[ Thanks to I.
Valdes for this link. ]
“As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of
preventable medical errors which Free and Open Source electronic
medical records software could reduce. A contender in this area is
the Veterans Administration (VA) public domain VistA codebase and
large community. In a major advance for FOSS in medicine, Joseph
Dal Molin of WorldVistA reports success in getting the VA
Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) VistA client running on
Linux using WINE and Crossover office. The CPRS client formerly ran
only on the Microsoft Windows operating system and is widely
deployed on thousands of workstations within the United States VA
system…”
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