Re: [openhealth] FISL 10

2009-06-15 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
The website is (mostly) not in English! I found Tim's item after some effort... Timothy W. Cook Title: Healthcare Information Models & ApplicationsHealthcare information is full of context. The current design approach to healthcare information systems (HIS) doesn\'t provide a facili

Re: [openhealth] EGADSS

2008-01-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
dation for early bladder cancer has a nice way of breaking things up. Standard Recommended Opinion Only the "standard" will be useable in all patients, for at least an acceptable but finite period in time. Nandalal Gunaratne - Original Message From: Adrian Midgley &l

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I do too! Nandalal Gunaratne MS FRCS MRACS --- Fred Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your application is sounding more and more > exciting!! I look forward to your > release! > > -FT > > On Dec 19, 2007 8:37 AM, Hemant Shah > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [os-wg] [openhealth] Mirth on Linux

2007-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I have the same question. Is it Linux or Redhat? nandalal --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > What is "the most prolific open source platform on > the planet"??? > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > > >>>

Re: [openhealth] Link to Riehle's "Economic Motivation of Open Source Software"

2007-04-15 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
We must not forget the end user who can contribute ideas, report bugs and thus feels closer to the developer and has a sense of belonging to a community - "our software". Nandalal --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Riehle. "The Economic Motivation of Open Source > Software: > Stake

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference May 8-11 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Passport and Visa Planning

2007-03-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
To get a visa we need a formal document to show that there is a conference with dates and signed by someone. Nandalal --- Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *Visa Requirements for Travel To Malaysia* > > Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months... > > http://www.imi.gov.my/eng/pe

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
icular purpose. Nandalal --- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > Karsten, > > > > That is true. I suspect OIO library has not been > > updated for a long time though. > > Do you know how to set this up? What was used > re

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
5:53:22PM -0800, Nandalal > Gunaratne wrote: > > Subject: Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA > catalogue of FOSS application for health and > healthcare > > > > > > --- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Nandalal Gunaratn

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think a map will be cool. There is a map in one of the exibit demos, but it does not show up when I go into it. Tiddliywiki is a really nice tool. I can add a gui toolbar to it and make it editable, then anyone can easily edit it. It is easier than exibit in thay way. But on the other hand those

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David, You are the best person to advice us on this matter. What should go into the "open standards in healthcare?" section? The list below is what I compiled for starters to be edited and corrected. Nandalal Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) Project eHealth Standardization Coordination Group (Wor

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim and David, I wonder if David is looking at the Tiddlywiki? Given below is the part of the JSON file and the links are correct. The CorbaMed link has been corrected. It is not listed under standards anymore and is under software applications. Is it necessary to have application framework as a

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > it separates the data from the presentation. Not > every view has to use > or display every data element. > > Tim C This is wh

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think Tim can add a home button on the first page Nandalal --- Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > When I click this Trial SIMILE link, it opens on > same window and does > not take me back to the previous page, > http://www.oshca.org/healthdir/ > Maybe its better to make it ope

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim, --- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have quickly put together an experimental OSHCA > catalogue of FOSS > application for health and healthcare, using The MIT > SIMILE Semantic Web > research lab's fabulous Exhibit and Timeline > products (open source of > course). > > See http:

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
If Medsphere OpenVista is to be included in OSHCA, alongside World Vista, please give me the details that should be included and if any clauses need to be mentioned. Nandalal --- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred Trotter wrote: > > The software in question was not VistA at all. It >

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thanks Ross! Due to your question i have come to know the present state of text mining and NLP. These will give you your solution I guess. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1089824&dl=acm&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 nandalal --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear 80n, > >

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will, It is not a good idea to have sensitive information in free text. If you do, it should not go to "general circulation", right? How can one extract such info from free text? One way is to remove such words from free text files using a macro of some sort. "FInd and replace" can be used to re

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It was VistA itself I was asking about. Porting it to Java was being attempted, was it not? Nandalal --- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPRS is based on Delphi not MUMPSand yes it > is being ported to > Java by VA. > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: &g

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
e a difficult job? Nandalal --- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It got 95% of the way there and needs more funding > to complete the work. > Right now it is in hibernation. > > Joseph > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > Thanks. > > > > Th

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
dea of what it > is like by going to the online demo that the VA has: > > www.va.gov/cprsdemo > > Joseph > > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > Does this have a GUI interface? IS there a demo > online > > to try out? > > > > Nandalal >

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Does this have a GUI interface? IS there a demo online to try out? Nandalal --- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a couple of important clarifications to > Bhaskar's post: > > > Please note that this VERSION OF THE software has > not been field tested. > > this specific ve

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

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I agree with Tim. The licensing is ambiguous in regard to open licenses (OSI) and copyleft principles of FOSS. However OpenEHR may want to keep this "open" for change. The archetypes at least, must be protected from being commercialised as they are the collaborative work of many people. Nandala

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
can cause confusion and inaccuracy, will last forever. The correct path is the middle path. nandalal --- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Beale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
in the blood or iron? Nandalal --- Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
This is just the type of discussion we should have in the May OSHCA Conference!! "FOSS interoperability - from theory to practice" Nandalal --- David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: > > Paul wrote: > > > >> Hi Dave, > >> > >> Our API is built around the standard heal

RE: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics

2007-02-05 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Klaus, Most of asia use ICD and other WHO standards. SNOMED is considered too expensive and too closed. I hope the new initiative would change that. Nandalal --- Klaus Veil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian, > > I'd be happy to contribute something on HL7 and > would also help to get > sp

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics

2007-02-05 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi Christian, You are right on-the-ball here. What the asian colleagues would want is exactly what you suggested - intro to the core of the standards and what they mean in simple short form. They may also want more interactive hands on stuff regards FOSS apps rather than talks on them. The thing i

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > --- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Public health/epidemiology (think avian/pandemic > >> influenza): > >> > >> OpenEpi is a useful tool: http://www.openepi.com/ &g

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] OSHCA Conference - Preliminary Announcement]

2007-01-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hello THomas, > > To give you an idea of the kind of thinking that > could be exposed, here > is my opinion: > I think they should be open and freely usable - in > fact I think the only > sensible business model for standards development is > to give them away > free and charge some money for c

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] OSHCA Conference - Preliminary Announcement]

2007-01-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
re OpenEHR is one practical implementation of standards that we can show case. Therefore let us dicuss how we are going to collaborate on "testing and improving" it. Maybe Thomas will be at the OSHCA meeting? Nandalal > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > --- Molly Cheah <[E

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] OSHCA Conference - Preliminary Announcement]

2007-01-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Open Source is also a open standard of software development! We need to define/re-define these open standards, remove the obsolete and invoke those of the future. As for objective 4, we need to discuss this now rather than wait. Think big and start smal

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
work in the Phoenix project. > The billing and > scheduling development work done during the Phoenix > project has all > been released into the ClearHealth code under a GPL > copyright. > > > > On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:38 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne > wrote:

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
t; generation of PIDS will result from the current > EIS RFP from the OMG which is currently > soliciting responses. The EIS is a joint effort > of the OMG and HL7. We would like to provide > an implementation of EIS as part of OpenEMed and > are soliciting help in anyone interested

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The African project OpenMRS (see > http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS ) is, > to my mind, the most exciting open source clinical > application at > present, in the field, good technical underpinnings, > and charging ahead. > Thanks Tim for this info, I

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix

Re: [openhealth] Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation investments

2007-01-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi Will, The whole song from Bob Dylan is great, and appropriate. The article makes me proud to be a FOSS advocate, and I am proud of all the great people who gave and give and will give to concepts of software freedom. Let them who became rich and powerful, prevail for now, but let us work to s

Re: [openhealth] Please help out my little website.

2007-01-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Done! :-) --- Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [openhealth] Open standards are meaningless.

2006-12-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think > EHR applications should be interoperable without > having to use the same > underlying code. Given some time and effort I > would like to show that > OpenEMed > can accommodate the OpenEHR specifications. Since the archetypes are centra

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-12-01 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP > Associate Professor > Department of Family Medicine > McMaster University > > - Original Message > From: Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, November

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I would certainly like to help. Since I am a Surgeon interested in HIT (rather than a HIT specialist interested in surgery!), tell me how I could help, and I most certainly will. Best regards Nandalal --- Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will Ross wrote: > > > > in other words, in my ne

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Why not hand over the keeping of the patient records to patients ( like PING), where clinicians just upload to this, and they also carry it with them in a storage format that is secure and easily accessible? The National Health Card Taiwan http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=42,55000&_dad=por

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
s assisting. I believe in a > distributed > EMR with control by the patient. Sometimes we > called > this a Virtual Medical/Patient Record (about 10 > years ago in a > journaled publication). > > Dave > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > > IT would seem to me that,

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I presume you mean that holding it at the GP level is far more stable for the patient? Admin/manager changes can vary, and their approach to change as well. THerefore it all depends. As for change in underwear, this could vary as well, if you listen to this story :-) A customs officer was checkin

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
IT would seem to me that, what you favour is a system where, all patients will have their EMR with their GPs and nobody else and nowhere else. What is done in a hospital encounter, for example a Urological Surgery, Cardioloical tests, CT scan reports, will be sent to the GP for inclusion in the EMR

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >as The Rt Hon Mr > Anthony Blair MP steps back to being a back bench > MP, the plan is likely > to fall apart. > I hope not! In the sense that the NHS forgets about plans for EMR. Maybe a more sensible and practical approach will result? Nandalal >

Re: [openhealth] Needed: (mammographic) recall with some tracking

2006-10-15 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do they mean exactly by "requests"? > > > > A form, slip of paper, or letter (or at least in > theory text hammered > into a terminal) saying "Please do a mammogram on > this patient". I > understand in much of the world these are calle

Re: [openhealth] Needed: (mammographic) recall with some tracking

2006-10-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
that could > prompt and print mammogram requests over the 10 > years of our > surveillance? What do they mean exactly by "requests"? Ideally it would be a program which > would also act as a > very basic database of patients such that we could > recall all basic > details (i.e. Node positives or

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

2006-09-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Since I am thinking of doing the same thing, it would be nice if you have a howto (OK! I am lazy!). Why encrypt the swap partition? Isn't it a risk only in the unlikely event of it being stolen while it is on and your son is working on it? Is this your concern? Is not the swap partition erased whe

Re: [openhealth] Re: VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
. Therefore it will remain dependent on a commercial product even on linux! But if it works, this is acceptable in my opinion, as CPRS itself can be modified by anyone subsequently. Nandalal --- Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Nandalal Gunar

Re: [openhealth] FOIAVistA SemiVivA 20060615 available

2006-06-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
You said: > As always, critiques, comments and questions are > welcome. Are you serious? If you are, let me request that a document on how to use this, once installed, with a real example, with screenshots where necessary be put up. Without this it is useless. The LiveCD you kindly sent me was no

Re: [openhealth] Re: VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thank you for clearing many things. However, the way VistA is developing and branching out, will create many problems in the future. I hope World Vista takes suitable precautions to ensure that future users of the FOSS version of World VistA, will not get into difficulties as you have pointed out i

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 23, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Not being a lawyer, I'll ask a naive question: It's one thing to choose to license your own work under GPL, but why would anyone think

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thanks Joseph, for the clarification. It is good to know that the value of the open source model is becoming more accepted and that in the future, GUI based versions of VistA too, will be open source. What type of open source licence is likely to be used for these implementations? "Public Do

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed it is confusing to have many versions of VistA, but it is even more worrying as their usage begins. Implementing VistA outside the USA is going to be quite tricky. Getting a good law firm involved to look into the possible copyright/patent

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I agree with Tim. VistA has a lot going for it, but there are some good fully FOSS projects that can be developed further. They are build on modern languages and well established FOSS - like LAMP. The end users are more IT literate now than at the time VistA started, and would like to be able to

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-31 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I second what Tim says. Do not think of the politics/politicians of the country concerned, but of the ordinary people of that country, who form the VAST majority too - though wasted and ignored by the media! ;-) Your expertise is of value to them, not to politicians. "Tim.Churches" <[EMAIL

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-31 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I second what Tim says. Do not think of the politics/politicians of the country concerned, but of the ordinary people of that country, who form the WASTE majority! Your expertise is of value to them. "Tim.Churches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    David Forslund wrote: > I apologize for bringi

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-31 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    What is happening with the setting up of OSHCA in Malaysia?  It has been quiet for some time now. It is disturbing to see the Prime Minister of Malaysia shaking hands with the Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Zahar.   What possible good can come from

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: [hif-net] Announcing the launch of PLoS Clinical Trials]

2006-05-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thanks Joseph nandalal Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    FYI Original Message Subject: [hif-net] Announcing the launch of PLoS Clinical Trials Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 06:55:22 -0400 From: Emma Veitch, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: HIF-net - Health In

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
These should go up on our web site on "How to win clients and influence the corporate customer on FOSS". nandalal Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 19 May 2006 09:03 pm, Thomas Beale wrote: ... > - so you (the customer) are paying for 30% of the total cost, upfront > for a gene

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think your argument to convince business is pretty good, if they are accepting it. In the same way we mayed a way to convince them that the use of interoperability also saves them a lot of money in the long term and gives them bargaining power when purchasing software from different vendors

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thus the necessity to inculcate the need for interoperability as the most important part of healthcare IT to politicians. If they insist on it from the top and revise OMG HDTF with the same enthusiasm Mr Bush promotes VistA, things may go in the right direction. Anyone here on a mailing list

Re: [openhealth] article re IBM and others contributing open source epi and other

2006-05-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
This is another interesting paragraph "A statement from IBM said the company will engage with industry leaders. But it did not mention whether it will coordinate efforts with the so-called Interoperability Consortium—a group of large IT vendors including IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Cor

Re: [openhealth] What to Call the OpenEMR/ClearHealth/FreeMed/MirrorMed Universe?

2006-05-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I will tell some people who are into epideomological aspects of healthcare to look at Netepi. Regards Nanda Gunaratne Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Is NetEpi based on EpiInfo or something growi

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
ICD-10 has tried to be more accurate in making the diagnosis, thereby going into great detail, with the obvious effects of bloat. The ICD-10 -PCS is taking quite the opposite way of doing things, but could be difficult to get people to use it for this reason. They will not have their favorite

Re: [openhealth] What to Call the OpenEMR/ClearHealth/FreeMed/MirrorMed Universe?

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Is NetEpi based on EpiInfo or something growing out of that?? I used EpiInfo it some years ago and can remember writing to the CDC to create a linux version :-) Regards Nanda Gunaratne "Tim.Churches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Ignacio Valdes wrote: > Linux Apache MySQL PHP server setu

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jason Tan Boon Teck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well anything making the work of an evil mind more difficult is worth it :-) Total security being a myth. Nanda On 5/12/06, Franklin M. Siler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 11, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Jason Tan Boon Teck wro

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
tence proofs that OMG specs can be implemented in open source. It might be possible to implement CPT codes in open source, but not to be able to deploy it for free.  I don't think open source "necessarily" implies "free".   This is the old argument as to what one

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Any thoughts about that statement? Can we actually call a standard open > if there are limitations > to its implementation by FOSS? > > > alvin > > > > > > --- Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  > > 

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
naratne alvin --- Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Alvin B. Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding > systems included. >   

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
James Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the way it is and multiple licences are necessary depending on the number of users. Maybe things have changed recently? Nanda Gunaratne On May 11, 2006, at 8:23 AM, David Forslund wrote: > In the US  (and UK) SNOMED-CT is freely a

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
"Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  It has it's benefits, but not a great practical solution, nor safe > enough, as one may want to assume. [KSB] Like perfection, absolute security does not exist in this universe.  All we can do is make intelligent trade-offs!    Yes! This tru

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The coding system standards in the US have been specified by CHI.   We should share coding systems, but even more important is to provide mappings between coding systems, since not everyone will ever use the same coding system.   OSS could lead

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
"Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let me take an even stronger position.  If you really want to secure your network of PCs, you should run the OS off a Linux live CD-ROM which cannot be infected.  It is so straightforward to create customized Linux live CDs, that I see no reason to

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
"Alvin B. Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding systems included.    Unfortunately the best nomenclature coding system is SNOMED-CT which is a proprietary product. But I am sure the new versions of the

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jel Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Have you got the latest build with the greater granularity of permissions?    OSCAR 2.1.0 is what I am experimenting with. -- Jel Coward         SPONSO

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jel Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Have you got the latest build with the greater granularity of permissions?    OSCAR 2.1.0 is what I am experimenting with. -- Jel Coward         SPONSO

Re: [openhealth] Re: request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Nice thoughts! If you are having Zope on your server i hope you tried Open Infrastructure for Outcomes, which is the best software for research and audit for clinicians you can get! Torch is another quite "complete" and usable system running on Zope. I have setup OSCAR on Ubuntu Breezy

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi David, Does OSCAR allow patients to keep their own records or access them? Are you hoping to implement something on the lines of PING? I have installed OSCAR and am trying it out. I installed it on Ubuntu, and I am also documenting things as I go along. As a surgeon I must find a way to

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
... Thanks Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:    Hi all, I'm collating standards (open or otherwise) that are being used in open source health applications. I'd appreciate if the developers on the list would explicitly publish what standards they base their applications on a

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Could you please explain the difference between the Templates (there are quite a few of these, but very basic) and the eforms? If one needs to add patient data regarding the procedures they undergo, what is the best approach? I believe that all the data is stored in the MYSQL database, and PD

Re: Openhealth Archives? (was) Re: RES: [openhealth] OSHCA - Notion of "founding members"

2006-04-29 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dear sir, unfortunately, i believe the record will show that i am qualified to  share the disputation sandbox from this side of the pond.   we can't  have california not represented;  after all, look who we elected  governor.    Yes! And he will

Re: RES: [openhealth] OSHCA - Notion of "founding members"

2006-04-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was Tim Cook who created the OSHCA moniker and Ignacio has played a great part in the propogation of openhealth and made most people aware of the existence of the openhealth list! nandalal John, Yes...a wiki page will be great fo

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
motion to close the discussion, which is  seconded and passed. does this "disrupt the process" or is it a legitimate part of the  process?   you decide. [wr] - - - - - - - - On Apr 25, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > Fred Trotter  wrote: > >  F

[openhealth] The Free Standards Group Announces Availability of First Integrated Linux Desktop Standard

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
LSB 3.1 also incorporates the recently approved ISO standard LSB Core (ISO/IEC 23360) into the standard. The Free Standards Group also has said that Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, Asianux and others are all certifying their versions of their operating systems to the LSB, delivering true world-wide cov

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Fred Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fred, There was enough time given for dissent/discussion. Molly asked everyone repeatedly to comment on the issues. We can't wait for ever, therefore a time limit was set, and the FINAL draft was set down. Therfore there was really nothing to disag

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Will, Please forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing ;-) They have not done this before! Perfection is worth striving for, but it is almost never reachable,  Therefore it was agreed by most of us that it was OK to get it

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-22 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David, If the OSHCA takes on the task of making the "glue" * to get FOSS for Health groups to understand the true value of FOSS which is sharing/contributing and collaborating with ideas and code *to demonstrate the value of interoperability

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
CHITS but we would hardly > >  > call it standard. (It takes a global community to create a standard?) > >  > > >  > Does OSHCA have a framework of some sort for this kind of health > >  > software object interchange? That's where gap is m

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-04-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
ant to them. www.oemr.org -- Rod www.sunsetsystems.com On Monday 17 April 2006 08:58 am, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > Andrew Schamess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, > > There are several open source products but I doubt if any one of them can > d

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
> cooperation I had expected from OSHCA 'products' before. And that's > where FOSS is strong and gains an edge over proprietary products. > > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > >

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
And that's where FOSS is strong and gains an edge over proprietary products. --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Nandalal Gunaratne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > alvinbmarcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks like a very good s

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-04-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Andrew Schamess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew, There are several open source products but I doubt if any one of them can do all that you ask. LAMP based ones include OpenMed, FreeMed, MirrorMed and ClearHealth. All look good but still not able to give you what you need. JAVA bas

Re: [openhealth] Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
alvinbmarcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This looks like a very good system. Congratulations! I will try this and introduce it to my colleagues in community health. Maybe some of them are already aware of it. Nandalal Hello all. This is Alvin Marcelo (formerly of NLM) re-subscribin

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
"Tim.Churches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim, All the following work with Firefox - in that i am taken to the correct URL! What were you trying to point out here? Nandalal That leads to a whole genre of single word, non-deterministic URLS in Firefox. Try these (in Firefox, results

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
"Tim.Churches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are quite right, TIm. This is a funny thing with Firefox. I am using 1.0.7 maybe they ahve sorted things in 1.5.1, hopefully! Nandalal Tim.Churches wrote: > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > It is indeed mos

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It is indeed most encouraging to see such developments. When I clicked the "screenshots" i was taken to the Microsoft web site!!! Your link should be http://www.mirrormed.org/fb/ Not http://http//www.mirrormed.org/fb/ Regards nandalal Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA registration update

2006-04-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Philippe AMELINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Joseph, Should we envision Oshca the path to success through a bottom up or top down evolution. If the mother organization is already well know or strongly established, you have better have lightweight branches... just like franchises, as

Re: [openhealth] EHR Review makes progress, needs help!

2006-04-06 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It seems to me that Fred is going to review just these, and others are supposed to chiop in with some reviews or part of reviews of any other EMRs worth talking about. Open VistA remains to be reviewed and OSCAR. Zope based SPIRIT? and OIO are two others that come to mind. While the ones r

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