U.S. Government Crafted OSS

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, 2005 @04:11AM from the gifts-from-above dept.

matthewg writes "According to the New York Times the federal government has developed an open-source medical records system. It was originally developed for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and doctors started obtaining it under FOIA requests. Some good information on the process of converting it from an internal project to a deployable system exists, and how its open nature has made the system better is available at the WorldVista site." From the article: "Medicare has not estimated what its software giveaway is worth. But Duncan Pringle, chief Vista technologist at Perot Systems, said that each doctor in a practice paid about $20,000 to $25,000 to get started with a commercial system, including costs of software, a license fee charged to each doctor, installation and servicing."

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now i can afford to see a doctor by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-22 04:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

'cause my pussy hurts.
What a great name by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2005-07-22 04:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Duncan Pringle

With a name like that, you'd think he would choose to work for these guys...

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Re:Note to self: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-22 04:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Nice to know in case my current day job comes to an unfortunate end.
Which may be sooner than you think if you keep posting on /. from the office...
US Goverment by MECC · 2005-07-22 05:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is therfore now officially communist, according to MS.

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