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Growing open standards pressure on healthcare
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| The chorus for open standards in healthcare computing just keeps growing.
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| The latest move is that of Dossia, an alliance of health care technologists
| mainly on the consumer or medical office side of things, to join Continua, a
| separate consortium which includes many hospital computing vendors.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1429
Recent:
Women and Children's Health Research Institute Adds to OpenClinica Software
Developer Community
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| The Women and Children's Health Research Institute, a collaboration between
| the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services, announces it has
| joined the OpenClinica open source developer community. The Institute has
| become an active contributor to the popular open source clinical trials
| software project.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1440334.htm
Open Source Software Workshop OSEHC 2009
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| Open source software is thought to be one of the driving forces in overcoming
| the fragmentation in the health IT market. However, barriers like lack of
| long-term professional support [editor's note: this may be universal for all
| health IT] or uncertainty of cost saving capability hinders open source
| software to gain a reasonable market share.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1223456811
Will Open Source Breathe New Life Into Health Care Cost Savings?
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| A California bill calls for interoperable records and a full,
| hospital-running health care IT system that's open source. That's music to
| provider Medsphere, which backs OpenVista.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210604277
Open Source Software a Booster Shot for Health Care?
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| California Representative Pete Stark introduced the bill on September 15th.
| The particularly intriguing thing is that it isn't just the records that Rep.
| Stark is proposing be in an open, exchangeable format. He is proposing that
| the health information technology system itself be open source, whether it is
| newly created, or based on an existing open source health record system. The
| bill mentions VistA, the health record system used by the U.S. Department of
| Veterans Affairs, as a possible starting place for open source development.
| And indeed, the efforts in this area were started prior to the bill proposal.
| Medsphere has its OpenVista software and a number of specific modules
| developed for different health care settings.
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http://ostatic.com/173518-blog/open-source-software-a-booster-shot-for-health-care
Open-source company targets public health apps
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| Open-source technology proponents launched a project last week to build
| public health and safety applications using the open-source software
| development model.
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| The TriSano project, launched Sept. 16 under the auspices of the
| Collaborative Software Initiative, is initially working with Utah state
| officials to develop a system for monitoring and managing disease outbreaks.
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http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350585-1.html
Will Kolodner lead industry toward open source?
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| Robert Kolodner, a long-time IT leader for the Veterans Administration, is
| going to be the key man in bringing about a national system of Electronic
| Health Records (EHRs). (Picture from the AARP.)
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1374
house.gov 's Health e-IT act of 2008: they want an OS EMR !
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| By my stopwatch, it's been around 11 years since it was obvious that an Open
| Source EMR to rule them all was the way to go. Nice to see the goverment
| actually catch on.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1221697151
Medsphere.org becomes a forge
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| They are in soft-launch now, and will make a formal announcement soon. The
| new site is far more community-friendly than the old one. Its a critical part
| of the Medsphere strategy to get the VistA community to migrate from Hardhats
| (and the FOIA VistA/WorldVistA that is typically discussed there) to
| medsphere.org and (which centers on OpenVistA).
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http://linuxmednews.com/1221843244
Open Health Tools gets first big donation
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| Open Health Tools, the open source project launched this spring by Eclipse
| founder Skip McGaughey, has gotten its first big code donation.
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| It’s called Open HIE, or Open Health Information Exchange. It consists of
| modules to link a master record to personal information, and to retrieve
| records from known locations.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2774
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.
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| 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.
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| 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
The Linux of Healthcare
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| What makes this one different from other HIS in the market? "It's an
| integrated and probably the only healthcare solution based on open source
| technology, making the customer vendor-neutral," says Raman.
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http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/200712/strategy01.shtml
Related:
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.
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| 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
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