In the first article in this series, "Is open source a development model, business model, or something else?" I introduced the concept that open source is part of the supply chain for software products. But to truly understand open source as a supply chain, you must have a decent understanding of what a product is. A product can be thought of as a business, and as legendary business guru Peter Drucker said, "The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer." Drucker's statement means a business or product must be useful enough to pay for, or it will fail. Product differentiation is the thing that creates and retains customers.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
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ForgeRock Releases Breakthrough Identity Bridge For Cloud Service Providers
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ForgeRock |
July 30, 2013
Service providers can now synchronize cloud and traditional enterprise identity infrastructures and accelerate cloud adoption with the ForgeRock identity bridge, a new customizable on-premises software appliance Read More »
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ForgeRock Summit At French Chateau Draws International Identity Experts, Analysts And Community
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ForgeRock |
August 14, 2013
ForgeRock, the leading commercial open source provider of identity and access management (IAM) security solutions, will hold its first European Open Identity Stack Summit, October 14-16 at Domaine de Béhoust in the Yvelines region of France, near Paris. Read More »
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HHS Releases Landmark Report: Reforming America's Healthcare System
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | January 6, 2019
On December 3, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an extensive, 120-page report on the administration's proposals to reform the healthcare system. The report, titled Reforming America's Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition, is divided into four major sections. The report that government policy of the last few years has suppressed competition, increased prices for healthcare, and limited choices for consumers. Though rich in detail as it tries to prove each of these points, the more than fifty recommendations are often broad and aspirational rather than practical. Since I am not a health economist, I will leave the market issues to others to discuss (many of the ideas in this report have been vetted and discussed by others previously). But there are two sections of the report which make direct mention of Health IT.
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How Do Cloud-Based EHRs Address Common Implementation Woes?
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | August 29, 2013
After spending thousands of dollars on an EHR system, computers, IT infrastructure, installation, and staff training, most providers hope that they never have to go through the EHR implementation process again. [...] Read More »
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How Open Source Start-Ups Can Get Funding (And Go Viral)
Chris Nerney | ITworld | June 19, 2013
Need funding for your open source start-up? Venture capitalist, Salil Deshpande, says build something that leaks up through the floorboard, then support it Read More »
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How To Define A Product In The Open Source Software Supply Chain
By Scott McCarty | October 27, 2020
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Ignoring the Obvious: Major Health IT Organizations Put Aside Patients
Andy Oram | EMR & HIPAA | November 18, 2016
Frustrated stories from patients as well as health care providers repeatedly underline the importance of making a seismic shift in the storage and control of patient data. The current system leads to inaccessible records, patients who reach nursing homes or other treatment centers without information crucial to their care, excess radiation from repeated tests, massive data breaches that compromise thousands of patients at a time, and–most notably for quality–patients excluded from planning their own care.
A simple solution became available over the past 25 years with the widespread adoption of the Web, and has been rendered even easier by modern Software as a Service (SaaS): storing the entire record over the patient’s lifetime with the patient....
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IMS MAXIMS Awarded Place on G-Cloud Framework for Four Consecutive Years
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IMS MAXIMS |
July 29, 2016
Supplier of the UK’s first open source EPR, IMS MAXIMS has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud Framework for the fourth year in a row, as successful applicants to the G-Cloud 8 were revealed today. The G-Cloud 8 Framework is an online services marketplace which public sector organisations, including agencies and arm’s length bodies, can use to purchase cloud-based services. It is designed to help buyers compare and easily procure digital services that suit their needs...
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Interoperability As A Service (IAAS): The AI Enabled Blockchain
Edward Bukstel | LinkedIn | April 18, 2017
It’s time for patients to come to terms with the fact that there is no financial incentive for healthcare providers to consolidate and normalize data from disparate providers. Patients must be cautious maintaining their patient records on a blockchain or another platform that cannot be used by other institutions, providers, or entities. Without portability, blockchains will add little value to advance patient medical record mobility. Healthcare providers may discover some indirect benefits from the consolidation of medical records — even records not immediately accessible by patients...
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Irvine, Calif-Based Health Tech Firm Acquires Growth Strategy Funding for NICU Mobile App
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Rapid Healthcare, Inc. |
November 17, 2016
Rapid Healthcare Inc., a mobile medical apps software company based in Irvine, California, is proud to announce an important alliance that will increase growth strategies for improved access to health care professionals through funding provided by Watermark Venture Capital. Watermark is a privately held California firm currently deploying its services to support large national companies to start-ups. Watermark Venture Capital selects award candidates for capital infusion, based in key technology growth areas such as the healthcare, artificial intelligence, SaaS and more...
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Is an Open Source EMR (OpenEMR) the Right Choice for Medical Practices?
By Shameem C. Hameed | February 11, 2015
Being the lead developer of OpenEMR, the world’s most widely deployed open source electronic medical record (EMR) system, I field calls on a daily basis from people who want to implement it. As part of the due diligence to discover and deliver the best possible outcome for the client, we give them a set of different implementation options that they can consider. The options range from a basic OpenEMR implementation at their offices, to a far more advanced and feature-packed “cloud” solution called BlueEHS.
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NASA Open Source Project Back On Track
Frank Konkel | FWC | February 11, 2013
NASA’s shift to open-source content management is back on after the incumbent contractor withdrew a bid protest on Feb. 4. The withdrawal of the protest [...] allows InfoZen to begin replacing NASA’s existing content management system with open source architecture to run its 140 websites and 1,600 web assets and applications.
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NationBuilder Brings Community Software To Government
Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | January 31, 2013
NationBuilder Vice President of Community Adriel Hampton introduces the company’s newest offering, NationBuilder Government. Read More »
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Nothing Good Is Free: How Linux and Open Source Companies Make Money
David Gerwirtz | ZD Net | November 18, 2016
We all know how popular and helpful Linux and open source products are, but since most of them are available for free, how do the companies that produce them make any money to pay their bills? As it turns out, lots of ways. Last week's article on Linux for older hardware set a new record for Linux-related articles, in that I did not get even one threatening letter. I did, however, get a bunch of email asking business-related questions about Linux and open source...
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OSEHRA 2015: ZH Healthcare Unveils Health IT as a Service (HITaaS) at Annual Open Source EHR Summit
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ZH Healthcare |
July 31, 2015
ZH Healthcare is announcing a new cloud based service which delivers Health IT as a configurable solution. HITaaS manages all aspects of infrastructure, security, runtime, middleware, OS, virtualization, Servers, storage, contracts, and interfaces. Among its components are fully built software modules that can be customized without coding. Key advantages of HITaaS are...
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