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Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot

GPLMedicine advocate Fred Trotter right has given some inspection to both Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault, coming down solidly on Google's side. Trotter writes that Google Health's privacy policies and APIs are superior to those of Microsoft HealthVault, and its access control system looks better. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Trotter, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Fred Trotter's HealthVault expose

Fred Trotter, a blogger at the intersection of medicine and open source, is in the midst of producing a series of articles about Microsoft HealthVault. They don't paint a pretty picture. Trotter alleges that Microsoft fails the "seven generations test," that it has a...

Tags: Dr., Microsoft Corp., Trotter, Productivity, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-30

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How important is Mirth?

Fred Trotter recently decided to turn his regular talks on open source health computing into a series of blog posts. They are well worth looking at. His review calls Mirth the most important interoperability project out there.  This despite what he acknowledges are weaknesses in the underlying...

Tags: Interoperability, Mirth, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes beta

Microsoft is way ahead of Google in asking the questions which need answering before either company can demand everyone's health records. Over the last week Microsoft has put out specific promises on privacy and interoperability for the community to review. (The picture is from the blog of...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Healthvault, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the market

The fiscal 2007 IT budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs was about $1.2 billion. The proposed budget for fiscal 2009, which starts in October, is $2.4 billion. That's a lot of IT. That should be very good news for open source. The VA's...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, VA, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-05

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

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

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 reboot is complete with Doyle hire

Medsphere completed its re-boot yesterday by announcing the hire of new CEO Michael J. Doyle from AHS, an online billing company. The hire makes good sense. The weakness of Medsphere, which began with the VA's public domain VistA software, always lay in the billing area. Since the...

Tags: Hospital, Billing, Automation, Medsphere, AHS, Open Source, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Can open source save the doctor-patient relationship?

Over at my health care blog, I'm asking whether open source is the cure for what ails health care IT. It's not my question. It's really the question of Bruce L. Wilder, a 66-year old doctor, lawyer, and music lover who says the real issue here is...

Tags: Open Source, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Wilder, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-26

YouTube, Google Street View: the copyright, trademark, AND privacy trolls are coming!!

YouTube, Google Street View: the copyright, trademark, AND privacy trolls are coming!!"Interesting" Google Street View Sightings...This is really getting interesting. With the addition of these four more cities to Google Street View, many "interesting" finds are already surfacing in addition to the over 600 Google Street View Sightings already...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Street View, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

Can open source make Mike Lawrie a winner?

Can open source make Mike Lawrie a winner?OpenEMRThe correct link for OpenEMR is oemr.orgThe openemr.net website is a new product with the same name...seehttp://www.linuxmednews.com/1171499551/index_htmlfor full explanation. I sent an email to Dana regarding this issue, you can contact me through fredtrotter.com if it did not go through.-Fred TrotterRE: Can open...

Tags: Financial accounting, Vertical industries, Mike Lawrie, open source, financial, OpenEMR, bank

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

Is Medsphere taking it back?

Is Medsphere taking it back?Great article, terrible conclusion.Dana, The first part of you article was spot on and I applaud you for bringing this to the mainstream attention! However your conclusion is all wrong. Most of it is predicated on the following assumption.> Medsphere’s board probably...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, ONE-Way, Medsphere

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

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