[openhealth] Who should come to OSHCA 2007 Conference?

[William Lester]

While I've been a lurker on the openhealth listserv for a while, I have
been paying attention to all the conversations, especially around the
upcoming OSHCA 2007 Conference. In a recent meeting with the CIO of
International Planned Parenthood, we wondered out loud whether we should
consider attending the conference.

 

We are users of open source medical records and clinic management
systems. We build/buy/install various applications and work with our
staff to implement reasonable solutions. We face lots of challenges,
especially around our work in developing countries in low resource
settings. We are looking for new solutions, and want to meet those who
work in the world of health applications and who understand our problems
and our needs.

 

Yet in all the discussions around the 2007 conference, we've seen
nothing that we would indicate that we fit the demographics of someone
you'd want at your conference. It seems to be focused on developers and
not on end users. So my question is "Is this conference appropriate for
end users of your systems? What would we get out of attending the
conference?"

 

Thanks for your consideration.

 

Bill Lester

 

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Re: [openhealth] Open source web LMS?

[William Lester]

Not quit sure what you mean by Learning Management, but if I understand the 
Wikipedia definition of Learning Management Systems, then you might be 
interested in the open source product that we use. It's called Moodle, and it's 
very robust course management system (CMS):

http://moodle.org/

Hope this info helps.

Bill Lester



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Anyone familiar with any open source Learning Management tools for the
web?

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[openhealth] RFP for Personal Health Record Design

[William Lester]

Please excuse the cross-posting. I thought that some of our members might be 
interested in this (although it is US-specific).
 

 
New RWJF Program Promotes Design of Innovative Personal Health Record Systems
 
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is pleased to announce
Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal
Health Records, a new $3.5 million national program to stimulate
innovations in personal health information technology. Project
HealthDesign encourages health and technology pioneers to imagine a
next generation of personal health record (PHR) systems that would
empower patients to better manage their health and health care.   
 
Project HealthDesign supports the development of interoperable
personal health record systems that will provide a range of flexible
tools that can best support individuals' needs and preferences. 
Specifically, it will support up to 10 teams of technology designers
* working closely with consumers * to design and test prototypes of
innovative PHR applications that can be built upon a common
technology platform.  By enlisting the expertise and creativity of
designers, patients, health professionals and informaticians to
design PHR systems, the program aims to greatly expand the ways that
PHRs can support patients' specific needs and medical providers'
ability to provide optimal care.  
 
RWJF is pleased to collaborate with the California HealthCare
Foundation, which provided $600,000 in additional funding for Project
HealthDesign.
 
The Call for Proposals (CFP), issued today, invites applicants to
create consumer-focused personal health applications and test
prototypes with target populations. The CFP is available at
www.rwjf.org/cfp/projecthealthdesign. 
 
Project HealthDesign will host Web Conference Calls on July 27 (2 PM
EDT) and August 2 (1 PM EDT) * participation in these calls is
strongly encouraged.  They will provide prospective applicants the
opportunity to learn more about the program and this grant
competition and participate in a real-time Q&A session with RWJF and
Project HealthDesign staff.  To register for the calls, please visit
www.projecthealthdesign.org.  
 
The application deadline is Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 2:00 PM
EDT.
 
We encourage you to share this announcement with interested
colleagues and/or to include a notice of this new program and funding
opportunity on your Web site, and in relevant journals, newsletters,
listservs or other publications.  For additional information on
Project HealthDesign and this funding opportunity, please visit
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[openhealth] Re: OSHCA Meetings

[William Lester]

RE: "...what do people want to get out of a conference or other kind of 
meeting..."
 
For me, the world of open source medical records/hospital/clinic management 
software is disbursed, not well documented, and to some extent politicized. I'd 
love to go to a conference where a wide range of applications are demoed and 
discussed. I'd like for those products to run the gamut from borderline 
commercial products to true FOSHCA applications. I'd like to see products that 
work in high resource hospitals in the North, low resource clinics in the 
South, and in between.
 
And I'd love to hear a discussion on standards for medical software 
applications - what's happening, who's doing it, what's needed, and what we can 
do to help.
 
And I want to network with others who have the same interests - that's most 
important.
 
In short, for a relative newbie like me, I'd like to get up-to-speed on the 
current state of open source medical applications, in a safe and challenging 
environment.
 
imho
 
Bill Lester
 
 

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to follow up my previous post: what do people want to get out of a 
conference or other kind of meeting - in other words - what's it for? 
Answer this question (properly) and the where/when/how will be more 
obvious...

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Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review

[William Lester]

This discussion about OSCHA reminds me of an another organization I know very 
well called N-TEN (NonProfit Technology Enterprise Network). NTEN is a 
membership organization formed to promote the use of appropriate and effective 
ICTs by NPOs/NGOs. It's members include the NPOs/NGOs, the funders, the 
consultants and organizations who provide support to these organizations, and 
the developers and strategic thinkers who design and build the tools. Lots of 
interesting people at the table.
 
Internally, they are a lean organization (3 full-time staff) with their major 
activity being a popular conference once a year. They sponsor several very 
active listserves, lots of local membership clubs who meet regularly, specialty 
conferences (like one on ICTs and Humanitarian Relief), and they do online 
seminars/discussions/presentations. They really function as a way for people to 
find one another and hold discussions about what's happening.
 
Their major problem is that they are far too US-centric. They are struggling to 
internationalize their focus, and recently hired a new Executive Director to 
help in that effort. 
 
http://www.nten.org/
 
When we discuss resurrecting OSCHA, I think it's important to look at similar 
organizations with similar deliverables. Successful or not, we can look at the 
evolution, the best practices, and the lessons learned from these groups, and 
fast track our conversation. There are lots of blueprints and blueprint experts 
out there, and it's easier to edit an existing plan(s) than to build from 
scratch.
 
imho
 
Bill Lester
 

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I think that Will actually is proposing a vision, one which I
whole-heartedly agree. The vision is that OSCHA is a vehicle for people to
meet. This list is the best source of meeting of the minds I have found but
is nothing compared to face to face. That is really what we do not have...

Regards,
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[openhealth] RE: The Question

[William Lester]

As I mentioned, the NPOKI group is just starting up. They have an
interim web site located here: http://www.npoki.org/start/index.htm 
which really doesn't have much information. 
 
To find out more about the initial investigation into medical records
systems, check out: http://www.healthtoolkit.org/
 
And, if you have questions, please feel free to contact me offline, and
I'll be happy to respond as best I can.
 
Bill Lester
 

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>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/10/2006 11:25 AM >>>



--- William Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where can I get more info? The website
www.engenderhealth.org does not give any clues. NPOKI
gives nothing much on a google search.

Nandalal
> Collectively we work in over 160 countries. I won't
> list them all, but
> here's a short list of the countries where our
> member organizations
> work:
>  
>
AzerbaijanBahamasBangladeshBelizeBeninBoliviaBrazilBurkina
> FasoCambodiaCameroonChileChinaColombiaCosta RicaCôte
> d'IvoireDominican
> Republic EcuadorEl
>
SalvadorEthiopiaGhanaGuatemalaGuineaGuyanaHaitiHondurasIndiaIndonesiaJordanKenyaMadagascarMalawiMauritaniaMexicoMongoliaMozambiqueMyanmarNepalNicaraguaNigeriaPakistanPanamaParaguayPeruPhilippinesRussiaRwandaSenegalSomaliaSouth
> AfricaSudanTanzaniaTogoTurkeyUgandaUkraineUnited
> StatesUruguayVenezuelaVietnamZambia
> 
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/9/2006 7:08 PM >>>
> 
> Hi William,
> 
> In which countries are they active?
> 
> Nandalal
> 
> --- William Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > RE: "...when will more not-for-profit medical
> > organizations band together..."
> >  
> > Not such a dangerous idea. A group of
> international
> > nonprofit health agencies has recently formed a
> > collaborative called NPOKI (nonprofit
> organizations
> > knowledge initiative). The purpose of the group is
> > to "...collaborate in the formation and use of
> tools
> > for knowledge creation and sharing within and
> among
> > organizations world-wide..." These are the folks
> who
> > are already working in health facilities in the
> > developing world helping to strengthen the
> > infrastructure, build capacity, train physicians
> and
> > medical staff, and improve the delivery of health
> > services to the underserved.
> >  
> > One of the tools that they are looking at are
> > medical records systems appropriate for low
> resource
> > clinical settings. At their December meeting,
> there
> > was a strong commitment to open source solutions,
> > with a realization that many tools already exist
> > that may meet their needs, some of which are in
> use
> > even today. They look to be a trusted source of
> > information about these systems, helping the
> > membership to evaluate the existing resources and
> > build/customize features needed for successful
> > implementation.
> >  
> > The good news is that this is actually happening,
> > and that the folks sitting at the table include
> the
> > implementing agencies, their grantees, and their
> > funders. I'll report back more information as the
> > group continues to organize and decide on their
> > priority projects.
> >  
> > Bill Lester
> > 
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > --
> >  
> > William A. Lester
> > CIO/Director of Technology
> > EngenderHealth
> > 440 Ninth Avenue
> > New York, NY 10001
> > (Office) 212.561.8002
> > (e-Mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > (URL) www.engenderhealth.org
> > "The future is here. It's just not widely
> > distributed yet."
> >  
> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/8/2006 12:26 AM >>>
> > 
> > Great topic!  Here's one-
> > 
> > When will more not-for-profit medical
> organizations
> > band together and share
> > in the development of open source software for
> their
> > common interests?
> > 
> > Dangerous in that I think it is disruptive and
> > inevitable.
> > 
> > John
> > *
> > Art, Information, and Ceramics.
> > http://www.john-norris.net
> > *
> > 
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[openhealth] RE: The Question

[William Lester]

Collectively we work in over 160 countries. I won't list them all, but
here's a short list of the countries where our member organizations
work:
 
AzerbaijanBahamasBangladeshBelizeBeninBoliviaBrazilBurkina
FasoCambodiaCameroonChileChinaColombiaCosta RicaCôte d'IvoireDominican
Republic EcuadorEl
SalvadorEthiopiaGhanaGuatemalaGuineaGuyanaHaitiHondurasIndiaIndonesiaJordanKenyaMadagascarMalawiMauritaniaMexicoMongoliaMozambiqueMyanmarNepalNicaraguaNigeriaPakistanPanamaParaguayPeruPhilippinesRussiaRwandaSenegalSomaliaSouth
AfricaSudanTanzaniaTogoTurkeyUgandaUkraineUnited
StatesUruguayVenezuelaVietnamZambia

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/9/2006 7:08 PM >>>

Hi William,

In which countries are they active?

Nandalal

--- William Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> RE: "...when will more not-for-profit medical
> organizations band together..."
>  
> Not such a dangerous idea. A group of international
> nonprofit health agencies has recently formed a
> collaborative called NPOKI (nonprofit organizations
> knowledge initiative). The purpose of the group is
> to "...collaborate in the formation and use of tools
> for knowledge creation and sharing within and among
> organizations world-wide..." These are the folks who
> are already working in health facilities in the
> developing world helping to strengthen the
> infrastructure, build capacity, train physicians and
> medical staff, and improve the delivery of health
> services to the underserved.
>  
> One of the tools that they are looking at are
> medical records systems appropriate for low resource
> clinical settings. At their December meeting, there
> was a strong commitment to open source solutions,
> with a realization that many tools already exist
> that may meet their needs, some of which are in use
> even today. They look to be a trusted source of
> information about these systems, helping the
> membership to evaluate the existing resources and
> build/customize features needed for successful
> implementation.
>  
> The good news is that this is actually happening,
> and that the folks sitting at the table include the
> implementing agencies, their grantees, and their
> funders. I'll report back more information as the
> group continues to organize and decide on their
> priority projects.
>  
> Bill Lester
> 
>  
>  
> 
> --
>  
> William A. Lester
> CIO/Director of Technology
> EngenderHealth
> 440 Ninth Avenue
> New York, NY 10001
> (Office) 212.561.8002
> (e-Mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> (URL) www.engenderhealth.org
> "The future is here. It's just not widely
> distributed yet."
>  
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/8/2006 12:26 AM >>>
> 
> Great topic!  Here's one-
> 
> When will more not-for-profit medical organizations
> band together and share
> in the development of open source software for their
> common interests?
> 
> Dangerous in that I think it is disruptive and
> inevitable.
> 
> John
> *
> Art, Information, and Ceramics.
> http://www.john-norris.net
> *
> 
> 
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[openhealth] RE: The Question

[William Lester]

RE: "...when will more not-for-profit medical organizations band together..."
 
Not such a dangerous idea. A group of international nonprofit health agencies 
has recently formed a collaborative called NPOKI (nonprofit organizations 
knowledge initiative). The purpose of the group is to "...collaborate in the 
formation and use of tools for knowledge creation and sharing within and among 
organizations world-wide..." These are the folks who are already working in 
health facilities in the developing world helping to strengthen the 
infrastructure, build capacity, train physicians and medical staff, and improve 
the delivery of health services to the underserved.
 
One of the tools that they are looking at are medical records systems 
appropriate for low resource clinical settings. At their December meeting, 
there was a strong commitment to open source solutions, with a realization that 
many tools already exist that may meet their needs, some of which are in use 
even today. They look to be a trusted source of information about these 
systems, helping the membership to evaluate the existing resources and 
build/customize features needed for successful implementation.
 
The good news is that this is actually happening, and that the folks sitting at 
the table include the implementing agencies, their grantees, and their funders. 
I'll report back more information as the group continues to organize and decide 
on their priority projects.
 
Bill Lester

 
 

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CIO/Director of Technology
EngenderHealth
440 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
(Office) 212.561.8002
(e-Mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(URL) www.engenderhealth.org
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
 
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/8/2006 12:26 AM >>>

Great topic!  Here's one-

When will more not-for-profit medical organizations band together and share
in the development of open source software for their common interests?

Dangerous in that I think it is disruptive and inevitable.

John
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