[openhealth] GDCM

This post came to me via the Debian Med mailing list, and I am forwarding it because it may be of interest to the openhealth community. Regards -- Bhaskar Original Message Subject:Re: thanks and a question Resent-Date:Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:29 + (UTC)

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Hardhats] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act

I'll second that. There are (at least) two types of non-profit organizations in the US: those incorporated under section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6). Before you incorporate, do check which with an attorney as to which is best for your needs. There certainly is a need in the FOSS health space

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Hardhats] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act

Thanks, Fred. Your thinking makes sense. But I am a geek wannabe, not a lawyer. My advice is just to get good advice. Regards -- Bhaskar On 05/07/2009 11:07 AM, fred trotter wrote: One of the primary purposes of LibertyMSF will be to work on orphan projects like written documentation or

Re: [openhealth] Re: An inventor of disruptive technology looking for advice about open source

If you have FOSS that is protected by a patent, the license is important. If I were a user, I wouldn't touch the software unless it was released under either GPL v3 or Affero GPL v3. In general, I am turned off by software patents. I say this as someone who was awarded one of the early

Re: [openhealth] Re: An inventor of disruptive technology looking for advice about open source

Steve -- I don't have the bandwidth right now to engage in a discussion on whether Government granted legal monopolies like patents are societally beneficial from a macro-economic perspective, and whether or not greed is good or is morally corrupt. These are fascinating and deep topics that

[openhealth] Introducing PIP

PIP is the database management infrastructure at the heart of our FIS Profile real-time banking application. For the first time, the infrastructure has been separated from the financial application code and made available as a separate software layer under the GNU General Public License

[openhealth] Where is GT.M?

I had submitted a request to Source Forge on Thursday night US EST asking them to rename the project from sanchez-gtm to fis-gtm (project names used to be immutable, but SF now permits them to be renamed, albeit only infrequently). For some inexplicable reason, the project has disappeared. I

[openhealth] Updated agenda for 16th VistA Community Meeting

The VistA Community Meeting agenda is filling out nicely (http://www.worldvista.org/Conferences/16th-vista-community-meeting), and starting to take on some semblance of firmness. We are especially fortunate that George Timson, the author of Fileman, VistA's own database management system,

[openhealth] 16th VistA Community Meeting travel and hotel

We have a room block at the Hilton Midland Plaza, Midland, TX. Reservations can be made for 1/8 thru 1/14. The rate is $100/night. That rate applies to all rooms (singles, doubles, etc.) You can call Hilton Worldvide reservations at 1-800-HILTONS (1-800-445-8667). Use the group code WVA.

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

Hemant -- First, please do not invent your own license. We need yet another free / open source software license about as much as we need a toothache. Look at http://opensource.org/licenses http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html and

[openhealth] Non-member registration URL for 16th VistA Community Meeting

The URL for non-member registration is http://www.sporg.com/registration?link_type=formform_id=98971view_type=windowed and members will receive an e-mail with a URL for member registration. If you don't receive a URL shortly, please contact Peter Bodtke (pbodtke at worldvista dot org).

[openhealth] Confirming the 16th VistA Community Meeting, Midland Center, Midland, Texas, January 10-13, 2008

Folks, thank you for your patience. We are able to confirm the 16th VistA Community Meeting at Midland Center, Midland Texas, January 10-13, 2008. It looks like good airfares continue to be available, and we will have hotel information and a registration URL posted shortly! I would like to

[openhealth] First cut draft agenda for 16th VistA Community Meeting, January 10-13, Midland, Texas

The first draft of the living, evolving, agenda for the 16th VistA Community Meeting, January 10-13, Midland, Texas is now available. Yes, it is v-e-r-y rough and needs a lot of work, but we will be updating it frequently. Venue and hotel information will hopefully be posted once they are

Re: [openhealth] Re: [oshca_members] OSHCA's Aims and Objectives

On 12/01/2007 12:18 AM, Molly Cheah wrote: No Tim. That was Tims' intepretation of what is open source. Frankly, [KSB] If (former US President) Bill Clinton could raise an ambiguity about the word is, there is probably room for interpretation of open source. Here are some places to read

[openhealth] WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/06/16 SemiVivA available

WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/0616 SemiVivA is a SemiVivA package of WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/06/16 configured for GT.M and bundled with GT.M V5.2-001. A SemiVivA is the basic way to install VistA and GT.M if you already have a PC running GNU/Linux on x86 hardware. Much of WorldVistA EHR is in

[openhealth] OSHCA Hotel

Can someone please confirm that the OSHCA hotel is: The Federal 35, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel : (603) 2148 9166 Fax: (603) 2148 2877 http://www.federal.com.my/ Also, is there a special rate negotiated for OSHCA participants or should we just contact the hotel and ask

[openhealth] 15th VistA Community Meeting - June 15-17, 2007 - University of Washington, Seattle

Mark your calendars. The 15th VistA Community Meeting will be held Friday, June 15 through Sunday, June 17 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Watch this space for details to follow (and the URL of an agenda, one that evolves rather than being intelligently designed; hotel details,

Re: [openhealth] HIMSS FOSS ad hoc meeting

I'll be at HIMSS Monday afternoon through Wednesday early afternoon. My cell is +1.610.620.3355 for anyone from the openhealth list that would like to get together. Regards -- Bhaskar Fred Trotter wrote, On 02/23/2007 04:35 PM: There are several of us going to HIMSS that are planning on

[openhealth] Please scan your WIndows PC if you downloaded QEMU on or before February 15

Quoting from the home page of QEMU for Windows (http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/): The USB filter driver was found to be infected.(2007/02/15) Please check your computer if you installed the program. If you downloaded and Qemu for Windows prior to February 15, 2007, please check your

[openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

to a connection request. If you have set up inetd/xinetd to listen at port P, then use CPRSChart s=SYSTEM p=P CCOW=DISABLE where SYSTEM is the name or IP address of the VistA server. Please post questions, comments issues on the hardhats list (http://groups.google.com/group/hardhats) K.S. Bhaskar

[openhealth] VistA Office EHR Toaster 2.3.1 released

VistA Office EHR 2.3.1 Toaster is available at the WorldVistA project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). A VistA Toaster is an appliance (virtual machine) consisting of VistA, GT.M and Linux that runs under QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/), which enables

Re: [openhealth] FOIA VistA Audita 20060923 available - caveat: experimental

Mark Preston wrote: K.S. Bhaskar wrote: [KSB2] ...snip... The reason not to use UnionFS is to allow changes to the database to be persistent. Regards -- Bhaskar Hi K.S. Bhasker, I think that Knoppix mounts drives as read only by default. This is a security measure. To make

Re: [openhealth] FOIA VistA Audita 20060923 available - caveat: experimental

Mark Preston wrote: K.S. Bhaskar wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Hi K.S. Bhasker, I couldn't help wondering, having read the above, why you need to create a database in the manner you describe? IIRC the commands you mention such as mount /mnt/sda1 relate to earlier Knoppix versions than 4.02

Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures

I find this discussion of CPT codes reimbursement interesting. Let me paraphrase: To petition your Government (for reimbursement), you need to submit your request in Elvish. Organization XYZ owns the Elvish language. Ergo, to communicate with your Government, you need to buy a license from

[openhealth] Next VistA Community Meeting - January 9-11, 2007 at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

Please mark your calendars. The next VistA Community Meeting will be Tuesday through Thursday, January 9-11, 2007, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. Further details, including registration and hotel information will be forthcoming, but for now,

[openhealth] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060923MSC available

FOIA VistA 20060923 SemiVivA MSC (MD5 sum c8a1253b6d82da0a36ebcdfb62adcd29) is a SemiViVA package of the FOIA VistA release of September 23, 2006 integrated with the May 26, 2006 release of MSC Fileman as released by George Timson at Hatdhats (http://hardhats.org/fileman/MSC%20FileMan.zip)

[openhealth] GPL (vs. BSD) style licenses lead to more collaboration and can be better for business

http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd David Wheeler is well known in free / open source software circles.(e.g., http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html is a periodically updated classic). He makes an argument for why GPL is better than BSD style licenses even for businesses.

[openhealth] Securing hard drive contents against physical theft is easy on Linux

When my eldest son was a freshman in college last year, I sent along a Linux laptop that was non-brand, old and somewhat beat up. As a precaution against loss of sensitive information in the unlikely event that it was stolen, sensitive information was in encrypted tarballs. I have since

[openhealth] Re: Is the Sourceforge-Hardhats list dead?

Even if not dead, the mailman list at Source Forge is very sick. A fully functional alternative, at least for now, is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bhaskar On 7/27/06, Mike Schrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't gotten any messages from Hardhats for two days, and the archive contains nothing

[openhealth] Hui Vista 4.1 Semi VivA available on Source Forge

available under the terms of the license reproduced below from the download page (http://openvista.pacifichui.org/register_new.aspx?ref=0). 9. /usr/local/HuiVista4.1/OR_30_215 contains the CPRS GUI distributed with the June 15, 2006 release of FOIA VistA. K.S. Bhaskar bhaskar at bhaskars dot

Re: [openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16

be away next week, because I am an administrator for the openhealth list, and folks from time to time expect responses from me on hardhats. Regards -- Bhaskar Tim Churches wrote: Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 K.S. Bhaskar wrote

[openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16

As a scoutmaster of the troop my younger sons are in, I will be doing my part to keep the local insects well fed (sorry, I meant to say camping) next week and will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16. Although my Blackberry does pick up a signal if I go to the upper elevations and on the

[openhealth] On the proper way to ask questions and report bugs

A lunchtime random walk through the web yielded two pages of food for thought: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Report Bugs Effectively - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html -- Bhaskar VistA - a journey, not a

[openhealth] Registration for VistA Community Meeting

There are several people who have told one or another of the organizers that they will be at the VistA Community Meeting, but who have not registered. Since food is being provided, and since the rooms need to be configured, we *really* need to know with some reasonable accuracy how many

Re: [openhealth] Re: Forking a Process in Linux

Christian -- As a barrier to retard malware payload propagation, attachments to the openhealth list are blocked. If you don't want to inline a file that you want to share, post it to the Files area at http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth Regards -- Bhaskar Christian Heller wrote: I

Re: [openhealth] New file uploaded to openhealth

Gregory Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... I see that it has been standardized by OASIS, but are you sure it is an ISO standard? Of course, being standardized by OASIS is nothing to sneeze at. [KSB] http://www.odfalliance.org/press/AllianceRelease3May06.pdf SPONSORED

Re: [openhealth] joining the group from a non-yahoo e-mail account?

Richard -- You're welcome - the group is open to all who are interested in healthcare FOSS. Go to yahoogroups.com - with your Yahoo id, you can associate multiple e-mail addresses, and decide which is the one that receives mail sent to the list. Write to me off list if you need help (but I

[openhealth] Openhealth-talk list poll

I have created a poll on whether we should create a separate openhealth-talk group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/surveys?id=12183957). Please express your opinion before Thursday, November 17. Regards -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 17:41 -0600, Adrian Midgley wrote: [KSB]