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Open Sourcing Healthcare One Patient at a Time
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| Open source healthcare IT solutions are just beginning to become acceptable
| alternatives to proprietary software systems. As is happening in other
| fields, open source medical projects are getting noticed as cost-saving
| alternatives to proprietary vendors. The battle for supremacy between the two
| marketing strategies may gain national political attention as President
| Obama's administration drives toward the creation of a national electronic
| health records network built on standards for interoperability and
| affordability.
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| [..]
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| "It's a very fractured field out there. It is reminiscent of what the
| computer science industry went through in the 1950s and 1960s where you had
| brilliant people all over the world working but nobody knew what everybody
| else was doing," Donahue told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/66688.html
Recent:
Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data
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| [T]he current health record suppliers as offering pre-Internet era software —
| costly and wedded to proprietary technology standards that make it difficult
| for customers to switch vendors and for outside programmers to make upgrades
| and improvements.
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| [...]
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| Instead of stimulating use of such software, they say, the government should
| be a rule-setting referee to encourage the development of an open software
| platform on which innovators could write electronic health record
| applications.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/business/26health.html?_r=1&em
Fred Trotter On Preventing An Anti-FOSS Policy In Health IT
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| I can tell you that in Health IT, FOSS is the future. Imagine a world where
| there is GNU/Linux, but no Microsoft Windows. That is what is coming for
| Health IT. There has been an utter market failure by proprietary EHR vendors
| over the last 30 years. Part of that is the fault of the Clinical community,
| they have been very resistant to computerization. But most of the blame is
| from the proprietary lock-in tactics used by the majority of the HIMSS
| vendors.
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http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/interview/show/fred-trotter-on-preventing-an-anti-foss-policy-in-health-it
Open source to meet with CCHIT at HIMSS
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| Since CCHIT is the organization that presently certifies solutions, and it
| locks out open source, Trotter fears open source is being locked out of the
| health care market.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=2021
WorldVista on Moka5 player virtual machine
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| Thanks to the installation script by Ignacio Valdes and the patch by Kevin
| Toppenburg for his GUI Configuration tool, I was able to install WorldVista
| on a Moka5 virtual machine based on PCLinuxOS-2007.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1237587962
DOHCS 2009 Conference a Hit! Wildly Exceeds Attendance Expectations
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| The third appearance of the DOHCS (Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care
| Solutions) conference showed a stunning demand for open-source healthcare
| technologies. With the nation in the midst of a healthcare crisis, nearly 300
| attendees learned how open-source alternatives to proprietary health
| technologies can offer the transparency and collaboration necessary for
| quality patient care.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11222.html
CBO: Health IT Deficit of $17 billion over 10 Years
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| Ten years in the ditch is a very long time. The only thing that could turn
| this around is a ban on federal spending for proprietary Electronic Medical
| Record software in which only Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3
| software can be purchased with federal funds. Current proprietary vendors can
| change their product licenses to AGPL to receive public money.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1235862421
Midland Memorial Hospital Reduces Patient Deaths, Infection Rates Through Use
of OpenVista Electronic Health Record
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| Since the implementation of Medsphere's OpenVista electronic health record
| (EHR), Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH) has realized a host of improved
| clinical results, including fewer patient deaths and medical errors and
| decreased infection rates, an independent case study confirms.
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http://www.medsphere.com/press/20090304
Your Money and Your Medical Privacy Gone
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| The important exceptions are: The Veterans Affairs VistA software system
| which is in the public domain, successfully deployed in the private sector
| and is a remarkable example of a government success. Naturally the government
| has tried to kill it numerous times. Other Free/Open Source Software
| Electronic Medical Records that have achieved notable success like Webreach
| and ClearHealth. The recent ARRA of 2009 as written tips the playing field
| against FOSS software through hostile certification processes and marketing
| noise drowning out real solutions.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1235922594
GNUmed 0.4.0 released
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| Over last couple of months the GNUmed team has worked hard to bring you a
| brand new release. We are proud to announce version 0.4 of GNUmed.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1236186899
A Generous, Virtuous Society
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| A single sentence law enacted by Congress could change this. That sentence
| is: 'All Electronic Medical Record software purchased with federal funds must
| be licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3.' Such a
| sentence would change the picture dramatically for the better.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1235970537
Misys open source solutions tests software
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| Misys Open Source Solutions, a division of Misys plc, announced today that it
| will demonstrate newly developed software at the healthcare industry's
| week-long interoperability testing event, Integrating the Healthcare
| Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon in Chicago.
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http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Open-Source/News-Reports/Misys-open-source-solutions-tests-software/27209116599/0/
Open Source Medical Records
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| The idea is simple - take the the publicly available code from the Veterans
| Administration clinical information system, add new modules such as revenue
| cycle interfaces that are needed in practices outside the VA system and
| include support/implementation services. In effect, you'll have the "Red Hat
| Linux" of the electronic health record world.
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http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-source-medical-records.html
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