{"id":589,"date":"2010-03-22T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T22:51:41","slug":"reducing-single-vendor-lock-in-in-nz-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/reducing-single-vendor-lock-in-in-nz-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Single Vendor Lock-in in NZ Health System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Single-vendor lock-in is great for the lucky vendors &#8211; but terrible for competition and consumers.  So it is great to see fresh steps to develop a standard desktop based on open source software for a major District Health Board in New Zealand <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.co.nz\/news.nsf\/technology\/healthalliance-restarts-open-source-desktop-project?opendocument&#038;utm_source=topnews&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=topnews\">HealthAlliance restarts open-source desktop project<\/a>.  Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s for real this time.  A Microsoft monoculture is a bad idea when you&#8217;re entrusted to store sensitive health information (<a href=\"http:\/\/whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz\/2009\/12\/21\/moh-nothing-to-see-here-move-along-at-waikato-dhb\/\">Nothing to see here, move along at Waikato DHB<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.co.nz\/news.nsf\/scrt\/94283DABBEEDE164CC2575380076C536\">&#8216;Virulent&#8217; virus takes down Health Ministry email system<\/a>, and <a href='http:\/\/computerworld.co.nz\/news.nsf\/security\/uk-national-health-service-hit-with-malware-infection'>UK National Health Service hit with malware infection<\/a>).  It will take a long time to shift so we need to get started ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-vendor lock-in is great for the lucky vendors &#8211; but terrible for competition and consumers. So it is great to see fresh steps to develop a standard desktop based on open source software for a major District Health Board in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/reducing-single-vendor-lock-in-in-nz-health-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}