(2007-10-23) Medsphere Lawsuit Ended

The lawsuit and countersuit between healthcare information technology systems developer MedSphere Systems Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif., and its two co-founders, Scott and Steve Shreeve, have been settled, ending an bizarre, 15-month legal battle in which a company that bills itself as a purveyor of Open Source software sued its own officers for releasing software to the open-source community... At issue was the posting of Medsphere computer code to Source Forge.net, a popular Web-based platform for open-source development projects. At the time, Steve Shreeve was a member of the board of directors and was the company's chief technology officer. Scott Shreeve was its chief medical officer.

In 2006, Fred Trotter, [developer](http://www.emrupdate.com/blogs/emrinterviews/archive/2007/04/05/Mirror Med-GPL-EMR_3A00_-Interview-with-Fred-Trotter_3B00_-Programmer-2F00-Software-Freedom-Advocate.aspx) of the Open Source EHR Mirror Med, wrote about the lawsuit.

Steve Shreeve posted about the company mission at that time also. For a brief shining moment, Medsphere really was open source. That all changed with the subsequent termination of Medsphere's founding team and the filing of a $50 million dollar lawsuit against them. The DMCA was invoked by Board Member Larry Augustin to pull the source code and talk swirled about software Patent-s on this open source code.

Ken Hizer, who was CEO at the time the suit was filed, left in May'2007. His replacement was Michael Doyle.

Joel West was involved in the company way back.