My life and thoughts, often about FOSS in medicine
October 28, 2008
I have enjoyed participating in the National Dialogue about Health IT. One of the challenges put forward to my suggestion that decision makers should insist on FOSS in Health IT, was the following comment:
in terms of privacy, there’s nothing inherent in FOSS that makes it superior to all proprietary products.
I have discussed this issue before, […]
October 27, 2008
A National Dialogue is a site for proposing and commenting on ideas in Health IT created by the National Academy of Public Administration. (among others) The site is only open for a few days, and I have put forward my basic thesis: Insist on Open Source in Health IT that my readers are used to […]
October 20, 2008
I have been hearing rumors that Medsphere has been laying people off. A few days ago, the rumors bubbled to Histalk, which they always do eventually.
This is a big problem. The main advantage that Medsphere has over its number one competitor, ClearHealth Inc, was its capitalization.
The idea of a funded open source medical startup is […]
