[Gnumed-devel] Re: Certification: Canada henceforth requires patient management software to be certified

[Jim Busser]

On this, it was commented (offlist)

> I'll bet that requirement was pushed by the current incumbents who  
> have the resources to do so. How sad :(

The above is certainly possible, however it need not disadvantage an  
open source project provided the dollar costs are not too high.

Subject to the latter, I can imagine the participants in a FLOSS  
project being as much or more interested in the project quality than a  
traditional vendor may care to be.

I am collecting some information on 
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/GmCertification