[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how is the RoR appointment system different from oscar 's ? Oscar is lacking > a > email/online weak > authentication ( emailed passwords) registration/lost password regeneration > service, > but that wouldn't be hard to do ( it could be done manually by the > receptionists, who issue a password to patients at the front > desk , anyway). Oscar's appointment system has also been adapted to > gnumed's > demographics. > I don't agree with Tim's assertion that you can't get usable OS emr systems > without paid programmers ;
Although OSCAR is itself another example of a working open source EMR developed by paid, professional developers (in an academic setting, what's more). Are there any counter-examples of fielded, working open source EMRs/EHRs which have been developed entirely by the "classical" Eric S. Raymond "bazaar" model of spontaneously self-assembling collectives of unpaid volunteers? It seems that Horst's nascent RoR-based system will also be created (or at least bootstrapped) by paid full-time developers. None of that implies that volunteers are not absolutely vital, just that they need to be complemented by a core team funded to worry about delivering project outcomes in a concentrated fashion on a defined timetable (which will of course slip, but by weeks or months, not years). Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
