Gregory wrote: >What is VMACS? VMACS (Veterinary Medical and Administrative Computer System) is a Hospital Information System for Veterinary Medicine. M2Web is an extraction of some of the utilities that make it web accessible. (Follow the link in my sig for more info.) It is based on a similar foundation as VistA (MUMPS and Fileman) but with many interesting differences and similarities. It is more advanced than VistA in some areas, such as web interface, and less in others. It is a similarly comprehensive and mature information system, but it is much smaller than VistA in nearly every way, size of code base, number of developers, number of patients, budget, even the size of most of our patients (although some are MUCH larger). ;)
We don't have to wrestle (as much) with some major issues in human health informatics, such as privacy, insurance companies, government regulations, and interdepartmental turf wars. We do have to deal with more species of patients and correspondingly greater variation in normal ranges for test values. "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx. >On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Jim Self wrote: > >> AI was one of my major interests also back in the 70's and early >> 80's. I put it on hold to >> develop VMACS. It feels like it will be time soon to revisit it. My >> focus will be on >> parsing text in medical records to extract concepts and patterns in >> and between records >> that could be useful for clinical research. I will be looking at >> UMLS and Cyc and Kevin's >> mention of link grammar sounds interesting. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
