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Re: A Tale of Modern Electronic Medical Record Sof
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Monday August 06, 2007 @ 08:15 AM
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| Mr. FOSS and his followers begin to be on EMR's lighthouse 'task forces' and 'committees' where they influenced the decision process through 'advocacy'. Communities sprang up such as WorldVistA that have the lighthouse already built and multiple vendors to service the lighthouse. It was a bit stormy at first but then everyone realized how much better it was. The scar of previous poor acquisitions no longer give him pain. All was well.
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Re: A Tale of Modern Electronic Medical Record Sof
by John Norris on Monday August 06, 2007 @ 10:10 AM
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Other communities tried to build their own lighthouses, and as Mr FOSS instructed, they allowed others to help them out. These villages did not have the resources that the pre-built light house communities had. These villages had their own particular needs for their light houses and simply couldn't share too much with their neighbors. Their's was a slow way to build light houses.
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Re: A Tale of Modern Electronic Medical Record Sof
by Cecil E Collins Jr D.C. on Friday August 10, 2007 @ 09:01 AM
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Great analogy, I can only give my personal thoughts as a response.
A great corporation was created giving the backbone for a lighthous scheme but to use this you had buy their scheme first.Then buy the lighthouse($1,000-$10,000) and pay monthly support fees.
Amazingly another entity (LINUX)was born that also gave backbone to the lighthouse scheme and it was completely free.A lighthouse could be created from it for free also but the installation instructions were very hard to find and often difficult to configure properly.So a few companies created a lighthouse and although technically free most could not get it to work.But the companies had a solution, just pay us to set your lighthouse up ($thousands$) and pay us a support fee to keep it working.
Free, well maybe so, but not like Linux was intended. My analogy follows:
Free Mercedes available brand new beautifull automobile with all options, amazing deal!!
To drive, operate, or use in any way you must pay a one time setup fee of $10,000 and purchase the support package for $2,000 per month forever.
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Re: A Tale of Modern Electronic Medical Record Sof
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Friday August 10, 2007 @ 09:17 AM
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Then Dell decided to install it at the factory and all was once again well! Until the proprietary lighthouse companies in an under the table deal used their collective muscle to quash the deal.
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