On 1/18/06, Mark Spohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Molly for putting this together.
I'd like to second that. I don't usually get a chance to post to this list, but I have been watching it for a while. > I think we should also add support for open data standards. Proprietary data > standards are a barrier to FOSS and to information sharing. Massachusetts > has recently mandated open document standards for state documents and this > will boost FOSS. > > I think we should modify: > 3. Make recommendations on Guidelines on Health Information Standards to > support open data standards. (Open standards are published and can be used > without restriction.) I can't agree with this enough. There are plenty of wonderful opensource standards which are available to the community without barrier of entrance fee or gated "community", and if we all work together, these can become the industry de-facto standards. The real barrier is proprietary systems, many of which are legacy systems which will not be upgraded in the near future, running versions of these proprietary standards. Things like this are the reason why we will continue to have to support things like X12 for interchange, merely because these legacy systems will never provide support for other things. Perhaps through the use of bridging software and middleware, we'll be able to push the use and acceptance of opensource standards, not just because they are "free", but because they're just better. -- Thanks, Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc http://freemedsoftware.com/ http://freemedsoftware.org/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
