I'm looking for publications that I can cite for the commonly held assertions below for the AMIA Open Source working group Open Source white paper. If you know of a publication I can cite for the assertions below, please let me know:
1) Millions and in the case of the Veterans Affairs VistA software billions of dollars have been invested in FOSS EHR/EMR and middle-ware. 2) Many FOSS in medicine developers are employed full-time, have years of experience and are leaders in the profession. 3) FOSS software can be run on proprietary systems and vice-versa. 4) FOSS code is available and subject to intense scrutiny by security experts, security problems are often found and fixed before they become problems. 5) Different versions of the same software can exist simultaneously but generally does not. 6) FOSS advocates believe very strongly in intellectual property rights and aim to protect them using appropriate licenses based on international copyright law. The major difference is that FOSS licenses seek to safeguard important rights, while proprietary software seeks to take rights away. 7) Billions of clinical encounter records are already computerized with the VA system. Millions of other records are computerized with FOSS software such as ClearHealth. -- IV
