[openhealth] RE: Regarding FOSS Clinical Messaging

2008-02-02 Thread John Norris
I'm very much interested in this topic, and wrote a paper for my Consumer Health Information class at OHSU's Informatics department on it. I got an "A" in the class so I must have done something right! -hopefully that includes this paper. It is available at: http://john-norris.net/2007/09/18/onli

Re: [openhealth] Regarding FOSS Clinical Messaging

2008-02-02 Thread Mark Spohr
I don't think you'll find much beyond the Mirth web site, if that is what you are asking. They do have the usual wikis, forums, etc. and my experience with these is that you can get answers. Like most software, documentation is always a bit behind. I note that they are promising full docs, api d

Re: [openhealth] Regarding FOSS Clinical Messaging

2008-02-02 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> I don't know how you are coding this but to keep you from reinventing the > wheel, you might want to carefully consider using an HL7 interface engine > such as Mirth (mirthproject.org). Does anyone happen to know pointers to decent documentation on Mirth ? Thanks, Karsten -- Ist Ihr Browser V

Re: [openhealth] Regarding FOSS Clinical Messaging

2008-02-02 Thread Mark Spohr
Dear Fred, Interesting proposal for a clinical messaging system and you seem to have thought through a bunch of different scenarios of how it would be used. I think the key to making this successful is to work out lots of different scenarios and the options for each. Hopefully people here can prov