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HealthAlliance restarts open-source desktop project
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| Auckland health shared services unit
| HealthAlliance has resuscitated efforts to
| develop a standard desktop based on open-
| source software, but CIO Phil Brimacombe
| says it looks as though the District Health
| Boards will never be able to divorce their
| desktops entirely from Microsoft.
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| First mooted in 2005, the open-source
| desktop idea, seen as potentially relevant
| for all DHBs, was âput into mothballsâ in
| 2009, owing to many higher-priority
| projects, Brimacombe says.
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| [...]
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| âThereâs no way we could be Microsoft-
| free,â says Brimacombe, âbut we expect a
| hybrid solution will still lower our total
| cost of ownership.â
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/healthalliance-restarts-open-source-desktop-project
Here's How Much Money Your Hospital Could Get For Computerizing Records
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| To get that money, however, hospitals have to
| meet certain criteria drafted by the federal
| government. Since Medsphere's e-health
| software is free -- so-called open-source
| software that you could download from home --
| the firm is hoping to turn a profit by
| helping hospitals set up e-records and meet
| those federal requirements. They developed
| the calculator as a marketing tool to show
| potential clients that much of their fees are
| offset by the stimulus cash.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/03/find_out_how_much_stimulus_you.html
Recent:
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
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