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VistA now all open source
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| The big open source struggle that began with Linux, moved to enterprise
| applications and then the consumer space, is now pointed directly at the
| heads of doctors and hospitals.
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| VistA, the public record EHR and hospital management software created by the
| Veterans Administration, is once again an open source movement with word that
| DSS, its biggest commercial licenser, is switching to the Eclipse Public
| License.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3266
Healthcare Conference to Focus on Open Source Solutions
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| Panels, presentations, and Birds of a Feather meetings are certainly the
| highlight of next month's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), but that's
| not the only thing happening during the event. The Demonstrating Open Source
| Health Care Solutions (DOHCS) conference will be co-located with SCALE and
| both will get underway on Friday, February 20, 2009.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/healthcare-conference-to-focus-on-open-source-solutions
Recent:
Obama's Health IT Dilemma: The 'Some Dude' Problem
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| Free and Open Source health IT Software outlined in a recent AMIA white
| paper, inherently suffers far less from the Some Dude problem than
| proprietary software does. How the Obama administration's $50 Billion
| proposal is going to deal with Some Dude, if they deal with Some Dude at all,
| will be interesting to watch.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1231009296
National Health Service Islington Selects Pentaho Business Intelligence to
Improve Patient Services
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| Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open sourcealternative for business
| intelligence(BI), today announced that National Health Service (NHS)
| Islington hasdeployed Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition for data mining,
| reporting, andextract, transform, and load (ETL)capabilities. The
| application, implemented by Pentaho Certified PartnerThotWave Technologies,
| allows NHS Islington to identify high-risk patientsand initiate preventative
| care, leading to lower hospital admissions,operating costs and healthcare
| spend.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081215/business-intelligence.htm
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