Dr. John Halamka, the CIO at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, told IT professionals at this year's Red Hat Summit in Boston today to prepare for a world of fully integrated, accessible data -- because it's coming. Halamka also relayed how a migration from Unix to Linux-based servers shaved costs and created higher network throughput.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston, Mass., has migrated to Red Hat solutions

MResult Healthcare and PatientOS announced today a new cost-effective solution for implementing Electronic Medical Records.

Recently, we've covered several examples of open source software tools aimed at humanitarian and global healthcare efforts. Even in niche categories, such as earthquake research, open source software is surprisingly widely used.

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Open source software benefits professionals in all industries: government, Internet, business, education, and even health care. Expensive software and subscriptions for anti virus systems, supporting electronic medical records and even phone or e-mail communications can put on a strain on small clinics as well as larger hospitals.

In developed countries, healthcare workers represent a significant proportion of the working population. For example, in the United Kingdom, more than 1 million people work for the National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system. Medical software therefore has a huge market to tap.

Medical Practice Management Software (MPMS) is a type of software that is designed to supervise and support the day-to-day operations of a medical practice. This category of software typically offers functionality such as data entry, scheduling appointments, billing, reporting, records management, the generation of reports, accounting, and capturing patient demographics.

Nonprofit organization Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) believes that open source software is the path to follow when it comes to integrating systems and sharing various medical-related information in the local healthcare Latest News about healthcare industry.