Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Fred Trotter
I take it as tenant of faith that proprietary systems had their shot at "the throne" and have missed it so badly that "the throne" will be held someday by a FOSS system... making my comment about OSCAR more reasonable... -FT On 5/7/06, Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fred, > > First o

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Jel Coward
Tim.Churches wrote: > > Tim (or anyone else familiar with OSCAR), > > Can you elaborate on this? What sort of data is being stored solely in > PDFs, presumably as BLOBs in a table, or in the filesystem with pointers > to them in a table? I can conceive of several circumstances in which > stor

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Jel Coward
Andrew Schamess wrote: > Thank you!  It sounds like a very good EMR, though the fact that it's > configured for a Canadian billing system may rule it out for me... In any > case the info is very helpful.  Thanks again. > Fred, any more thoughts on FreeB integration with OSCAR? -- Jel

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Fred Trotter
Yep... either someone needs to hire me (always a good idea! go to SynSeer.com)... or someone with motivation and skill needs to start hacking on it, getting questions answered by visiting my FreeB support forum (subsection of the  MirrorMed.org forums). -FT On 5/8/06, Jel Coward <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:33:13PM -0700, Jel Coward wrote: > OSCAR stores data in one place that is then pulled (as a view and for data > entry) to 'populate' Chronic Disease Management 'forms'.  The 's are there > because the 'forms' are just a view on the data.  THis allows single data >

[openhealth] Re: request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread sickleofzeus
--- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I take it as tenant of faith that proprietary systems had their shot at "the > throne" and have missed it so badly that "the throne" will be held someday > by a FOSS system... making my comment about OSCAR more reas

[openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-08 Thread alvin . marcelo
Hi all, I'm collating standards (open or otherwise) that are being used in open source health applications. I'd appreciate if the developers on the list would explicitly publish what standards they base their applications on and perhaps we can establish interoperability from thereon. For CHIT

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
Yes Will, OSCAR is written in Java (and uses MySQL for its database engine). The drug database web-engine is written in python (using the drugref project engine which uses PostgreSQL as the database engine). OSCAR is a very complex project. It is certainly capable of being deployed in very large

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
P.S. OSCAR's main aim is NOT to sit on any throne but to help patients. Our programmers are reminded regularly to that very fine point;-) David --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred, > > First of all, a question (showing my ignorance)  -- > OSCAR is written  > in Java? > > Second

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
In Canada we are watching closely the development of standards from the Canada Health Infoway. I sit on their Lab Standards group. Messaging standard will most likely be HL7v3 and terminology standard will likely be a combination of LOINC and SNOMED-CT. David --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-08 Thread Fred Trotter
I think we agree that really is all about helping patients.. still no matter what your goals are... its good to be the king. Thanks for the development update. I am to disconnected from the OSCAR market. -FT On 5/8/06, David Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > P.S. OSCAR's main aim is NOT to

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-08 Thread David Forslund
As most of you know by now, OpenEMed uses a service oriented architecture based on the OMG  PIDS/COAS/RAD/LQS standards, with PIDS using by default the HL7 2.3 PID segment of patient identification.   COAS uses various HL7 codes for observations (or any other coding system that is available). L