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A Response to HIMSS "Call to Action" on the American Recovery and Response Act
of 2009
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| Jeff Soble, Neil Cowles, and Edmund Billings have a response reproduced after
| the break to HIMSS "Call to Action". This is a sobering look at the American
| Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which looks poised to result in the
| demise of real competition, medical data in the hands of a cartel or monopoly
| for a few wealthy corporations, loss of privacy and the loss of the physician
| as the traditional custodian of medical data. Item 3 is salient: "CCHIT works
| to the benefit of a small number of large EMR vendors that can command a high
| price from the relatively small segment of the market able to currently
| afford their products. It is essentially anti-competitive, and establishes a
| major barrier to entry by new vendors and open source projects (where the
| majority of innovation will take place)."
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http://linuxmednews.com/1234456128
Musician’s back project to fund open source health tools
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| Popular musical artists including Peter Buck of REM and Youssou N’Dour are
| part of a new project to raise funds to put open source software tools in the
| hands of African doctors. Partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist N’Dour,
| global non-profit IntraHealth International is releasing a charity album
| called OPEN Remix. Artists on the album have donated remixes of N’Dour’s Wake
| Up song as part of the project.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4115
Standards of Patient Care
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| If we are to pull back in time from such an Orwellian future of
| patient "care," we need to remember that there is still an art as well as a
| science to healing. The time is now, if indeed it is not already too late, to
| recognize that there are human standards for health care that cannot be
| quantified, and should not be forgotten.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090216163820378
More people strongly demand code of programs that manage their lives, so it's
not just about standards.
Recent:
Open source software for health investigated
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| Open source software is creeping into health systems around the world, but is
| yet to seriously challenge incumbent proprietary software, according to
| experts.
|
| Otago University health informatics lecturer Muzaffar Malik says core open
| source medical software, such as clinical information system OpenVista, is
| being used in several countries.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4842073a27483.html
Getting Electronic Health Record Standards Right
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| As of this writing, $20 billion of that amount is included in the current
| House draft of the Economic Stimulus bill called for by the new
| administration. The full cost of EHR implementation, including private
| expenditures, has been estimated to be $156 billion over five years, not
| including $20 billion in operational costs. With such a price tag, the
| promise of EHRs had best be realized, or the new administration will have
| some significant explaining to do.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090204070214423
Rewiring the VA
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| Much of the attention of the healthcare industry over the past several weeks
| has been focused on Washington and the various proposals before Congress to
| boost the faltering economy, including spending billions of dollars
| subsidizing health information technology.
|
| [...]
|
| The question is whether the Veterans Health Information Systems and
| Technology Architecture, or VistA—the clinical information system that powers
| the VA health system—will wither or bloom in the months and years ahead. It’s
| an issue that has implications not only for millions of veterans but also
| millions of other potential users of open-source and proprietary versions of
| VistA, both in the private and public sectors in the U.S. and abroad.
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http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090202/REG/901309967&nocache=1&nocache=1&nocache=1
'Rockefeller Amendment' for Studying Open Source in Stimulus Bill
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| About page 701 of the stimulus bill is a provision for studying Open
| Source: "...(A) the current availability of open source 6 health information
| technology systems to Fed7 eral safety net providers (including small, rural
| 8 providers); 9 (B) the total cost of ownership of such sys10 tems in
| comparison to the cost of proprietary 11 commercial products available; 12
| (C) the ability of such systems to respond 13 to the needs of, and be applied
| to, various pop14 ulations (including children and disabled indi15 viduals);
| and 16 (D) the capacity of such systems to facili17 tate interoperability...'
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http://linuxmednews.com/1233670177
GNUmed Live CD 0.3.9 released
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| A new GNUmed live CD is out. With the help of this CD one can test drive
| GNUmed without altering the currently running environment such as operating
| system. No installation necessary.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1232437244
Conficker seizes city's hospital network
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| Staff at hospitals across Sheffield are battling a major computer worm
| outbreak after managers turned off Windows security updates for all 8,000 PCs
| on the vital network, The Register has learned.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/
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