e-HealthExpert.org - Primum non nocere

SEEDIE and EXTORMITY are a parody to some of the so called "Health IT Standards Organizations" and to their satellite "Health IT Solutions" vendors.

SEEDIE is a new kind of healthcare IT Standards Organization:

• True, it is a bit far from being an Open Standards Organization.
• And it is in no way like, for instance, HL7.
• But it certainly deserves a visit: SEEDIE Home page

EXTORMITY is the first SEEDIE certified EMR/Health IT Software Suite:

• Much better and reassuring than those pesky Open Sourced applications.
• Check the EXTORMITY site at: EXTORMITY Home page

Did you also got that déjà vu feeling?


Related and also interesting: Scot's Blog about SEEDIE, VistA and Health IT

This is the archive of software packages known by the e-HealthExpert.org members.

All entries should at least include:

1. Software name and version,
2. An abstract of what it does,
3. The type of license under which it is released,
4. The software homepage address,
5. A rating value from 1 to 5 [1 (lousy), 2 (mediocre), 3 (average), 4 (good), 5 (very good)],
6. Submission author's name.

This new area of e-HealthExpert.org site is also meant to be a repository of the most relevant software that appears at our [sw-hw] mailing list.

The [sw-hw] mailing list is an open forum in which any member can freely review, evaluate and talk about any subject related to systems architecture, software, hardware and, more in general the usage of IT technology to support all the activities of a Healthcare Organization. List guidelines and subscription application forms are available from: [sw-hw] mailing list usage guidelines.

Is the enterprise software licensing business dying? Is anybody out there buying new licenses?
Based on news from the past few weeks, it seems that there are very few buyers.
The collapse of new licensing revenue isn't news -- it started five years ago -- but the latest news makes it look like a permanent and accelerating fact of life for software vendors.
The article, titled IT Execs to Vendors: Your Software Stinks, sets the tone for the industry's most recent quarter. Ouch! It contains the astonishing claim by the CIO of British Petroleum that out of a $2B IT budget, only $30M is allocated for new software licenses.
Source: [IT Manager's Journal]

David A. Wheeler presents in his site Why Open Source Software a thorough analysis on why you should seriously consider to use Open Source Software in your organization.