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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:26:55 +1100
From: Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is openEHR going? - was RE: [GPCG_TALK] Request for
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Tim Churches wrote:
David More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My understanding was that DSTC was contracted to develop the software
for the trial
(testing openEHR /Archetype concepts) and that as a contractor the
person who pays for the
contract owns what is produced - in the same way as when I do work for a
client they own the report.
It depends entirely on how the contract was framed. However, there is a
history of C'wealth govt contracts ceding all the IP in pilot projects
entirely to the contractor - an issue on which the former GPCG had
something
to say, I think.
For Extensia to take the contracted software there should have been a
return to the
Government - or not so? or maybe the Government gave the IP away?
I strongly suspect that latter.
See http://www.crca.asn.au/activities/2005/ScienceAction_ict.htm - which
reveals that DSTC Pty Ltd (Liz, DSTC stands for "Co-operative Research
Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology", the e-health
aspects of which were spun off into Extensia Pty Ltd) signed a $2.9M
contract in Jan 2004 with the Commonwealth Department of Health and
Ageing to develop and trial an initial reference implementation of the
open EHR solution in the Brisbane Southside area in partnership with the
General Practice Computing Group and Queensland Health.
It is the technical fruits of that trial, in the form of Extensia's
suite of openEHR components, which I presume they are now offering for
sale as advertised on their web site (see
http://www.extensia.com.au/recpt.html and click on "Products" and then
"RecordPoint"), with prices known early next year, according to their
CEO Mark Gibson. Don't ask me where the technical evaluation reports on
those Queensland trials are published, I've got no idea, but if anyone
knows, please give us a clue. If they are unpublished, they are probably
FOIAable (Freedom of Information Act), assuming that such evaluation
reports exist at all. They would make interesting reading, I think.
Tim C
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