Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
Say there was one, FDAetc. approved version of Linuxperhaps the NSA
version would be a good place to start...would that not encourage the use of
Linux? What might at first seem like an onerous hurdle could in fact be a
blessing if there were a way to fund such
There, I knew that would get your attention.
I spoke today at some length with John F Murray at the FDA who is the
lead author of the new Guidance. He said quite explicitly that the
FDA regulations do not apply to standard patient record keeping
systems. He referred me to HIPAA for guidance about
Sometimes very simple misconceptions cause the most trouble.
It is possible that in the popular mind, open source means that Linux,
for example, is like a twig in a mighty river constantly buffeted by
anonymous and unpredictable forces. If you install Linux, for example, who
knows, maybe the
John S. Gage wrote:
You can
fool all of the people some of the time, but fooling the NSA is slightly
more challenging.
A certain terrorist network which has been in the news lately might beg
to differ on that last point...
Tim C
John S. Gage wrote:
There, I knew that would get your attention.
I spoke today at some length with John F Murray at the FDA who is the
lead author of the new Guidance. He said quite explicitly that the
FDA regulations do not apply to standard patient record keeping
systems. He referred
to my glasses
Joseph
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From: Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: FDA endorses open source
John S. Gage wrote
This is actually (IMHO, as always) a rather attractive idea. It would
involve representatives of the open source movement approaching FDA and
saying, We want to make your job easier, and we want to make medicine
safer and less expensive. Let's sit down and decide how we will identify a
