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[News] US Milestone for Healthcare With Free Software

  • Subject: [News] US Milestone for Healthcare With Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:15:36 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Group recommends upgrading VA health system with open source

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| A blue-chip information technology industry 
| recommended the Veterans Affairs Department 
| reengineer its decade-old electronic health 
| record system based on open source models 
| and offered as the international standard 
| for hospitals.
| 
| The recommendations have implications for 
| the Obama administration's push for a 
| national network for health records, which 
| faces a roadblock of incompatible systems 
| nationwide. Open source theoretically could 
| provide a solution.
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http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100506_2038.php?oref=topnews

Group Recommends VA Use Open Source Model To Modernize VistA

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/5/6/group-recommends-va-use-open-source-model-to-modernize-vista.aspx

Is open source the cure for what ails VA's e-records? 

http://fcw.com/articles/2010/05/06/industry-group-recommends-open-source-vista-for-va.aspx

San Diego Students Team With Carlsbad-Based Open-Source EHR Leader to Plan eHealth Records Implementation for Community Clinic 

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/san-diego-students-team-with,1287015.shtml

Report: VA should take open source path to VistA 2.0

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| âWe think the standardization generated by 
| VistA 2.0 will actually enhance the 
| adoption of Connect and use of the NHIN,â 
| Meagher said, who also envisioned VistA 2.0 
| as a âguide star,â around which users could 
| steer the development of the NHIN.
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http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=73695


Recent:

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.
|
| 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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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


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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