Astronaut, LLC announces the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Electronic
Health Record Beta.
Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com Announces Astronaut VistA
Shuttle™ Beta program. Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ allows health care
facilities, educators, developers, and physicians to start and manage
Nominations are officially open for the 9th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom Award to be presented at the November 14th-18th AMIA Fall
conference in San Francisco, CA. Deadline for entries is September
30th, 2009. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA.
This award is
Alesha Adamson wrote in with:
CCHIT is making it's general call for volunteers.
application here http://www.cchit.org/participate/volunteer/
There is a tremendous amount of concern and discussion around the role
of CCHIT as it pertains to OS and federal dollars. Fundamentally, I
believe that
used in sizable numbers, said
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MSc the primary author of the paper and chair of
the AMIA Open Source Working Group. He continues, This paper is for
practitioners, CIO's, IT staff, and policymakers making difficult
health IT decisions with valid concerns about cost, ethics
The un-official, Draft 7 of the upcoming American Medical Informatics
Association Open Source Working Group white paper to be voted on
November 9th can be found http://ignaciovaldes.com/amia. It will be
voted on for ratification on November 9th-11th or so. Action is needed
on your part to answer
I'm looking for publications that I can cite for the commonly held
assertions below for the AMIA Open Source working group Open Source
white paper. If you know of a publication I can cite for the
assertions below, please let me know:
1) Millions and in the case of the Veterans Affairs VistA
Information Week is reporting. A federal appeals court has struck
down a lower court ruling that found that open source copyrights may
not be legally enforceable if they're licensed under terms that are
intentionally broad. Ruling on an appeal brought by software
developer Robert Jacobsen, the
Nominations are officially open for the 8th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom Award to be presented at the November 8th-12th AMIA Fall
conference at the Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington, D.C.
Deadline for entries is August 31th, 2007. This is NOT a officially
sponsored award or event of
On the heels of the http://www.openhealthtools.org/ announcement, I
was wondering why I wasn't that excited. Then I remembered the
Minoru/PICNIC/SPIRIT project back in the mists of time like 8 years
ago that was similar. What ever happened to Brian Bray and the
associated project? All the URL's to
Enormous SoftOnline (ESO) Corp. announced its latest initiative in
Health IT: GooVault. According to Trotter Valdes Vice Director of
saying Ha! to Competitors, GooVault will initially do pathology
sample tracking: We think that in order to have comprehensive Health
IT software, you have to start
The whole time I'm thinking a) Looks like Apple, b) How much did they
spend on the video production?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1u36Y-qlE
-- IV
This open letter appears here: http://linuxmednews.com/1198175130/index_html
Dear Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PeaceHealth/Shared Care Plan
Recently a version of the Shared Care Plan software surfaced in
Houston, Texas. I have read the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA)
The not-for-profit Harris County Health Information Cooperative
(HCHIC) is sponsoring an intensive, vendor-neutral Educational
Conference: Introduction to WorldVistA EHR System Administration.
This three day weekend education event December 7th-9th will be held
in Houston, Texas. This conference
David Whitten was the first to note that WorldVistA has won the 2007
Wired News Rave Award. This is in the latest print edition of Wired on
page 147 (not on the website yet) featuring a picture of K.S. Bhaskar,
Joseph Dal Molin and Maury Pepper. Bhaskar is quoted as saying
nothing short of world
The Microsoft of Medicine vs. The Google of Medicine
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Chief Technology Officer
Your Doctor Program, L.P.
Founder, Linux Medical News
Recipient: Inaugural 2006 International Medical Informatics
Association
Award for Open Source Software
10:45Content
*April 2, 2007, Miami Florida:* Empower Med, Inc. announces the immediate
release of Ultimate EMR http://www.uemr.com/ on
Sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/uemr/and
Plone.orghttp://plone.org/products/ultimate-emr-commercial-open-source-emr/?searchterm=Ultimateunder
the GNU General
The OpenMRS http://openmrs.org/ organization is
announcinghttp://openmrs.org/wiki/Summer_Of_Code_2007they they are
participating in the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
*Computer science students, need a summer job? Have you ever imagined that
writing code could save lives? Why not apply to OpenMRS
Blue Cliff, Inc. http://www.bluecliffinc.com/ has announced the
development of a non-proprietary open source laboratory interface to
VistA-Office Electronic Health record system (VOE). Blue Cliff is a
Hawaii-based software consultant and development company specializing in
providing installation,
Fred Trotter (me) has just won the bidding for the Histalk sponsored
Beers with Bush at HIMSS07. As a result I get to talk to Jonathan
Bush the CEO of Athenahealth.
As you can imagine, I will be talking to him about FreeB and FOSS
medical software generally, but what else should I ask him?
Hello all,
I've written an original book review on Marcel Gagne's Moving to Free
Software book on Linux Medical News. Book reviews tend to generate a
lot of traffic for a website but the current queen of it all is Digg.
If you have an account on digg.com and would like to help out my
little
After years of publicly saying they are an Open Source company, and
the 'leading provider of Open Source software for the healthcare
industry', Medsphere Corp. has yet to release their core product
OpenVista(r) as Open Source. It is entirely their right to use the
Veterans Affairs VistA codebase,
According to this Evans Data Corporation survey, the number of Linux
developers and Windows developers will be equal by the end of the year
2006. This development was noted by LinuxToday editor's: '...With its
dominant adoption rate, Apache may be doing more for the cause of open
source
Cindy was Linux Medical News ace reporter for four years before she
passed on. Despite some quirks such as thinking everyone was a
Chihuahua, she had a true talent for getting the inside track for
important meetings and being around powerful people in the Free and
Open Source Software in
In a Hospital Connect editorial, Delaware senator Tom Carper has
endorsed the Veterans Affairs VistA software as a reference model for
a national standard EHR: ...Efforts are underway within the federal
government to ensure that all health care providers will be able to
use IT in a uniform
Dr. Omar El Hattab was a Cancer Epidemiologist at the National Cancer
Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. He was responsible for getting
DHCP (the precursor to VistA) installed at his cancer institutes. In
order to help Linux Medical News readers understand the challenges he
faced in setting
I have changed 'interoperability protocol' to 'messaging
standard'. I've also changed the UI paragraph slightly to emphasize
that I'm referring to the user interface, not the data layer.
Again, thank you very much for your insightful interest and comment.
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor
The December 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics has a report that
found a coincident increase in mortality after implementing a
'Commercially Sold' Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system.
The increased mortality may have been due to delays in medication and
IV administration in
Will the usual post meeting gathering of the minds at a local watering
hole occur? Also, here is a summary of the FOSS goings-on at this
conference: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1128695697/index_html
-- IV
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:54:54 -0400
Alric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wanted to remind
Speaking of, looks like banking is getting into the act:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1122388878/index_html
-- IV
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:30:17 -0700
Tom Lincoln [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: California HealthCare Foundation [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogarth
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:48 AM
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Cc: Dr. Ignacio Valdes; AMIA Open Source Working Group;
openhealth@yahoogroups.com; hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [os-wg] U.S
More grant RFP's are out. These are for Rural Health Information
Networks. The first one is to: ''...Support development of rural
health networks. Grant funds are used to support activities that
strengthen the organizational capabilities of these networks whose
purpose is to overcome the
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