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National Digital Mammography Archive uses Linux

The University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with IBM has created a very large scale, distributed, data storage and transfer system. The details can be found here.
This system is not, in itself, open source or free, it is built on open source components and provides some interesting ideas for the directions that health care IT might be going in:

VPN’s and Grids.

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