Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - a review
Proposal so far OSHCA Vision OSCHA is a vehicle for people to meet face to face. Mission?? Objectives??? Molly p.s. Previously, OSHCA The Open Source Health Care Alliance is a collaborative forum to promote and facilitate open source software in human and veterinary healthcare. OSHCA is a community of people in the health care and informatics industries that promotes the open source software concept in health care. OSHCA helps policy makers, commercial enterprises, and users take advantage of the benefits of open source. Fred Trotter wrote: I think that Will actually is proposing a vision, one which I whole-heartedly agree. The vision is that OSCHA is a vehicle for people to meet. This list is the best source of meeting of the minds I have found but is nothing compared to face to face. That is really what we do not have... Regards, Fred Trotter On 1/15/06, Dr Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will, When we're discussing resurrecting OSHCA, we're going beyond organising conferences, which organisations like IMIA,AMIA or any organisations advocating open source can do from time to time. We've also gone beyond the debate on the need for incorporation; the issues, pros and cons are in the discussion lists' archives. As pointed out by Christian, the recent discussion had agreed to the idea of resurrecting OSHCA, I wanted some help in refining the Vision and Mission Statements before moving to the structure and governance issues relating to the incorporation processes. Joseph is ahead of me on that score :). As I pointed out to him privately on skype, an example of a successful organisation recently incorporated to address the digital divide and to build a knowledge society is GKP (http://www.globalknowledge.org). I'm not saying we should copy their setup completely, but we can study their concept, structure and governance framework. We can then adapt for OSHCA after we have determined what OSHCA should be. If organising conferences is an agreed activity, the office bearers will do the needful. If the open source healthcare community wish to contribute and make an impact on the WSIS Tunis commitments (http://www.itu.int/wsis/) and the MDGs, three of which are direct health MDGs (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/), we need to look beyond organising conferences. That's the reason I would like to discuss more widely OSHCA's vision and mission statements (and objectives) first. Molly Will Ross wrote: Christian, Molly All, I'm neutral on the issue of incorporation. If it can help then I'm for it. But I don't want the discussion on incorporation to distract us from the possibility of convening our next OSHCA conference. I'm a strong advocate of having our next OSCHA Conference, with or without incorporation. I've started raising the question of support for a conference with some of the organizations I work with. Here's how I describe it: Can your organization host a three day conference for 150 people, providing auditorium, break out rooms, technical support (wifi + audio-visual facilities with staff), food (continental breakfast plus full lunches) and facilities support (pre-conference planning, attendee registration services, facility access and security, etc). I explain that the conference underwriting has to be substantial because international attendees will need to pay for travel and keep their on site costs to lodging and incidental daily expenses. Consider this post the discussion fork that poses the question: What month in 2006 is best for an OSCHA meeting? I think it goes without saying that many of us will be in Brisbane in August 2007 http://www.medinfo2007.org/ But maybe we can also meet in 2006. As it is still January, now is a good time to focus on this question. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - On Jan 14, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Christian Heller wrote: Hi Molly, some weeks ago, about 22 of us mailing list members expressed their support for incorporating OSHCA. I take the liberty to list those: - Molly Cheah - Brian Bray - Adrian Midgley - Fred Trotter - Tim Cook - Christian Heller - Joseph Dal Molin - David Chan - Nandalal Gunaratne - K.S. Bhaskar - Thaddeus N. Albers - Mike McCoy (indirectly through Joseph Dal Molin) - Jubal John (interest in background of the key people involved) - 7 further people who voted on the second mailing list-question - Alric O'Connor - Thomas Beale (here I stopped counting) -- about 22 This is not that many of far more than a hundred list readers. However, it is not few either. It is a start. ... champion, promote, co-ordinate, collaborate etc open source applications in health care. ... The Open Source Health Care Alliance is a collaborative forum to ... OSHCA is a community of people in the health care and informatics Nevertheless, I was asking myself again for reasons to get OSHCA incorporated: A website might suffice to promote OSHCA; a mailing list
Cost Allocation Software
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an open source cost allocation software for hospitals? Thanks, Molly
Re: [Hardhats-members] Saddened to hear of the tragedy
Bhaskar, Thank you for your concern. We're OK here. I wasn't even aware of the earthquake until late last night. It was reported in this morning's papers that there were 53 killed and 34 still missing (in Malaysia) mainly from the northern states of Penang and Kedah, drowned by the tidal waves. Some people in high rise buildings felt the tremors, but there were no buildings that collapse. I know of no personal friends or relatives affected. Rgds, Molly K.S. Bhaskar wrote: I have been following the news on the web of the tragedy in South Asia unleashed by the earthquake and tidal wave. I hope that our friends living in the affected areas and those near and dear to them were not personally affected, and my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. -- Bhaskar *** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential and/or privileged information intended only for the person(s) named. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by another person is strictly prohibited. *** NOTE: Ce courriel est destine exclusivement au(x) destinataire(s) mentionne(s) ci-dessus et peut contenir de l'information privilegiee, confidentielle et/ou dispensee de divulgation aux termes des lois applicables. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, ou s'il ne vous est pas destine, veuillez le mentionner immediatement a l'expediteur et effacer ce courriel. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
Re: Radiology informatics
I stumble on these with good links http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/ezdicom.html http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html Molly Paul Nagy wrote: Hi Joseph, How are you doing? We had a fascinating week at the RSNA this year discussing the role of open source. If you get a chance i would like to sync up with what you are doing. Please use my new email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . this one is mostly cobwebs. paul From: Joseph Dal Molin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 10/15/2004 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dasher I second Gary's enthusiasmI will bring Dasher up next week at our WorldVistA community meeting in Washington DC. It would be a great enhancement to VistA's user interface! Joseph Kantor, Gary wrote: Bruce, it's not late at night here, and that sounds like a terrific idea. Gary Kantor -Original Message- From: Bruce Slater To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/15/2004 1:10 AM Subject: Re: Dasher (was Re: CPOE time studies.) Haven't tried it yet, but will. It seems from the demo to be a little difficult if you have to navigate the whole universe of a language. Has anyone trained it on their own clinical notes and then tried to write a note? It seems like you could customize the predictive engine by substituting meta-regions that correspond to sections of a progress note or complete health exam. For example instead of an alphabet, present the main headings of a note. Chose a heading like Family History. Within that the universe would be very limited and navigation very obvious and quick. Once an family member was picked, then common familial illness would populate the right side of the screen. Any time a free text was needed a tunnel into classic Dasher could be used to create text. An escape area would take the user back to Family history level to chose another ancestor and then dive back into organized text. When done with Family history the escape would lead to the main level where social history could be chosen. Maybe it is just late at night, but this seems like a potentially revolutionary tool for handhelds and an interesting idea for note creation on desktops. Is someone working on a medical version? Bruce Slater The enclosed information is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the use of the addressee only. University Hospitals Health System and its affiliates disclaim any responsibility for unauthorized disclosure of this information to anyone other than the addressee. Federal and Ohio law protect patient medical information disclosed in this email, including psychiatric disorders, (HIV) test results, AIDs-related conditions, alcohol, and/or drug dependence or abuse. Federal regulation (42 CFR Part 2) and Ohio Revised Code section 5122.31 and 3701.243 prohibit disclosure of this information without the specific written consent of the person to whom it pertains, or as otherwise permitted by law. .
VistA PrimaCare feature in this article
Here's the first article that came out from the EHealth Asia2004 Conference last week. OSS can figure largely in healthcare systems http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/4/9/technology/7728295sec=technology Molly
Re: Interesting article on UN World Summit on the Information Society...
The best approach is a NGO for a worldwide IS with appropriate connections, donors and legality, e.g., capable of establishing and maintaining appropriate Intellectual Property rights, a substitute to the for-profit products and services. Sure beats jurisdictions where legislation can be based upon business interests and the application of governmental intervention is directed by selected parties tugging on certain levers. The WSIS was subject to this tugging from the onset. Its demise is expected. Think about a global NGO organization and what it could do without 'for-profit' intervention. There is an international open source network at http://www.iosn.net/ under the UNDP and partially sponsored by IDRC. I know that its very active in the Asia Pacific region where many of the poor countries are located. The UNDP officers are located in some of these countries providing support on developing projects that use oss. We've heard of the recent donation by Microsoft to UNDP of 5 billion over the next 5 years. We don't know how that donation will impact on UNDP's work on promoting oss especially in developing countries. Molly
Re: OSHCA preparations?
Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I wonder how far the preparation of OSHCA has grown. The reason is that I submitted a proposal for a talk and if this is accepted I have good chances to get payed by my institute. On the other hand the current situation here is that I have to ask for this support quite soon. So I would like to ask how far the desicions about the agenda is grown. Kind regards Andreas. Hi Andreas, The journey to the oshca site for the conference update is a little complicated journey to maneuver for the moment :-[ . We're facing some technical problems and hope to be able to sort this out soon. The url is http://67.69.12.117:9191/oshca/2003 . It's a little long and we are in the process of requesting Brian who had been hosting OSHCA.org to point to it. It is also linked at the Mednet2003 site, as you know the same people had kindly volunteered to organize this year's conference. Here is mednet2003's url http://www.hon.ch/Mednet2003/ The OSHCA link is http://www.hon.ch/Mednet2003/OSHCA/ OSHCA2003 is also being prominently displayed in the WSIS event calendar and the url is as below. http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/smsi/events/ICT4D-events-14864/event-view Unfortunately the link provided there points to a hospital and we hope to get that rectified soon. Though I'm not involved in organising this year's conference or responsible for the acceptance of the submissions, I understand that normally no-one gets turned down to present. We'll see if we can institute a mechanism/process to inform all who submit proposals receive a reply confirming acceptance. Some sponsoring institutions may wish to see proof Rgds, Molly -- Dr Molly Cheah Primary Care Doctors' Organisation Malaysia (PCDOM) e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PCDOMnet: http://pcdom.org.my DAGS Project: http://pcdom.org.my/dags/
Re: Sherlock Holmes
At our hospital it was Cerner versus VistA. Cerner won. Just curious. Was Physician Satisfaction with Two Order Entry Systems, a research paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 8 Number 5 Sep/Oct 2001 ever being used for publicity purposes. The research assesses physician satisfaction with the user interface of CPRS of VistA with a commercially available product (the product was not named) available at the Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. I don't know what the other system is. Anyone knows which system is it? I was pleasantly surprised to read that physicians were generally dissatisfied with the commercial product and were more satisfied with the CPRS. Just wondering if that research paper should be used more extensively to promote VistA? One of our paperless hospitals here is using the cerner system and they had endless integration problems that had to be solved with huge expenditure. With that experience with cerner, I have my doubts our Govt will experiment with cerner again but what are the alternatives? And they have money to spend :) When a new hospital is built they can't wait for volunteers to tinker with a system to customize for the local setting. So we're back to the business model that any group needs to put together quickly to beat competition during this current surge in uptake in computerized systems in hospitals and clinics. Had there been a vibrant, interested, critically massed open source community surrounding VistA, VistA would have won. I still think we need to present this in a business manner with a trusted entity spear-heading it. And there is also the usual procurement processes that one has to contend with - specifications for different sized hospitals, bank guarantees, contracts, performance indicators, timelines etc. Please recall that VistA is installed in every VA hospital and is beloved by users. Please recall also that today the VA is acknowledged to be at the forefront of patient safety initiatives, for example, barcode scanning of medications at the point of care. Are there product brochures available for marketing VistA? The OSS community is familiar with these but are the decision makers (usually committees) aware of these? As mentioned by Joseph, there are bits at the DoD and the Indian Health Services. Are these being integrated into the version of VistA that are being promoted to the hospitals outside VA and who is doing the integration? I see the major problem being lack of funds. Medsphere is progressing rapidly because they do have a business plan and they also do have funding. Am I right Scott? Molly -- Dr Molly Cheah Primary Care Doctors' Organisation Malaysia (PCDOM) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-site: http://pcdom.org.my DAGS Project: http://pcdom.org.my/dags/ DAGS Pilot: http://pilot.pcdom.org.my
