I doubt much has changed with the former Cerner except that Safra stopped ripping the business after Oracle ended breaking…
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I may be a big fan of both Cerner and Epic, but I have to admit that many of the changes John Halamka put into place after the Boston Bombing would be largely impossible unless he had already put into place an EHR where he controlled the code. Neither Cerner nor Epic would be able to (or necessarily want to) create custom code of this nature in that short time period.
What code Mennonite? Everything done was manual unless I missed something.
” And also if you go and build around a certain operating system, like Unix, that is open source, it is tested and provided to the end-user with certification, service, warranty, installation, all that.”
If you’re going to be lecturing about open source, you should probably understand what Unix (or rather UNIX) means. Unix is not open source by default (try getting the source to HP-UX or AIX and selling your own fork, BSD you can though), GNU/Linux is, but Linux is not Unix 🙂
@What Code? — Perhaps I misunderstood some of these changes, then. I had the impression that they certainly did do lots of grunt work but that they also rearranged their whole setup in terms of security in their homegrown application. Perhaps Mr HISTalk can get Halamka to clarify?