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Anyone going to Medicine 2.0 conference?
Replied Jul. 21, 2008
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- I am a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, my academic advisor is Dr. Ian McKillop who is cross appointed in Computing Science & Health Studies. My research has included investment decision making methods for healthcare IT investments and healthcare funding methodologies. My dissertation will be investigating the application of portfolio approaches to the adoption of IT in healthcare.
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pls help me in this regard about various options.
hoping for your early response
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I think in most IT projects, license and hardware costs probably only make half(?) of the total costs, the other half is consulting and customization anyway. More importantly is not the 'free' in open source, but more the actual 'openness'.
For example:
- user wants to add some custom module to the IT system to connect to another system -> vendor only allows such interface development through (expensive) licensed partners, rather than the local IT vendor that has been used for years in other projects.
- you want to add some functions, but vendor doesn't offer it, because it's too special and not worth developing it for one client. What to do? (and no open API/interface to do it yourself / your inhouse IT team)
- no vendor lock-in.
There are some successful business models with commercial open source, dual licensing, etc. where there's actually a supporting company in the back (not just a bunch of hobbyists), which seem to work out (SugarCRM, Alfresco, OpenCms, etc.), but it's true that in healthcare IT - maybe because it's too much of a niche market, there are not many (but a few) open source solutions out that have reached professional standard, compared to commercial proprietary solutions.
I see a trend to open source software in non-industry specific projects, where general projects like CMS, intranets, DMS, etc. are being set up. Lot of our clients (also renown large companies) use open source software - sometimes it's even corporate policy - but in healthcare IT, not sure about it. That's why I'm interested in it.
regarding your research topic, I'd be interested if open source healthcare systems play a role in decision making processes, and if there's actually any attention paid to such solutions. Are the advantages of open source (costs, vendor independency) of any importance? If so, for which group of decision makers?
Would be great to discuss it in the forum.
(I am currently researching available open source EMR and practice management systems on the market. I have an IT background, not medical).
Mathias
i joined M.Sc. in Medical Informatics,
i want to know job oppurtinity for medical informatics in future.