Midland hospital proves open source savings
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| Midland Memorial Hospital got an $18 million EMR system for $7 million,
| thanks to open source.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2113
Last week:
Florida Hospital Enhances IT Performance and Patient Care with Red Hat
Solutions
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| Florida Hospital, ranked in US News and World Report magazine as one
| of “America’s Best Hospitals” for the past six consecutive years, has seven
| facilities totalling 2,300 beds throughout Central Florida and is part of the
| Adventist Healthcare system, the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider
| in the nation.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080310/20080310005264.html?.v=1
Recent:
Leading Hospital Relies on Red Hat Solutions for Improved Reliability and
Patient Care
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux now runs on 40 BIDMC servers, 11 of which are
| installed in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster that hosts Intersystems Cache
| and the hospital's proprietary Triple A applications, those that are most
| mission-critical for patients.
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http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/393977.html
Related:
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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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
IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for
Healthcare and Life Sciences
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| The IBM BCU is a fully integrated and scalable data warehouse
| solution for Linux that combines software, server, and storage
| resources to maximize business intelligence and information
| management performance for enterprises.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070228/0221247.html
Editor's Corner (on Open Source in Healthcare)
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| Suggesting that a private healthcare provider switch from
| proprietary software to open source-based applications is one
| thing. But when an official affiliated with as august a body as
| the United Nations suggests that all member countries adopt open
| source for their healthcare applications, that's a much bigger deal.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-10-09
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/
Next Gen, Mission-Critical Apps To Be Deployed on Linux Says Report
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| By now it should be obvious to even the most casual industry observers
| that Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general -
| have reached critical marketplace mass. Recent Linux deals and
| announcements by Oracle and Microsoft have only reinforced the "open
| source is enterprise-grade" message that IBM, Unisys and other "Master
| Brand" hardware, software and services vendors have been preaching for
| years. In short, open source, especially Linux, is becoming "legitimized"
| by the major vendors for enterprise environments, and user executives
| are more than happy to believe them.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Next_Gen_MissionCritical_Apps_To_Be_Deployed_on_Linux_Says_Report
CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time
,----[ Quote ]
| The company predicts a steep rise: only 18 percent of businesses
| will be using Linux in business-critical roles by the end of 2007.
|
| "Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general
| - have reached critical marketplace mass," said the study's authors,
| Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee of Saugatuck Research.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7681
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