I have thought that for this reason, I should recommending the new Affero GPL for FOSS ehr software. There is also the issue of ensuring access to current data, and I am not sure that this can be addressed via a licensing agreement.
-FT On Nov 15, 2007 9:33 AM, Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ....I totally agree with Tim... the pure ASP model is an accident > waiting to happen...I would not want to put a patient's life in the > hands of a network provider. Hurricane Katrina is a good example....and > the recent network failure in California in the VA system is another > example (which BTW they would have avoided had they not started down the > path to consolidating data centers). > > Joseph > > > Tim Cook wrote: > > If; > > 1) the **patients** have a choice in what information is used about them > > 2) and there is a guaranteed standard way to retrieve all of their data > > if desired > > > > Then I have no issue with this model. > > > > I do have serious concerns about the sanity of the doctors trusting > > their patient records to a single point. There are far too many > > communications interruptions (even in the US) for that to make any > > sense. The hosted EMR is a really bad idea; except for maybe if you are > > Google and have tons of connecting points. Still, the clinic link to > > the Internet is a critical point of failure. > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:10 +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote: > >> http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/05/07/bisb0507.htm > >> > >> Expensive - by UK standards - if they don't take the adverts. > >> > >> I suspect that the licencing model is such that when the company > >> folds, > >> the software goes away, or alternative and likely more expensive ways > >> of > >> supporting what by then will be a practice asset will be imposable > >> upon > >> users. > >> > >> Whereas with an open source model, none of this applies. > >> > >> Who is an AMA member who could write to the journal? > >> -- > >> Midgley > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com
