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Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets (Computerworld)

[Posted December 13, 2007 by cook]

Computerworld reports on McKesson's move to from mainframes to Linux. "Today, San Francisco-based McKesson offers about 50 of its 70 most popular health care applications -- dealing with everything from billing to pharmacy records, staffing, admissions, physician order entry systems and surgery scheduling -- on Linux, reducing costs for hospitals and medical offices. The move was solidified in February, when McKesson partnered with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. to unveil the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform, which was customized to meet the needs of the health care industry." (Found on LinuxMedNews).

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Posted Dec 13, 2007 20:15 UTC (Thu) by manuel.flury (guest, #7880) [Link]

So we will see Cuddy using Linux soon then ?

Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets (Computerworld)

Posted Dec 13, 2007 22:27 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

House has been using it for some time, in defiance of the microsoft-only policy. Now,
thankfully, Cuddy will no longer have the intractable problem of how to deal with Houses
flagrant use of linux at the hospital.