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/
