Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-28 Thread Brian Bray
Thanks for the welcome, Bhaskar, and also the warm welcome (in every sense of the word) I've received from many others. Also, thank you for creating this list. The list software at minoru-development.com was and is broken- you took the right step to keep this incredible community conversation

Re: OSHCA Meetings

2006-03-20 Thread Brian Bray
Mary Kratz had some real good comments about the value of a separate organization (eg: OSHCA) vs working groups in existing ones (eg: IMIA and AMIA) a few years ago. I'm hoping she will chime in here with an update. -Brian Horst Herb a écrit : On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:41, Brian Bray wrote

Re: OSHCA Meetings

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Bray
You should co-ordinate this with the IMIA working group on open source. http://www.chirad.info/imiaoswg/ -Brian Horst Herb a écrit : On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:47, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: to hold a meeting. In fact a satellite conference is preferable to imbedding a meeting in Medinfo because

List future [was: Why are you here?]

2006-03-15 Thread Brian Bray
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I have a proposal that I've worked out with Molly Cheah, who is working to incorporate the Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA). Joseph Dal Molin, Tim Cook, and Adrian Midgley were also involved. The proposal is to form the Openhealth list at OSHCA.ORG

Re: The list is a valuable resource

2006-03-15 Thread Brian Bray
I was able to subscribe a hotmail account, but there is a problem (see below). I'm still coming up to speed on the list history while I was away, so I'm not sure how long the problem existed. There have been a few people (maybe half a dozen) who were unable to subscribe because of

Why are you here? (was Re: Hello list)

2006-03-12 Thread Brian Bray
Tim Churches a écrit : Hmmm, does Minoru plan to assert its trade mark against the Openhealth list on Yahoo (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ )? I'm not expecting that I'll have to. It depends on the the other list and my decisions over the next few weeks. The way I see it,

Re: Hello list

2006-03-11 Thread Brian Bray
Right you are about Marvin. There are a million lists on the Internet and a lot of them have signs of life, but there's only one Openhealth[tm] list. Why are you here? -Brian Tim Churches a écrit : Brian Bray wrote: To quote Marvin the paranoid android (Red Dwarf) Life... don't talk

Re: Question about OIO (was Hello list)

2006-03-11 Thread Brian Bray
Andrew Ho a écrit : Completeness can never be assured without significantly restricting customizability. For example, deleting the Gender question from an existing form. In certain contexts, some limits on customizability are needed for safety reasons. Take a case worker with limited

How to (was Hello list)

2006-03-11 Thread Brian Bray
There has never been an administrative interface. Just send a blank message with unsubscribe as a subject to either the list or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Churches a écrit : I tried to unsubscribe from openhealth-list@minoru-development.com but the administrative interface to the list has been

Re: Hello list

2006-03-11 Thread Brian Bray
Thanks David, I'm in Vancouver for the moment and I'm planning to move back here, but it really depends on where my next project is. -Brian Dr. David Chan a écrit : Welcome back Brian! Sounds like you are doing a treasure hunt! Are you still based in Paris? David

Re: Hello list

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Bray
To quote Marvin the paranoid android (Red Dwarf) Life... don't talk to me about life. I'm catching up on my e-mail. Only 3500 more to go! -Brian Ignacio Valdes a écrit : He LIVES! -- IV On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:19:09 +0100 Brian Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. -Brian

Question about OIO (was Hello list)

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Bray
Thanks Denny and Aldric for the warm greeting. There have certainly been some interesting discussions while I was gone. (I'm just up to the end of 2003). I have a question for Andrew Ho. In the discussion about Vista/OIO complementarity, you discussed the concept that OIO let's users safely

Hello list

2006-03-09 Thread Brian Bray
Hi all. -Brian

Announcement (WARNING: SAD)

2003-07-23 Thread Brian Bray
and the OSHCA website, the contact is now Sylvain Hellegouarch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and/or myself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -Brian -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France

Re: Germany shifts to open source

2002-06-04 Thread Brian Bray
There has been a lot of activity in government sectors over the last few weeks. There is also an announcement from Taiwan and announcements of some large individual open source (Linux) sales by IBM and HP. Some links (including an alternate link for the German story) are at

Re: I met a guy... HL-7

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Bray
projects specific to HL7. Also, some of the larger projects have HL7 links or components. -Brian -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465

Re: new subject

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Bray
beale -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465

Re: The Register - Gnome to be based on .NET - de Icaza

2002-02-04 Thread Brian Bray
I think the significant event is that Microsoft is working to become a leader in the open source movement. They are financially supporting Openstate (Perl) and providing technical assistance to Ximian (MONO / GNOME). They have their favourite licences (BSD) and their supporters. It does not

Re: Link Exchange. Was: Economic theories

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Bray
and categorizing the link. You can view recently submitted links, search the descriptions, or browse by category. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France

Re: UK Wanless report: response from OSHCA needed

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Bray
/en/products.html More specific to your situation, I have visited the Netherlands twice this year to present Spirit/Business models and I'm already scheduled for another presentation next year. The Spirit team would be happy to meet with other Dutch projects and groups. -Brian -- Brian Bray

Re: Link Exchange. Was: Economic theories

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Bray
here in Houston. Of course, we think it is just a Texas sized oil rig. /Shameless plug for LMN warning -- -- Ignacio Valdes, Editor: Linux Medical News http://www.linuxmednews.com 'Revolutionizing Medical Education and Practice' -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru

An inclusive consensus building process for OSHCA

2001-11-02 Thread Brian Bray
and that otherwise the organisation continue to run in the fashion it had in the previous year. This motion was seconded by Joseph Dal Molin. Brian Bray then proposed an ammendment that membership be based on a simple agreement with the OSHCA charter and the membership list be used as a voting list

Re: Automated Form Tool

2001-06-06 Thread Brian Bray
be an English resource. If sufficient interest is shown, alternate language forums may be created at a later date. Cost and Availability This is a free community service. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com

Spirit news

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Bray
hearing your comments and questions. I'm particularly interested in whether you agree that the evidence based model for open source health care development matches your expectations. Thanks. -Brian -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm

Re: Open Source Software in Public Administrations

2001-04-13 Thread Brian Bray
statistics. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465

Re: Fw: GT.M V4.2-001 released

2001-04-11 Thread Brian Bray
ow that VA hospitals are nearly completely built on Vista, but I thinking private hospitals. Todd Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] In some countries outside the U.S., the patient accounting needs tend to be similar to the V.A. case (ie: one payor). Thinking globally may lead to earlier success here. -Brian --

Re: help please

2001-04-02 Thread Brian Bray
(or pointing them to us). We will be making all the briefing materials public as soon the Spirit site goes live, so that you can use the same information in your presentations if you want. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://ww

Re: Pfizer, IBM, and Microsoft to Offer Rx for Health Care

2001-04-02 Thread Brian Bray
also needed to turn software into customer solutions. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465

[Fwd: Free / open source software actions in European RTD - 18 May 2001 - Brussels]

2001-04-02 Thread Brian Bray
FYI. -Brian Original Message Objet: "Free / open source software actions in European RTD - 18 May 2001 - Brussels" Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:47:22 +0200 De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message - Please send us a message asking us to

Re: Not really, Brian.

2001-03-30 Thread Brian Bray
s. I hope this helps explain things. -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465

Re: Not really, Brian.

2001-03-30 Thread Brian Bray
Wayne Wilson a crit : Brian Bray wrote: The Spirit portal is targeted at three very specific target groups. I'll attempt a U.S. translation of who these groups are: 1) Health care informatics innovators: Research scientists in healthcare computing and interested vendors

DocScope (was VB - Middleware)

2001-03-22 Thread Brian Bray
device manufacturers and/or service providers 5) Home care organizations 6) Individuals and companies with ENV13606 standards experience. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested. -Brian -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The h

Re: EMR Data Definition

2000-12-21 Thread Brian Bray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, I am developing an EMR system and would like to know if there is a data definition for an EMR (preferably a relational schema) that has been defined or is recommended by one of the standards organizations (e.g. HL7, ANSI). Anyone know of any and if

Re: Mining, was: A Proposal

2000-11-28 Thread Brian Bray
Horst Herb a écrit : [SNIP] Sorry, this might be a dumb question, but how would you actually data mine such a chaotically growing structure salad at a public health level? This is ultimately what we want to achieve, isn't it? Gather information on a broad base to facilitate evidence

An open source virus

2000-06-08 Thread Brian Bray
This virus works on the honor system. Please delete all the files on your hard disk, then forward this message to everyone you know. Thank you for your cooperation.

Standards work

2000-05-03 Thread Brian Bray
If you are interested in participating in a protential open source development project related to CEN.TC251 and/or ISO.TC215, please let me know by private e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Responses accepted in English, French, or Italian. -Brian

Re: Digest version of openhealth-list?

2000-04-14 Thread Brian Bray
Ignacio Valdes wrote: Is there a digest version of this list available? If not can one be created? Thanks -- IV A digest version will be available soon. Our Internet service provider has just finished testing a new list service which we will be switching to shortly. It has a digests (both

OSHCA charter comments

2000-04-14 Thread Brian Bray
If I were to sum up my vision of OSHCA in one line it would be: A forum to get together and create open source health care projects. I see it's main function is to provide a meeting place for users and developers to form consortia on a large enough scale to launch open source initiatives with

Re: HL7 RIM and GEHR archetypes

2000-03-31 Thread Brian Bray
"Alvin B. Marcelo" wrote: ... 3. Circare: having trouble getting all the prerequisites... It would be good to have more specifics here (off-line). Many of the prerequisites are available from a subdirectory of the distribution location. There may be value in having one central resource

Re: HL7 RIM and GEHR archetypes

2000-03-31 Thread Brian Bray
Brian Bray wrote: ... Seriously, I don't think we need to have *one* site with everything on it. Not very many people are going to be installing everything. TK-Family practice and Freemed are for physician's offices, while Circare and Telemed are more for larger organizations

Re: Patient control

2000-01-26 Thread Brian Bray
"John S. Gage" wrote: It definitely will be different every time. I think the essential question is: model in XML or UML? What are your ideas about the advisability of each (knowing in advance that you are modeling in Eiffel)? The advantage of XML is that it is closely related to the

Re: Patient control

2000-01-26 Thread Brian Bray
"John S. Gage" wrote: David Forslund wrote: I would recommend using tools where they are designed. That means using UML and XML where appropriate. XML is a representation of data not a design tool. UML can be expressed in XML (using XMI) if you like. It seems to me that the

Re: HCFA forms

2000-01-24 Thread Brian Bray
amarcelo wrote: If HCFA is .gov then FOIA should apply right? Has this been addressed by opensource.org? I remember a previous thread about open source being different from public domain. Basically, the difference is in the license (ie, the gov't cannot give out a license therefore it

Re: Patient control

2000-01-24 Thread Brian Bray
"Robert R. Hausam" wrote: As a physician, I agree with Thomas's comments. See additional comments below. At 11:46 AM 1/24/2000 +1000, you wrote: "John S. Gage" wrote: Brian Bray wrote: The more I think about EMR, the more I think of a document

Re: Example of CORBA

2000-01-23 Thread Brian Bray
Greg Kreis wrote: Brian Bray wrote: I really agree with this concern. Corba has a huge learning curve and some of it's component standards are much better than others (I curse the C++ bindings daily). If I was a CORBA vendor, this would be my biggest concern. HTML caught

Re: Example of CORBA

2000-01-21 Thread Brian Bray
I really agree with this concern. Corba has a huge learning curve and some of it's component standards are much better than others (I curse the C++ bindings daily). While Corba doesn't have to be large and slow, some of the implementations are. If you want a self demo and to learn a little

Re: HCFA forms

2000-01-21 Thread Brian Bray
Would it make sense to do a freedom of information act inquiry to release the source code for this tool? Especially if it looks like a number of open source projects are going to have to duplicate some of it's functionality. -Brian Mary Kratz wrote: Ah, the perfect application of Open

Re: AMIA 2000

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Bray
Thanks for bringing up the Open Source Practice Management Summit we held last September. It's purpose was to get all the groups working in this area together to exchange information on what they are doing and find things "they can steal from each other". I.E. Good ideas, source code, ... One

Re: Circare description

1999-11-23 Thread Brian Bray
Alvin Marcelo wrote: Thanks Brian. That was a concise but clear presentation of Circare. I would like to bother you for more by asking you to give me (or us) a step by step approach on how to build a Circare system in let's say, a small primary care practice. It may be on your website, but

[Fwd: V3DT seeking your advice on value of a reference implementation.]

1999-07-14 Thread Brian Bray
I have forwarded this message from the HL7 lists to this one because of it's general interest to this group. -Brian Hi again, in this message I am soliciting your opinion on a very concrete question, I am especially asking you as an implementor/vendor of HL7 standards. (1) What do you think

Re: V3DT seeking your advice on value of a reference implementation.

1999-07-14 Thread Brian Bray
This project is not yet going, it is just my personal idea and I don't even know if I can spend any resources on this. I appreciate any of your thoughts to add to the little "brain-storm" here. Also, I would appreciate to know whether you would consider helping in such a project, either

Open source health care links

1998-11-30 Thread Brian Bray
I have placed a few links to open source health care resources on: http://www.minoru-development.com/en/healthlinks.html Comments and new entries welcome. -Brian