“I can tell you that in Health IT, FOSS is the future. Imagine a world where there is GNU/Linux, but no Microsoft Windows. That is what is coming for Health IT. There has been an utter market failure by proprietary EHR vendors over the last 30 years. Part of that is the fault of the Clinical community, they have been very resistant to computerization. But most of the blame is from the proprietary lock-in tactics used by the majority of the HIMSS vendors. You have to remember that half of the advanced hospital EHRs are VA hospitals running VA VistA (no relation to the Microsoft product). VistA was developed in a distributed, collaborative, Open Source fashion years before there was the modern concept of “Open Source development”. The is not a “new movement” it is giving respect to the only thing that has ever really worked.”
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OpensourceReleaseFeed, 23 March 2009
