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- Obama gives veterans an open source commitment
- The President's announcement of a coordinated system of Electronic Medical Records for both soldiers and veterans brought with it some big wins for open source. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect
- The Veterans Administration VA is starving its world-class VistA medical records software to death. At a time when organizations around the world are switching from proprietary to open source models of support, an agency which created such a model from scratch is going the other way. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- News to know: Yahoo; ToorCon; Microsoft Surface, XP; Apple; Psystar
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft Nathan McFeters: ToorCon Seattle 2008: Nuke plants, non-existent sub domain attacks, muffin diving, and Guitar Hero ToorCon gallery. Mary Jo Foley:...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerousAgreedIt has not always been so. In years past the VA did an outstanding job, and it remains a very cost-effective provider. The question is whether its recent mismanagement is fixable, or endemic to its nature.Do you know any Vets receivingmedical care? I help...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
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- Does Oracle matter to open source
- only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Now X 1.0 (Mac)
- We've integrated the two functions of calendaring and contact management into one application. The Now X product comes with both the Now Up-to-Date X and Now Contact X modules. Then we added all those other features you've been requesting, like a beautiful Aqua GUI graphical user interface on Macs...
- Software downloads 2009-08-29
- Open source can save your life
- don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- PC Encryption; Eyes Wide Open - Considerations for a Well-Informed PC Encryption Deployment
- The data, now outside the physical confines of locked doors and internal networks, was at risk. The exposure of trade secrets and intellectual property most certainly posed a risk to competitive advantage. But there was an even bigger problem. The possible exposure of consumer personal and financial data got the...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Addressing the Top 5 Database Vulnerabilities Plaguing Federal Agencies
- According to the recently released Verizon 2009 Data Breach Report, 285 million records were compromised in 2008. Agencies of the U.S. government such as The Pentagon, NASA, FAA, The Army, The Veterans Administration, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have suffered data losses - either through inadvertent human error, insider...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- What Obama can do for and to open source
- What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- Defense Department makes more open source moves
- Your Department of Defense made some major moves on open source this week. It announced it will work with the Open Source Software Institute to bring over 50 administration applications under open source licenses, starting with its Corporate Management Information System. DoD signed a Blanket Purchase Agreement...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration
- As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Fixing the blame on the EHR mess
- Fixing the blame on the EHR messLobbyistsYou hit the nail on the head. There are more than 200 EHRs, each lobbying for a place in the sun.WorldVistA, based on the largest EHR (the Veterans Administration's VistA), is free, open source, and GPL-licensed (open source is not enough -- we need...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Predictions for 2009
- Predictions for 2009Rock on!Which CPU took longer to reach the market, Rock or Viking? Viking never actually made it to market, and in the meantime the slow@ss SPARC2's were overrun by the speedy first 100Mhz processor (HP735). Those 3 (5?) long years for Sun defined how inept it is at...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
- Go med young man
- Go med young manThink of all the doctor appointments that you've ever hadYeow---I didn't like any of them---traumatized!Doctors are expensive to educate...... leading to large loans. They require expensive procedures and prescriptions to do their jobs.How many Doctors can the country afford?I've read that the mathematically best and brightest...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk
- Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at riskA little llarmist aren't we?Personally, I would not choose to store that information on a laptop in the first place. But you must have missed the part where it says:"The laptop was protected by a number of security measures, including start up password, operating...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'Brilliant move ... Duh!Brilliant move! There's already a language named M, formerly known as MUMPS. The Veterans Administration (now Dept. of Veterans Affairs) wrote its DHCP Decentralized Hospital Computer Program in M and SAIC used that as the basis for the CHCS program...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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