Dear Brian, Thanks for adding OIO to OpenHealth. I like to know more about your plans for DocScope since I did have a chance to read your vision and description documents on OpenHealth. Since you are at a looking-for-funding phase, can you tell me how much funding you need and what your plans are if you cannot get funding in the next few months? From what I can tell, it seems that the OIO is sufficiently similar in architecture to what you have in mind that by using the OIO, you will be able to prototype other features of your system very easily. We also tried to get funding 2 years ago from the National Library of Medicine but we were turned down. Since we thought we have such a useful idea, we went ahead with the project the best we can with the plan that we are more likely to get money when we have a working system and can demonstrate feasibility. That's where we are now, 2 years later. We will be trying to get funding again in the next year. I think our chances are better now that we have a working system that has been tested in actual research projects (we have over 800 patients in one project). However, even if we don't get funding, we will continue development as we have and recruit collaborators from people who download and find the OIO useful. Please let me know if the OIO can help you get started with your DocScope project. If we do get funding, perhaps we can also help you with some funding. If you have an interest and expertise in XML, perhaps you can also consider taking on extending OIO with those capabilities. In the beginning, we will probably allocate 40% of our grant money for in-house OIO-kernel development and 60% for funding external projects that base their open-source projects on the OIO (through sub-contracts). We will probably start with a budget of about $500,000 per year. If our development model works (i.e. funding open-source kernel team + sub-contractors), we can apply for more funding to expand the external sub-contracting. We like to keep in-house development as small as possible. Our goal is to improve clinical treatment through better use of biomedical computing. We hope the OIO brings some useful ideas and we invite your criticism and help. Look over the OIO first. Send me some info about your plans and needs if you are interested in collaborating. By the way, what do you think of the openhealth.org's X-Chart? thanks again and best wishes, Andrew ---------- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry Harbor-UCLA Medical Center University of California, Los Angeles -- On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:39:35 Brian Bray wrote: >I'm adding your very interesting project to the list of open source >healthcare applications at > >http://openhealth.com/en/healthlinks.html > >Thank you for referencing our site from your project pages. > >I've used the following summary: > >---------- >OIO (http://www.txoutcome.org) > >OIO is a Web-based system that manages users, patients, user-extensible >forms / >records, and reports. It is in production at Harbor/UCLA in >medical/psychiatric projects. >We use it as an outcomes management and clinical research information >system. > >The major goal of this project is sharing resources and streamlining >data processing through an "open infrastructure". The goal is to promote >the sharing of data management, training, and data analysis tools and >expertise among researchers, clinicians, and patients. The means of >achieving this is to provide the infrastructure at low or no cost to the >users. In turn, the users will be encouraged to share the >tools/instruments that they create at low or no cost with the community >at large. >--------- > >If you would like something different please let me know. > >I'd also like to invite you to have a look at DocScope. From reading >the description of your system and especially you "todo" of XML >representation of patient data and forms, it seems like there is a good >opportunity for collaboration. > >The project site is at: http://openhealth.com/docscope/ > >The project is in the "searching for funding phase" and there is no >source code yet. > >I'd appreciate any feedback. > >Thanks in advance. > >-Brian > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com
