wrote:
>
> I take it as tenant of faith that proprietary systems had their shot
at "the
> throne" and have missed it so badly that "the throne" will be held
someday
> by a FOSS system... making my comment about OSCAR more reasonable...
>
> -FT
>
>
Hi all,
I've been lurking for a while and have enjoyed many of the above comments.
I have installed or attempted to install all of the open source
electronic health records that I have been able to find (with the sole
exception of ClearHealth which did not exist at that time). This
includes OSCAR, FreeMed, OpenEMR, GnuMed, TORCH, and SQL-Clinic. As
an end user, I know a lot more about the practice of medicine than I
know about database theory.
I have thoughts on all of these projects in terms of what I liked,
difficulty of installation and how usable they were/are for me, a
physician, in private practice. For better or worse I settled on
OpenEMR primarily for its ease of installation, ease of use and clean
appearance. I have been using OpenEMR for over two years and have
around 10 gigabytes in the database.
Fred Trotter has requested previously that the ClearHealth, FreeMed
and OpenEMR communities pool their resources, throw their lots in
together to try to make faster progress towards the common goal of
developing a high quality open source electronic health record.
I know many of you have tremendous skills in developing software and
in particular database applications. Have all of you as a group
considered doing what Fred Trotter has suggested? To throw your lots
in together to forge one outstanding "killer app" electronic health
record?
I know that each of you are fond of particular databases and scipting
languages. But as Fred has suggested privately and publicly, we would
all be making faster progress as a team.
Sam Bowen, MD
Hickory, NC
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