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A cyborg lawyer running on proprietary software

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Video: Karen Sandler talks about her pacemaker and the software running on it.

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The Free Software Movement comes to medical research

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"...The key to the Alzheimer’s project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately, available to anyone with a computer anywhere in the world. No one would own the data.

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Why Free Software is a Matter of Life and Death

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Free software has an importance that extends way beyond the world of software. But for most people, it's hard to understand why software freedom is really that important. So this new report “Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices” from the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides a handy opportunity to get the message across.

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Leading Hospital Relies on Red Hat Solutions for Improved Reliability and Patient Care

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Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston, Mass., has migrated to Red Hat solutions

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Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets

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In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure for IT cost bloat: moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which could then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes.

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Open source tool helps fight measles

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The Washington Post on Friday reported that global measles fatalities had been reduced by two-thirds following stepped-up vaccination campaigns since 2000...this phenomenal success had a helping hand from open source software.

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PatientOS LinuxMedNews Update

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The next release of PatientOS is being refocused to focus on specific ambulatory clinic or Physician practice workflows that can be completed end-to-end. To that goal I have an initial use case to share

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Your Health Care Quality, Privacy, Security and Tax Dollars Are at Stake

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A stark future awaits American health care if the Veterans Affairs (VA) system and Cerner is allowed to go forward with announced plans to replace the VA's successful public domain laboratory software, in need of update, with a proprietary one.

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HealthVault: software freedom and personal health records

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Free software is about freedom from control. This article discusses how the free software ideals should be applied to hosted personal health record software and how Microsoft's newest PHR, HealthVault, is a threat to free software.

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Medsphere Wins 120-bed Los Angeles Hospital Business

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Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading commercial provider of open source-based electronic health record (EHR) systems and services, today announced an agreement to implement its OpenVista® EHR platform at Century City Doctors Hospital (CCDH) in Los Angeles.

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Paper Companies vs. Proprietary EHR Companies

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Editor: This is a work of satire, hope you enjoy it. The heated battle between paper companies and proprietary EHR companies for market share is always fascinating to watch. Linux Medical News labs weighs in on the subject by doing a rigorous, side-by-side comparison of Paper company products vs. proprietary Electronic Health Record software company products. The results may surprise you.

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Use Health Vault, Lose Your Rights

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Microsoft has announced "Health Vault". What should have followed here is a review of the service by my actually trying it."...

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Created by C733tus 14 years 33 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 33 weeks ago
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The Coming Electronic Health Record Software Disaster

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The conventional wisdom seems to be that the United States as a nation needs to 'financially incentivize the adoption of Electronic Health Record technology'. While the intentions are good, what this seems to translate into is a rush in the next few years to get any EHR software installed at all costs.

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Created by Jimbob 14 years 34 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 34 weeks ago
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We Are Vendor Neutral Until We are Not?

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When I talk to organization X (fill in your favorite health care entity, government or medical society) they never fail to utter the dreaded statement: "We are vendor neutral." followed by a dramatic long pause.

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Created by Jimbob 14 years 35 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 35 weeks ago
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EMR Software Nexus has Formed

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Recent conversations with knowledgeable colleagues has recently reached a point where it is difficult to have a rational conversation about any aspect of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software without having to invoke an entire other discipline to speak about it.

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