Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-27 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Aren't we missing the larger issue? Proper certification of health information systems is going to be expensive, and that is probably unavoidable. Moeover, someone is going to have to bear the burden of that cost. I'm not sure that this question should really be tied to the certification model,

Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-27 Thread Fred Trotter
This is an interesting discussion. However we do have some decisions to make. 1. Does the different nature free and open source medical software warrant different consideration than proprietary models for CCHIT certification pricing. (If a large number of people feel this way then we should draft

[openhealth] Re: [Amazon S3

2006-03-27 Thread Wayne Wilson
From: Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any other ideas for S3? 1) Wait for Google to offer it for free :) Seriously, Google already offers 2GB of free web 'mail' space. Someone has already figured out how to make a file system like interface to that. This is the tip of an iceberg in the

Re: [openhealth] Re: CCHIT biased towards proprietary software?

2006-03-27 Thread Tim.Churches
Greg Woodhouse wrote: Every software developer writes unit tests, In your dreams! but the unit test typically end up being files on their hard drives at some point. Making unit tests into artifacts is a relatively recent phenomenon, Agreed, but I had recent releases of open source software

[openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-27 Thread Molly Cheah
Dear all, I am happy to annouce that the transfer of the domain name oshca.org from Brian had been completed. Brian is in the process of creating and signing a document disclaiming rights to the OSHCA trademark. Thank you Brian for these initiatives. I understand that Brian will also make a