Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-17 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
> There may be opportunities ahead. I am optimistic too ;-) Joseph Adrian Midgley wrote: > Joseph Dal Molin 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. >> >

Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-17 Thread Adrian Midgley
Joseph Dal Molin 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. > It is NHS policy. (In the UK) I'm not disagreeing, you understand, not necessarily. Just rem

Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-15 Thread Fred Trotter
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]

Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-15 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
> access to current data, and I am not sure that this can be addressed > via a licensing agreement. That''s why we have standards :-) Fred Trotter wrote: > 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

Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-15 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
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 exampleand the recent network failure in California in the VA system is another example (which BTW t

Re: [openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-15 Thread Tim Cook
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 s

[openhealth] free as in beer: lines of criticism

2007-11-15 Thread Adrian Midgley
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