[slashdot] Tech Giants Push Open Standards for Health Network

[rwingo]

There is an interesting article/discussion over at slashdot.org:

An excerpt from the intro at slashdot:

Tech Giants Push Open Standards for Health Network

Posted by michael on Thu January 27, 11:44 AM from the eschewing-proprietariness dept.

securitas writes:

"The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports that 'Eight of the nation's largest technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national health information network.' "


You can view the article being discussed here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/...ss/health.html

And the discussion at slashdot here:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...id=158&tid=185