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mmmna
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Was bumbling around the Linux Foundation website, hit onto this article: Open Source as a Healthcare Solution which discusses a public domain product called (unfortunate choice) "VistA". The article then discusses Medsphere Systems Corporation which offers OpenVista (not an operating system), this is VistA with a GTK2 and C# front end. Hmm.
A lot of promise there, but I've seen online demos of what my wife uses in the medical office where she works, the Medsphere OpenVista offering is a few years behind in the GUI aspect. The plus side for the OpenVista product is that it can use a better OS (Linux) than the Microsoft Windows XP that my wife is using, and the largest complaint at her office is how slow it all is.
Hopefully, this OpenVista software can handle multiple users in a solid manner.... I think they'd be willing to trade a few features to gain some needed operational speed.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2025 6:41 am Post subject: Open Source Software in Healthcare |
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Open Source Software in Healthcare
Open Source Software Projects in Health Care Offer Significant Cost Savings, Reports Black Duck Software
Open Source Offers to Break Status Quo by Reducing Cost of Implementing Electronic Medical Records Systems
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WALTHAM, Mass., June 10, 2025, Open source projects created for use in health care and medical applications promise to significantly reduce costs and contribute efficiencies to health care organizations, according to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software.
Using a well-known cost estimation model (COCOMO) to determine the cost to produce software, Black Duck estimates that the nearly 800 health care open source software projects it identified represent $6 billion USD of software development costs, and would require 31,000 staff years of development to replicate. These projects represent a significant potential stimulus resource available to the healthcare industry.
Projects dealing with electronic health records management, practice management and VistA, the health care information management system developed by the US Veterans Administration, lead in project community activity. Projects such as PatientOS, a patient management system; OpenEMR; an electronic medical record application, and OpenVista, an open-source version of VistA, are among the most active health care projects in the open source community as tracked by the Black Duck KnowledgeBase.
See chart and read the rest
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2009-06-10
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mell0: 1. Kubuntu, XP, Sabayon 2. Mandriva,Mint, Mephis
Thor: 1. VISTA, Fedora 2. Chakra, Debian
Sam:XP, SuSE Zues: win7, SuSE testing
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melloe
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Vista Health care software has been around for a LONG time.
They ought to sue MS <G><
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mmmna
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| melloe wrote: | Vista Health care software has been around for a LONG time.
They ought to sue MS <G>< |
Yeah.
VistA
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Veterans Administration.
The VA was the 'Guinea Pig' here.
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Not new, but something I was not aware of
McKesson First to Offer Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform Print Page
February 26, 2025
Reliable Linux Solution Lowers Cost of Ownership for Healthcare IT
ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2025 – McKesson has joined with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, to introduce the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform, a cost-effective open source information technology (IT) solution with services designed to meet the mission-critical demands of healthcare.
“The Red Hat solution offers our customers a reliable, affordable platform for delivering safe, high-quality patient care using McKesson’s clinical applications,” said Michael J. Simpson, chief technology officer for McKesson Provider Technologies. “The introduction of a high-value, open platform designed specifically for the needs of healthcare IT represents a major step forward in encouraging the use of open source technologies instead of closed, proprietary technologies that are costly to acquire, maintain and scale.”
The Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform packages the Red Hat suite of open source products and services, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates via the Red Hat Network. It also includes dedicated customer support and services, as well as other open source technologies such as JBoss Enterprise Middleware. This complete solution provides superior levels of stability and performance as well as predictable maintenance cycles.
read the rest.
http://www.mckesson.com/en_us/McKesson.com/Our%2BBusinesses/McKesson%2BProvider%2BTechnologies/Newsroom/McKesson%2BFirst%2Bto%2BOffer%2BRed%2BHat%2BEnterprise%2BHealthcare%2BPlatform.html
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mell0: 1. Kubuntu, XP, Sabayon 2. Mandriva,Mint, Mephis
Thor: 1. VISTA, Fedora 2. Chakra, Debian
Sam:XP, SuSE Zues: win7, SuSE testing
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