Open-source software is actually more secure for health care IT, study suggests

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 14:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Globally the sale of health-care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs and frequent failed systems regularly attract media comment. However policy makers still shy away from a class of software, open source, that could address many of these problems, because of worries about the safety and security. Now new research finds that open-source software may actually be more secure than its often more expensive alternatives.

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