sad commentary on THEIR ability

[steven meyer]

Fortunately, there is more OSS going on in Medical IT than the musings
of some ignorant people, even in our own backyard!

Check out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crrs/

Steven

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:06 -0400, Rob Sutherland wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:26:37 -0400
> bob <fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > http://homepage.mac.com/yaztromo/iblog/C721686556/E320292175/
> 
> After reading the article and seeing quotes like this,
> 
> "Least charitable was Ms. Liang of the US's Kaiser Foundation, who said
>  "We looked at Open Source for all of two minutes, and then dismissed it"."
> 
> and 
> 
> "The feeling one got during their (generally) dismissive answers to the question 
> was that someone in their organizations did a quick Google search for "Open Source +healthcare", 
> came up with only a few projects in the incubation stage,, and simply decided that Open 
> Source wasn't up to the task."
> 
> And probably billed several thousand dollars for coming to that conclusion. 
> 
> I'd say that the problem isn't us, as in the Open Source community not giving 
> answers and support, but a lack of due diligence on the part of these people.
> We have a right to expect that the people who spend public money do so in an
> informed manner - they are after all, getting paid to do that and if they don't 
> do it then they should get called on it. 
> 
> I just don't see how anyone doing their job in this area could ignore things like Vista 
> 
> http://worldvista.org/welcome.html
> 
> or the kind of commitment to Open Source that players like IBM have made. 
> 
> Rob 
> 
> 
> 

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