Open Source Is an Open Book for SaaS Providers
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| During the CRM market's well-documented move from on-premise-only offerings
| to the on-demand world of software-as-a-service (SaaS), not as much attention
| has been given to the role that open-source technology can have in this
| shift.
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http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7886
Logica to provide security solution for the medical and healthcare sector in
Sweden
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| BIF is a national security infrastructure for the medical and healthcare
| sector that guarantees the integrity of patient information and ensures that
| the right people gain access to the right information. BIF includes nine IT
| services and will be based on open source code, making it one of the largest
| ever open source projects in Sweden.
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http://www.fd.nl/csFdArtikelen/BTN-BPU/y2008/m04/d23/BTN-BPU4664262?t=Persbericht_Logica_contract_gezondheidssector_Zweden
Related:
A call for open source values in health care
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| The Committee for Economic Development, a 65-year old advocacy group which
| claims to represent “the best in business thinking,” has issued a clarion
| call for open source values in medicine.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=689
Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Selects OpenClinica Enterprise
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| Akaza Research announces that Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSS), an
| employee-owned global IT services and consulting firm in the public health
| sector, has selected OpenClinica Enterprise as a clinical data capture and
| data management system (http://www.openclinica.org) to support its clinical
| trials.
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http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66088&Itemid=9
Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets
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| At first, convincing hospital executives to go with McKesson's Linux-based
| applications was difficult because of fears that Linux wouldn't be as
| reliable as Unix, which had been in their IT shops for years, Simpson
| said. "It took some time for them to understand that open source is safe,
| that open source has support," he added.
|
| The deal with Red Hat "really kicked the program into gear," he said,
| allowing McKesson to offer its software with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a
| top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052142&intsrc=hm_list
Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
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| The change occurs on the back-end, where Linux is the OS, and where customers
| may even choose MySQL or Ingres as their database technology.
|
| McKesson says 75% of its roughly 2,500 hospital customers have embraced the
| change, with Oracle as the company’s current database of choice. “The best of
| both worlds” the company says.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=564
Red Hat enters healthcare sector
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| Red Hat Software Services, provider of Linux and open source technologies, is
| foraying into the Indian healthcare sector.
|
| Red Hat's Global Support Services vice-president Lain Gray said the company
| plans to facilitate the sharing of patients' data and history within various
| hospitals to promote better healthcare services.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/dec/06yup.htm
Leading Healthcare Technology Provider Chooses Red Hat
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| Sage Software provides integrated electronic health records, electronic
| data interchange (EDI) applications and practice management systems to
| more than 20,000 ambulatory care practices throughout North America.
| These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better
| manage their practices and improve profitability.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070123/20070123005179.html?.v=1
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. Announces Migration of CPSI System to Linux
Operating System
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| Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare
| information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare
| information system to the Linux operating system.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071115/20071115005804.html?.v=1
McKesson First to Offer Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform
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| As a leading provider of technology solutions to the healthcare
| industry, McKesson has been at the forefront of innovative
| technologies, deploying many of its advanced Horizon Clinicals
| applications on Linux running on Intel-based hardware. Hospitals
| with these deployments have already realized cost savings of up
| to 60% compared with traditional system deployments.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070226/20070226005175.html?.v=1
IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for
Healthcare and Life Sciences
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| The IBM BCU is a fully integrated and scalable data warehouse
| solution for Linux that combines software, server, and storage
| resources to maximize business intelligence and information
| management performance for enterprises.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070228/0221247.html
Editor's Corner (on Open Source in Healthcare)
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| Suggesting that a private healthcare provider switch from
| proprietary software to open source-based applications is one
| thing. But when an official affiliated with as august a body as
| the United Nations suggests that all member countries adopt open
| source for their healthcare applications, that's a much bigger deal.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-10-09
Linux in Healthcare
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| Linux in healthcare is a tale of things seen and unseen. Linux/Open
| Source have enjoyed tremendous popularity in embedded systems and
| networks for major technologies used in healthcare that healthcare
| providers may not even be aware of.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3215/
Next Gen, Mission-Critical Apps To Be Deployed on Linux Says Report
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| By now it should be obvious to even the most casual industry observers
| that Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general -
| have reached critical marketplace mass. Recent Linux deals and
| announcements by Oracle and Microsoft have only reinforced the "open
| source is enterprise-grade" message that IBM, Unisys and other "Master
| Brand" hardware, software and services vendors have been preaching for
| years. In short, open source, especially Linux, is becoming "legitimized"
| by the major vendors for enterprise environments, and user executives
| are more than happy to believe them.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Next_Gen_MissionCritical_Apps_To_Be_Deployed_on_Linux_Says_Report
CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time
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| The company predicts a steep rise: only 18 percent of businesses
| will be using Linux in business-critical roles by the end of 2007.
|
| "Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general
| - have reached critical marketplace mass," said the study's authors,
| Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee of Saugatuck Research.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7681
Open Source Needs Health Care Coverage
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| First, let’s look at the big picture. A quick check of the news wires this
| morning revealed major healthcare-related statements from:
|
| * Avnet (the big distributor is promoting its healthcare ISVs)
| * Cisco (mobile healthcare)
| * Dell (partnering on patient care systems)
| * IBM (Virtual healthcare on Second Life)
| * Lawson Software (more than 100 healthcare providers are using its
| mobile applications)
| * Nortel and Polycom (TelePresence for hospitals)
| * Xerox (document management for healthcare)
|
| Of course, not all of the releases are compelling. Plenty of companies throw
| useless information out on the news wires in lame attempts to generate noise.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/02/25/open-source-needs-health-care-cove
FOSS at HIMSS: Medsphere's HIMSS talk
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| Medsphere, an open-source VistA vendor and their customers, gave a talk on
| their system and their strategy at HIMSS yesterday.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1204109473
Open source makes a healthy site for healthy eaters
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| TheDailyPlate.com (TDP) is a free, online eating journal with a lot of
| features that make it useful for the health conscious. The site is developed
| completely in PHP on MySQL, Apache, and Linux. LAMP was a natural choice, the
| founders say, because so many other Internet companies have experienced
| success with the now-ubiquitous platform.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/127584
FOSS at HIMSS, Dr. Janice Honeyman-Buck
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| To start her talk, she gave an overview of what Open Source is. Of course for
| me it is old hat, but she did a good job of informing her large and diverse
| audience about the basics of Open Source. She covered the basics, MySQL,
| Apache, Linux, Firefox. But then she talked about OpenEMR. ( Given the link
| she used, I do not think she is aware of the trademark rift in that
| community).
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http://linuxmednews.com/1203962325
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