Mark, I have been keeping tabs on the work of the HL7 Pediatric Special Interest Group who defined the differences between and adult and pediatric medical record. This seemed to be exactly the information needed to define what needed to be added to VistA to make it pediatric friendly. I wonder if you have seen the work they did and if you feel the modifications made would cover your setting or if more would be needed. If you are interested, you can access their documentation here:
www.hl7.org then under Committees, the Special Interest Groups, then under that Pediatric Data Standards then up near the top, Documents and Presentations and under that, the third, fourth and fifth links down. On Wednesday 15 March 2006 13:12, Mark Painter wrote: I'm glad someone has spoken to Mark Shuttleworth about VistA. I've been thinking of contacting him for some months now. As a paediatrician in South Africa, working for the State, I've been frustrated by our national and provincial departments of health - the amount of money they have spent, and continue to spend, on piecemeal commercial software which ends up only in a few major hospitals with patchy support, is staggering. It should not take a lot of money to develop and configure VistA to our environment; then we could make a reasonable investment on training and support, install it all over the country. The departments of health could then spend the real money on the real people that need health care! This could then be offered to any interested developing countries. Mark Shuttleworth has committed himself to the opensource community, especially in Africa, and I would hope would be able to take on a task like this. Yes, I should contact him. Just need to write up a reasonable proposal... Mark Painter | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhaskar, KS | Sent: 14 March 2006 08:22 PM | To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net | Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Ubuntu code of conduct | | Chris -- | | Although Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distribution (with commercial | support), and I use Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE desktop) at home, | there | was no intent on my part to sell anyone on Ubuntu Linux. It was the | Ubuntu code of conduct that I wanted to draw people's attention to. | | Did you tell Mark Shuttleworth about VistA? | | Regards | -- Bhaskar | | On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:18 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Bhaskar; | > | > You don't have to sell me on Ubuntu. I liked Mark Shuttleworth | | when | | > I | > met him in Tunis. His group had a lot of things going for them and | > they | > are using their community wisely. | > | > > Ubuntu is one of the fastest growing Linux distributions. I was | > | > pointed | > | > > to the Ubuntu code of conduct for developers yesterday, and I felt | > | > that | > | > > it was well worth a read for anyone involved in software | > | > development: | > > http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct | > > | > > -- Bhaskar | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting | language | that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live | webcast | and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding | territory! | http://sel.as- | us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 | _______________________________________________ | Hardhats-members mailing list | Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members | | -- | No virus found in this incoming message. | Checked by AVG Free Edition. | Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.2/280 - Release Date: | 13/03/2006 -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
