Open-source Software and the Primary Care EMR

Letter to the Editor: Open-source Software and the Primary Care EMR

Bates et al., representing the National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics, identify several barriers to the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems in primary care. Three barriers are highlighted: excessive cost, the transience of vendors, and the lack of common data standards. This otherwise excellent review fails to draw attention to the phenomenon of open-source software (OSS...

Open Source Software in Slovenian Primary and Secondary Schools

This article deals with the use of Open Source Software (OSS) at the primary and secondary level of education in Slovenia. The challenges and advantages of using OSS in educational processes are discussed. The main advantages of OSS are: economic freedom, stability, reliability and a possibility of making modifications but – on the other hand – the main problem for schools can be installation a...

Introducing Open Source Software into Slovenian Primary and Secondary Schools

This paper deals with the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in learning environments. Advantages and obstacles of OSS are discussed. Problems and opportunities of introducing OSS into an educational process especially in primary and secondary schools are presented. The survey research, which was carried out in order to study the use of OSS in the educational system of Slovenia is described. The...

The Open Source Software Ecosystem

Usability and Open Source Software

Open source communities have successfully developed many pieces of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited distribution. In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open-source development influe...