20090701 New Rules May Help Adoption of Free Software in Healthcare

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Will New Certification Criteria Fuel Open Source E-Health Records?

But moving forward, new certification "paths" recently announced by CCHIT will be a boost for modular software packages, especially those from smaller software vendors and open source developers, as well as their potential customers, including doctor practices that don't need fancier software tools, as well as health care organizations that have a hybrid mix of health IT systems featuring legacy and best-of-breed applications.

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Healthcare Conference to Focus on Open Source Solutions

Panels, presentations, and Birds of a Feather meetings are certainly the highlight of next month's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), but that's not the only thing happening during the event. The Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS) conference will be co-located with SCALE and both will get underway on Friday, February 20, 2009.

http://ostatic.com/blog/healthcare-conference-to-focus-on-open-source-solutions