Re: [openhealth] Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:59:38PM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: Speaking of Python, you might be interested in the GNUmed project, which also targets primary care settings, and the GNUmed people are very interested in all sorts of architectural and design issues. Agree. I'm reading this thread

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: Paul wrote: We made a fairly conscious decision for example, not to try to represent the HL7 RIM, as it's been our experience that work in that domain is high on promise but lacking in successful, well vetted implementations. If on the other hand, you believe there's

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
This is just the type of discussion we should have in the May OSHCA Conference!! FOSS interoperability - from theory to practice Nandalal --- David Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Churches wrote: Paul wrote: Hi Dave, Our API is built around the standard health objects

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Molly Cheah
You're right, Nandalal. I was given the contact to the OpenMRS to invite them to the OSHCA conference in May by the new director of ICT for IDRC as I understand that the project in Africa is quite exciting. As soon as I get a firm commitment on the funding for scholarships for those outside

[openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Paul
Hi Molly, I'm one of the co-founders of OpenMRS. Let me know how I can be helpful to you. Still trying to catch up with the community here, and it seems I need to do some due diligence on OSHCA. Best, -Paul --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right,

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Will Ross
What a wonderful discussion. I am so glad to have Regenstrief's OpenMRS at the table! I also know there are other lurkers out there (you know who you are!) who can add to the robust discussion. But my purpose here is to highlight one point. Paul, Dave and Tim have all mentioned not

Holding the Vision While Achieving Practical Integration/Interoperability Today (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Open source efforts/software like OpenMRS, WorldVistA (VistA Office etc.), OSCAR etc. that are focused on diffusion/uptake and continuous improvement. All need to have practical tools methods etc. to work effectively in the heterogeneous health IT ecosystem. Building on Tim's view: I

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: David Forslund wrote: I was referring to making aspects such as the user interface and business logic as general as possible, while still keeping users happy by providing a slick, fiendly and productive interface and associated conveniences. Inter-system

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Beale
David Forslund wrote: It does appear that programming languages seem to be the biggest barrier for this particular open source community. Some like Java, some like Python, some like PHP, etc. That was the value of the IDL used in COAS, because it is language independent and really

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 05:32:54PM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: surprisingly tricky and fragile). But it does support dataset versioning, so that the latest version of source data can be loaded into a new dataset in the background while users continue to use an existing

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
Thomas Beale wrote: Tim Churches wrote: The openEHR model is probably relevant - it can be viewed as a more evolved form of the two-level model which OpenEMR (and the Regenstrief Clinic for several decades before that) uses. The openEHR people have put forward their work as the basis for an

Open source OCR (was Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..)

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Churches wrote: Karsten Hilbert wrote: Well, the path of least resistance here is to scan it and use it as a background image in some text editor or other so that what you type appears to be written into the fields while it is (technically) written on top of the background image. We then

[openhealth] Question re OpenMRS data entry forms

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
Paul, A question regarding OpenMRS data entry forms. I notice form this wiki page: http://openmrs.org/wiki/FormEntry_Technical_Overview - that Microsoft InfoPath is used for form-based data collection in OpenMRS. I think, and correct me if I am wrong, that means that sites running OpenMRS need to

Re: Open source OCR (was Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..)

2007-02-18 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
UCLA had developed a very good scanning OCR solution . but I don't think it was pure FOSS will ask. Joseph Tim Churches wrote: Tim Churches wrote: Karsten Hilbert wrote: Well, the path of least resistance here is to scan it and use it as a background image in some text editor or

[openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Paul
Hi Tim, thanks for your interest in investigating collaborating with us. --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetEpi Analysis was designed to deal with the types of data and analyses which you mention - for example, apart from supporting complex cross-tabs

[openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Paul
Hi Karsten, --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Karsten Hilbert Agree. I'm reading this thread with interest. I have been interested in the Concept Dictionary approach ever since I learned about OpenMRS a year ago or so. There's a strong camp opposed to EAV-only schemata. I have a nagging

[openhealth] Re: Hi folks.. OSHCA conference

2007-02-18 Thread Paul
Molly, thanks for the information. I've passed this information onto my colleagues and I'll let you know their thoughts soon. Best, -Paul --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Dr Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your offer Paul. You've probably missed OSHCA's call for

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
Paul wrote: Thanks for this overview. There are so many layers to this whole data analysis aspect of medical record repositories. Thinking from left to right, there's the whole set of challenges around converting stacked database models (where there's one row per clinical observation)