Interesting article noticed regarding the place of open source in Health IT - which refers to a paper published a few days ago by the California Health Care Foundation.
It seems to me that, while there is a lot of concern about the place of proprietary systems in Health Care, without some market making we simply would be confined to having systems developed by governments and thus have much less choice for a particular situation or institution.
It seems to me the best role the open source movement can play is keeping the commercial providers honest and keeping their costs reasonable while leveraging the investments made by government to provide the widest choice possible.
I seriously doubt that open-source will lead to the demise of proprietary systems any time soon.
Comments welcome.
David
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