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Concerns about OpenVista in Small Rural Hospitals

by lwenzlow on December 28, 2008

Guest post from Louis Wenzlow at the Rural WI Health Cooperative:
In discussing Open Source solutions for small hospitals, my focus is not on health information exchange but on hospital EMR implementation, which is where most small hospitals are concentrating their efforts.  Two years ago, my group went through a multiple hospital EMR vendor selection process, [...]

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Does Open-Source Software Work for Rural?

by John on December 28, 2008

A recent post on the Health Care Blog begged Washington not to bail out the healthcare industry by funding EMRs across the country.  Yep, you read that right – please don’t.  However, the author makes a good case for funding innovation over the chaotic, Band-Aid Frankenstein that is our EMR marketplace.  To paraphrase, instead of [...]

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