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Nationally Recognized Psychiatric Hospital Selects Medsphere's Open Source
Electronic Health Record to Transform Clinical Care
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| Medsphere SystemsCorporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare
| IT solutions, todayannounced a five-year contract with Connecticut's Silver
| Hill Hospital forimplementation, training and support of the company's
| OpenVista electronichealth record (EHR) solution.
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http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/nationally-recognized-psychiatric-hospital-selects-medsphere039s-open-source-electronic-health-recor
http://tinyurl.com/cvz3pe
An Affordable Fix for Modernizing Medical Records
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| But commercial vendors, noting a common complaint against open-source
| software that is developed by engineers here and there, say that they can
| provide a more reliable soup-to-nuts system and offer many features that
| users of the VA system have to tack on, notably billing and financial
| programs that commercial hospitals need to run their business.
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| [...]
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| Many start-up companies adapting VistA for commercial use, including Blue
| Cliff Inc., MELE Associates Inc., Sequence Managers Software and Medsphere
| Inc., say their systems will still be less expensive for hospitals to deploy.
| Medsphere, which put together the system for Midland Hospital, says OpenVistA
| enables hospitals to run system checks for security problems and bugs. And
| Chief Executive Mike Doyle says the open-source software community can
| quickly share information and patches to fix or correct them.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104350516570503.html
Recent:
What Obama promised open source health IT
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| Proprietary vendors, especially in the health care space, are experts at
| creating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) concerning open source. They will
| offer government “proven solutions” while open source advocates will offer
| tools the government might build on.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=2164
Misys Open Source Solutions Announces Business Advisory Board for
OpenCarbonWorld.com
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| Misys Open Source Solutions, a division of Misys plc (FTSE:MSY.L), today
| announced the Business Advisory Board members for OpenCarbonWorld.com (OCW),
| the company's carbon planning and information portal designed to help
| organizations establish clear policies towards reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
| emissions.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/misys-open-source-solutions-announces/story.aspx?guid={05917C4A-0693-4350-A343-8A63375FD152}&dist=msr_2
Healthcare Conference to Focus on Open Source Solutions
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| Panels, presentations, and Birds of a Feather meetings are certainly the
| highlight of next month's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), but that's
| not the only thing happening during the event. The Demonstrating Open Source
| Health Care Solutions (DOHCS) conference will be co-located with SCALE and
| both will get underway on Friday, February 20, 2009.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/healthcare-conference-to-focus-on-open-source-solutions
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