[GPCG_TALK] EHR for Linux

[Dr Hugh Nelson]

Vista-Office EHR will run on Linux, but needs Windows clients for the best GUI (CPRS) which is written in Delphi. Borland were producing Kylix to allow Delphi applications to be ported to Linux, but have ceased to do so as part of a sweetheart deal with Microsoft. Vista ( That is the US Veterans medical system) has a mouthwatering track record, stable, fast, and providing comprehensive health records that are acknowledged to be the best integrated in the US, and available in the public domain, and the servers will run Mumps (open source as GT/M) on Linux. If we could get around the Delphi / MS stuff for the workstations it would be a wonderful system for linux providing every part of clinic or hospital care from patient registrations, billling, intgrated pathology and pharmacy, prescribing, POMR etc. The Vista-Office.org approach seems to be locked into approved beta test sites with approved support personell with proprietary M database (Cache)  - so even though Vista EHR is public domain, it doesn't look as if the US really wants to share it with the world. Perhaps we just keep encouraging Horst with GnuMed. I wish I could get my head into WxPython to help. Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:27, Greg Twyford wrote: Utter masochism. Yes, I know, and I have known that we are at the usable limit of Pracsoft 1 for a while, but we are trying to get a suitable alternate that will run on a linux server and doesn't use flat files. I've found one, and am hassling our medical software supplier to migrate his flat file PMS to an open-source relational database as another option. LIz

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