The Atlanta Business Chronicle (registration required) is reporting: ‘…Leaders from Georgia hospitals and managed-care companies have found something to agree on for a change.

They’re developing a broad, new paperless system designed to speed up insurance claims processing, reduce medical errors and save money for the entire health-care community…So far such a system is mostly talk. But with new regulations looming under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) act, which will require health systems to do many functions electronically, plans are moving forward…’ I wonder if the resulting software will be public domain?