Letter to the Editor: Open-source Software and the Primary Care EMR
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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). OSS may turn out to be the force that helps overcome these and several other barriers to the use of the EMR in primary care and in the rest of the health care system. The medical informatics community shouldwelcomeOSS, which fits naturally our scientificmodel of shared, peer-reviewed knowledge in medicine. It holds great promise for realizing the vision of ubiquitous, low-cost, electronic medical record systems to improve primary care.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
دوره 10 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003