If your looking for volunteers for this opensource healthcare project, I
can help on a part time basis with system interface requirements.

Gary Kunkel



> An area we have been looking at that is similar to Diabetes is Hepatitis
>  C.  There is an
> 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/



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