I attended the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) conference in Chicago earlier this month, along with upwards of 20,000 other people. Most of them are involved in the sales and procurement process, representing thousands of vendor companies and the health systems, hospitals, clinics, governments, etc., that use their products [...]
Over at the Innovators Network—ACT’s project that focuses on intellectual property and entrepreneurs—our pal Andre Carter has a post about that Carnegie Institute conference this week. (Morgan wrote about aspects of it here.) I think that Andre’s piece is particularly important because it drives home the points that we’re always [...]
Against my better judgement, I decided to engage on a couple of recent posts/articles attacking our criticism (and that of BSA) of the European Interoperability Framework(EIF). The conversations have been interesting, to say the least. Our statement has been covered by the Matt Asay's Open Road Blog @ CNET, 451 [...]
Last week, we put out a statement on the European Commission's most recent draft of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), which is focused on the noble goal of improving data sharing between national governments and the European Union itself. It was quoted in a story about the EIF by IP-Watch [...]
ZDNet UK's knowledgeable security blogger, Tom Espiner, has posted a piece about the responses of ACT and Red Hat to ISO's recent approval of OOXML as an open standard for electronic documents. Tom seems to take the position of Red Hat as the right honest gospel, not wasting a single [...]
