RE: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-04 Thread Stephen Beller
Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive biopsychosocial (i.e., biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms, treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians, researchers and

[openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF Certification and Meaningful Use

2009-06-12 Thread Stephen Beller
I've just posted an original definition of meaningful use, which opposes the HIMSS defintion. The definition is tied to the clinical decision support and patient-centered cognitive support, and stresses the need to increase care value (effectiveness and efficiency). Feel free to use an portions

[openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-07 Thread Stephen Beller
are the template for how a patent-holder and a community might potentially work together. Should not have used 'you' in this context. Sorry. -FT On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Beller sbel...@...sbeller%40nhds.com wrote: Although it's easy to resent your implication

[openhealth] Re: Liberty HSF formation process

2009-06-07 Thread Stephen Beller
My comments over the past few days are in response to Fred's new initiative in which I thought they may have come up with a novel way bridge the FOSS-proprietary divide. I was mistaken. Nevertheless, since I still believe in FOSS and in promoting low cost/resource conserving solutions for

RE: [openhealth] Patient Portals and PHR's

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Beller
, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Stephen Beller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:sbeller%40nhds.com wrote: I offered an Excel-based macro that converts an XML-based CCD to a clean CSV, which I assume the FOSS PHRs can consume thereby solving this limitation. We've successfully incorporated that macro to import the CCD

RE: [openhealth] Patient Portals and PHR's

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Beller
, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Tel: +64 (9) 373 7599 ext. 87199 Fax: +64 (9) 308 2377 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:koray%40cs.auckland.ac.nz Stephen Beller wrote: Please explain what you mean by CCR or HL7 CDA *concepts* . Do you mean the actual strings/terms used within the XML markup tags

[openhealth] A practical way to ise the XML-CCD to CSV data conversion tool

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen Beller
--- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Beller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had lengthy, and sometimes heated, debates with leaders of the open source community about the value of having both FOSS and proprietary software systems. I made the case that inventors who hold patents for truly

[openhealth] Announcing release of a spreadsheet-based XML-CCD to CSV data conversion tool

2008-11-16 Thread Stephen Beller
I've had lengthy, and sometimes heated, debates with leaders of the open source community about the value of having both FOSS and proprietary software systems. I made the case that inventors who hold patents for truly original and useful breakthrough software programs—and who are compassionate,

[openhealth] Re: FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org -- New Wiki

2008-07-02 Thread Stephen Beller
@yahoogroups.com, Wm. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen, thanks to you and the thoughtful responses of your correspondents. I essentially agree with the responses! Cheers, Bill Stephen Beller wrote: FYI - I just responded to two excellent comments on my post about Bill's FOSS-COSS

[openhealth] Re: FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org -- New Wiki

2008-07-01 Thread Stephen Beller
FYI - I just responded to two excellent comments on my post about Bill's FOSS-COSS philosophy distinction, which is at: a href=https://www.blogger.com/comment.g? blogID=25132358postID=5801635888685043227page=1this link./a --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Beller [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Beller
Hello Lopo, Thanks for sharing your ideas! I sincerely appreciate your input. You are more knowledgeable than me concerning all these alternate means to e-mail. Just to clarify the e-mail solution I mentioned, note that it (a) uses encrypted file attachments, not plain text email messages; (b)

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

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Beller
be compeltely impossible to make a traffic sniffer worm- like that would allow to reconstruct your splited data a post it somewhere else. Neverthless, there are no bullet proof solutions ;) 1, Lopo --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Beller sbeller@ wrote: Hello Lopo

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

2008-05-08 Thread Stephen Beller
pockets. -- Bhaskar On 05/06/2008 04:46 PM, Stephen Beller wrote: Yes, I do realize patents are a problem for open source. We received our software method patent in 1998 and have it in the US and two other countries. Anyone interested can read about it at http://cpsplit.typepad.com/ Anyway

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

2008-05-08 Thread Stephen Beller
help you to choose your course of action. Regards -- Bhaskar On 05/08/2008 11:22 AM, Stephen Beller wrote: Our entire economic system can be characterized as pathological mutation of Capitalism, as I discuss at this link -- http://curinghealthcare.blogspot.com/2007/10/path-to-profound

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

2008-05-08 Thread Stephen Beller
so that everyone can benefit from it without payment. You did ask for our advice... .Mark On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Stephen Beller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:sbeller%40nhds.com wrote: Our entire economic system can be characterized as pathological mutation of Capitalism, as I discuss

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

2008-05-06 Thread Stephen Beller
Hello, I'm new to this group and hope you can help me. I've only recently heard about Open Health. As the inventor of a disruptive/discontinuous health information technology, which includes patented components, I'm looking for advice about open source licensing. My primary motivation is my

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

2008-05-06 Thread Stephen Beller
, Adrian Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Beller wrote: I've only recently heard about Open Health. As the inventor of a disruptive/discontinuous health information technology, which includes patented components, I'm looking for advice