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Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records
Fred Trotter writes "CCHIT is the dominant Electronic Health Record certification body in the US. It is also decidedly anti-FOSS and has been for years. Certification of one kind or another will be required for EHR systems to qualify for funding under the Stimulus Act. If CCHIT is chosen as the certification body, and the current certification strategies continue, it will not be possible to have a funded EHR that is both certified and truly FOSS. Now, however, CCHIT has agreed to meet the FOSS Health IT community at HIMSS 09 to address this issue." We discussed the shortcomings in the stimulus bill as it relates to FOSS a few days back.
Bullshit. The GP is 100% correct. You're just making up another excuse. You FOSS people just have a problem with the whole concept of making a living from your work... well, for anyone else that is. When it's your own work you want to roll in the cash but you "can't understand" why others need to make a profit.