"Smith, Todd" a �crit : > > > I noticed this software from a post over at Hardhats in reference to > printing, http://www.scansoft.com/ Is there a problem, with just scanning > in to the respective applications, FreePM and OIO all of the forms that > might be found in a typical physician's office? Obviously, there are > physician practices that are represented here and on openhealth. Just have > one of them send paper examples of every form that they have and then use > something like Scansoft to create electronic forms from them. Collecting samples (scans) of medical records from around the world was one of the projects for the openhealth-list I suggested over a year ago ( http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00844.html ). This was suggested a means of getting more information flowing between medical practitioners and developers in open source health care. The Spirit site (www.euspirit.org) will shortly have an "Introduction to open source medical informatics" group authored online resource (Wiki) where this information could be hosted. Bud Bruegger is the editor of this resource. I have spoken with Bud an he would be happy to host this information and the entire Spirit team can use our spirit contacts to seek out this information from European sources. We could accept paper documents for scanning or anyone can upload scanned documents since the resource is an open forum. A desciption of this service from the Spirit portal plan http://www.euspirit.org/documents/deliv-d3.pdf follows: ---------------------- Needs, Objectives, and Benefits The open source health care community is quite specialised and difficult to approach for new potential participants who are missing certain key concepts. In particular, participation on a development project requires background knowledge in these areas: Health care Health care management Computing science Available open source systems Many potential participants come from closely related communities such as the general open source programming community, the medical profession, or the proprietary health care informatics community. These potential participants need an introduction to the concept areas that they are not yet familiar with in order to join the community. Also, participants in roles outside of development have an occasional need to look up specific technical terms. Description The "Introduction to Open Source Health Care Informatics" knowledge base is designed to deliver basic information for newcomers. The community itself, especially newcomers, will build this resource. The technology framework is a "Wiki" collaborative authoring system that lets community members create, edit, and refine topic entries. The topic entries form a searchable and expandable web site. More information on this tool is described later in this document. The site will be seeded with basic topics written by the Spirit team. This service is experimental and depends on community involvement for the ongoing editing and monitoring of the content. Security is by basic e-mail confirmation of identity. It is easy to find newly created or edited topics either from the site or by e-mail notification. Multilingual Features Although topics can be created in any language, this will primarily be an English resource. If sufficient interest is shown, alternate language forums may be created at a later date. Cost and Availability This is a free community service. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465
