I have a client that has an EMR (electronic medical records) system. The client is trying to port over the data from her existing system to a new system. The vendor for the old system refuses to give us the user ID and password to the server because they say it will give us access to their proprietary information. I say the data and server belong to the Dr since she had to buy the hardware and software. But the vendor insists that they will not give us the user ID and password to the server and if we want the data, we have to pay $1 per patient to give us a PDF report of the data.
Question – does anybody know of any legal cases that we can use to reference that gives us the legal right to the data?
Or, does anybody know how to hack into a SCO Unix box so we can access the database.