MuyComputer say our colleagues, the United States government has long been trying to carry health system new technologies , and for months have been testing a model based on some Open Source technologies.

The initial idea is that doctors, hospitals, patients, and in general all those responsible for public health system to share information securely and easily . Two pilot projects appear to be successful and could be used as the basis for U.S. national implementation.

said on Wednesday that the pilot projects implemented in Minnesota and Rhode Island could be the future reference, since it has been shared successfully registration information Immunization between patient and physicians involved in treating such patients.

investment you want to do in the public health system in the United States is mulmillonaria, and one of the goals is to have a technological infrastructure that allows share patient data among various agencies and medical professionals safe .

U.S. government has decided to adopt this model for collaboration Open Source , and in fact several companies competing in the market have joined an initiative called Project Direct was started almost a year, in March 2010. Among the companies involved are Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Siemens.

One of the heads of the project is Brian Behlendorf , which is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the World Economic Forum and is a legend in the world of Open Source and is the operator of Apache web server .

solution that the group of companies is working after a pooling is essentially an electronic mail system of encryption public key customized for the healthcare system.

As indicated in the New York Times, “ using the new standard, no personally identifiable information in the header, wherein any recipient could read it. The new technology allows you to attach files, but these attachments can only be opened by the recipient that the message is sent “.