The OSHCA meeting will be a good opportunity to meet each other. We will
definitely set aside lots of time for interacting with each other.
Joseph
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From: philippe Ameline
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: Good components
Hi,
I think "best concepts" has been misinterpreted by some people on the list.
I am french, and sometimes don't use the most proper words.
My opinion is that we all have taken the (difficult) problem of building a
medical system in a personnal way.
For example, many of you are centered on hospitals (maybe because you work
in) ; this is not my case.
Some of you think that a web browser is the good interface ; I work on
Artificial Intelligence-able workstations.
I believe in highly structured patient records ; some of you probably think
it's an utopy.
However, we all have developped good components that could certainly be
re-used by someone else, even if he has different paradigms
Thomas Beale and I both used the Lego brick comparison when describing our
concept ; in the same way, there is lots of ordinary bricks in my system,
but I also have smart bricks I can offer, and I know I miss some bricks you
probably have.
Andrew's interactive repository of projects is a good starting point (I must
confess the message with its URL is in my office, and since I didn't
understand how it works in 30 seconds, and then telephon rang...). Could we
work on it ? I am ready to start.
As a summary, I think that if we have to work on paradigms we probably must
meet each others (medical open source congress - sponsored by Minoru ;o) ) -
but we can already share components (at least describe our best components),
and that is the first step to a genuine collaboration - and more if
affinity.
Philippe AMELINE
Odyssée project
www.nautilus-info.com
