On Thursday 27 May 2004 11:18, Etienne Saliez wrote: > ( 1 )�� Begin to work: > Why is the web site http://www.oshca.org/ still 2 years behind? > Make a new one, if necessary with a new name
http://www.oshca.net/ is the official OSHCA domain and website. > and with, on the first page, > links toward all known Open Source projects. I think I would not try to put it all on the front page, nor to supplant services like SPIRIT and other listings. I think adding a list of lists with minimal explanations (or maximal explanations if anyone writes them) of the usefulness of those listing services is more in keeping with OSHCA. I'll state a principle from Etienne's suggestion: ** It should ideally be possible to find, starting from OSHCA's site, all substantial open source healthcare projects. ** > Let begin to produce material of interest on a public website. > I am willing to participate in that effort, with other partners. Praise. > Simple issues like patient identification are still far from obvious.� > Let at least know what are the main points of view, even if they are > sometimes conflicting. The concepts around the management of "Request for > Service" are currently hot issues in many environments. Where there is consensus, it would be worth those who are involved in that consensus producing an OSHCA concensus statement, if they are willing and have time. That would be a suitable thing for the website. I don't think this applies usefuly to general ideas, but if there is a consensus on how a project starting up should identify patients and actors, or how a project that will among other things accept laboratory results and images from elsewhere, then those are surely worth writing as pithy indications of what directions to head in and which directions are less promising than they initially seem. I don't expect more than a couple of such papers this year, it isn't a describe the universe exercise, tempting though they are. > As proposed in Geneva we need a market place of software OS components. It is a good idea and had general approval among the dozen or two attenders. There is no doubt it is a suitable aim but whether OSHCA is scaled and able to do it ourselves, or whether it should be a separate project, preferably funded, deserves discussion. As with many things, I would like to see it happen and will try to help anyone doing it, but lack the ability to do it myself. > ( 2 )�� Meetings: > Try also to have a joins meetings with some other existing Open Source > groups. At the current stage the major problem of Open Source in Healthcare > is to have people accepting to listen to each other. Yes. IMIA and OSHCA in England earlier this year. I think meetings keep the buzz going, if we go for too long without meeting each other we get strident in email, whereas when we remember eating with someone we trust their motives more easily. And align better. I do think that there is a preponderance of people working in OSHCA, and its a strength that we are not all free to fly around the world because this is an adjunct to our work, but attending meetings is also important... -- Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop) GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id�66&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
