I'm forwarding this from openhealth. It seems to me that significant factor in the adoption of VistA or any other open source solution (sorry, I just can't bring myself to say FOSS) is interoperability. No one wants to be locked in to a specific open sourc product or product suite any more than they want to be locked in to a proprietary solution. Progress on interoperability could do a lot to address the risk issue.
--- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com > From: Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:55:31 +0000 > Subject: Re: Open Source Interoperability (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: > OS at > MedInfo 2007 > --------------------------------- To what extent do existing FLOSS solutions provide services for a service-based architecture, or make use of those that might be provided by other systems nearby or distant? Two of the Master Patient Index candidates looked as though they might fit in to such an environment... -- Dr Adrian Midgley www.defoam.net SPONSORED LINKS Software distribution Salon software Medical software Software association Software jewelry Software deployment --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "openhealth" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand." --G. Polya ("How to Solve It") ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members