Many observers have noted the incongruity of the US federal government paying out billions upon billions of dollars in the Meaningful Use program to convert...
Open Source EHR
Do you feel your electronic health record (EHR) is heaven or hell? The vast majority of clinicians–and many patients, too, who interact with the EHR...
By some measures, OpenMRS may be the most successful of the open source EHRs, widely deployed around the world. It also has a long experience with its API...
This series examines the importance of community and what steps are being taken by open source projects in health IT to create communities around their...
The first article of this series tried to convince you that community is important, and perhaps even the secret weapon behind open source software. Some open...
The value of community participation is a major topic among open source software projects. When people draw together around a project, talk about it (and argue...
Open source software missed out on making a major advance into health care when it was bypassed during hospitals’ recent stampede toward electronic...
I’ve long been a fan of open source technologies. My blogs are run and created almost entirely on open source software. In fact, I first wrote about open...
I’ve long had an interest in the topic of when hospitals chose to buy their EHR software versus build their EHR software. In fact, we’ve written...
The week after I got my first job implementing EHR, I went into the medical records office where I was shown an article about the government’s decision...