mspohr wrote: > The conference listed in the second Google blog is organized by the > Markle Foundation. These are the same people who are organizing the > Dossia omnimedix effort. > I did some more research and it appears that the Dossia project is all > open source. You can download the software from Regenstrief and > OpenMRS.org > > http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS > http://www.connectingforhealth.org/commonframework/ > http://www.regenstrief.org/medinformatics/download > > License appears to be of GPL type but with restrictions that can't > take money for it. > http://www.connectingforhealth.org/license.html
Those restrictions means that their license does not meet the Open Source Definition 9see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php ). Of course, they are not obliged to meet that definition but their license can't be termed "open source" as a result. Pity. Tim C > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wayne Wilson wrote: >>> I don't know whether this has been covered before or not, but the >>> Dossia announcement is making some waves among the US provider >>> community, especially those of us at the starting gate with patient >>> portals. >>> >>> http://www.omnimedix.org >>> >>> Does anyone know the technical strategy here? This would be a prime >>> candidate to re-use open source work on health care records, but I >>> see little to no indications of that. The major employers forming >>> the core consortium funding this effort; Walmart, Intel, BP have > been >>> involved in the open source world themselves, but since work is > being >>> done by Omnimedix, using technical people from the 'financial >>> industry' (this is revealed in their press release and is supposed > to >>> make us feel good about security of the system) I wonder....... >>> >>> Is this yet another large scale, US led consortium effort that will >>> end up mixed up in proprietary software? Or in systems that are >>> described as 'open' but are closed unless you pay a fee? >> They may soon have some very serious competition, judging from these >> blog entries and the conference address referred to in the second one: >> >> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/health-care-information-matters.html >> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/thoughts-on-health-care-continued.html >> An interesting prospect, if Google repeats what it has done in the past. >> Certainly it has the technical infrastructure to host a huge-scale EHR >> without raising a sweat, and it has demonstrated the technical capacity >> to design consumer-oriented Web-based applications which are at once >> easy-to-use and surprisingly sophisticated. But most interesting has >> been Google's willingness to expose APIs to its Web applications, which >> allow many third-party value-added flowers to bloom. If they provided an >> API like the one for Google Maps for Google EHR, then many interesting >> things might be possible, with space made for lots of open source tools >> to add value. However, at the end of the day, Google is a highly >> profitable corporation which needs to make money, and the key question >> for it will be how to make money from a consumer-facing EHR, given that >> targetted advertising by pharmaceutical companies and suppliers, or >> medical and health service suppliers (and even malpractice suit >> attorneys..., or quacks and charletons with magic cures), would be >> either transgressing advertising laws or sailing rather close to the >> ethical wind. >> >> Alternatively, Google (or Amazon, another company with massive >> Web-oriented IT resources) might just provide technical infrastructure >> (in the form of a Web-based EHR platform and the hosting of it) which is >> leased or sold or even given for free to community-based or other >> consortia of health core providers, or to employer groups, or whatever - >> so not just one Google EHR, but many. And not supported by advertising, >> or perhaps not so much. >> >> Much speculation is possible, but it seems likely that Google will get >> into the Web-based consumer EHR game before too long - it can't ignore >> the health care sector, given that it eats up nearly 15% of the US GDP >> and accounts for increasing proportions of GDP in other rich nations. >> >> Tim C >> > > >
