| Open Source medical records software can save lives, article says |
Apr. 12, 2005
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, according to an article at LinuxMedNews.com. "A contender in this area is the Veterans Administration (VA) public domain VistA codebase and large community," the author writes.
"In a major advance for FOSS (free and open source software) 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 author says. "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."
Find more details of this development, including a screenshot, in the full LinuxMedNews.com story, available here.
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