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[News] Healthcare Application Vendor on Migration to GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Healthcare Application Vendor on Migration to GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:13:34 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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At healthcare application vendor, migration to Linux was the developers' idea

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| Rhoads says bringing Linux into the company has made his IT staff much more 
| valuable to him. "We have a traditional IT department that is more focused on 
| the hardware, deployments, and networking and such. In my previous 
| experience, that's where most of the open source system knowledge resided. 
| Now, our development community is almost as knowledgeable and in some ways is 
| more knowledgeable than the traditional IT department. By running Linux as 
| our primary operating system, it has really broadened the base of experience 
| and knowledge in the company."       
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http://www.linux.com/feature/123851


Related:

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

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