[FOSS_health] Re: [Hardhats] Re: X-links for VOE interfacing

[Molly Cheah]

On the unique legal considerations.... OSHCA2007 Conference recently had 
this plenary session.

> Legal issues impacting the use of open source software in health care.
> Software relating to healthcare: an introduction to some legal issues 
> his paper examines legal issues relating to the use of open source 
> software in healthcare, and in particular, discusses questions of law 
> that fall within the purview of the law of contract, and the law of 
> tort. Software is ubiquitous in the modern word. Nothing is ever done 
> without it, and it would appear, nothing is ever going to be done 
> without it . Yet, as the historian Edward Gibbon said it, it is easier 
> to deplore the state of than to describe the condition of software 
> users. - by GK Ganesan, Malaysia

Molly
Molly Cheah wrote:

>http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/FREE/308090001
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>CCHIT-certified World VistA EHR facing delays
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>>The delay can be attributed in large measure to unique legal and 
>>business considerations that arose by virtue of certification as an 
>>open-source software product, according to Joseph Dal Molin, interim 
>>president and vice president of business development for WorldVistA. 
>>"The main thing that has been the stumbling block for us is 
>>translating the (24-page) CCHIT agreement into an end-user agreement," 
>>Dal Molin said in a telephone interview. "We need to maintain 
>>certification in an open-source world. As bizarre as it may seem, we 
>>didn't anticipate that as part of the (development) effort."
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>Molly
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>javid wrote:
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>>IMHO  commercial entities will jump in only when they see a good
>>response and some buzz. I think that can happen only when Cchit
>>version is officially out--again IMHO
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>>javid
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>>On Aug 20, 10:06 pm, Joseph Dal Molin <dalmo... at e-cology.ca> wrote:
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>>>Chris,
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>>>There is nothing preventing any vendor that has "enhancing
>>>services/products" to interface with a VistA based system today. There
>>>are several ways to do it and CCHIT certification does not affect this.
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>>>Joseph
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