[openhealth] Astronaut, LLC announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ EHR Beta

Astronaut, LLC announces the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Electronic Health Record Beta. Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com Announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Beta program. Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ allows health care facilities, educators, developers, and physicians to start and manage encrypted

[openhealth] Nominations Open for 2009 Linux Medical News Freedom Award

Nominations are officially open for the 9th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 14th-18th AMIA Fall conference in San Francisco, CA. Deadline for entries is September 30th, 2009. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA. This award is co-sponsore

[openhealth] CCHIT call for Volunteers

Alesha Adamson wrote in with: CCHIT is making it's general call for volunteers. application here http://www.cchit.org/participate/volunteer/ There is a tremendous amount of concern and discussion around the role of CCHIT as it pertains to OS and federal dollars. Fundamentally, I believe that the

[openhealth] AMIA releases Free and Open Source White Paper

s are being used in sizable numbers," said Ignacio Valdes, MD, MSc the primary author of the paper and chair of the AMIA Open Source Working Group. He continues, "This paper is for practitioners, CIO's, IT staff, and policymakers making difficult health IT decisions with valid concern

[openhealth] Please respond by Nov. 5th: Known Free/Open Source EHR/EMR Deployment Count.

The un-official, Draft 7 of the upcoming American Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working Group white paper to be voted on November 9th can be found http://ignaciovaldes.com/amia. It will be voted on for ratification on November 9th-11th or so. Action is needed on your part to answer th

[openhealth] AMIA Open Source Working Group citations for assertions.

I'm looking for publications that I can cite for the commonly held assertions below for the AMIA Open Source working group Open Source white paper. If you know of a publication I can cite for the assertions below, please let me know: 1) Millions and in the case of the Veterans Affairs VistA softwa

[openhealth] Conference Call 08/20/08 9:00am Pacific Time: Paul Biondich on OpenMRS

Presentation by Paul Biondich, MD, MS -- Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, on the Open Medical Records System Presentation by David Williams, MBA -- Co-Founding Executive, PatientsLikeMe What Redwood Health Information Collaborative August Meeting When Wed Aug 20 9am – Wed Aug 20 11am, P

[openhealth] Information Week: Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable

Information Week is reporting. "A federal appeals court has struck down a lower court ruling that found that open source copyrights may not be legally enforceable if they're licensed under terms that are "intentionally broad." Ruling on an appeal brought by software developer Robert Jacobsen, the U

[openhealth] Nominations Open for 2008 Linux Medical News Freedom Award

Nominations are officially open for the 8th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 8th-12th AMIA Fall conference at the Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington, D.C. Deadline for entries is August 31th, 2007. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMI

[openhealth] Announcing SEEDIE.

SEEDIE iswell, you just will have to see it for yourself: http://seedie.org/ "SEEDIE, the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHR's, is a healthcare IT standards organization that is completely funded and operated by a select group of proprietary electronic health rec

[openhealth] ClearHealth Support For Google Health

"With the public release of Google Health ClearHealth is happy to announce its support for the system." Complete announcement: http://linuxmednews.com/1211252324/index_html

[openhealth] Whatever happened to Minoru/PICNIC/SPIRIT?

On the heels of the http://www.openhealthtools.org/ announcement, I was wondering why I wasn't that excited. Then I remembered the Minoru/PICNIC/SPIRIT project back in the mists of time like 8 years ago that was similar. What ever happened to Brian Bray and the associated project? All the URL's to

[openhealth] Enormous SoftOnline Corp. Announces GooVault

Enormous SoftOnline (ESO) Corp. announced its latest initiative in Health IT: GooVault. According to Trotter Valdes Vice Director of saying "Ha!" to Competitors, GooVault will initially do pathology sample tracking: "We think that in order to have comprehensive Health IT software, you have to start

[openhealth] Microsoft Office Labs: Future of personal health concept

The whole time I'm thinking a) Looks like Apple, b) How much did they spend on the video production? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1u36Y-qlE -- IV

[openhealth] Open Letter to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PeaceHealth and Shared Care Plan

This open letter appears here: http://linuxmednews.com/1198175130/index_html Dear Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PeaceHealth/Shared Care Plan Recently a version of the Shared Care Plan software surfaced in Houston, Texas. I have read the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) http://www.peacehealth

[openhealth] Introduction to WorldVistA EHR System Administration Education Conference Dec 7-9th, 2007

The not-for-profit Harris County Health Information Cooperative (HCHIC) is sponsoring an intensive, vendor-neutral Educational Conference: "Introduction to WorldVistA EHR System Administration". This three day weekend education event December 7th-9th will be held in Houston, Texas. This conference

[openhealth] WorldVistA Wins Wired News 2007 Rave Award

David Whitten was the first to note that WorldVistA has won the 2007 Wired News Rave Award. This is in the latest print edition of Wired on page 147 (not on the website yet) featuring a picture of K.S. Bhaskar, Joseph Dal Molin and Maury Pepper. Bhaskar is quoted as saying "nothing short of world d

[openhealth] Houston Symposium: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and Promise

e, IBM 10:00"The Microsoft of Medicine vs. The Google of Medicine" Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS Chief Technology Officer Your Doctor Program, L.P. Founder, Linux Medical News Recipient: Inaugural 2006 International Medical Informatics Association Award for Open So

[openhealth] Ultimate EMR Launches.

*April 2, 2007, Miami Florida:* Empower Med, Inc. announces the immediate release of Ultimate EMR on Sourceforge.netand Plone.orgunder the GNU Genera

[openhealth] OpenMRS to Participate in Google Summer of Code

The OpenMRS organization is announcingthey they are participating in the 2007 Google Summer of Code: *"Computer science students, need a summer job? Have you ever imagined that writing code could save lives? Why not apply to OpenMR

[openhealth] Blue Cliff, Inc. Announces Development Of VistA EMR Laboratory Interface

"Blue Cliff, Inc. has announced the development of a non-proprietary open source laboratory interface to VistA-Office Electronic Health record system (VOE). Blue Cliff is a Hawaii-based software consultant and development company specializing in providing installation

[openhealth] Ask LMN: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush

"Fred Trotter (me) has just won the bidding for the Histalk sponsored Beers with Bush at HIMSS07. As a result I get to talk to Jonathan Bush the CEO of Athenahealth. As you can imagine, I will be talking to him about FreeB and FOSS medical software generally, but what else should I ask him? Slas

[openhealth] VOE Training Filling Up Fast

WorldVistA is offering VistA Office EHR (VOE) training at the 1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar. The early bird registration rates will be expiring on Feb 17, as will the special hotel rates. Further, the list of topics and presenters is now available. The presenters include some of th

[openhealth] Please help out my little website.

Hello all, I've written an original book review on Marcel Gagne's Moving to Free Software book on Linux Medical News. Book reviews tend to generate a lot of traffic for a website but the current queen of it all is Digg. If you have an account on digg.com and would like to help out my little websit

[openhealth] Health-IT News Wheel of Misfortune

'Health-IT news articles usually follow a perennial pattern of loud hype followed by quiet failure. If what was at stake were not so important, the never ending raft of optimistic and un-critical press releases and articles about 'progress', 'advances' and 'announced plans to' would be a cause for

[openhealth] Keynote speaker needed for FOSS in medicine symposium April 23rd 2007 Houston, Tx.

Hi all, I need a keynote speaker for a one day FOSS in medicine symposium http://www.schullinstitute.org/Members/webmaster/annual-seminar with the Schull Institute, benefitting Schull Institute Scholarship fund. April 23rd 2007 in Houston, Texas. So far our speaker line up is: Alan Runyan (Plone f

[openhealth] Medsphere's Steve Shreeve Responds.

"I don't want people to completely discount Medsphere as a scourge on the open source community and relegate it to the status of a pariah for suing its founders and invoking the DMCA to pull its open source software and claiming that it was supposed to be patented, not released as open source. I w

[openhealth] Editorial: Is Medsphere an Open Source Company or Not?

After years of publicly saying they are an Open Source company, and the 'leading provider of Open Source software for the healthcare industry', Medsphere Corp. has yet to release their core product OpenVista(r) as Open Source. It is entirely their right to use the Veterans Affairs VistA codebase, m

[openhealth] Open Source Medications Database.

Derived from VistA's and other sources. Digg this article up for more exposure: http://digg.com/tech_deals/Open_Source_Medications_Database Thanks! -- IV Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> Your email settings:

[openhealth] Number of Linux and Windows Developers Equal in 2006

According to this Evans Data Corporation survey, the number of Linux developers and Windows developers will be equal by the end of the year 2006. This development was noted by LinuxToday editor's: '...With its dominant adoption rate, Apache may be doing more for the cause of open source de

[openhealth] What to Call the OpenEMR/ClearHealth/FreeMed/MirrorMed Universe?

Linux Apache MySQL PHP server setups are so common that they have their own designation, collectively called 'LAMP' applications. It seems that in the United States, the hotbeds of FOSS Electronic Medical Records (EMR)'s activity are falling into two universes: that based upon the VA's Vist

[openhealth] Plentiful FOSS health IT jobs?

Currently everyone I know has more paid employement in FOSS health IT than they know what to do with. Just my perception, or is this something others are seeing? -- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS -- Editor: Linux Medical News -- http://www.linuxmednews.com SPONSORED LINKS

[openhealth] Ace Reporter Shirley Joins LMN Staff.

Cindy was Linux Medical News ace reporter for four years before she passed on. Despite some quirks such as thinking everyone was a Chihuahua, she had a true talent for getting the inside track for important meetings and being around powerful people in the Free and Open Source Software in me

[openhealth] Brailer Resigns

David Brailer has resigned. MSNBC is reporting that 'Dr David Brailer, the man charged by President Bush with ensuring that half of all Americans have a portable electronic health record within a decade, is to step down two years after taking on the job...' This is a tremendous loss for the

[openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

The MirrorMed project shows how Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in medicine works by creating an electronic medical record/electronic health record(EMR/EHR) using code from several projects: OpenEMR, FreeMed, Uversa's ClearHealth and the FreeB medical billing project. Successful health IT

[openhealth] OSHCA web portal.

2. I can help with via free oshca.org hosting and building. 3. has been done many times and suffers from maintenance issues because it is tedious to do over many years and people do not update their own project information much even if empowered to do so. 4. and 5. I can provide the web resourc

[openhealth] Re: Important announcement and oshca update

I can host the new website and mailing list for free. -- IV On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:43:39 +0800 Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to annouce that the transfer of the domain name oshca.org >from Brian had been completed. Brian is in the process of creating >and s

[openhealth] Mirth Project: FOSS HL7 interoperability.

"The goal of the http://www.mirthproject.org/ Mirth Project is to develop an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports. By utilizing an enterprise service bus framework and a cha

[openhealth] OSS for Healthcare Leaders Primer

iHealth and Technology brings you a Forrester Whitepaper: Open Source Software Primer for Health Care Leaders. "While not heralding the end of commercial software vendors, the report concludes that conditions are ripe for open source solutions to take root in health care, and that it will like

[openhealth] Open Source HIS taxonomy

There is a great deal of information on this going back 5 years on my website: http://www.linuxmednews.com -- IV > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:17:58 - > From: "lorie_obal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Open Source HIS taxonomy > > Hello all, I'm working on a taxonomy

[openhealth] Java vs PHP CRM?

Hello all, I'm involved with a health IT startup that has standardized on Java/Eclipse for its core software. I'd like to go as open source as possible with a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package. There are many FOSS CRM's and I've looked at http://www.sugarcrm.com but it seems to be

[openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

In a Hospital Connect editorial, Delaware senator Tom Carper has endorsed the Veterans Affairs VistA software as a reference model for a national standard EHR: "...Efforts are underway within the federal government to ensure that all health care providers will be able to use IT in a uniform an

[openhealth] VistA in Egypt, an Interview with Omar H. El Hattab

Dr. Omar El Hattab was a Cancer Epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. He was responsible for getting DHCP (the precursor to VistA) installed at his cancer institutes. In order to help Linux Medical News readers understand the challenges he faced in setting u

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] Editorial: RHIO's and the Illusion of Health IT Success

any case I have changed 'interoperability protocol' to 'messaging standard'. I've also changed the UI paragraph slightly to emphasize that I'm referring to the user interface, not the data layer. Again, thank you very much for your insightful interest and comme

[openhealth] Editorial: RHIO's and the Illusion of Health IT Success

ate? It is important to ask the question given the United States rich history of failure and two notable successes with large scale Health IT." Read the full article at http://www.linuxmednews.com/1134404398/index_html -- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS -- Editor: Linux Medical News -- http://www.linuxm

[openhealth] Increased Mortality after CPOE Implementation

The December 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics has a report that found a coincident increase in mortality after implementing a 'Commercially Sold' Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system. The increased mortality may have been due to delays in medication and IV administration in the

[openhealth] FOSS Oncology Information System?

Is there any activity looking specifically at the use of Open Source software in the management of disease related data in Oncology patients? I am a radiation oncologist interested in pursuing some Open Source development in the area of managing data associated with the management of cancer p

Re: [os-wg] Re: [openhealth] Opens Source Workign Group sponsored sessions

Yes there is attention being paid to these excellent projects, but they did not attend this particular conference and submissions are required like 6 months in advance. I encourage people from these projects to put in submissions for next fall's AMIA conference. It is well worth their time to r

[openhealth] LMN Review: Quicken Medical Expense Manager 1.1

In these days where one increasingly has to take personal responsibility for appropriate medical coverage, Intuit's Quicken Medical Expense Manager fills the bill. While not an Open Source product by any means, it does take a different perspective...the patient's. Many of the projects covered o

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] AMIA and the Open Source Working group meeting at AMIA

Will the usual post meeting gathering of the minds at a local watering hole occur? Also, here is a summary of the FOSS goings-on at this conference: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1128695697/index_html -- IV On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:54:54 -0400 Alric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to remind

[openhealth] CMS Releases Beta VOE

September 19th, 2005 CMS released an 'evaluation version' of the highly anticipated Vista Office EHR (VOE) according to a CMS website press release. Highlights of the press release are that apparently CMS is going to evaluate how implementations are working at a limited number of beta test site

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] Banking, was: Others are at work.... FW: Clinical Data Standards Case Studies

Speaking of, looks like banking is getting into the act: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1122388878/index_html -- IV On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:30:17 -0700 Tom Lincoln <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>-- >>From: California HealthCare Foundation [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, Jul

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System

gt; http://www.coe-bcc.org <http://www.coe-bcc.org/> > Direct: 415-353-7230 > Mobile: 415-722-2547 > Text Page: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _ > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogarth > Sent: Sunday,

[openhealth] U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System

http://www.linuxmednews.com/1121956528/index_html 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://

[openhealth] RWJ Foundation: Information Links Grants

Even more grants coming out, this one from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: 'InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges — a new program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — will fund grants to support the participation of state and local public

[openhealth] OpenNHIN Announced, Call for Participation

Uversa has decided to reply to the recent ONCHIT RFP regarding an open source prototype implementation of a National Health Information Network. We need volunteers to commit different types of healthcare facilties to receiving and sending secure patient data from this network. So far the respo

[openhealth] Rural NHIN grants, extension of NHIN OSSS-Aside grant to the 17th.

More grant RFP's are out. These are for Rural Health Information Networks. The first one is to: ''...Support development of rural health networks. Grant funds are used to support activities that strengthen the organizational capabilities of these networks whose purpose is to overcome the fragm

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] Breaking News: Open Source NHIN RFP Set-Aside

d a quick check reveals that some FOSS people and projects >>are >> already 'pinned down' in pending RFP's. -- IV >> >> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:22:26 -0500 >> "Ignacio Valdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I agree

[openhealth] Breaking News: Open Source NHIN RFP Set-Aside

The Health and Human Services Department plans an open-source set-aside for one of the six contracts it wants to award for prototypes of a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). More details and link: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1120669316/index_html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] FOSS Grant opportunity watch.

I have just now created a Grants subject heading on Linux Medical News http://www.linuxmednews.com that anyone can post too. Staying vigilant and populating this subject heading reliabily and accurately is a problem for me alone with my current workload. I will probably miss many announcements