HIMSS Update: Red Hat and McKesson Offer 'Enterprise Healthcare Platform'

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HIMSS Update: Red Hat and McKesson Offer 'Enterprise Healthcare Platform'

Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @ 11:26 AM
from the Redhat dept.
More signs of legitimacy of FOSS in medicine with this press release: 'McKesson has joined with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, to introduce the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform, a cost-effective open source information technology (IT) solution with services designed to meet the mission-critical demands of healthcare. “The Red Hat solution offers our customers a reliable, affordable platform for delivering safe, high-quality patient care using McKesson’s clinical applications,” said Michael J. Simpson, chief technology officer for McKesson Provider Technologies. “The introduction of a high-value, open platform designed specifically for the needs of healthcare IT represents a major step forward in encouraging the use of open source technologies instead of closed, proprietary technologies that are costly to acquire, maintain and scale.” Digg this article

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Re: HIMSS Update: Red Hat and McKesson Offer 'Ente
by Tim Cook on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @ 10:20 AM

It is certainly a positive step to see companies like McKesson supporting OS platforms. However, it would be truly exciting to see McKesson release it's software as FOSS. To see the HBOC system running on GT.M would be very exciting.

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Re: HIMSS Update: Red Hat and McKesson Offer 'Ente
by J. Hubbs on Friday December 14, 2007 @ 09:17 AM

But Red Hat has no "F" in its "F/OSS." McKesson has merely chosen to add another vendor to Microsoft in its business-as-usual relationship with OSses. The situation would be little different if they chose to offer their software on Apple OS X.

What McKesson needs to do - and I'd love to get paid to help them accomplish this - is to now decouple their Linux version(s) from any one Linux distribution so that more hospitals can implement their products (by using truly free OS and other software). Medical IT implementors should have a choice as to which Linux distribution they deploy, including their own. That's what it *really* means to be "Linux-friendly."

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