Archive for the ‘Healthcare’ Category

University of Miami aims to Bring More Research to Miami

Friday, August 11th, 2006

The University of Miami Medical School has long been performing cutting-edge research in the Miami area. Now it aims to bring much more research this way.
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Free Software Magazine: Your data or your life

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

The state of healthcare in our nation has been in bad shape for quite a while. I will elaborate more on that in a future post. Free Software Magazine brought a new issue to my attention.

The debate between proprietary vs non-proprietary software has been raging on for as long as I can remember. In this article the debate enters the healthcare arena.

Your data or your life | Free Software Magazine:

Intracare is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes. When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients’ information.

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