Fwd: Open source DICOM and healthcare software site
This announcement has been posted recently in the comp.protocols.dicom newsgroup. From: José Antonio Pérez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dicom Subject: Open source DICOM and healthcare software site Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:07:44 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I am pleased to announce a new website devoted to opensource software in the medical and healthcare field. In particular there are some DICOM tools that may be you already know. Anyway, the main interest of the site is to grow with user opinions, reviews and contents. You can have a look at: http://sls.netpatia.com Regards, José Antonio
interesting: IBM Linux Client Migration Cookbook
The migration from Windows (and proprietary models in general) to Open source Operating systems and applications is, nowadays, a big issue in many healthcare environments. While at that subject, one must give IBM credit to their way of turning innocuous matters in big issues. This time it was a new RedBooks guide: the Linux Client Migration Cookbook - A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux Which, according to IBM is targeted for: + For anyone who is exploring or planning for a Linux desktop migration + Provides in-depth detail on the technical and organizational challenges + Includes methods for planning and implementation As usual, it is an easy reading. Being an IBM RedBook it gives a certain (deserved?) credibility to the Open Source field. Freely available from: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246380.pdf I wonder... all that good will towards Open Source... when will IBM open source the DB2 dbms? :-) J. Antas
Re: CCOW and OpenCMA
I've just opened a new project on sourceforge called OpenCMA, for an open source implementation of the Context Management Architecture of HL7 (commonly known as CCOW). It will be based on that specification as well as a couple of other efforts in the area of context-aware systems (such as the Java Context-Aware Framework from pervasive.dk). I will provide interfaces for CORBA and for the Web consistent with the HL7 specifications (version 1.5, if possible). The implementations will be in Java, initially, although other languages are encouraged. Anyone who would like to contribute to this effort please let me know so I can add you to the developer list. We will be sure to make it compatible with OpenEMed, but should be useable in many other areas, including those beyond healthcare. The goal is to have a common implementation with multiple interfaces and transport technologies. I hope to have the IDL consistent with the spec on the site this week. Code should follow shortly thereafter. The tricky part for me is to have the implementation not violate the HL7 requirement that the specification itself is not free. I think this should be easy, at first, because they've not published a CORBA IDL specfication for CCOW. Dave Forslund
Re: CCOW and OpenCMA
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:18, David Forslund wrote: I've just opened a new project on sourceforge called OpenCMA, for an open source implementation of the Context Management Architecture of HL7 (commonly known as CCOW). The best news I read on this list for a long time! Thanks a lot for starting this, I'd wish I had more time to cooperate. Horst
