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The political economy of electronic medical records
Mark Kleiman wonders why there isn’t more consideration of adopting the VA’s electronic medical records system and concludes that it is in part because the code is public domain and thus none of the firms developing proprietary systems can make money off it. Well, they may not be able to make money off it, but money is in fact being made off of it. Larry Augustine, CEO of Medsphere, talks about it and other open-source enterprise projects at the 2005 Open Source Business Conference, and you can listen to his talk thanks to IT Conversations. The wrong lobbyists get all the attention, though.
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