When the editor is finished, it will be released to the general public. It is taking too durn long to get out. Maybe our developers should make the editor open source so we can get it out sooner..... hint, hint.
I do not think it is a pure Open Source model - by strict definition. It will be "free" (no royalty) for anyone who wants to use it, BUT they will have to agree to contribute any improvements they make to the full data model AND there will be some kind of 'vetting' process to verify the legitimacy of any added (contributed) data before it becomes part of the permanent data model. Also, we will insist that people do not create derivative proprietary data suprasets to market and sell - products yes, but not data extensions - assuming that can be accomplished with the Open Source license.
The editor has to be finsihed soon or we will not have enough time to build a rich data set prior to release of our web based EMR.
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