The Open Healthcare GroupannouncesXChart, an open source XML healthcare system. The Open Healthcare Group Community is composed of medical and technology professionals collaborating on technology standards to make the healthcare system better and more efficient. The Open Healthcare Group’s XChart Project is a movement to create an electronic medical record that is easier than paper. XChart is a system designed to combine the ease, speed and portability of paper systems with the efficiencies of computerized records. XChart is browsable via the web with minimal training. An online demonstration is available. –Jonathan Borden

If you don’t like voice mail menus, this brief InfoWorld story will make you shudder in despair. It seems that more and more CRM [Customer Relationship Management] software is shipping with voice recognition and output capability.

PCWorld blurb about Samsung’s new sub-$200 laser printer. The article doesn’t mention the fact that it comes with Linux drivers, but according to other stories we’ve read about the device, it does.

MSNBC reveals yet another Hotmail security bug.

InfoWorld writeup about new NAS [Network Attached Storage] devices and how to use them; most will work with any OS.

General wrapup of the last two weeks’ Linux-oriented news from LinuxWorld. (If you’ve been following NewsForge you’ve seen all these stories already.)

PCWorld.com article says mainstream publisher “…Simon & Schuster plans full season of digital books, including a timely election report.”

ZDNet’s Jesse Berst talks about alternatives to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which (according to the article) is now used by 86.08% of Internet users.

CNN.com story says Crusoes will be in Viao Picturebooks due in stores mid – to – late October. Other laptop vendors expect to have Cruso-based products out in November or December.

HP’s new ‘Superdome’ server is supposed to help HP take some of the big-time Unix server market away from Sun, but in an Inter@ctive Week story, writer Ken Popovich expresses skepticism about their potential success.