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The Red Hat healthcare team is at HIMSS08 in Orlando this week. We’re excited about our partnership with One Laptop Per Child, which will enable the donation of additional laptops and educational material to children in developing countries. Our partners AMD, DLT and Vivat have been working with us to tell our story in healthcare, and we’ve got a full slate of meetings lined up with current and prospective partners — the amount of interest from ISVs and customers in using Red Hat and open source for healthcare is clearly gaining momentum. If you’re at HIMSS, stop by our booth #4771 for a visit and even get your shoes shined.
John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), has aggressively adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reduce costs while improving system availability and reliability. Check out our interview with John and the case study on how BIDMC is using Red Hat solutions to help improve care for its patients.
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Recently, both ComputerWorld and InformationWeek discussed McKesson’s move from AIX and Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. McKesson has migrated 50 of its 70 applications to Red Hat, and plans to migrate the remainder within the next two years. As Michael Simpson, SVP/GM of Horizon Clinicals, observes, customers can save over 50 percent on their capital expense with this move, and they can reinvest these dollars into additional software that can protect patient safety such as McKesson’s Medication Safety Advantage software. This is perhaps the most compelling reason for healthcare providers and software vendors to consider providing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a choice: cost savings on infrastructure can be reinvested in other initiatives that further improve the quality of care and patient safety.
See McKesson’s full Red Hat customer case study here.
Happy New Year! 2008 promises to be an exciting year for Red Hat and healthcare. One of our focuses has been on healthcare interoperability. Interoperability has many forms, and many different solutions are needed to address it in the healthcare industry. None of the solutions available today are perfect, but there are definitely advancements being made. Red Hat is actively working to improve healthcare interoperability in a number of different ways.
In December, Red Hat announced a partnership with HP in India on the MMEDD project, which will computerize 19 government hospitals and 14 medical colleges in Maharashtra. The first deployment will be at Sir JJ Hospital, one of the largest referral hospitals in the state. Red Hat is providing the infrastructure technology and expertise, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss.
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Mr. HISTalk interviews Laurent Rotival, senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Solutions business at GE Healthcare. Laurent discusses the next-generation product line being built in partnership with Intermountain Healthcare, which is being architected on Linux, open source and commodity hardware to enable the product to scale from community hospitals to large IDNs such as Intermountain. An architecture built on Linux enables both scale-up and scale-down by providing affordable reliability on both ends of the provider spectrum. There is no need to design an “expensive” architecture for large providers and a different “low-cost” architecture for small providers. Linux enables you to support both with the same affordable architecture. Check out the interview.
There’s growing interest in open source and healthcare IT. Why are people interested? One, the problem space is hard. Clinical data is complex. There are technical issues — but equally complex legal and business issues. No one company or person has all the answers. A collaborative model lets everyone contribute in their area of expertise. We is smarter than me. Second, is cost. Physicians and hospitals always want to improve the quality of care for patients, but significant investments in IT are often beyond their means. Open source software provides dramatic cost savings over the status quo, enabling greater investment in systems that improve patient safety and the quality of care. Finally, healthcare standards are starting to coalesce, creating an opportunity for open source software to implement standards. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology just announced an open source EHR testing project. The Health Services Specification Project is making great progress in defining fundamental healthcare services. Other groups such as HL7 and IHE continue to move standards forward.
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