Ahead for 2007: Open-source software for RHIOs?
13th Nov 2006, 23:55 GMT
The California HealthCare Foundation is considering turning the software developed for the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange into an open-source software product that other regional health information organizations (RHIOs) could use. Foundation officials revealed their tentative plan at a Washington, D.C., forum where people from many organizations discussed the potential of open-source software for health information exchanges. A Forrester Research executive said at the forum that the use of open-source software could result in a 20 percent increase in nationwide RHIO expansion by 2014. Forrester Vice President Eric Brown said open-source software would not solve all the problems that RHIOs are encountering as they try to establish information exchanges. But he said a survey Forrester undertook for the foundation suggested that if open-source systems were available, 60 percent of the country might have access to a RHIO by 2014, compared with 48 percent without open-source software. President Bush set 2014 as a target for all Americans to have e-health records...
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