Slouching Toward Open Innovation: Free and Open Source Software for Electronic Health Information

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This Article argues that some software markets are more favorable for open source approaches than others. Using a case study of one particular software market, this Article develops a tentative framework of factors characterizing markets likely to disfavor contemporary approaches in free and open source software.

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Open source software, Electronic medical records, Electronic records, Medical records, Royalties (Intellectual property), Software licensing, United States

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Greg R. Vetter (University of Houston Law Center)

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