Call For Ban on Federal Money for Proprietary EMR's.

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Call For Ban on Federal Money for Proprietary EMR's.

Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday February 19, @08:05PM
from the Linux Medical News dept.
Please let your federal government representative know the following: "The nation is demanding and spending billions to ensure that we have a high-performance Health Information Technology infrastructure. The ARRA of 2009 allows proprietary companies to put up tollbooths and black boxes everywhere at taxpayer expense with little or no guarantees of the ability of the public to audit, innovate, study, fix or extend the software to ensure high performance, privacy, security, fitness, or upgradeablility can occur. Without a ban on federal money for purchasing proprietary Electronic Medical Record software and requirements for licenses such as the Affero General Public License that safeguard public rights and ensures sustainability, we will become a nation of renters of poorly performing health IT software infrastructure that taxpayers paid dearly for, and will pay for again and again."

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