> > > 1. Training Programs - Both Paid and Sponsored
That makes sense, but it is unclear what we should train on. WorldVistA is, as at first blush, a better organization for handeling VistA training, and there are typically corporate backers that offer training for other projects. Still I would like to consider that door open. > > 2. Healthcare Information Systems Certification programs and in this > case can be Basic, Intermediate and Advanced User Certs We are considering setting up an alternative to CCHIT. User certification will be difficult if we are to remain project neutral. > > 3. A professional network that runs Liberty Health Software > Conferences and Seminars for the masses around the 50 states as well > as in Canada and other countries where you would like to expand out > to. I am learning alot about running Health conferences with my experience with FOSSHealth. It is an open question how many conferences can be supported by us and if we should move to support local users groups. We are a very small community and i can (and have) called in favors to ensure good talks at a single conference, but how to ensure that there are good talks across the world? Not sure. > > 4. The training manual is a good idea but I see the need for a book or > a number of books on Free & Open Source Software in Health Care and > FOSS Health Care Information Systems. You can produce these books and > distribute them under Creative Commons free for online download where > as print and sell them through www.lulu.com. Again, how do choose which projects get books like this published? This is a really good idea and a big part of what we would like to do... > 5. There is no harm in maintaining a community of FOSS developers at > the foundation virtually or physically. Software Bundles with Support > options. You can provide software free but charge for the following: > a. Software Bundles with personal support US$250, group support > US$500, clinical support US$1000, large clinic support US$5000, Small > Scale Hospital Support US$10,000, Medium Scale Hospital Support > US$50,000 and Enterprise Scale Hospital Support US$1-500,000 plans. > b. Consulting Plans > c. Training Plans > d. Maintenance Plans > e. Remote Support Plans > f. Customized Development Plans I do not want to get into software support which I consider to be the domain of for-profit companies. We do not want to be seen as competing with the vendors that we hope to represent. Still if the vendors themselves clalled for some kind of support program, we might be willing to consider it. > 6. I would also recommend you to apply for a grant to the Rockefeller > Foundation as they are still supporting numerous FOSS programs and > organizations. That is exactly the plan. > > 7. I would recommend you to float CCHIT development on Google Summer > of Code and other FOSS Initiatives. This is a good idea, but I would not want to do this in competition with different projects. 8. Partnership with universities, especially medical healthcare > capacity development or academic centres to offer certificate > trainings. > Not sure how this would work.. but perhaps a textbook? > > 9. In the end, you need a strong marketing plan, every social > enterprise needs it and so do you so that the world knows you exist > and you add value to the social and economic systems either in the US > or abroad. Agreed. > > > 10. Get working on public relations, use means such as google adwords, > facebook and linked in. Get the show rolling! Agreed! > > > I hope these ideas will be useful and I am always available for > joining the foundation in strategy support etc. Btw, this me just in > case: http://satc.pk/?q=node/14 > > > -- > > Regards. > -------------------------- > Fouad Bajwa > FOSS Advocate (South Asia) > @skBajwa > Answering all your technology questions > http://www.askbajwa.com > http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa > > > -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
