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Re: Live from the 2003 Fall AMIA Conference
by Gerard Farrell on Thursday November 13, @12:42PM

I was at that session at AMIA. It was very well atttended. I think there is a lot of energy around an Open Source EHR, just not a lot of focus. I think that's what people were hoping the AAFP initiative would bring. I think David Kibbee was trying to put a brave face on a bad situation. Zuckerman came to bury Open Source, not to praise it. The comment that kept ringing in my ears was "It's the document, stupid, not the application." Trouble is, without an application to read your precious document, you have squat. And who can think of an example of a vendor embracing and extending a format until it could snuff out it's competition? Take your time, I'll wait! I think you could feel the dissappointment in the room. My sense was that people couldn't believe what they were hearing. One of the last AMIA sessions was also about Open Source. AMIA is trying to figure out its role in open source. I think we (those of us who believe the Open Source EHR to be the most important thing for the next little while) need to goad AMIA (and whoever else it takes) to rally round and do some organizing. There are plenty of people interested in Open Source EHR's out there; we need a focus to bring some of that energy together.

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