Well, that's its name. It is a new, open source, Web-based EMR for the US market, based on Zope and Plone, which are intriguing but probably quite sound choices for infrastructure (uses an object database, not a relational database - makes much sense for clinical data). See http://www.uemr.com/index.html
Probably not usable as-is in the Oz setting, but yet another demonstration that it *is* possible to create viable open source clinical apps with very modest investment. They mention "four years of effort", probably by one to three people - thus around 10 person-years of effort. That's around $1.5-2.0 million of investment. Would be money well spent by a govt agency or even a private philanthropic concern in the Australian setting (or even sponsorship by a private health insurance company - what better way to promote yourself but to have posters in GPs' waiting rooms say "the computer software used by this practice is proudly sponsored by...". No need to wait 4 years: half a dozen smart people could do it in 12-18 months, with increasingly polished prototypes to show off and get active feedback at monthly intervals along the way. That's what Australian patients and health professionals deserve. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
