[TriLUG] TriLUG Digest, Vol 2801, Issue 1

[Charles Fischer via TriLUG]

Answer to your second question.  Nothing to do with Linux, but it does have
to do with open source.  Projects like OpenEMR are handicapped by overly
burdensome government regulations.  In this case it is CMS (aka Medicare
for all practical purposes) requiring absurd functionality in electronic
health/medical record systems.  Part of the reason for
the burdensome regulations is that closed source software companies had a
seat at the table when the regulations were written (pray to Google about
Epic CEO and CMS for more information) and open source, as usual did not.
A twist on the fox guarding the hen house saying is appropriate here: The
fox designed the hen house.  We see the same thing with the FCC and
wireless restrictions and lets not even start on DCMA.

If I went too far with asking people to sign the petition, I am sorry.  The
petition is asking for some of the overly burdensome regulation to be
stopped.  Because of space limits at the We the People web site, I did not
go into what should replace the current regulations.  If I did, I would
have spoken about the need to build a data sharing infrastructure that was
open to all types of computing.

Again, if the link to open source is too tenuous, I apologize,
Charles Fischer


On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 19:17:01 -0400
> MvER - TrLUG via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > On 04/17/2016 12:00 PM, via TriLUG wrote:
> > > About two weeks ago I attended a webinar about Meaningful Use (MU)
> > > > and Electronic Health Records (EHR).  The needless hoops that a
> > > > small medical practice needs to jump through to avoid paying a
> > > > penalty on >
> > their Medicare patients is absurd.  So absurd that I wrote to my US >
> > Congress critters that night.  I am still pissed, so the next step is
> > > a “We the People” petition.
>
> [offtopic rant snipped]
>
> A couple questions:
>
> 1: What is the topic being discussed? Is it some kind of software
>    called Digest, Vol 2801, Issue 1?
>
> 2: What do your opinions on Medicare's administration have to do with
>    Linux?
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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