A FLOSS Policy For New Zealand

I think Open Source can be a viable option for especially clinician-led fit-for-purpose applications in healthcare. The following is taken from the New Zealand Open Source Society:
In previous posts we have looked at FLOSS policies of overseas governments, progress in uptake of FLOSS in Malaysia and also started a discussion about making Wellington the open source capital of New Zealand.

The Clinton Bedogni Prize for Open Systems will be awarded for the first time in 2010 to the New Zealand individual (whether from academia or industry) who has made the greatest contribution to the field of Open Systems in the past two years. The definition of Open Systems is broad and includes interoperable systems with standards-based and well documented framework of functionality and interfaces - not necessarily, but preferably, Free and Open Source.

Papers in the march edition of HCIRO has been oublished online at :http://www.hinz.org.nz/journal

Innovation and Openness - Is There Room for Both?

This paper is based on the HINZ 2010 presentation and coauthored by Werner Van Huffel from Microsoft.

"ACAFE-a computerised clinical decision support advancement for emergency medicine. Hospital electronic medical record EHR or EMR. Used commercially. Other uses include research-development into chronic and infectious-diseases. A demo is available at http://acafe.msdrg.org."

You can download ACAFE for free from SourceForge.