“In the current system, there is no reason to limit costs. The doctor who diagnoses an illness directs treatment. The more treatment, the more money is made by the hospital and its supply chain.
Payment is similarly disconnected from service. Insurers have tried, for years, to fight these cost rises on behalf of their customers, and failed.
Open source starts by connecting data. As Jason Hibbets of Red Hat observed last week, it drives systems toward an open architecture.”
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare, 1 February 2010
