Stimulus Adds Study for Open Source Healthcare Systems
In the latest stimulus bill passed by the senate hides a big win for Open Source companies like Novell and RedHat.
On page 488 the topic reads:
Study and Reports on Availability of Open Source Health Information Technology Systems
This bill is saying:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Health of the Vetrans Health Administration, the Directory of the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Defence, the Directory of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, conduct a study on
1.) the current availability of open source health information technology systems
2.) the cost of ownership of open source system in comparison to the cost of proprietary commercial products
3.) meets the requirements of the targeted individuals
4.) CAPACITY OF SUCH SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY.
The report is supposed to be completed by Oct 10th 2010 at the latest
Now, back on a more Novell centric approach to the bill. Novell leads the market in facilitating interoperability with current monopolized corporate entities. Novell Netware is a well known system in our current governemt, as many entities use NDS as their primary directory service (so they have a foot in the door).
I’m no genius, but this sounds like great news.
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2 Comments
I agree it’s good news – although I wish that it would have come in a form other than the stimulus bill.
@Kevin Dupuy
Don’t even get me started here. Americans (I live in California) were to close minded during the election by not electing an Independent in Ron Paul, the ONLY guy in my opinion that had the economic know how, to steer us out of a depression style slide. But now we sit here, with a President threatening us with gloom and doom so that we support a socialist style pork package that will do nothing but make government bigger, and make our debt increase.
We haven’t been the strongest country in the world for quite a few years, as China sits there buying our debt to help the dollar standard limp along. Now, they have us by the balls because they can control the worth of the dollar since their is no true valuation backing it (ie. the Gold Standard which was deviated from decades ago).
The stimulus, will do nothing but fuel hyperinflation that will start once all the TARP money printing is done (it had such little effect, people probably forget that hundreds of billions of dollars were spent already). Time to start moving investment assets to Oil / Silver / Gold, so you actually have something backing the weak little dollar.
We’re over regulated and we’ll get regulated more because it could “potentially create jobs”. I waste 10% of my time annually doing compliance for SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) which was put into place to prevent banks like WaMu saying “Oh we’re financially sound” and 3 days later declaring bankruptcy. The funny thing is, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY WANT from SOX. Each quarter our internal auditor change their scripts, each year the external auditors want different data. It’s doing nothing but creating jobs at the risk of crippling hundreds if not thousands of public (close to going public) companies. Now, they wouldn’t get rid of it because of the job losses
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Wow.. I went a bit off track there.. but you get the drift.. I’d rather see it done by a real interest and not a forced move via Stimulus bill.
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