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Paper Kills 2.0 Book by Center for Health Transformation

Paper Kills 2.0 Book by Center for Health Transformation
Features Chapter by Misys Open Source Solutions

New York, NY (FEBRUARY 26, 2010) – Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys Plc (FTSE:MSY.L), today announces its contribution in the publication of Paper Kills 2.0: How Health IT Can Help Save Your Life and Your Money. This timely and powerful book, edited by David Merritt of the Center for Health Transformation, is the sequel to the award-winning book, Paper Kills. Newt Gingrich, Tom Daschle, and national industry leaders explore the leading information technologies that can and will transform our health system. MOSS, a leader in open source software for healthcare, contributed a chapter on innovation and open-source software in the new book which is being launched this week.

Bob Barthelmes, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Misys Open Source Solutions, and Tim Elwell, Vice President, Misys Open Source Solutions – Healthcare, co-authored the chapter: “An Open Invitation: Melding Open-Source Software and Technological Innovation,” which focuses on the role of open source in the creation of an operational healthcare information exchange (“HIE”) to improve patient care.
“We were honored to contribute to the development of Paper Kills 2.0,” said Bob Barthelmes, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Misys Open Source Solutions. “It is important to recognize how open-source software and open-community collaboration will transform the healthcare industry. Open source software drives down the HIE development costs, allowing vendors to act creatively and collaboratively to develop an effective common HIE infrastructure.”

The chapter details how the use of open source software in the development of an interconnected network of HIEs will become the next technological innovation for healthcare. The book addresses issues like how “Free” has become the new economy and how the economic downturn has created a New Normal that has set the table for CIOs to seriously consider open source alternatives.
MOSS Healthcare, prominently recognized for its January 2010 release of the first fully open source, standards-based HIE solution platform, focuses on the role of the open source strategy in support of improving healthcare products and service offerings and discusses pragmatic business models needed to survive as a hybrid vendor.

Open source will be an important tool used by forward-looking hospitals,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, founder of the Center of Health Transformation. “Paper Kills 2.0 is a timely contribution to the industry, as is the open-source movement to transform healthcare software.”
With a specific look at the impact of the federal ARRA investment, Paper Kills 2.0 is a thought-provoking book that explores the most important drivers of health IT, from innovation, primary care, and clinical research to e-prescribing, electronic administration, and health information exchange. With praise from luminaries such as Dr. Mehmet Oz, Mike Leavitt, Bill Frist, and Jeff Immelt of GE, Paper Kills 2.0 is required reading for industry leaders, providers, and policymakers who want to understand what is happening today and what will likely happen tomorrow to bring healthcare into the 21st century.

USA Today will print a special section on health IT on Friday, February 26. They are including a shortened version of the Newt-Tom Daschle foreword. The special section will be included in their papers in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles, San Diego. They will also have copies available at HIMSS (http://www.himssconference.org/ ) (largest healthcare IT industry conference) beginning Monday, March 1.