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  1. Yes you're right Linux community DOES give by DrYak · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children
    Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity

    Linux community gives 100% up front.


    Yes you're compltetly right.
    Just don't think "monney". Think "trying to build a better world".
    On this news, there's a lot of slashdotter replying "But it's unfair : linux does not have money, we cannot give anything..."
    It's not about the money it's also about all the help provided to community.
    What has Gates done ? Once in the life time of his enterprise, he gave a couple of % of his fortune to a health organisation (just to buy a new image after the lost lawsuits ?). That's it. That's all.

    Meanwhile around the world there are tons of Linux/OpenSource developpers trying to build healthcare information managment systems.

    There are a lot of projects. Like Care2x, like FreeMed, like many others.
    These systems are developped for free. These systems run in a lot of places already (even in developping countries !).
    There are studies that proved these systems helped reducing health-care costs (and this is even more important for developping counrties that have fewer ressources).
    There are studies that proved these systems helped increase the quality of health-care (allowing the doctors to better follow the patients that require long-term care, specially HIV patient in developping countries).

    Just have a look on linuxmednews (a slashcode-powered news site).

    So, like parent poster, we can answer the question asked in the news : Yes, the OpenSource / Linux community have proven to be very generous and usefull in the health domain. Much more than a compagny trying to buy itself a nice public image after a few lost lawsuits.

  2. There are many projects and many people already. by ivaldes3 · · Score: 1 · on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE?
    There are already many projects and many people doing FOSS in medicine. You can read the chronology of Free and Open Source Software in medicine over the last 4 years at Linux Medical News which has been in operation since 2000 and has over 900 articles on it. There are already many FOSS medical projects with service contracts available that are being used in the real world. A very few are: VistA, OpenEMR and FreeMed. In short, FOSS in medicine is active and thriving. Why not join a project that is already in progress?

    -- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
    -- Editor: Linux Medical News

  3. Healthcare Informatics OpenSource Projects by amdg · · Score: 2, Informative · on Open Source for Biotechnology

    I've been working in Healthcare IT for nearly 9 years. As an open source advocate, I am really excited by the progress and interest I've seen lately in FOSS solutions in the healthcare realm. There was a time that I thought the open source model would never work in vertical markets. Boy, am I glad I was wrong! Check out LinuxMedNews to get an idea of how much is happening in this area.

    Here are some links to projects that I find interesting and seem to have the most traction:

    There are many, many more. These are just some that came to mind. If you work in healthcare, do yourself a favor and check out this thriving community!

  4. Freemed by BrynM · · Score: 4, Informative · on Writing Open Source Medical and Nursing Apps?

    Freemed is good. You'll have to dedicate a machine to running it, but all of the people in the office use it from a web browser. It's also heading torward FULL HIPAA compliance. Good luck.

  5. FreeMED. by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 1 · on Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future

    FreeMED is actually being used in some applications---mostly small physician practices, but some mid-sized hospitals as well. That's a development copy right now, but you can mail the maintainer (unobfuscate email to use) for info about the stable release.

    --grendel drago

  6. http://www.freemed.org/ by Money__ · · Score: 4 · on Electronic Medical Records Software for Unix?
    www.freemed.org From the page:
    "Why Freemed? Freemed is designed to be not only an office management system designed to run on Linux but also an information system. With this system it is hoped that physicians and providers will be able to collect both demographic and outcome data."

    It's open source on MySQL

  7. Re:just in time for the next great incompatibility by gmhowell · · Score: 1 · on Corel Puts Internal WINE on CVS

    Funny. Our business is dumping a bunch of ICA stuff in the next few months (have to write the letter to break the heart of the leasing company tomorrow:) Unfortunately, we were using it to run apps on some nice laptops (IBM 360p's) that weren't up to running the entire program locally. What really killed us on keeping the technology is having to spend money on both MetaFrame and Terminal Server. Yeah, I've looked for some linux/unix/mac/"anything but M$" solutions, but FreeMed isn't quite there yet (hard to tell from the demo, and I've been too lazy to install it locally yet.

  8. will you make it publically available? by eap · · Score: 1 · on Questions about Database Implementation.
    This is sort of offtopic, but would you be willing to make the finished product available publically? I've always thought medical office software would be an easy arena for Linux to excel in.

    BTW, have you checked out Freemed? They are building free browswer based medical mgmt software based on MySQL, and have a demo for you to try.

    Hope this helps.

  9. Open source med software is here! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Introducing Open Source to the Doctors

    I'm assuming the submitter is the same beloved Tim Cook of FreePM (Free Practice Management) project leadership fame. Check it out, along with some other similar projects, like Freemed, and there are some other ones, like Littlejohn (don't know the homepage). An excellent concept, needs more developers!