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  Dossia and Boston's CHIP Go Free/Open Source LGPL License
Medical Open Source Development Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Sunday September 30, 2007 @ 01:04 PM
from the medical-open-source-development dept.
Dossia a consortium of companies for "Lifelong Personally-Controlled Health Record" has announced that they will be using the LGPL (a FOSS license) licensed Indivo personally controlled health record software for Boston's Childrens Hospital Information Program (CHIP) "Since the inception of the Indivo system in 1998, we have firmly held that the best way to get vital and private medical information to the point of care is under the strictest control of the individual," said Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, CHIP researcher at HST and physician in Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. "Dossia and Children's share a common vision of promoting widespread adoption of personally controlled health records and are excited to be working together to make this vision a reality." Digg this article



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