPSI System to Linux
Operating System
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| Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare
| information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare
| information system to the Linux operating system.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071115/20071115005804.html?.v=1
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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