Hello All, Thank you for Elpidio for his great vision to start a system like Care2x and for his work during the years to build it. Thank you also for trusting me to take over his role. When I found Care2x there was bigger group of people with different ideas and at the moment the team is quite small. Many have built their own version and we do not know how many versions there are in real hospital or clinical use. Some have given up.
Requirements are often so different that it is not easy to build and use only one version. The competition in Europe and USA and maybe even India is so hard and it is not easy to bring a new system to the market where there are resources to use proprietaty softwares. That may be the reason that most developers in this list are from countries where expensive systems are not real option. I hope we could build a team big enough to make a competetive software at least to the markets with less resources. IMPORTANT THING IS THAT EVERYBODY IS SHARING HIS WORK SO THAT WE GET CRITICAL MASS OF DEVELOPERS AND TEAMS. Pepito wrote that without earning it is difficult to continue- which is true. Also it is the other way, if we do not work to get good software we cannot earn money from it by giving support for local implementation. I think each one of us should look for partners and funds to be able to work on the software and also implementation of it. It is in the interest of funding partners to get a transparent system in place. It saves money more than they invest in it, and it saves it quickly. Muhimbili hospital in Dar es Salam increased revenue 300% when they computerized their system (they used commercial software). Care2x is flexible and can run on one computer (we have done it in health center) and it can run in a hospital with hunders of beds (I am at the moment in a hospital like that using Care2x) We are planning now to have a very simple system in mobile phones at very basic level where there is no support, not even power available. We have been able to raise funds to make slow proggress in difficult setting. If it is possible here it is possible anywhere else. But not if everybody is working in their own small corner. SO LETS MAKE IT TOGETHER. Best Wishes Mauri Niemi -------------- Original message --------------- Date sent: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:56:51 -0400 From: Elpidio Latorilla <elpidio.latori...@gmail.com> To: care2002-developers <care2002- develop...@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Care2002-developers] Domain names and future of care2x Send reply to: care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:care2002-developers- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:care2002-developers- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> Hello all, thanks to all who expressed interest in taking over the ownership of care2x domains. I owe you all an explanation for the recent changes. I have not done any development work on this project in the last few years and I don't see me working on it in the coming years. Because of that I have decided to retire from the Care2x project. I will still be listening to the list and other communication lines of the project but I will not be active anymore. Furthermore, the project leadership will be transferred to Mauri Niemi. He is a doctor working for missionary hospitals in Tanzania. Mauri has been with the project since its beginning in 2002 and has been active in the development of the tanzanian version. In fact, their Care2x version is one of the most successful application of the project. I believe that Mauri will be the right project leader. He already agreed to take over the task. The domain names will be transferred to Mauri Niemi. The hosting and maintenance of the websites and other technical tasks will be done by Gjergj and Robert Meggle. Please excuse any disruptions during the transition phase. Thank you. Elpidio
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