[openhealth] GDCM
This post came to me via the Debian Med mailing list, and I am forwarding it because it may be of interest to the openhealth community. Regards -- Bhaskar Original Message Subject:Re: thanks and a question Resent-Date:Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:29 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-...@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:41:53 -0500 From: ...snip... To: ...snip... CC: Debian Med Project List debian-...@lists.debian.org, gdcm-developers gdcm-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net References: g0503xpucuy4dzcuk0uyaxe124vaj_fire...@mail.gmail.com 580486.38000...@web33403.mail.mud.yahoo.com This is a kind of hard question as you are talking about open-source project. Anyway long story-short I have also been *very* annoyed by quality control in DICOM implementation. I have setup a modest DICOM Conformance Tests which I called gdcmConformanceTests: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#What_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F Those files have been validated by both GDCM and dcmtk as they are the two major DICOM implementations I am using. If you read the README(*) that comes with the tarball you'll see that the name of dcm4che comes in quite often, which is not really a good sign IMHO. The problem is not really to find out which DICOM implementation is best, but instead: - which one is actively maintained - fully open source, with truly transparent bug report - which one provide a full regression test suite I have setup a page on the typical tools I use for QA: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmconv/QC Cheers, (*) http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/GDCMDataCron/README?view=markup [KSB] ...snip... _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
Re: [openhealth] Re: [Hardhats] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act
I'll second that. There are (at least) two types of non-profit organizations in the US: those incorporated under section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6). Before you incorporate, do check which with an attorney as to which is best for your needs. There certainly is a need in the FOSS health space for both types. Regards -- Bhaskar On 05/07/2009 03:03 AM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: Fred, From your description this sounds very much like a trade association not a 501 c 3 as your advertised objective on the website. How far are you in the midst of applying for 501 c 3... are you working through a good not for profit lawyer? Joseph
Re: [openhealth] Re: [Hardhats] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act
Thanks, Fred. Your thinking makes sense. But I am a geek wannabe, not a lawyer. My advice is just to get good advice. Regards -- Bhaskar On 05/07/2009 11:07 AM, fred trotter wrote: One of the primary purposes of LibertyMSF will be to work on orphan projects like written documentation or code documentation, and we want to be able to apply for grants and such. We also want to be able to accept donations directly from individuals. For this reason we will be going 501c3 The Health IT Public Utility Act of 2009 is unique because I had honestly thought that direct 'lobbying' (as in trying to influence the passing of legislation) would be outside our mission statement. However, 501c3 can do limited lobbying and the kinds of lobbying that we plan to do for this bill and bills like it are essentially costless, and well within the limitations of what a 501c3 is allowed to do. (IANAL etc etc) There will so rarely be an actual 'bill' that comes up, that I do not think we will spend much time on this. I hope that LibertyMSF will become more regularly involved in policy papers rather than directly active on legislation. As for a trade association, (or 501c6) it is my limited understanding that they have to survive on the dues of its members. The problem with that is that any organization that hopes to represent our community must reconcile the fact that what is in the companies best interests is not always the same thing as the interests of the individuals in the community. If LibertyMSF were limited to representing just corporate members, we would eventually become beholden to only 50% of the relevant interests. Again, the proprietary EHR industry has the glut of funds needed to run several different organizations, our community simply does not. For this reason we will be following the 'patron' model that the Free Software Foundation uses. Of course, as we move forward we are open to changing course on issues like this, but for now, I wanted to explain our initial thinking. Does this make sense? -FT _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
Re: [openhealth] Re: An inventor of disruptive technology looking for advice about open source
If you have FOSS that is protected by a patent, the license is important. If I were a user, I wouldn't touch the software unless it was released under either GPL v3 or Affero GPL v3. In general, I am turned off by software patents. I say this as someone who was awarded one of the early patents in the US where software was even permitted to be a component of the patent (filed circa 1981) and another which was one of the early pure software patents (filed circa 1986), but who has now come to view software patents as a social evil that must be lived with, along the lines of breathing second hand smoke when entering or exiting buildings, or finding banana peels or pre-chewed gum in airplane seat pockets. -- Bhaskar On 05/06/2008 04:46 PM, Stephen Beller wrote: Yes, I do realize patents are a problem for open source. We received our software method patent in 1998 and have it in the US and two other countries. Anyone interested can read about it at http://cpsplit.typepad.com/ Anyway, there's nothing to prevent us,however, from licensing our patented software method royalty free for use with our Personal Health Profiler. So, I don't see this as a deal-breaker, but it does complicate matters. I'm willing to discuss the details openly in this forum if people here can offer sound advice. Thanks, Steve __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
Re: [openhealth] Re: An inventor of disruptive technology looking for advice about open source
Steve -- I don't have the bandwidth right now to engage in a discussion on whether Government granted legal monopolies like patents are societally beneficial from a macro-economic perspective, and whether or not greed is good or is morally corrupt. These are fascinating and deep topics that I enjoy discussing - but not at this time. For now, I only wanted to express my personal and very subjective preferences, to the extent that knowing the personal preferences of a group of people may help you to choose your course of action. Regards -- Bhaskar On 05/08/2008 11:22 AM, Stephen Beller wrote: Our entire economic system can be characterized as pathological mutation of Capitalism, as I discuss at this link -- http://curinghealthcare.blogspot.com/2007/10/path-to-profound-healthcare.htm l [KSB] ...snip... __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] Introducing PIP
PIP is the database management infrastructure at the heart of our FIS Profile real-time banking application. For the first time, the infrastructure has been separated from the financial application code and made available as a separate software layer under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The web page is at http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustries/Healthcare/PIP/default.htm and the software is available at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pip) as a software appliance (QEMU virtual machine). Caveats: 1. Although the underlying engine is mature, the packaging is brand new. At this time, it is better characterized as expert friendly than user friendly. If you want to play with it, please start with the Readme. 2. For anyone interested in using it to access VistA, PIP does not have a tool to map Fileman files. You can create tables and access them, but to access Fileman files, you will need to write code to map between files and tables. Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] Where is GT.M?
I had submitted a request to Source Forge on Thursday night US EST asking them to rename the project from sanchez-gtm to fis-gtm (project names used to be immutable, but SF now permits them to be renamed, albeit only infrequently). For some inexplicable reason, the project has disappeared. I have a support request in to Source Forge, and will update the group when I hear back. For anyone who wants to get the latest GPL'd GT.M release pending resolution of the issue, please write to me offline. You can also pick up SemiVivAs of VistA packaged with GT.M (albeit earlier releases) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista Apologies for the inconvenience. Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] Updated agenda for 16th VistA Community Meeting
The VistA Community Meeting agenda is filling out nicely (http://www.worldvista.org/Conferences/16th-vista-community-meeting), and starting to take on some semblance of firmness. We are especially fortunate that George Timson, the author of Fileman, VistA's own database management system, will be in Midland and will be giving two talks, one on advanced Fileman concepts and one on new enhancements he has made to Fileman. We have also added an optional tour of Midland Memorial Hospital on Friday evening, for which you need to sign up in advance. Please, please, take a minute (or two, or three) to review the agenda *now*. This is *your* meeting, and it will be easier to make changes at this time than two weeks hence. - If there is something that you would like to see that you don't see, please let us know ASAP. - If you would like to speak about something, please let us know so that we can put you on the schedule. - If you are a speaker, please review your time, topic and location, and if they are not what you had in mind, now is the time to speak up. Hotel information has been updated, and yes, there will be wireless Internet access. If you are already a WorldVistA member, and you have not received an e-mail with the URL for member sign-ups, please contact Peter Bodtke (pbodtke at worldvista dot org) ASAP. The registration site accepts Visa and Mastercard. If you wish to make other payment arrangements (e.g., check), please contact me at bhaskar at worldvista dot org. I am sure I have forgotten something that is important to *you*. Please let me know what it is. -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] 16th VistA Community Meeting travel and hotel
We have a room block at the Hilton Midland Plaza, Midland, TX. Reservations can be made for 1/8 thru 1/14. The rate is $100/night. That rate applies to all rooms (singles, doubles, etc.) You can call Hilton Worldvide reservations at 1-800-HILTONS (1-800-445-8667). Use the group code WVA. You can also call the hotel directly at 432-683-6131. The cut-off date is 1/3/08. After that date, the group rate will be honored if rooms are available by calling the hotel and asking for the sales manager, Brandi Fischer. The rooms include free high speed Internet. The hotel has two restaurants, a Starbucks, two bars, a fitness center and a free airport shuttle. I will include this information when I next edit the agenda. Ticket prices for travel to Midland on Tuesday, January 8 (which is when I will be traveling), went up from yesterday to today except on Southwest. It looks like 3 weeks may be the magic date when AA and CO raise their prices. So, please do make your travel plans I hope to see you in Midland! Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools
Hemant -- First, please do not invent your own license. We need yet another free / open source software license about as much as we need a toothache. Look at http://opensource.org/licenses http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html and http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/categories.html to help you choose. As for me, I chose and continue to choose GPL (currently v2, going to v3) for GT.M (http://fis-gtm.com and http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm) because: 1. It is the most widely used - and hence most widely read and understood license. 2. It is the license that IMHO best protects the software developer from seeing his work incorporated into a non-FOSS proprietary piece of work. 3. It is the license that is closest to being legally tested proven in the courts. Apropos your question about SpecialPerson: I can take your software, and modify it to my heart's content and as long as I don't distribute it, I can create SpecialPerson, SpecialSpecialPerson, etc. and I am under no obligation to distribute it as long as I use it for myself (first person here can apply to an individual or an organization). But, if I try to distribute SpecialPerson, I have two choices: 1. I can distribute it as a delta to the FOSS package and keep SpecialPerson proprietary - but then it is not integrated with the FOSS package. 2. I can modify the FOSS package to include SpecialPerson, but then I am forced to distribute SpecialPerson as FOSS as part of the modified package. Hope this helps, but this is all I can say in a nutshell. Beyond that, better minds than mine have written extensively on the subject. Regards -- Bhaskar On 12/17/2007 05:42 PM, Hemant Shah wrote: Proteus (http://www.proteme.org 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 http://www.proteme.org __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] Non-member registration URL for 16th VistA Community Meeting
The URL for non-member registration is http://www.sporg.com/registration?link_type=formform_id=98971view_type=windowed and members will receive an e-mail with a URL for member registration. If you don't receive a URL shortly, please contact Peter Bodtke (pbodtke at worldvista dot org). Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] Confirming the 16th VistA Community Meeting, Midland Center, Midland, Texas, January 10-13, 2008
Folks, thank you for your patience. We are able to confirm the 16th VistA Community Meeting at Midland Center, Midland Texas, January 10-13, 2008. It looks like good airfares continue to be available, and we will have hotel information and a registration URL posted shortly! I would like to express my personal appreciation to David Whiles, CIO of Midland Memorial Hospital. Not only are they hosting the meeting, but David stepped up to help us on an expedited basis after the previous venue suddenly evaporated at a late date. We look forward to seeing you there, and promise to work hard in the short time remaining to make this a memorable meeting. The agenda will be evolving rapidly now (go to worldvista.org) Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] First cut draft agenda for 16th VistA Community Meeting, January 10-13, Midland, Texas
The first draft of the living, evolving, agenda for the 16th VistA Community Meeting, January 10-13, Midland, Texas is now available. Yes, it is v-e-r-y rough and needs a lot of work, but we will be updating it frequently. Venue and hotel information will hopefully be posted once they are finalized in the next few days, as will the registration page. Owing to the fact that we had to scramble to find this second location, things are not as far along as we like them to be, but we are busy moving them along to catch up. You can go to http://worldvista.org and click on the More information here link at the bottom of the page, or you can go directly to http://www.worldvista.org/Conferences/16th-vista-community-meeting Please send comments to me, or to Peter Bodtke (pbodtke at worldvista dot org). I look forward to seeing you in Midland. Regards -- Bhaskar
Re: [openhealth] Re: [oshca_members] OSHCA's Aims and Objectives
On 12/01/2007 12:18 AM, Molly Cheah wrote: No Tim. That was Tims' intepretation of what is open source. Frankly, [KSB] If (former US President) Bill Clinton could raise an ambiguity about the word is, there is probably room for interpretation of open source. Here are some places to read what others have to say: http://opensource.org/docs/osd http://www.us.debian.org/intro/free http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html I realize that I am mixing the terms open source and free software to some extent, but they both mean very much the same thing in my mind, and differences are amplified by personality clashes rather than differences in meaning. [Many movements have charismatic leaders with strong personalities and deeply held convictions - sometimes wrong, but never in doubt.] [KSB] ...snip... Currently the law in Malaysia on patient safety does not recognise statements that does or does not provide warranty of the application (tool) used in patient care. [KSB] This is truly unfortunate. Extrapolating, under Malaysian law, if I were to create a very sharp obsidian cutting instrument, I would seem to be violating patient safety, whether or not I provide a warranty that it is suitable for use as a scalpel. [KSB] ... Many of us wear multiple hats. 90% of the time, it does not matter which hat we are wearing, but it is critical to clarify which hat is being worn when speaking if there is the possibility of ambiguity. Also, it is not actual ambiguity in our minds that matters - it is the potential for ambiguity in the minds of the recipient as well as those who may read or hear those words downstream, possibly in a different context. For example, I wear (at least) three hats: - I manage GT.M, where we are trying to build a business based on software released under the GPL. - I co-founded, and serve on the board of, WorldVistA, a non-profitable charitable organization that advocates the use of affordable healthcare IT through the use of VistA. - I recently started a term on the board of the VistA Software Alliance, a trade group. When I advocate WorldVistA EHR, I need to be sure that the person I am not speaking for VSA (which advocates all flavors of VistA, not just WorldVistA EHR). Also, wearing my WorldVistA hat, I must be neutral about the platform that VistA is deployed on, which I don't have to be when I wear my GT.M hat. Life presents us with many opportunities to be misunderstood. Regards -- Bhaskar __ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _
[openhealth] WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/06/16 SemiVivA available
WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/0616 SemiVivA is a SemiVivA package of WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/06/16 configured for GT.M and bundled with GT.M V5.2-001. A SemiVivA is the basic way to install VistA and GT.M if you already have a PC running GNU/Linux on x86 hardware. Much of WorldVistA EHR is in the public domain through the US Freedom of Information Act under which FOIA VistA is released by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Any part that is not in the public domain is Copyright 2007 WorldVistA and released under the terms of the GPL - GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). GT.M for x86 GNU/Linux is also released herewith under the terms of the GPL. WorldVistA EHR TEST 2007/06/16 differs from the CCHIT Certified WorldVistA EHR v VOE / 1.0 in the following ways: 1. The pharmacy files in support of Pharmacy Orderable Items is less than optimal (it is enhanced considerably in completeness and accuracy in the CCHIT Certified WorldVistA EHR v VOE / 1.0). 2. The templates modified and added by the Clinical Application Coordinator for CCHIT Certification are likewise not included. Furthermore, support for the test patches developed for CCHIT Certification is provided by WorldVistA only for the VOE / 1.0 release version and not for the TEST releases. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT CERTIFIED BY THE CERTIFICATION COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (http://cchit.org). YOU MAY NOT CLAIM CCHIT CERTIFICATION, USE THE CCHIT LOGO, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION RELATED TO CCHIT WITH RESPECT TO THIS SOFTWARE. This release brings other changes as well: 1. WorldVistA would like to thank Medsphere Systems Corporation (http://www.medsphere.com) for providing the drug files. 2. Thanks to Cameron Schlehuber, VPE is now operational in this release. 3. There is now a framework for add-ons to VistA/GT.M. This permits Serenji to be bundled (see below) with this SemiVivA. As other add-ons become available - M2Web and Esi Objects come to mind - the frame work will allow them to be added in to VistA environments. This initial framework for add-ons is primitive and orders add-ons according to the shell's ordering of their directory names. Also, if an add-on has its own global variables, some hand-tweaking of the global directory will be required. Please consider the framework to be experimental for now, and provide feedback. 4. Version 2.3 of Serenji from George James Software (http://georgejames.com) provides a free license for editing of M routines (use of the debugger still requires a license to be purchased). With permission from George James, version 2.3 of Serenji is bundled with this SemiVivA. Serenji consists of a Windows based GUI and routines that execute as part of the M process. The M routines are accessed via the add-on framework. An installer for the Windows component is distributed in s23.exe in the tmp sub-drectory - please copy this to a Windows machine and install it there if you wish to use it. Instructions for Use: 1. Download the encrypted distribution file WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/worldvista/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc) to a directory on your PC, e.g., /Distrib/WorldVistAEHR/ 2. Extract the files from the distribution and install them. Execute the following 2 command lines as root: cd /usr/local mcrypt -d /Distrib/WorldVistAEHR/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc | tar zxvf - The decryption password can be obtained from the file http://downloads.sourceforge.net/worldvista-ehr/Readme_GTM_SemiVivA.txt mcrypt packages are available for most major Linux distributions (its home page is http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net). 3. To use the software, you must create a working environment. If you want to create one in ~/myVistA, execute the following as a normal user: /usr/local/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616/install ~/myVistA 4a. To run the environment in ~/myVistA, as a normal user, execute: ~/myVistA/gtm_V5.2-001/run 4b. To run the environment with Serenji enabled, as a normal user, execute: ~/myVistA/gtm_V5.2-001/run_add-ons 5. To invoke Serenji, you will need to run VistA with add-ons, and then start the Serenji shell: do Shell^%Serenji(IPGUI) where IPGUI is the IP address or the name of the Windows PC on which the Serenji GUI is installed and a Serenji listener is active. In the Serenji shell, to start the debugger at entryref P^DI, execute: db P^DI Please e-mail comments and questions to me, or post them to the hardhats list (http://groups.google.com/group/hardhats). Regards -- Bhaskar
[openhealth] OSHCA Hotel
Can someone please confirm that the OSHCA hotel is: The Federal 35, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel : (603) 2148 9166 Fax: (603) 2148 2877 http://www.federal.com.my/ Also, is there a special rate negotiated for OSHCA participants or should we just contact the hotel and ask for their best rate? Thank you very much. Regards -- Bhaskar
[openhealth] 15th VistA Community Meeting - June 15-17, 2007 - University of Washington, Seattle
Mark your calendars. The 15th VistA Community Meeting will be held Friday, June 15 through Sunday, June 17 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Watch this space for details to follow (and the URL of an agenda, one that evolves rather than being intelligently designed; hotel details, etc.). Seattle in June... about as perfect a time as there is in a place that's about as perfect as there is one. Do plan to be there! Regards -- Bhaskar
Re: [openhealth] HIMSS FOSS ad hoc meeting
I'll be at HIMSS Monday afternoon through Wednesday early afternoon. My cell is +1.610.620.3355 for anyone from the openhealth list that would like to get together. Regards -- Bhaskar Fred Trotter wrote, On 02/23/2007 04:35 PM: There are several of us going to HIMSS that are planning on meeting for informal handshake and hangout. We are planning to meet at. This may change if we cannot get to the booth at that hour! Tuesday 9:00 p.m. Redhat Booth -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com
[openhealth] Please scan your WIndows PC if you downloaded QEMU on or before February 15
Quoting from the home page of QEMU for Windows (http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/): The USB filter driver was found to be infected.(2007/02/15) Please check your computer if you installed the program. If you downloaded and Qemu for Windows prior to February 15, 2007, please check your computer and make sure that you have the latest software. If you don't have an up to date anti-virus scanner, ClamWin (http://www.clamwin.com/) is well regarded and available under the GPL. Note that neither the VA VistA Demo Toaster nor the VistA Office EHR Toaster as distributed use USB drives. Regards -- Bhaskar
[openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released
VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 (MD5 sum 16a0e6ae1951a512e88d83edd4e254a9) is available for downloading from the WorldVistA project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 packages the release of VistA Office EHR 2.3.1 as made available at the VistA Office EHR project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vista-officeehr) on January 31, 2007. Nancy Anthracite configured the settings for it to run on GT.M, and provided the CPRS and Vitals executables (for Windows). An access code of VistAis#1 and verify code of #1isVistA will work for CPRS to connect. Please note that this software has not been field tested. Furthermore, most of the components for VOE were introduced to none of the usual VistA SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) where packages and patches of any complexity usually endure a number of iterations between SQA (Software Quality Assurance) reviews, field testing and developer responses. This software is intended for evaluation / demonstration purposes. You take all responsibility for using it. This SemiViVA package is bundled with GT.M V5.2-000, as available under the GNU General Public License from the GT.M project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm). A SemiVivA package is a one-step install of VistA and GT.M on a Linux machine. Assuming the file has been downloaded as /Distrib/VistAOfficeEHRSemiVivA_2.3.1.tgz, to install on your Linux PC, execute the following, as root: cd /usr/local tar zxvf /Distrib/VistAOfficeEHRSemiVivA_2.3.1.tgz This will create new directories /usr/local/VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1 and /usr/local/gtm_V5.2-000. Please note that this will overwrite any directories or symbolic links you have with those names. You may wish to replace your symbolic links with new ones (i.e., the following is optional; also to be executed as root in /usr/local): rm gtm ; ln -s gtm_V5.2-000 gtm rm VistAOfficeEHR ; ln -s VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1 VistAOfficeEHR To use it, you will need to create a working environment (see http://tinyurl.com/738jk for details). To create an environment in ~/myVistAOfficeEHR (the choice of directory name is entirely yours), as a normal user, execute: /usr/local/VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1/install ~/myVistAOfficeEHR Subsequently, to get to an interactive mode GT.M prompt in that environment, execute: ~/myVistAOfficeEHR/gtm_V5.2-000/run To run entryref ABC^DEF in that environment, execute: ~/myVistAOfficeEHR/gtm_V5.2-000/run ABC^DEF To get a CPRS GUI to connect to the environment in ~/myVistAOfficeEHR, you should set up inetd/xinetd to execute ~/myVistAOfficeEHR/gtm_V5.2-000/cprs_direct in response to a connection request. If you have set up inetd/xinetd to listen at port P, then use CPRSChart s=SYSTEM p=P CCOW=DISABLE where SYSTEM is the name or IP address of the VistA server. Please post questions, comments issues on the hardhats list (http://groups.google.com/group/hardhats) K.S. Bhaskar
[openhealth] VistA Office EHR Toaster 2.3.1 released
VistA Office EHR 2.3.1 Toaster is available at the WorldVistA project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). A VistA Toaster is an appliance (virtual machine) consisting of VistA, GT.M and Linux that runs under QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/), which enables the toaster to operate under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. VistA Office EHR 2.3.1 Toaster packages the VistA Office EHR Toaster 2.3.1 software as released on January 31, 2007 (at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vista-officeehr) with GT.M V5.2-000 (as available under GNU General Public License at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm) and Damn Small Linux 3.2 (http://damnsmalllinux.org) installed on a virtual hard drive (flename VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1.qcow). A CPRS directory is included. Startup and Shutdown Assuming you have QEMU installed, use qemu -localtime -redir tcp:::22 -redir tcp:9297::9297 VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1.qcow to boot the appliance. QEMU boots virtual machines behind a virtual NAT firewall, and the command line forwards port on the host to port 22 in the virtual machine to provide an ssh connection to the appliance and port 9297 on the host to port 9297 on the virtual machine to allow a direct connect CPRS GUI to connect with VistA. The appliance boots inside a window in your host environment. To shut down, click on the background in the virtual machine (2 clicks may be needed: the first to give the virtual machine focus in your host environment, and the second click going to the virtual machine. Choose Power Down and then Shutdown. Connecting to VistA The normal user in the virtual machine is dsl. The password for both dsl and for root in the appliance is VistA. You should not need root access, but if you do, user dsl is permitted to execute commands with sudo. You can start a shell inside the virtual machine, or you can connect to the appliance via ssh to port on the host - all Linux distributions come with an ssh client, and I believe Mac OS X does too. putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) is a popular robust terminal emulator and ssh client for Windows. CPRS can connect to the appliance from the host with CPRSChart s=localhost p=9297 CCOW=DISABLE. If you start Taskman, retrieving data in the background will work for the CPRS client. The Access and Verify codes are VistAis#1 and #1isVistA respectively. Configuration The appliance is set up to mimic VistA in a non-ASP production environment (i.e., only one production environment on the machine - an ASP environment would share code across environments, with each having separate data). Code and data are under /var/VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1/. When the system boots, the database is recovered from the journal file, as would be the case in a production environment. So a rundown should never be needed. However, journal files take up space on disk, and you will periodically need to delete old journal files with the command rm /var/VistADemo20060926/gtm_V5.2-000/g/mumps.mjl_*. Be careful not to delete /var/VistADemo20060926/gtm_V5.2-000/g/mumps.mjl, the active journal file. Other The MD5 checksum of VistAOfficeEHR_2.3.1.zip is 79271abc7ed437d15f8265da7ffc3419. Please verify your download to protect against damages to the file in transit. Please note that this release of VistA Office EHR has not been field tested. Furthermore, most of the components for VOE were introduced to none of the usual VistA SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) where packages and patches of any complexity usually endure a number of iterations between SQA (Software Quality Assurance) reviews, field testing and developer responses. This software is intended for evaluation / demonstration purposes. You take all responsibility for using it. Comments on what works well, and suggestions to improve what doesn't, are always welcome. Thank you, as always, to Nancy Anthracite, for her guidance with VistA, and for providing the demo in a form I could work with. -- Bhaskar
Re: [openhealth] FOIA VistA Audita 20060923 available - caveat: experimental
Mark Preston wrote: K.S. Bhaskar wrote: [KSB2] ...snip... The reason not to use UnionFS is to allow changes to the database to be persistent. Regards -- Bhaskar Hi K.S. Bhasker, I think that Knoppix mounts drives as read only by default. This is a security measure. To make changes persistent you might need to unmount the drive and then remount it as read-write. From a knoppix terminal window something like sudo umount /mnt/sda2 then sudo mount rw -o uid=knoppix /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 should do this and allow changes to the database to become persistent. [KSB2] The Knoppix UnionFS uses RAM for the r/w part. The database should just be on a hard drive or USB flash memory. Not a big deal one way or the other. Regular Knoppix provides an icon to mount r/w storage. Oralux (Knoppix for the visually impaired) requires that it be done at a text mode interface. Regards -- Bhaskar
Re: [openhealth] FOIA VistA Audita 20060923 available - caveat: experimental
Mark Preston wrote: K.S. Bhaskar wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Hi K.S. Bhasker, I couldn't help wondering, having read the above, why you need to create a database in the manner you describe? IIRC the commands you mention such as mount /mnt/sda1 relate to earlier Knoppix versions than 4.02. The /mnt directory is mostly empty in recent Knoppix versions and a USB flash drive will appear under the /media directory. Knoppix moved to the UnionFS system when version 3.8 was introduced. UnionFS transparently mounts a portion of the systems's RAM (/ramdisk) on top of / (root of the knoppix CD filesystem). This enables the user to do things that were practically impossible such as using apt-get to update the apt DB and install software. And note that apt-get stores the downloaded .deb archive files in /var/cache/apt/archive. See http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17570 I haven't used Knoppix for a while, so I might be mistaken. Best of luck with your project. [KSB] Thanks for the encouragement, Mark. I tried it with a hard drive partition, and it was mapped to /mnt/sda2 in /etc/fstab. I will try it with a USB partition. The reason not to use UnionFS is to allow changes to the database to be persistent. Regards -- Bhaskar
Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures
I find this discussion of CPT codes reimbursement interesting. Let me paraphrase: To petition your Government (for reimbursement), you need to submit your request in Elvish. Organization XYZ owns the Elvish language. Ergo, to communicate with your Government, you need to buy a license from XYZ to use Elvish. This seems quite an incredible state of affairs. -- Bhaskar
[openhealth] Next VistA Community Meeting - January 9-11, 2007 at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Please mark your calendars. The next VistA Community Meeting will be Tuesday through Thursday, January 9-11, 2007, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. Further details, including registration and hotel information will be forthcoming, but for now, it's time to block off the dates and make your travel plans. Note: NIST security procedures preclude walk-in participation. You must be registered in advance, to attend. The registration URL will be posted as soon as it is finalized. Since VistA Community Meetings are *your* meetings, please speak up about what you would like to see there in order for the meeting to be a success for *you*. Regards -- Bhaskar Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060923MSC available
FOIA VistA 20060923 SemiVivA MSC (MD5 sum c8a1253b6d82da0a36ebcdfb62adcd29) is a SemiViVA package of the FOIA VistA release of September 23, 2006 integrated with the May 26, 2006 release of MSC Fileman as released by George Timson at Hatdhats (http://hardhats.org/fileman/MSC%20FileMan.zip) bundled with GT.M V5.1-000 is available from Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). A SemiVivA package is a one-step install of VistA and GT.M on a Linux machine. Assuming the file has been downloaded as /Distrib/FOIAVistASemiVivA20060923MSC.tgz, to install on your Linux PC, execute the following, as root: cd /usr/local tar zxvf /Distrib/FOIAVistASemiVivA20060923MSC.tgz This will create new directories /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923MSC /usr/local/gtm_V5.1-000 and symbolic links /usr/local/FOIAVistAMSC and /usr/local/gtm. Please note that this will overwrite any directories or symbolic links you have with those names. To use it, you will need to create a working environment (see http://tinyurl.com/738jk for details). To create an environment in ~/myFOIAVistA20060923MSC, as a normal user, execute: /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923MSC/install ~/myFOIAVistA20060923MSC Subsequently, to get to an interactive mode GT.M prompt in that environment, execute ~/myFOIAVistA20060923MSC/gtm_V5.1-000/run To run entryref ABC^DEF in that environment, execute: ~/myFOIAVistA20060923MSC//gtm_V5.1-000/run ABC^DEF Notes: 1. GT.M V5.1-000 is Copyright (c) 2006 Fidelity National Information Services, Inc, and MSC Fileman is Copyright (c) Medsphere Systems Corporation. Both are provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License (available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). 2. No copyright is claimed for scripts written by me and packaged herewith - they are in the public domain and provided with no warranty whatsoever. Use them at your own risk. 3. VistA as made available by the US Department of Veterans Affairs under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is in the public domain. 4. Since I reserve the right to screw up at least as well as my fellow man, please test it and provide feedback. 5. Also, please let me know what you you would like to see next. Regards -- Bhaskar Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] GPL (vs. BSD) style licenses lead to more collaboration and can be better for business
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd David Wheeler is well known in free / open source software circles.(e.g., http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html is a periodically updated classic). He makes an argument for why GPL is better than BSD style licenses even for businesses. Regards -- Bhaskar Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Securing hard drive contents against physical theft is easy on Linux
When my eldest son was a freshman in college last year, I sent along a Linux laptop that was non-brand, old and somewhat beat up. As a precaution against loss of sensitive information in the unlikely event that it was stolen, sensitive information was in encrypted tarballs. I have since become a fan of mandatory access controls rather than discretionary access controls, and I decided to encrypt /home and the swap partition for his new (again non-brand, but a mid range machine manufactured by ASUS, with a 3D video chip) laptop he is taking to school this year. I was expecting it to be a something of an expert friendly process, but I found it to be surprisingly easy, and it just took a couple of hours (the biggest chunk of which was backing up /home and restoring it) to configure a laptop, which, if stolen, will require the expertise of an organization like the National Security Agency to extract the information.* Now, when the computer boots, /home requires a password to be entered before it can be mounted. An encrypted swap partition is recreated each time with a fresh key from /dev/urandom. It was so straightforward that I have decided to use the same technique for all my machines - work laptop, home laptops, and home PCs. Linux has a module (dm_crypt) that allows a mapped virtual device to be created. Access to the virtual device goes through a layer of encryption/decryption and then goes to the physical device. The mapped device can be mounted when the key is entered. Although the physical device can be accessed by someone stealing the laptop, it contains an encrypted file system whose files are not easily accessed without the key. This technique can be easily used for VistA on Linux in lieu of encrypted databases. Since it is a straight through layer, rather than one with caching, we don't have to worry about losing buffers in the event of a crash. -- Bhaskar * Had I been concerned about the NSA stealing his laptop, I would have written pseudo random data from /dev/urandom or /dev/random onto the physical partitions before restoring the contents. But this would have taken several hours, and I felt that a casual thief was more of a concern than the NSA. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Re: Is the Sourceforge-Hardhats list dead?
Even if not dead, the mailman list at Source Forge is very sick. A fully functional alternative, at least for now, is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bhaskar On 7/27/06, Mike Schrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't gotten any messages from Hardhats for two days, and the archive contains nothing since Tuesday. There have been a couple of posts on [EMAIL PROTECTED] today. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Hui Vista 4.1 Semi VivA available on Source Forge
Downloadable from Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista), this SemiVivA distribution is a repackaging of OpenVista 4.1 as released by the Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui (http://pacifichui.org) on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Assuming the file has been downloaded as /Distrib/HuiOpenVista4.1SemiVivA.tgz, to install on your Linux PC, execute the following, as root: cd /usr/local tar zxvf /Distrib/HuiVista4.1SemiVivA.tgz This will create new directories /usr/local/HuiVista4.1 and /usr/local/gtm_V5.1-000 and symbolic links /usr/localHuiVista and /usr/local/gtm. Please note that this will overwrite any directories or symbolic links you have with those names. To use it, you will need to create an environment where you will work (see http://tinyurl.com/738jk for details). As a normal user, to create an environment in ~/myHuiVista4.1, execute: /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/run ~/myHuiVista4.1 Subsequently, to get to an interactive mode GT.M prompt in that environment, execute ~/myHuiVista4.1/run To run entryref ABC^DEF in that environment, execute: ~/myHuiVista4.1/run ABC^DEF Notes: 1. The M routines in the directory /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/r are exactly as downloaded from the Hui web site. 2. In order to save space, global variables in the database provided with OpenVista 4.1 were extracted and re-loaded into a freshly created database. They are otherwise unaltered. 3. /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/p contains two routines XPDR.m and XWBTCPM.m. XPDR.m as distributed by the Hui, and in FOIA VistA (at least through the June 15, 2006 release) contains a line of code that is not correct for GT.M. /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/p/XPDR.m contains a 1-line fix by me. /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/p/XWBTCPM.m contains the version of XWBTCPM.m from the June 15, 2006 version of FOIA VistA that allows the direct connect CPRS GUI (CPRSChart.exe) to connect to OpenVista4.1 without the need for a callback from the RPC Broker. 4. All object files were compiled using GT.M V5.1-000. 5. GT.M V5.1-000 is Copyright (c) 2006 Fidelity National Information Services, Inc, and is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt as of July 26, 2006). 6. No copyright is claimed for scripts written by me and packaged herewith - they are in the public domain and provided with no warranty whatsoever. Use them at your own risk. 7. VistA as made available by the US Department of Veterans Affairs under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is in the public domain. 8. OpenVista 4.1 is Copyright (c) 2006, Pacific Telehealth Technology Hui and is made available under the terms of the license reproduced below from the download page (http://openvista.pacifichui.org/register_new.aspx?ref=0). 9. /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/OR_30_215 contains the CPRS GUI distributed with the June 15, 2006 release of FOIA VistA. K.S. Bhaskar bhaskar at bhaskars dot com --- Copyright (c) 2006, Pacific Telehealth Technology Hui All rights reserved. The copyright referred to herein applies to the software code modifications and enhancements made by the Pacific Telehealth Technology Hui to allow the FOIA version of the Department of Veterans Affairs VistA to operate under GT.M and LINUX. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice as noted on the sign-on screen of the downloaded application, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice as noted on the sign-on screen of the downloaded application, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of the Pacific Telehealth Technology Hui nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software and works of art without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
Re: [openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16
They don't call them Crackberries for nothing!!! Seriously, I have to take it with me because it is also my cell phone and I will want to have it handy while driving there and back. But I leave it turned off and at the camp site when we are in camp. I did want to let people know that I would be away next week, because I am an administrator for the openhealth list, and folks from time to time expect responses from me on hardhats. Regards -- Bhaskar Tim Churches wrote: Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 K.S. Bhaskar wrote: As a scoutmaster of the troop my younger sons are in, I will be doing my part to keep the local insects well fed (sorry, I meant to say camping) next week and will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16. Although my Blackberry does pick up a signal if I go to the upper elevations and on the other side of a ridge, in the area where our troop camps, there has not been a signal in previous years. IMHO ... you should leave that Blackberry at home and enjoy those kids and the Scouting experience. vbg Yes, I thought that the Scouts frowned on drugs-of-addiction. Every Blackberry user I have ever seen has become hooked and utterly dependent on fixes from their little devices within a week. As Tim suggests: go cold turkey. Tim C Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16
As a scoutmaster of the troop my younger sons are in, I will be doing my part to keep the local insects well fed (sorry, I meant to say camping) next week and will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16. Although my Blackberry does pick up a signal if I go to the upper elevations and on the other side of a ridge, in the area where our troop camps, there has not been a signal in previous years. Regards -- Bhaskar Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] On the proper way to ask questions and report bugs
A lunchtime random walk through the web yielded two pages of food for thought: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Report Bugs Effectively - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html -- Bhaskar VistA - a journey, not a destination Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Registration for VistA Community Meeting
There are several people who have told one or another of the organizers that they will be at the VistA Community Meeting, but who have not registered. Since food is being provided, and since the rooms need to be configured, we *really* need to know with some reasonable accuracy how many people will be there. Please, if you intend to come but have not yet registered, would you please do so *now* so that we can serve you better? You can go to http://worldvista.org - the registration link is prominently displayed. Thank you very much. Regards -- Bhaskar VistA - a journey, not a destination Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [openhealth] Re: Forking a Process in Linux
Christian -- As a barrier to retard malware payload propagation, attachments to the openhealth list are blocked. If you don't want to inline a file that you want to share, post it to the Files area at http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth Regards -- Bhaskar Christian Heller wrote: I seem to receive list emails again, at least my own. Since the two source code files did not make it, I send them again as inline text: [KSB] ...snip... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [openhealth] New file uploaded to openhealth
Gregory Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... I see that it has been standardized by OASIS, but are you sure it is an ISO standard? Of course, being standardized by OASIS is nothing to sneeze at. [KSB] http://www.odfalliance.org/press/AllianceRelease3May06.pdf SPONSORED LINKS Software distribution Salon software Medical software Software association Software jewelry Software deployment YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "openhealth" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [openhealth] joining the group from a non-yahoo e-mail account?
Richard -- You're welcome - the group is open to all who are interested in healthcare FOSS. Go to yahoogroups.com - with your Yahoo id, you can associate multiple e-mail addresses, and decide which is the one that receives mail sent to the list. Write to me off list if you need help (but I may be less responsive than usual for the next two weeks because I will be traveling and teaching). Regards -- Bhaskar Richard Schilling wrote: I've joined this group - thanks for accepting. But, I'd like to join using a non-yahoo account. Did I miss some instruction on a web page somewhere that tells me how to do that? Thanks. Richard Schilling Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[openhealth] Openhealth-talk list poll
I have created a poll on whether we should create a separate openhealth-talk group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/surveys?id=12183957). Please express your opinion before Thursday, November 17. Regards -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 17:41 -0600, Adrian Midgley wrote: [KSB] ...snip... We might need an openhealth-talk mailing list, to preserve the bandwidth of the main one for things of interest outside OSHCA. I mean lurkers don't relish organisational detail. Reliability of the list is a necessity, multiplication and dilution are already harmful. ... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/W4wwlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
