Dec 11
Hospital software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is curing IT bloat by moving 50 of its 70 most popular health care applications to Linux instead of mainframes, thereby reducing cost for hospitals and medical offices. At first it was challenge convincing hospital executives said Simpson. “It took them time to understand that open source is safe, that open source has support”.
“Red Hat estimated that health care facilities that have switched have been able to save as much as 60% on IT costs compared with what they were spending before.”
Perhaps one of the more interesting quotes from the article also came from Simpson.
“Our hospitals aren’t ready yet for Linux on the desktop, but it’s coming” in another three or four years, he said. “If you look at the total costs of hospitals and the pressure on hospitals to continue to lower their costs, it’s coming.”
I have seen this scenario happen time and time again. Its not quite mainstream yet, but will be soon.
Oct 24
In a stunning move Misys, a global software and services company, has announced that it will make its Misys Connect health care solution available to the open source community. Misys is a market leader in the health care industry serving more than 110,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations and 600 home care providers.
Mike Lawrie, Misys plc Chief Executive said: Making Misys Connect available to the open source community is an innovative way to connect healthcare communities and advance the improvement of patient outcomes, which is critical to addressing some of the systemic issues in the U.S. healthcare market today.”
I have a feeling the Misys Healthcare has just established its leadership in the software health care industry for the next decade. Congratulations guys!
Sep 18
The largest state run pharmacy in Sweden has decided to replace its all if its existing IT infrastructure at its 900 pharmacies with Redhat Enterprise Linux on Intel servers. Because they deal with people’s health they wanted a system that they could really rely on. Isn’t that what we all want?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in combination with the new hardware, brings several advantages to Apoteket including low cost of ownership, solid performance and a large selection of software and open source alternatives that enhance development opportunities.
They must have forgot to read Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” campaign.
