Hello, The strategy, now adopted by Cabinet, can be found on http://www.oss.gov.za Most of your questions/conserns might be address by reading that. Regards, willem
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Etienne Saliez wrote: > > I am currently no more directly involved in medical stock issues, but > would you like to provide more information about the new Open Source > strategy of the South African Governement. > When the South African Governement spend some public money for > healthcare software developements, are you really allowed to require > that all the results must become public domain knowledge, including > source and documentation ? > > > Stock management is an issue which implies a lot of integration with > other modules of the the hospital. > Let we look alone at the pharmacy related services in a well integrated > hospital ! > > I think that one of the key issues in the roadmap toward Open Source > collaborations, would be a clear definition of one would expect a > "medical stock" or "resource management" component should looks like. > > I believe we need a very modular "component based" approach, as far as > possible independent of the software environment. > > Which "objects", with which attributes and properties, would you like to > have in Open source ? > > > Currently I am seeking international contacts in the field of Primary > Care and distributed networks. > see our project at : > http://www.crisnet.be/index-uk.html > Do you see contacts with South African GP organisations, who could be > interested ? > > Etienne Saliez, MD > > > > Willem van der Walt wrote: > > > > >Subject: hospital level medical stock management system open-source > > considdered > > > >Hi, > >I am Willem van der Walt from the IT directorate of the South African > >department of Health. This country reasently adopted an open-source > >strategy. > >Inline with that I want to find out if there are any hospital level > >medical > >stock control systems under development using open-source. > >We might considder developing such a system using a user requirement > >specification that we have. > >I would like to get in touch with people in open-source health systems. > >regards, Willem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
