Jose, Using Eclipse sounds like a great idea. Indeed, if I had launched this project in the last couple of years, Eclipse as a foundation for the Proteus IDE would have been the first choice. However, this project was started in early 2000 when Eclipse was firmly locked within the IBM fortress as a closed source framework.
Let us think about such plans as we go forward. The IDE like characteristics can be taken from Eclipse and the graphical elements could be provided by the stuff we have already developed. This will entail significant development effort but not something that cannot be tackled. Given the right talent I think in about a month such a transition can be achieved. Even NetBeans has come of age and may be considered for such an effort. Incidentally, one of the reasons for the delay in making the Proteus stuff FOSS has been due to my choice of a closed source library for the graphical representation which is the current implementation available on the web. Yet again, no good equivalent graphical library was available then as FOSS. Now we have already replaced the commercial library with an open source one (JGraph) and this is the code that we will make available pretty soon. To address your second question, the guidelines that are available on guidelines.gov and many other resources that guidelines.gov lists have many problems with them, which prevent them from being directly translated. In brief, they are written for human interpreters and assume certain medical and common sense understanding on part of the interpreter and have a tendency to allow leeway for human judgment. For machine interpretation, these need to be addressed. So one needs to spend time to understand what the guideline's author intended when they specified certain actions or decisions. Once that clarity is achieved, authoring of the guideline becomes easy. Regards, Hemant Hemant Shah, M.D., M.Surg. Sr. Research Informatician Henry Ford Health System Detroit, MI http://www.proteme.org On Dec 17, 2007 11:19 PM, Jose C. Lacal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hemant: > > I have a couple of dumb questions for you: > > a.) Have you considered using Eclipse as the framework for Proteus? Many > of the features / functions I see in the Flash demo are already provided > by Eclipse. And you could get out of the business of writing your own > IDE and focus instead on your area of expertise. > > b.) Do your tools allow users to import guidelines such as those > available at http://www.guidelines.gov/ > > I'd also second earlier suggestions to use the GPL v3. Regards. > > > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:42 -0500, Hemant Shah wrote: > > Proteus (http://www.proteme.org) is an approach that allows authoring > > executable clinical processes and guidelines with decision support > > integrated within them. > > > > I am on the verge of making Proteus related tools available under an > > open > > source license. I need the advice of this community of open source > > champions > > on how to go about it and the choice of open source license. I know > > this has > > been discussed time and again on this list but I am still unclear > > about > > several things. Therefore please indulge my naiveté. > > > > I think LGPL provides most of what I need however I am still not clear > > about > > the use of derivative products. Specific example: what is there to > > prevent > > me from taking a class e.g, Person of an open source project and > > extend it > > by a class called SpecialPerson, and instead of adding the > > functionality > > that logically belongs in the Person class, enhance the SpecialPerson > > which > > I then keep closed source? By doing this one can easily violate the > > spirit > > and the intent of the license. > > > > My employer, Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is supporting me in > > getting the > > Proteus tools open sourced. We have plans to use the open source > > version for > > research and to assist clinicians in patient care. Therefore > > significant > > development will take place after it has been open sourced. I have > > access to > > the HFHS legal department if needed. However, I need to know what help > > should I seek from them. Does it make sense to craft your own open > > source > > license instead of utilizing one of the standard ones? > > > > Any advice will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hemant > > > > -- > > Hemant Shah, M.D., M.Surg. > > Sr. Research Informatician > > Henry Ford Health System > > One Ford Place, 3C > > Detroit, MI 48202 > > > > http://www.proteme.org > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > José C. Lacal, Founder & Chief Vision Officer > Open Personalized Health Informatics _OpenPHI > 15625 NW 15th Avenue; Suite 15 > Miami, FL 33169-5601 USA www.OpenPHI.com > +1 (954) 553-1984 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Jose.Lacal%40OpenPHI.com> > > > -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
