Coffs Free and Open Technology Network is an association of IT professionals in and around Coffs Harbour. We provide products and services in accordance with a set of principles which regard the interests, and specifically the freedoms, of our clients as being of paramount importance. We sell, deploy, and support products built around free software (sometimes called "open source" software), and open standards.
Our mission is to make it possible for any computer user in the Coffs Harbour area to find support for any free and open technology from vendors within our area. Each member of the Coffs Free and Open Technology Network may be considered a gateway to the services of the network as a whole.
The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report
Thu, 17/04/2008 - 3:22pm — Allison DavidsonThe Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report is available here
http://census.waughpartners.com.au or download the pdf below.
The Case for Free Health Record Software
Mon, 19/11/2007 - 3:05pm — Matthew DavidsonMedical practices around the world are rushing to roll out Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, in many cases without pausing to consider the freedoms and functionality they are sacrificing in the process. An opinion piece on the LinuxMedNews blog calls this "The Coming Electronic Health Record Software Disaster". The widespread use of proprietary EHR systems:
"... amounts to widely installing Electronic Health Record faucets of tremendous range of shapes, sizes and colors, each with toll booths attached to them, with the intervening plumbing as an afterthought. What the faucets actually do and how and when the plumbing in between will be installed is left as a future exercise."
An article in the journal ADVANCE for Health Information Executives concurs:
"New York City recently awarded a $19.8 million contract to a proprietary EHR vendor, which will permit the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide free software to physicians and clinics to be used for care of patients. While this may be a good idea from the standpoint of affordability and interoperability if the patients all go to the clinics that use this particular system, it won't be much help when those patients seek care somewhere else."
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