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

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 the

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

[openhealth] Introduction

2007-02-19 Thread asangansi
Hello Friends, I'm happy to be allowed into the group. I never knew of such a group...google doesnt seem to pick the yahoo groups? I am an informatician with a clinical background (MBBS). I live and work in Nigeria. I believe in the open source principle and I think it is great to be with othe

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 >>

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 p

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 y

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Karsten Hilbert
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 paper. No typing,

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

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 w

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 heterogeneou

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 > >

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

2007-02-19 Thread ksbhaskar
--- 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 Ocrad (http://www.gn

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Churches
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:04:35AM +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 a

[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: 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. Build

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:04:35AM +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 > >> dataset,

[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

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 auth

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 underly