active project in NM seeking to do a statewide management of Hep C because of its
extreme requirements for treatment and management that is beyond the reach of
many local physicians. It is the number one project at the University of New Mexico
Health Science Center and is thought of as a example of almost any other chronic
illness, of which Diabetes is also big in New Mexico.
We would like to help provide management of the Hep C effort through shared medical records that require multiple physicians working on a single patient. Open standards and open source software would be a big help here.
Dave At 12:10 PM 9/13/2003 +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
One area I think FLOSS particularly well-suited to is systems that cover an entire area, primary secondary and possibly patient access, for one disease area.
Diabetes looks like a good starting one.
Such a system should accept inputs that would be manual by default, but by defining an open interface information could be presented to it from the output of a module built by a commercial supplier for their own GP or hospital software.
Natrually what those suppliers would like would b to bring the whole area onto their own system, and in due course write systems to handle other disease groups. but this should prove acceptable to them. -- >From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
