content: No. The software that runs hospital functions is highly regulated and must meet various standards and requirements set by government regulators. Because of the regulations and huge expense of maintaining compliance, no one has developed any Linux-based hospital software. Even for Windows, the competition is sparse since only a handful of massive medical software companies are able to compete in the market. There is no incentive for a hospital to use something different than one of the leading systems from a major medical software company. Linux would be a disaster in a hospital setting, at least when it comes to user desktops. Medical personnel are not tech savvy and many of the computers are used by lots of staff members. All those fingers poking around Linux would destroy it in no time and make the PC unusable for patient support. Hospitals aren't choosing Windows over Linux. They are choosing to use what has worked for them and countless other hospitals. They are also choosing a major vendor who can be liable for high dollar issues should the software become a detriment to a patient's life. Who would be liable for some FOSS hospital software?