Allscripts has not launched open source medicine

I didn’t think it was possible. The people at Forbes are getting dumber.

A Forbes blog post titled “open source makes debut in health care” is making its rounds about the Internet this morning.

It describes an effort by Allscripts to build the equivalent of an “app store” within its online Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It’s called the “Application Store and Exchange.”

Apple’s app store is not open source.

Even if Allscripts were making all its code visible (which is what open source means) this would not be its introduction to the health care market, either.