What Constitutes Open Source? A Study of the Vista Electronic Medical Record Software

Author's response to reviews Title: Adaptation of a web-based, open source electronic medical record system platform to support a large study of tuberculosis epidemiology Authors:

The Role of workarounds during an OpenSource Electronic Medical Record System Implementation

A significant degree of customization of medical information technology is required to effectively integrate the promise of IT with the diversity and complexity of medical work. In the absence of such customizations, dissatisfaction and resistance toward the system arise. Indeed, the complexity of the medical work and the inability of software to tailor to the diverse medical practices may expl...

Requirements Analysis of Medical Open Source Software

Several previous studies have argued that requirements of open source projects are often asserted by developers rather than derived from users. An explanation for this phenomenon is that developers of open source products are usually users. One may doubt whether this is still the case in software with focused user communities, such as medical software. The paper investigated the features of Ope...

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...

Explaining the Barriers and Deficiencies of a Family Physician Program Based on Electronic Health Record: A Qualitative Research

Introduction: Electronic health record is electronic data of “entire life of a person” registered by healthcare providers and shared in different health centers. The electronic health record has been announced to all medical universities of the country since March 2016 by launching the Integrated Health System (SIB). This study explains the barriers and shortcomings of the family physician prog...