Open Source Study Included In US Stimulus Package

gclef writes "Buried deep in the details of the US stimulus package is an interesting provision that might go a long way toward helping Open Source software break into the medical area. It says that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should study the availability of open source health technology systems (PDF, page 488), compare their TCO against proprietary systems and report on what they find no later than Oct 1, 2010. Slashdotters may also be interested in the language that starts on page 553 of that PDF to see just what the final package says about broadband." The stimulus plan was approved by the Senate on Friday and is expected to be signed by President Obama by Monday.

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Re:What and how

[tjstork]

Most likely it is used to stimulate the decreasing of costs in regards to the health care.

No its not. It's just a big political grab bag for constituencies of the Democratic Party. They've been waiting for 30 years for their big federal lootfest, and now they are going to get it.