They're a little fuzzy on data standards. They want to focus on interoperability and advocate for adopting existing standards.... They advocate for a "common framework" for data interchange using "any hardware and software". I would think they would need open standards and it could be supported by open source software. With all the corporations, though, it's inevitable that someone will try to grab the "intellectual property" and make a few cents on every transaction.
I do like it that they want a decentralized data plan where data stay under the control of whoever generated it and is exchanged when needed. /Mark --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know whether this has been covered before or not, but the > Dossia announcement is making some waves among the US provider > community, especially those of us at the starting gate with patient > portals. > > http://www.omnimedix.org > > Does anyone know the technical strategy here? This would be a prime > candidate to re-use open source work on health care records, but I > see little to no indications of that. The major employers forming > the core consortium funding this effort; Walmart, Intel, BP have been > involved in the open source world themselves, but since work is being > done by Omnimedix, using technical people from the 'financial > industry' (this is revealed in their press release and is supposed to > make us feel good about security of the system) I wonder....... > > Is this yet another large scale, US led consortium effort that will > end up mixed up in proprietary software? Or in systems that are > described as 'open' but are closed unless you pay a fee? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
