Well just don't almost kill a software engineer in the hospital as this is what you get..lol. A little humor there but the real motivation for writing the platform. FYI you have the Commonwell group headed up by Cerner writing their platform with a bunch of the bigger EMRs and those guys want to make money at it of course.
Zoeticx is all written in open source software and much like Amazing Charts was or still is he wants to keep it affordable and make a living from selling and licensing the server but have the open API so people can write their own apps. You don't get that from the big guys at all. I hope that explains this a bit better and the EMR vendor just needs to have an API written to connect so anyone with their EMR that doesn't want to upgrade doesn't have too. The big guys all want you to think you need an epic or cerner ambulatory system so they can sell you more and this platform gets rid of that idea.
The expense would be on the part of the EMR vendor to write an API for users and they are writing code for all kinds of updates, etc. anyway.
On another topic I probably made no friends at the ONC today..they decided to lawyer up now and hire a former United Healthcare lawyer to be their head of privacy...oh yeah...what..you mean that health insurer that's a huge data seller? Yup that would be the one.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/10/onc-hires-new-privacy-head-california.htmlThere's a lot of links in that post too if you are interested including how Burwell at HHS already lawyered up with a Citibank lawyer she hired.
Thanks for the comments and I hope I explained it a bit better as not being yet another huge Health IT effort to get rich. Basically today if the DOD and VA wanted to get started and buy some of the Zoeticx servers, they could as legacy is ok.
