Hi,
Thanks for all your contributions, we really appreaciate it. For your
information I am non-programmer, customer in that sence that I look the
whole work as a doctor and user of Care2x. It is good we have now fully
professional people to work on the code. But at the end of the day what is
important is to make health professional happy about the outcome.
About mobile version: We do not plan to use it realtime through internet
but connecting to local server through wifi. Local server is maintained
remotely (like our full East-African versions are maintained now in
different hospitals) and bandwidht needed on Ubuntu servers is available at
affordable cost. The mobile internet costs are coming down fast at least in
Tanzania. A couple of years ago we had to pay over 100$ for 500Mb and now
you get 3Gb for 70$. But most hospitals are in rural area using slower
mobile GPRS or EDGE speed and even that is spotty and quality is variable,
so we do not think it will be good for realtime use for hospital software.
But for bakcups and maintenance it is OK.
There is mobile version for OpenMRS on Android platform and we think it
would be good to find a solution for very basic needs on fully mobile
version for care2x as well. It could be used in small rural clinics without
technical skills or reliable power to run servers. It would be used as
single unit at that level. The data could be sent from mobile to backup
server and reporting in central places. We try to make the mobile front end
so simple now that it could be transferred to mobile platform as it is, the
big work would be to transfer db and scripts to fully mobile platform.
Android seems now most attractive, but also Maemo and Symbian QT could be
considered - depending on which gives the best way to transfer php scripts
and db. Smartphone operating systems and applications are developing so fast
that we might have quite different tools next year.
Mauri
2010/9/25 Ap.Muthu <apmu...@usa.net>
> Hi Mauri Niemi,
>
> My sponsors, M/s Planettel Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., Singapore is actively
> sustaining the development work by providing a couple of OpenVZ containers
> and host access to test and bugfix the current SVN trunk version of Care2x.
> The Mobile market is exploding but the Service providers are not making
> access any cheaper in the long run atleast in the poorer countries blaming
> it on corruption and protection / licencing rackets. SMS based operation
> rather than GUI based ones will be appealing to the younger generation
> (owing to cost and familiarity). Just my 2c. TerraNet from Sweden -
> http://www.terranet.se/ - is developing technologies on extension will
> enable us to have a WiFi Network without Service providers!
>
> The current database is a mere set of tables and all the intelligence and
> workflow is hidden in the php scripting. It does take a while before any new
> developer can reach ninja status to fix and extend Care2x. I have managed
> upto 18 hours a day for several days just to cut to the chase - in the last
> one month that I have been actively involved. From Day 1, GJ and Robert have
> been very helpful and have provided me SVN write access at once. Thankyou
> indeed for the trust you have reposed in me.
>
> I have evaluated OpenEMR - highly developed as it may be - it has a severe
> learning curve - and seems intimidating to the first time user.
> Comparatively, Care2x has a friendly and intuitive interface, that will seem
> attractive to the non-technical user. In fact, coming from a coding
> background, I found OpenEMR very nice to offer a client - the client put
> their foot down and said that Care2x is the way they would want to go - and
> here I am - contributing to Care2x. The customer is always right - isn't it?
>
> Regards,
> Ap.Muthu
>
>
>
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> You have seen from mailing list during the last months what few active
> people can do with open source software. Gjergj, Muthu and Robert have done
> great job recently and hope we can find more active people, from the old
> guard as well as fresh new brains to the team.
>
> I looked all who have mailed in the last months to care2x developers list
> and send this mail privately to all of you. We are looking for people who
> could test the fresh updates and report bugs and help to make software
> stable. Of course we are happy to get more developers to work on the code to
> speed up the development. Recently in our Tanzanian national discussion list
> somebody compared how much support OpenMRS has got from international
> ogranizations. If we focus more in poor countries we have bigger
> possibilities to get support from development organizations. Somebody with
> interest to market Care2x to possible partners would be needed.
>
> We have recently started to develop simpler version, to fit front end to
> smart phones and later to have fully mobile mobile version for small
> clinics. Mobile phone applications are exploding and I believe Care2x
> should be there in one way or other. That would solve a lot of maintenance
> and support issues in developing countries, where everybody has phone but
> few have computers and reliable power source.
>
> If you can give your time for the project in one way or other please mail
> back to me or Robert Meggle.
>
> Best
> Mauri Niemi
>
>
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