Open-source healthcare firm Medsphere settles lawsuit against co-founders, looks for funding
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Medsphere Systems, a healthcare software developer that sued its co-founders after an open-source software disagreement, has finally settled that case. The press release doesn’t exactly burst with detail — in fact, it devotes exactly one sentence to the lawsuit — but it represents at least a modicum of good news for the worthy effort to promote more widespread use of an open and standardized medical-record system.
Medsphere essentially aims to turn VistA, an electronic medical-record… Continue Reading
Medsphere hires new CEO, a “reinvention” that could boost electronic medical records
Medsphere Systems, a controversial Aliso Viejo, Calif., healthcare-software firm notorious for suing its co-founders last year when they released an open-source version of the company’s code, named a new CEO, a sign that it may be moving to heal old wounds.
Warning: Some of what follows is a bit convoluted — business disputes are rarely cut-and-dried, particularly once lawyers get involved. But it’s an interesting and important story, not least because the electronic medical-records system at… Continue Reading