OSCON: Open Source Meets Health Care Industry? | Linux Today

OSCON: Open Source Meets Health Care Industry?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 13, 2010

[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy
for this link. ]

“The health care sector is set for a technology-driven
transformation as the federal government pushes adoption of
electronic health records and pursues national health information
exchange. Hardly surprising, the Open Source Convention (OSCON) has
a health care track that will focus on open EHR/EMR software and
the government’s standards-based Nationwide Health Information
Network (NHIN) among other topics. What’s in it for VARs? Here are
some clues.

“Resellers could find themselves involved in implementing or
hosting open source health software. Building applications that
take advantage of NHIN is another possibility.

“So here’s a summary of what you can glean form OSCON 2010,
slated to run July 19-23 in Portland, Ore.:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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