UKK OSS watch conference

2005-01-03 Thread Adrian Midgley
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2005-01-20/ OSS-watch is a creature of the Joint Information Services Ctee, Which does such stuff as providing the Internet connectivity for all UK universities. I can't go that week. -- Adrian MidgleyFLOSS regularly

Re: free/open-source software booth at TEPR 2005

2004-12-31 Thread Etienne Saliez
Andrew, Thank you very much for this invitation on a boot in TERP-2005 in Salt Lake City in May, and specially to Peter Waegemann. But I do not think I could travel to Salt Lake City in May and present demos personnally. Some information is available on our web site :

interesting: Tips for webmasters of health related sites

2004-12-30 Thread J. Antas
For those that besides doing development/management for the healthcare environment, also have to manage/supervise a web site, the following article may be useful: The Secret Benefit Of Search Engine Optimization: Increased Usability A higher search ranking is what many website owners dream of.

Re: CCOW open source tools?

2004-12-29 Thread J. Antas
Joseph Dal Molin wrote: Does anyone know whether there is an open source CCOW implementation similar to Sentillion? Does a OSS PHP+MySQL routine like RBAC qualifies? See more on: A Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for PHP http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/role-based-access-control.html

Re: CCOW open source tools?

2004-12-29 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 02:21, J. Antas wrote: Joseph Dal Molin wrote: Does anyone know whether there is an open source CCOW implementation similar to Sentillion? Does a OSS PHP+MySQL routine like RBAC qualifies? See more on: A Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for PHP

Re: CCOW open source tools?

2004-12-29 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
There are in fact 2 or three other vendors listed at the website... perhaps there are other OS projects which cover the CCOW functionality that is used in VistAwill get back to the list with more details. Joseph Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 02:21, J. Antas wrote: Joseph Dal Molin

Re: CCOW open source tools? - Care-Team-Role-Based-Access-Control

2004-12-29 Thread Etienne Saliez
Dear Antas and Tony Marston, Thank you very much for your overview, but I would like to make some comments and suggestions. "Role-Based-Access-Control": Permanent "Role" or "Profile": I agree with what you call "Role", although in our project we call it "User-Profile".

free/open-source software booth at TEPR 2005

2004-12-29 Thread Andrew Ho
Dear colleagues, Thanks to Larry Ozeran [http://www.clinicalinformatics.com/] and the Medical Records Institute, we will have opportunity to demo free/open-source health software in the exhibit hall during the upcoming TEPR 2005 meeting (May 16-18, Salt Lake City, UT)

CCOW open source tools?

2004-12-28 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Does anyone know whether there is an open source CCOW implementation similar to Sentillion? Joseph

Saddened to hear of the tragedy

2004-12-26 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
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

Re: [Hardhats-members] Saddened to hear of the tragedy

2004-12-26 Thread Dr Molly Cheah
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

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:02, David Forslund wrote: I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to run the software on Win platforms removes them from consideration at this time. Dave Maybe this will be enough of a trigger to get them to try out some linux / unix

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread David Forslund
Original Message From: Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OpenHealth List openhealth-list@minoru-development.com Cc: Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Dec-24-2004 6:35 AM Subject: Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health On

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to run the software on Win platforms removes them from consideration at this time. All of the tools and infrastructure used are cross-platform, with the exception of PostgreSQL - but that will soon be also

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Cook wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:02, David Forslund wrote: I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to run the software on Win platforms removes them from consideration at this time. Dave Maybe this will be enough of a trigger to get them to try out some linux

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread David Forslund
This sounds reasonable and certainly is, but there are some more complications. I try to be database independent, too, letting the deployment of a particular database to be site specific. The problem I also ran into at our state is the required use of MSSql on an Windows platform.

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Heitzso
Side note re limited to non-Windows by postgresql. I've often run cygwin postgresql and, while it takes a few minutes to setup, has run fine for me. I've read elsewhere of people having stability problems with that env but have not encountered any on my end. I don't know if the stability

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: This sounds reasonable and certainly is, but there are some more complications. I try to be database independent, too, letting the deployment of a particular database to be site specific. The problem I also ran into at our state is the required use of MSSql on an Windows

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread David Forslund
I have no problem with your comments, with one exception. The state of IT in public health in the US, despite the efforts of the CDC, NEDSS, and PHIN is pretty abysmal. I can't compare it to Australia, but on any scale, they are in the dark ages here in the US and need all the help they can

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: I have no problem with your comments, with one exception. The state of IT in public health in the US, despite the efforts of the CDC, NEDSS, and PHIN is pretty abysmal. I can't compare it to Australia, but on any scale, they are in the dark ages here in the US and need all

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-24 Thread Hermant
Hi all, Here is something from Herman Tolentino who is in CDC public health informatics: The problems you stated are all symptomatic of a cultural problem in public health in general. For a very long time, health informatics has been in the fringes of public health where information technology

Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-23 Thread Tim Churches
I am pleased to announce that developmental versions of some tools for population health epidemiology and public health are now available under a free, open source software license - see http://www.netepi.org (please note that the release notes for the NetEpi Analysis tool can be found in

Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public health

2004-12-23 Thread David Forslund
I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to run the software on Win platforms removes them from consideration at this time. Dave Tim Churches wrote: I am pleased to announce that developmental versions of some tools for population health epidemiology and public health

interesting: Server-Based Wide Area Data Replication for Disaster Recovery

2004-12-16 Thread J. Antas
This is an useful work about a critical subject in healthcare information systems. As such I would recommend its reading. Server-Based Wide Area Data Replication for Disaster Recovery .../... This diploma thesis has been created during the eighth and last term of my studies from March to June 2004

Re: Federal office VistA vendor identy

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel L. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 03:37, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: | |Daou a consulting firm from the Wash. DC area i believe | | | Yes, Joseph is correct; I've received confirmation from the Wisconsin | PRO (Professional Review

RE: Federal office VistA vendor identy

2004-12-16 Thread David Derauf
Does anyone know: will the new Vista office have a PM system? David Derauf -Original Message- From: Wayne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Federal office VistA vendor identy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Open Source Pre-Operative Management System

2004-12-16 Thread Bruce Slater
To the list: I spoke today with the medical director of the anesthesia pre-operative clinic. Although in the future we will have a pre-op system fully integrated with an enterprise wide EHR, the director has immediate need for an interim system to record a full HP with some check-lists for

RE: CCR and open source

2004-12-15 Thread David Derauf
Thanks Will. The MS-word comment was meant to be tongue in cheek. -Original Message- From: will ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CCR and open source On 14 Dec 2004, at 6:08

Printing faxes to a sigle file

2004-12-14 Thread Pat
I am looking for a bit of advice or direction for a problem. I figure some of you may have run into this before. We currently have a RightFax server set up with in bound lines. Incoming faxes are stored as a series or images (tiff files). does anyone know how to send a print job to a server and

Re: Federal office VistA vendor identy

2004-12-14 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
It depends...I don't know what their philosophical and corporate stand is re OSS... As far as VistAOffice EHR it doesn't matter because CMS and VA's commitment is to release it as public domain just like VistA is today. The VA is working on the project to ensure that the code is class 1

Re: Printing faxes to a sigle file

2004-12-14 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Can you convert them to .pdf...? Pat wrote: I am looking for a bit of advice or direction for a problem. I figure some of you may have run into this before. We currently have a RightFax server set up with in bound lines. Incoming faxes are stored as a series or images (tiff files). does anyone

Re: Printing faxes to a sigle file

2004-12-14 Thread Pat
Joseph, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough now that I consider it. RightFax gives you the option to print the fax or save it. Unfortunately the save is of each individual page (1 page 1 file, 6 pages 6 files). I want to get them all into one file. What I am thinking is to set up what looks to

Re: Printing faxes to a sigle file

2004-12-14 Thread Horst Herb
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:16, Pat wrote: pages. The server would then message the user where the file can be found. We have an application here that allows us to attach files to the records. To have to attach 6 or 10 or 25 individual files for one fax is not workable. A PDF probably would be

Re: CCR and open source

2004-12-14 Thread will ross
On 14 Dec 2004, at 6:08 PM, David Derauf wrote: It seems likely that the Continuity of Care Standards will soon be adopted and promulgated by a wide array of organizations (http://www.astm.org/COMMIT/E31_CCRJuly04.ppt) I am wondering if anyone is aware of open source applications that  could

Re: Federal office VistA vendor identy

2004-12-14 Thread Daniel L. Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 03:37, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: Daou a consulting firm from the Wash. DC area i believe Yes, Joseph is correct; I've received confirmation from the Wisconsin PRO (Professional Review Organization) staff. http://www.daou.com/ What do we know about this firm relative to

CCR and open source

2004-12-14 Thread David Derauf
It seemslikely that the Continuity of Care Standards will soon be adopted and promulgated by a wide array of organizations (http://www.astm.org/COMMIT/E31_CCRJuly04.ppt ) I am wondering if anyone is aware of open source applications thatcould easilytake advantage of these standards for the

Re: Printing faxes to a sigle file

2004-12-14 Thread Don Grodecki
We use PJ and PJX to combine single-page PDF files into multi-page single file PDFs. See http://www.etymon.com/epub.html - Don http://www.openhre.org - Original Message - From: Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Printing

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-13 Thread Ignacio Valdes
Bruce, this is an awesome project you are working on. I have long wanted to do the same thing for Mental health in Houston but have little experience in grant-getting. Can I call you and discuss? Please send your phone number. -- IV On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:34:01 -0600 Bruce Slater [EMAIL

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-13 Thread Daniel L. Johnson
Question for David Forslund: Is this significantly different in concept from the work you've already done in the SW? Perhaps you might be interested in contacting Dr. Slater Dan Johnson On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:34, Bruce Slater wrote: To the List: We have a grant to study the feasibility

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-13 Thread will ross
Dan, The OpenHRE project features Dave's code optimised for this type of records exchange. OpenEMed is the raw open source code base. OpenHRE adds to OpenEMed a front end and connectivity to legacy HIT systems in the exact environment described earlier. We're working directly with Dave. There

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-13 Thread David Forslund
This is entirely consistent with our efforts over the past 8 years (or more). We are happy to work with anyone who is trying to get this capability and it has been useful working with Will Ross on their project in association with Browsersoft, who also shares this vision. Dave Forslund

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-13 Thread Adrian Midgley
On Monday 13 December 2004 03:34, Bruce Slater wrote: We have a grant to study the feasibility of connecting a state-wide group of hospitals, clinics, private offices and labs. The grant is a planning grant (200K US) for an implementation grant (2M US) to make the system happen. The goals of

Re: Rural Health Grant - You are not alone ... , CRISNET in Belgium

2004-12-13 Thread Etienne Saliez
Will Ross and Bruce Slater, You are not alone. We are dealing here with very similar problems. Our project is called "VIRTUAL CARE TEAM ", focusing on the support for improving collaborative work between all the care providers in charge of the same patient. The care team of the patient

Rural Health Grant

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Slater
To the List: We have a grant to study the feasibility of connecting a state-wide group of hospitals, clinics, private offices and labs. The grant is a planning grant (200K US)for an implementationgrant (2M US) tomake the system happen. The goals of the system would be: Apatient from any

Re: Rural Health Grant

2004-12-12 Thread will ross
On 12 Dec 2004, at 7:34 PM, Bruce Slater wrote: To the List:   We have a grant to study the feasibility of connecting a state-wide group of hospitals, clinics, private offices and labs. The grant is a planning grant (200K US) for an implementation grant (2M US) to make the system happen. The

Radiology informatics

2004-12-09 Thread Paul Nagy
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

Re: Radiology informatics

2004-12-09 Thread Dr Molly Cheah
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

Re: Federal office VistA coming

2004-12-03 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Ironically the VSA founders did not include Sanchez/Fidelity, who thanks to the foresight and intestinal fortitude of K.S. Bhaskar open sourced GT.M for Linux and x86 platforms which IMHO is the pebble in the pond that led a new and invigorated VistA community. J. Daniel L. Johnson wrote:

Re: Federal office VistA coming

2004-12-03 Thread Andrew Ho
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Daniel L. Johnson wrote: ... The web site is: http://www.vistasoftware.org/ ... Glad to see that VistASoftware.Org is powered by Plone and Zope! Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org

Re: Federal office VistA coming

2004-12-03 Thread will ross
Also wondering aloud, who is the vendor poring over the code for CMS? And what is the relationship between the CMS VistA-Office code wrangling already underway and the recently closed RFP for J2EE work on the VA-VistA codebase? Are these separate or coordinated projects? [wr] - - - - - - - - On

Dutch National Institute for ICT in Healthcare organises meeting on open source software in healthcare

2004-12-02 Thread Bud P. Bruegger
http://europa.eu.int/ida/en/document/3530/469 - Ing. Bud P. Bruegger, Ph.D. +39-0564-488577 (voice), -21139 (fax) Servizio Elaborazione Datie-mail: [EMAIL

interesting: The mistakes of version 1.0

2004-12-02 Thread J. Antas
An interesting article: The mistakes of version 1.0 Many people spend their entire careers waiting for a chance to work on a version 1.0 project. When it happens, theyre so thrilled to work on the beginning of something that lessons learned from other projects are forgotten. The terms ground

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-30 Thread David Forslund
One representation of the ICD-9-CM and others is the LexGrid work at Mayo of Harold Solbrig. It includes versions, language options, etc. and has a full server implementation to go with it. The model underlying it is available in XMI and other formats. My major objection is that it seems to

The Pro-Am Revolution

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Cook
An excellent distillation of the social aspects of open source development: The Pro-Am Revolution ... From astronomy to activism, from surfing to saving lives, Pro-Ams - people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards - are an increasingly important part of our society and economy.

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-30 Thread Wayne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Forslund wrote: | One representation of the ICD-9-CM and others is the LexGrid work at Mayo of Harold Solbrig. | | This is the same Harold Solbrig of the OMG's LQS work I suspect? | | My major objection is that it | seems to be tied to the LDAP

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-29 Thread David Forslund
I have a question. There is a lot of info in the ICD-9-CM coding documents that isn't represented by simple text. It would seem that an XML representation of the codes with the exclusions, notes, etc. would be more generally useful. Flatting the data to the number and the name seems to

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: I have a question. There is a lot of info in the ICD-9-CM coding documents that isn't represented by simple text. It would seem that an XML representation of the codes with the exclusions, notes, etc. would be more generally useful. Flatting the data to the number and

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-29 Thread Alexander Caldwell
The Multum lexicon database which is available free at http://www.multum.com has a table in it representing the ICD9-CM I believe it is updated each month. It is in an MS-Access format. Andrew Ho made a tab delimited text version of some of the multum tables in 2003 that has the ICD9-CM table

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Churches
Alexander Caldwell wrote: The Multum lexicon database which is available free at http://www.multum.com has a table in it representing the ICD9-CM I believe it is updated each month. It is in an MS-Access format. Yes, thanks, I had forgotten about Multum Lexicon. It is distributed under a liberal

RE: RTF conversion

2004-11-29 Thread David Forslund
I found this piece of opensource software: http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/rtfx/ which is at least 10 times faster than any commercial products I've tried at turning an RTF file into an XML file which can then be parsed with various XML tools. I know python can be used to take apart

Re: RTF conversion

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: I found this piece of opensource software: http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/rtfx/ which is at least 10 times faster than any commercial products I've tried at turning an RTF file into an XML file which can then be parsed with various XML tools. I know python can

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-28 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Churches wrote: Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can be obatined at no cost? The data do not have to be re-distributable, just available on teh Internet for free. I have been able to find a

Re: Another crazy software patent application

2004-11-28 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: This patent application is a beauty, by Microsoft this time: See http://snipurl.com/axm5 or http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01p=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220040234938%22.PGNR.OS=DN/20040234938RS=DN/20040234938

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-28 Thread Pat
Tim, Hey, I asked that same question not long ago. I look forward to using the parser. BTW you better patent that method for parsing RTF ICD-9 files :-D Pat Tim Churches wrote: Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported

Re: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-28 Thread Tim Churches
Pat wrote: Tim, Hey, I asked that same question not long ago. Yes, I do dimly recall it now that you mention it. No satisfactory answer, I presume? I look forward to using the parser. After you strip all the formatting out, the NCHS RTF files have a very regular format, thank goodness. BTW you

Re: VA Software Could Help Establish Affordable EHR Systems World wide

2004-11-27 Thread Jim Self
Joseph wrote: The HUI has had something like 1,600 downloads, and I don't even know how many we have had at the WorldVistA sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista/ From that page you click on the statistics link to go to http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=60087

Re: VA Software Could Help Establish Affordable EHR Systems World wide

2004-11-27 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Thanks Jim!!! Jim Self wrote: Joseph wrote: The HUI has had something like 1,600 downloads, and I don't even know how many we have had at the WorldVistA sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista/ From that page you click on the statistics link to go to

A Barcode Generator in Pure Postscript

2004-11-27 Thread J. Antas
A few times I have needed to implement routines that output Adobe PostScript for the purpose of printing barcodes in several different languages. Recently this has provoked me to cook up the following routine that implements the printing of barcodes entirely within level 2 PostScript. This means

Re: VA Software Could Help Establish Affordable EHR Systems World wide

2004-11-27 Thread David Forslund
I wish I understood the significance of downloads from sourceforge.net. Sourceforge says our system has had over 14,000 downloads but I don't think this has any real relationship to the number of users of the software. I suspect that the number from worldvista may be more in proportion to

Re: when published spec predates patent, was Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-27 Thread Elpidio Latorilla
Hi, To win a game (and be officially declared as winner), one must play it according to its rules. On Tuesday 23 November 2004 17:18, Tim Churches wrote: The cost of lodging opposition to a patent before it issues here in Asutralia is AUD$550. I am willing to reimburse you this amount.

Re: when published spec predates patent, was Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-27 Thread Tim Churches
Elpidio Latorilla wrote: Hi, To win a game (and be officially declared as winner), one must play it according to its rules. On Tuesday 23 November 2004 17:18, Tim Churches wrote: The cost of lodging opposition to a patent before it issues here in Asutralia is AUD$550. I am willing to

Re: Another crazy software patent application

2004-11-27 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Churches wrote: This patent application is a beauty, by Microsoft this time: Um, I just realised that the construction ...is a beauty may be an Australian colloquialism. It is not meant to convey that the thing being referred to is beautiful, but rather that it is surprising, jaw-dropping

Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?

2004-11-27 Thread Tim Churches
Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can be obatined at no cost? The data do not have to be re-distributable, just available on teh Internet for free. I have been able to find a free set of US

[Fwd: [discuss] Flaming and the design of social software]

2004-11-26 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
I thought the veterans of this list would appreciate the article mentioned below Joseph Original Message Subject: [discuss] Flaming and the design of social software Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:18:34 -0600 From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Canadian Open Source

Re: when published spec predates patent, was Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-24 Thread Pat
To All, I don't know if having someone here in DC to deliver documents would help. I am willing to however. Pat

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-24 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim Churches wrote: Gerard Freriks wrote: Hi, Lets be sensible. A template is nothing but a screen thta can be filled. As far as I know that has been described many times before 2001. Isn't it? Yes, but pointers to papers published prior to 2001 which specifically describe this would be

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-24 Thread Thomas Beale
David Forslund wrote: What I have a problem is properly identifying prior art. The background papers clearly cover these issues long before these patents were submitted, but only in a general way by describing the general problem that the patent is dealing with in the specific. I would go so

RE: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-24 Thread Paul . Sherman
Will any part of the VA's My HealtheVet portal provide some prior art? It's an web based patient health record. http://www.health-evet.va.gov/ -Original Message- From: Thomas Beale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:28 AM To: David Forslund Subject: Re: A

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:29, Tim Churches wrote: At a glance, there would not appear to be much in the way of novelty in the claims, and several groups here in Australia plan to lodge objections to the application. Others may wish to object to the applications in their own countries. If

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread David Forslund
Certainly the work we have done with OpenEMed qualifies, too. The paper we wrote in 1997 on the Virtual Patient Record in the Communications of the ACM has these concepts, too. CACM, 1997, vol 40., No. 8 pp 110-117 Dave Original Message From: Tim Cook [EMAIL

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Ho
Tim, I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled Electronic Medical Records. Please see: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled and referenced here: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/oio This work has been online and retrievable via

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:49, David Forslund wrote: Certainly the work we have done with OpenEMed qualifies, too. The paper we wrote in 1997 on the Virtual Patient Record in the Communications of the ACM has these concepts, too. CACM, 1997, vol 40., No. 8 pp 110-117 Dave Sorry for leaving

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread David Forslund
And if you do a google on Virtual Patient Record you will see as the first hit the pre-published version of our (Kilman and myself) CACM paper outlining how do do all of this, from February, 1996. This is prior to Andrew's patent, but describes the role of a patient in managing their own

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Ho
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, David Forslund wrote: And if you do a google on Virtual Patient Record you will see as the first hit the pre-published version of our (Kilman and myself) CACM paper outlining how do do all of this, from February, 1996. Dave, I just read your virtual patient record paper

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Daniel L. Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:29, Tim Churches wrote: There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of EHRs. More prior art... Dr. Thomas Payne used WAN technology to distribute his own EHR between

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Ho
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Daniel L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:29, Tim Churches wrote: There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of EHRs. More prior art... Dr. Thomas Payne used

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread will ross
On 22 Nov 2004, at 6:29 PM, Tim Churches wrote: There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of EHRs. snip The details of the CR Group application for METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE INFORMATION can

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Cook wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:29, Tim Churches wrote: At a glance, there would not appear to be much in the way of novelty in the claims, and several groups here in Australia plan to lodge objections to the application. Others may wish to object to the applications in their own

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread David Forslund
The sentence says the patient will take an active role in managing their own health by having access to the virtual patient record. We specifically didn't say they would necessarily have control, since that might be still managed by the physician providing the data. But the fact that they

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Andrew Ho wrote: Tim, I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled Electronic Medical Records. Please see: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled and referenced here: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/oio This work has been online and

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Andrew Ho wrote: This means writing documentation to fully disclose innovative system features Agree. and filing some patents from time to time may become increasingly important for free software projects. Disagree. I, like many people, believe that Software, algorithmic and business method

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread David Forslund
Thus the patent you describe would make the RAD OMG specification a violation of your patent, since it provides a mechanism to specifically what you say plus a lot more? Note that the RFP for this was issued in February, 1998: http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?corbamed/98-02-23. The result is a

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Andrew Ho wrote: But do these prior systems provide the follwing set of functions? comprising the steps of : the consumer causing personal health data to be stored in a secure repository, said repository requiring authentication of the consumer's identity before the consumer is provided access

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: Thus the patent you describe would make the RAD OMG specification a violation of your patent, since it provides a mechanism to specifically what you say plus a lot more? If the patent application in question is approved in the US and the patent issues (yes, they have filed

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Ho
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tim Churches wrote: Andrew Ho wrote: Tim, I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled Electronic Medical Records. Please see: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled and referenced here:

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread David Forslund
I agree, and the OMG has some boiler plate that typically removes them from any patent liability leaving it up to the implementor of the technology. What I have a problem is properly identifying prior art. The background papers clearly cover these issues long before these patents were

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Andrew Ho wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tim Churches wrote: Andrew Ho wrote: Tim, I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled Electronic Medical Records. Please see: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled and referenced here:

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
David Forslund wrote: I agree, and the OMG has some boiler plate that typically removes them from any patent liability leaving it up to the implementor of the technology. What I have a problem is properly identifying prior art. The background papers clearly cover these issues long before these

when published spec predates patent, was Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Ho
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, David Forslund wrote: Thus the patent you describe would make the RAD OMG specification a violation of your patent, since it provides a mechanism to specifically what you say plus a lot more? Dave, No, if RAD OMG spec is a superset of any subsequent patent, then the

Re: A patent application covering EHRs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Churches
Gerard Freriks wrote: Hi, Lets be sensible. A template is nothing but a screen thta can be filled. As far as I know that has been described many times before 2001. Isn't it? Yes, but pointers to papers published prior to 2001 which specifically describe this would be appreciated. Formal and

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