DSS, Inc., Announces Open Source Version of vxVistA EHR Framework, Joins Open Health Tools Foundation
Ignacio Valdes
VistA distribution that is CCHIT certified will now be open source
under the Eclipse Public License: "...Juno Beach, FL–January 7, 2008–
DSS, Inc. the leading developer of enhancements to VistA, the VA's
award winning electronic health record, announced it will open source
the code for its vxVista(R) an enhanced version of VistA designed for
the commercial market. In this major development, DSS, Inc. has
effectively removed the greatest obstacle to collaboration in the
VistA community by providing their enhanced version of VistA under a
commercially friendly open source license that can be used to unite
the VistA community...Mark Byers, President and CEO of DSS, Inc., said
that vxVistA(R) is being released as open source software at a
critical time in this country's history. Byers stated, 'the health
care crisis is one of the major challenges facing this country,"
adding that "VistA deployments in the private sector have demonstrated
that VistA can provide private hospitals and clinics with the highest
quality Electronic Health Record in the shortest amount of time for a
fraction of the cost of competing products." According to Byers, "We
can lower the cost of health care while significantly increasing the
quality of that care by implementing VistA across the United States."
Full text of the announcement here:
http://linuxmednews.com/1231281379/index_html
kdt...@gmail.com
Has anyone see their extension/improvement list?
But overall, sounds great!
Kevin
Jonathan Tai
> Does anyone know about the Eclipse license?
After seeing Ignacio's original post, I did some reading. Wikipedia has
a pretty good summary.
"The Eclipse Public License is designed to be a business friendly free
software license, and features weaker copyleft provisions than
contemporary licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL)."
One thing that stood out to me was that "the EPL 1.0 is not compatible
with the GPL, and a work created by combining a work licensed under the
GPL with a work licensed under the EPL cannot be lawfully distributed."
This incompatibility is apparently due to a patent clause in the EPL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
The Wikipedia page also provides a link to the license text itself, as
well as a FAQ.
- Jon
Mike Ginsburg
Mike
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From: Hard...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Ignacio Valdes
Sent: Tue 1/6/2009 5:45 PM
To: hardhats
Subject: [Hardhats] DSS, Inc., Announces Open Source Version of vxVistA EHR Framework, Joins Open Health Tools Foundation
DSS, Inc. has announced that its vxVistA product a Veterans Affairs
VistA distribution that is CCHIT certified will now be open source
Gregory Woodhouse
On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:28 PM, kdt...@gmail.com wrote:
> Does anyone know about the Eclipse license?
> Has anyone see their extension/improvement list?
>
> But overall, sounds great!
> Kevin
>
Eclipse is a popular open source development environment. For the text
of the EPL see