On 03/04/2007, at 7:01 AM, Tim Churches wrote:
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
Hi TimC,
Thanks for bringing to our attention the above.
At the above url, it talks of "commercial open source" and different
pricing levels.
Can you/anyone elaborate on the above - as this is slightly
different from my ruby/rails/mysql experience of open source.
Cheers
Kuang
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
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