> > True. The university hospital (Chiang Mai, Thailand) I worked at last
year
> > just then installed a full blown EMR system (from Australia I was told).
>
> Hey, we don't even have those here, in Australia. <flippancy>Maybe it
> was donated to Thailand because it was so unreliable?</flippancy>
> Seriously, I wonder, was it Australian software, or was it Australian
Now really, haven't we? What about Medical Diretor - used by 14.000 medical
practitioners (http://www.md.com.au/doctors.hcn/), MIMS script
(http://www.mims.com.au/mds.htm), Locum 3, Genie
(http://www.geniesolutions.com.au/ - Paul Carr mentioned he would be
prepared to go open source if it would be commercially viable!)? Some Docs
in my area are already paperless, and all these software packages have been
developed in Australia (MDW and Genie even by doctors for doctors).
http://www.medicineau.net.au/computing/software/home.html list s some 30
Australian medical software packages, most of them capable of maintaining
EMRs.
All those packages have severe security and integrity flaws, thats why I
"roll my own" (gnumed), but they give the impression that they work and the
user interface of all of them is definitely impressive.
We even have a full blown *working* open source EMR here in Oz
(http://www.accessgp.com/), mainly used by specialists now, but originally
developed for general practice. Unfortunately, it was developed using M$
Access - the developer (Geoff Stokeld) has realized the drawbacks and is now
contributing to gnumed.
Still, as opposed to gnumed, his product is complete and has been used
successfully for a couple of years, and is entirely free. It is structured
in a way that you can use it in hospitals, too. Just have a look at the
screen shots (http://www.accessgp.com/Screen.htm)
Horst
