US senators took up the promotion of Open Source in medicine

Democratic senator John D. Rockefeller (John D. (Jay) Rockefeller), pictured in the photo, is an active supporter of introducing into the US public health system open source solutions, in particular, Medsphere software , which is also used to maintain an electronic accounting database. War Veterans (US Department of Veteran Affairs). He is also the author of the new bill (adopted April 23), which establishes a constituent council headed by David Blumenthal (David Blumental, chief IT specialist in the field of American public health ), whose tasks will include distribution of grants to medical institutions for the introduction of open source EDS, development and adaptation of concepts of transition from existing systems, as well as the development of criteria for assessing the success of implementation.

Everything would be wonderful if this initiative (in fact, it originates from the G. Bush administration, when Senator Ted Stevens was doing this) did not have opponents who advocate excluding officials from market regulation (in particular, Republicans this is done by donations from proprietary software development companies).

Based on ZDNet
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PS: it would be interesting to know how things stand with the introduction of open source in medicine in Russia?