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A Healthy Move for Open Source
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| What's interesting here is how different
| projects from around the world are being
| brought together to be applied to a new
| problem. This kind of re-purposing is one of
| the great advantages of free software, since
| it's not necessary to ask permission or to
| negotiate impossibly complex licensing
| agreements to do so, as would be the case with
| traditional software. Let's hope we see many
| more such applications.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2830
Public comment letter below, please personalize and post
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| Open Source Community, below is a letter that
| you can personalize and post on the public
| comment website. It is very important that you
| do this, the policy and the press is on fire
| and our duty is to educate our policy makers.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1267714959
Public Comment? Let's get it ON!
http://linuxmednews.com/1267625263
Recent:
Five sites for open source healthcare
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| If you're browsing the web looking for sites
| about open source healthcare, here are five I
| found interesting. There are a ton of sites
| out there, and I tried to stay away from those
| that talked strictly about software--instead
| focusing on those that tackled the issues in
| open source ways beyond technology.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/2/five-sites-open-source-healthcare
How software companies could screw up Obamaâs health care reform.
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| Things did not go so smoothly at Childrenâs
| Hospital of Pittsburgh, which installed a
| computerized health system in 2002. Rather
| than a godsend, the new system turned out to
| be a disaster, largely because it made it
| harder for the doctors and nurses to do
| their jobs in emergency situations. The
| computer interface, for example, forced
| doctors to click a mouse ten times to make a
| simple order...
|
| Why did similar attempts to bring health
| care into the twenty-first century lead to
| triumph at Midland but tragedy at
| Childrenâs? While many factors were no doubt
| at work, among the most crucial was a
| difference in the software installed by the
| two institutions. The system that Midland
| adopted is based on software originally
| written by doctors for doctors at the
| Veterans Health Administration, and it is
| whatâs called "open source," meaning the
| code can be read and modified by anyone and
| is freely available in the public domain
| rather than copyrighted by a corporation.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0907.longman.html
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