The Open Source Movement. En artikel i den amerikanska tidningen The Informatics Review från "Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems" skriven av läkaren Linda Wedemayer vid Kaiser Permanente. Hon gör
en kort och systematisk genomgång av OSS och har intervjuat andra läkare om hur de använder OSS i sin organisation. Hon avslutar med denna kommentar:

"Attempts to computerize healthcare records have been in progress for many years, yet still very few hospitals in the United States have implemented them. Proponents of open source claim that their approach provides enormous benefits in cost efficiency. We know that we need independence from unstable vendors. Given the enormous cost of these systems, it does not seem reasonable to take the risk that a vendor will go out of business, leaving an institution with a product that can no longer be maintained or upgraded. One of the greatest difficulties that our information technology departments have is that the needed functions simply don't exist, and adequate usability is very difficult to provide (Ash, 2000). If open source really can provide rapid software evolution, it could be of great benefit to us. Seemingly viable options for support are available, including commercial efforts as well as combinations of in-house staff with the commercial efforts. "