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- Shreeve stays relevant post-Medsphere
- Generally, when an executive leaves the company he founded, he or she will retire to a life of quiet contemplation, like an ex-President writing his memoirs. In the age of the Internet, and especially the world of open source, this is no longer necessary. Or even desireability. ...
- Tags: Misys, Shreeve, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
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- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...
- Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Will Ingenix go open source?
- Some of medicine's top tools for analyzing outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of care may be about to go open source. Ingenix CEO Andy Slavitt quietly dropped this bombshell into his keynote address at the company's annual conference a few weeks ago, but it was only noticed recently...
- Tags: Ingenix, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...
- Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Can Tolven give Medsphere the lift it needs?
- Medsphere's efforts to revolutionize hospital computing with an open source code base (derived from the VA's VistA system) got a big boost at HIMSS with news it would partner with Tolven Inc. The reason is only now becoming apparent. Tolven's founders, most of them former Oracle executives, have...
- Tags: Medsphere, Tolven Inc., TolvenHealth, Tolven Institute, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Misys and open source medicine
- Today was an important day for open source in medicine, as Misys Healthcare Systems released the code of its Misys Connect as open source. The importance goes beyond a single vendor's fate. That's because Misys Connect is essentially middleware, code for connecting applications together. Misys is...
- Tags: Importance, Misys, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Misys walks the open source walk
- Misys fulfilled a promise today, releasing the code to its Mysis Connect as open source during a conference in Los Angeles. The code's importance goes beyond its value to the open source community. As Tim Elwell, the company's chief open source officer, told ZDNet this week it's...
- Tags: Misys, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Open source health care finally ready for take-off?
- If you can get to LAX on February 8 David Uhlman can make it worth your while. Uhlman's title is customer happiness guru and CEO for ClearHealth, an open source software package for medical clinics. (I like that title.) Uhlman called yesterday to describe his all-day...
- Tags: Misys, Health Care, Uhlman, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Open source health care gets its day
- If you can get to LAX on February 8 David Uhlman can make it worth your while. Uhlman's title is customer happiness guru and CEO for ClearHealth, an open source software package for medical clinics. He called yesterday to push an all-day conference on open source health...
- Tags: Misys, Health Care, Open Source Health Care, Uhlman, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment options—through research on the comparative effectiveness of those options—could...
- Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Children, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Is the VA going proprietary?
- The Veterans Administration has chosen a proprietary system from Cerner called PathNet to automate its laboratories. The same system was also chosen by the Department of Defense. This is a big loss for the VA's VistA system, on which WorldVistA is based. This makes it unlikely that...
- Tags: Cerner Corp., VA, Veterans Administration, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Medsphere now says open source will make it dominant
- Medsphere now says open source will make it dominantMumps...but I wonder if [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Major_users_of_MUMPS_applications]Mumps[/url] will prevail?Not a lot of Mumps programmers out there.Good startA system of the size and scope of Veterans' Administration is an excellent foundation upon which to build. There are also a fair number of hospitals and...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Medsphere, open source, MUMPS
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- Medsphere settlement reached
- Medsphere, the open source hospital software company which sued its founders for releasing the code, has settled the suit. No details were announced. Medsphere was founded by Steve and Scott Shreeve to produce an open source version of the Veterans Administration's VistA system, which...
- Tags: Settlement, Insurance, Open Source, Litigation, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Medsphere begin again
- Two years after throwing over its founders and making a public domain code base proprietary, Medsphere is seeking a new CEO and a new start with the open source movement."The community edition licenses are on the Web site – we have a version under Mozilla and then we have a GPL...
- Tags: Applications, Database Management, General, Implementations, Legal, management, Software Licensing, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Is Medsphere taking it back?
- Is Medsphere still an open source company, or is it trying to turn public domain software into something proprietary? And can you run a company open source when the cost of making a sale is astronomical, but the price you must charge for support (to compete against do-it-yourself efforts) is...
- Tags: Medsphere, Applications, Development, Implementations, Legal, Infrastructure, Distributions, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Can open source save your life?
- Hospitals are the toughest nut to crack in the IT business. The systems they need are complex. They must be highly-networked, and they have to deal with tons of regulations. A hospital of 75-200 beds will pay as much as $18-20 million for a new IT system. Many do...
- Tags: Scott Shreeve, Medsphere
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
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