Open-source healthcare firm Medsphere settles lawsuit against co-founders, looks for funding

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