At 11:30 am +0800 6/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Pretty much the only thing missing is an EMR, funnily enough,
> which is the real reason medical IT in Oz is 100% Windows.
Apart from Genie users on Apple machines.
sorry, forgot about that.
100% proprietary then.
A. Does an open source OS with a proprietary (freely available) GUI
toolkit count as proprietary??
B. Can the open source community develop a medical app to match the
proprietary ones? If so...when?
C. Can open source development really match commercial investment in
programming? if so, please provide examples of programs which have
not had serious private capital investment? (I am struggling....)
The real reason medical IT is predominantly Windows is the same
reason most computer applications are predominantly Windows - the
"network effects" of a large installed user base are powerful and far
reaching.
Ian C.
BYW, does anyone know how many Apple/Genie practices there are? I only
know Tony Lembke.
Ian H
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