Fred Trotter wrote: > Hello OpenHealth, > I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ > > If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of > real players in our industry. > > I am scheduled to talk on "Whats going on in healthcare" the > intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free > and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving > and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger > community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly > with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to > mere information. > > I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of > our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information > about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the > community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the > areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas > that I am overlooking. > > First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris > > Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. > http://www.bioconductor.org/ > > What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc
GELLO - http://www.openclinical.org/gmm_gello.html - is it really needed, and are there any open source implementations of it yet? > Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO The open source statistical environment, R (see http://www.r-project.org/ ), is going from strength to strength and is becoming a widely used tool in many areas of biomedical research, and the dominant tool (with add-on libraries like Bioconductor) in a few biomedical sub-disciplines. > Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort > > EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE The African project OpenMRS (see http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS ) is, to my mind, the most exciting open source clinical application at present, in the field, good technical underpinnings, and charging ahead. GNUmed (http://www.gnumed.org/ ), which is also technically very good, is finally getting somewhere after many, many years of effort. > EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x I take my hat off to the Hospital OS team in Thailand: http://www.hospital-os.com/en/ > PHR ie Indivo > > Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. Mirth looks exciting and well-executed, and we are keen to use it. Has anyone tested it or used it for serious work? Public health/epidemiology (think avian/pandemic influenza): OpenEpi is a useful tool: http://www.openepi.com/ Our own NetEpi project (see http://www.netepi.org ) is approaching its Version 1.0 release - V1.0beta and updated Web site by the end of Jan 2007, plus, I hope, a bootable liveCD demo disc, with V1.0 final to follow in Feb. Tim C
