Re: [openhealth] Glucose meters (Medisense Optium)

2005-08-27 Thread Adrian Midgley
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:39 -0700, Tim Cook wrote: > I agree with your premise that they SHOULD. However, not being in > control of the hardware development the only way to effect this change > will be through market forces creating the standard you describe. We _are_ a market force. > > Als

Re: [openhealth] Glucose meters (Medisense Optium)

2005-08-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:02 +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:08 -0700, Tim Cook wrote: > > > There are some places where open source software is not appropriate and > > this is likely one of them. > > > Irregardless whether it is appropriate or not. I cannot imagine what

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-27 Thread Adrian Midgley
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 04:14 -0700, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > there is one episode with several decision making > procesors involving investigations from many > deapartments, and following a certain sequence as one > result decides another. Or more cleverly, following a set of pathways where s

Re: OpenEMR questions, was: Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-27 Thread Adrian Midgley
Immunisations have two elements to them... There is an _event_, which might be of relevance to billing or side effects; and then the more interesting one usually is the _state_. Strictly one might regard testing immunity as necessary to assert a state of immunity, and we do that for Hepatitis B

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-27 Thread James Brown
In open EMR's case the main diagnosis for this issue / problem /episode would be metastatic ca prostate you can chose the main diagnosis out of all those coded diagnoses entered during the ongoing encounters the investigations would be part of the encounters, the images can be storedasdigita

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:37 -0600, Dr. Matthew > Roller wrote: > That is, IMHO, two different although similar > things. > > But it is still a model that centres on one > discipline or department, > rather than on one paitnet, and thus must be > r

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 64

2005-08-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Irv Buchbinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Dr Brown: > > One of the ways to solve this problem, and FreeMED > did this in building its > system, is to place the 'issue' or episode of care > at the center of the > medical record. By bringing the 'episode of care', > and these are