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Pls. do not take my prior post as advertising of a company; and I assure you that I have no financial interest with this company... So it is just an example for a paradigm shift in User Interface and Human-Machine Interaction domains... Their business model were not suitable for FOSS at 2001, but maybe now they because from day 1 they sere into a SOA...(Service Oriented Architecture) which I belive is 100% compatible for FOSS and other projects...So you do not pay for SW, but for services (which we all do!) Best regards, Dr. Koray Atalag _____ From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koray Atalag Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:17 AM To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [openhealth] Re: Software Developers, BOTH too rigid and too complex Hi to all, Regarding the GUI and checkboxes paradigm; I would strongly suggest that you look at: http://www.anoto.com <http://www.anoto.com/> http://www.anotofunctionality.com/ These guys I met in 2001 at Hannovery CeBit fair...The solution I believe is not "computerise" healtcare domain but to enable "electronic and structured data" collection...So they were one of candidate partners for CEREBRUS project. What they simply do is ability to design your own paper forms which are transformed into electronic form on-the-fly while you use a special inexpensive pen connected to either your GPRS/BlueTooth enabled Mobile/PDA and/or WAP (Wireless Access Points) or BlueTooth Access points at the point of care! Smart ha? Also, take a close look at my GUI at PATHOS-WEB Project (http://pathos-web.org/pathos-web_en.htm), which has been evolved by feedback from doctor users since 11 years...They might seem very very amateur; but that's the secret...A Typical healtcare user, especially doctors are too busy to deal with "Computer Freaks"... BTW, it is now ranked at SF one of the top projects; even more popular than WorldVista :-) So this might prove my proposal on the use of "dummiest GUI" for healtcare users... Comments? -koray _____ From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nandalal Gunaratne Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:04 AM To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [openhealth] Re: Software Developers, BOTH too rigid and too complex Rick Stockton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone advise me, why does OpenEMR tend to have so many checkboxes in its forms? (I am without a clue, just a sentence or two is sufficient.) Free form text in a database cannot be used to generate reports etc, which are needed to get statistics and do audit and research. THerefore the innumerable check boxes. The other way to do is to use workflows, where the way you fill a few check boxes will direct you accordingly to other forms with check boxes. Once you get the hang of it, and if you are concerned about the ability to generate statistical reports, it becomes , er, acceptable? Nandalal P.S. If some of you can identify that bull-crap package from the fact that the psychiatric 'progress note/existing pt. visit' form is 17 pages, you win the prize! --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "openhealth" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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