Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
The power of this approach is hard to appreciate until you're in a situation where lots of people have lots of things they want to characterize in a system. It allows non-developers to own and augment their own notions of what data matters to them, without altering the underlying

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: It will be very interesting to see what the UK NHS does with the copyright and licensing of openEHR archetypes and specifications which it creates. It doesn't really have much of a track record for releasing its IP for wider use, does it? (Very few large govt health

[openhealth] openEHR archetype licensing by UK NHS (was Re: Hi folks.)

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
Thomas Beale wrote: Tim Churches wrote: It will be very interesting to see what the UK NHS does with the copyright and licensing of openEHR archetypes and specifications which it creates. It doesn't really have much of a track record for releasing its IP for wider use, does it? (Very few

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

2007-02-19 Thread David Forslund
Joseph Dal Molin wrote: 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

[openhealth] IHE...?

2007-02-19 Thread Edward A. Stern, RN
Since, we're talkin about interoperability... I was wonderin what any group members think about the IHE From the mobile Treo of Edward A. Stern, RN NothingBetter 'Expect nothing better!' [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:25:28AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: No, we need the data in computable form OK, that kills the easy solution. Or it might not. If you don't blend both sources of information (background image and user input) but rather keep them separate and blend on

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

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: Joseph Dal Molin wrote: 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

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

2007-02-19 Thread David Forslund
Tim Churches wrote: David Forslund wrote: Joseph Dal Molin wrote: 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

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:25:28AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: No, we need the data in computable form OK, that kills the easy solution. Or it might not. If you don't blend both sources of information (background image and user input) but rather keep them separate and

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

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
ksbhaskar wrote: --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [KSB] ...snip... But if anyone can suggest an alternative for turning data recorded on paper forms into data (as opposed to raster image) files, we'd love to hear of it. [KSB] Did you look at

Re: [openhealth] openEHR archetype licensing by UK NHS (was Re: Hi folks.)

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: Tim, we have talked about this before, and as I have said previously, I am happy to see these licenses updated (they are a few years old by now). However I am still not completely comfortable with the way openEHR archetype definitions are licensed. The biggest problem is

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

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:16:07AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: The data retrieved from step 4 will be computable data ! Not particularly well constrained, but not just image data either. Ah, OK. Our problem is that many users only want to record data with a pen, on

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Beale
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: The power of this approach is hard to appreciate until you're in a situation where lots of people have lots of things they want to characterize in a system. It allows non-developers to own and augment their own notions of what data matters to them,

Re: [openhealth] openEHR archetype licensing by UK NHS (was Re: Hi folks.)

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
Thomas Beale wrote: Tim Churches wrote: However I am still not completely comfortable with the way openEHR archetype definitions are licensed. The biggest problem is probably the indefinite nature of the licensing, because there is no direct reference to the license(s) which cover them.

Re: [openhealth] Introduction

2007-02-19 Thread Christian Heller
Hi Ime, I'm happy to be allowed into the group. I never knew of such a group...google doesnt seem to pick the yahoo groups? Welcome! It is nice to see more and more people from Africa here. Christian