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Phoenix Health and Medsphere to Deliver IT Outsourcing Services and Open Source EHR Solution to Critical Access Hospital

March 19, 2010

Columbia Basin Hospital (CBH) has roped in Phoenix Health Systems for its Total IT Solution service line under a five-year contract. The agreement also includes the deployment of the OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) solution provided by Medsphere Systems Corporation. Phoenix’s Total IT Solution will be leveraged to meet the healthcare IT requirements of CBH’s nursing home, rural health clinic, assisted living center, and the hospital. Read more

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Open Source Technology in Healthcare

November 18, 2009

Open source is an innovative software development approach that allows accessibility to a software’s source code to the general public, under moderate or zero copyright limitations. By providing access to the software source code, an open source project provides an opportunity for designing, modifying, customizing, and distributing the software. This helps the users overcome the challenges of product rigidity, vendor lock-in, complex licensing terms, as well as cost related issues. Read more

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