Hi Nandalal,
Thanks for your suggestions for the Vision Mission statements. Let me
put the 2 vision statements together here and discuss the change in
focus in the vision:
>Free and Open Source Health Care Software will provide a better worldwide
>collaborative environment for developing a viable and sustainable alternative
>in mainstream ICT for positive impact in health outcomes as adjunct to
>building a global knowledge society.
>
>Free and Open Source Health Care Software will provide a viable and
>sustainable alternative in mainstream ICT for positive impact in health
>outcomes as adjunct to building a global knowledge society.
>
I think what we want to see (vision) is the implementation of FOSS
solutions. What you're suggesting is providing a better worldwide
collaborative environment for FOSS development. Do I interprete it
correctly? We've mentioned this as one of the Principals. We can also
put that as a mission. Any other views on this?
As for your suggestions on limiting the numbers of mission statements to
5-7, is your concern just the numbers? I notice you have left out items,
such as capacity building and providing and sharing information
resources and technical knowledge. A recent survey done here on the
problems related to migration to open source show that lack of support
and maintenance was the most important reason for reluctance to use oss.
If your concerns are just numbers, we can combine some of the mission
statements. I'll do that in my next post or someone can help me do that :).
With regards to your suggestions on this statement, I'm afraid I
disagree. OSHCA simply will not have that power to do that. We can only
advocate.
>3. Make recommendations on Guidelines on Health Information Standards and
>commit/coax/advocate? adherence to them
>
However, we'll amend No: 3 to read
> 3. Make recommendations on Guidelines on Health Information Standards
> to support open data (?data interchange and data language) standards
Molly
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
>Dr Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Molly,
> I have made some changes/suggestions to your excellent draft. But is the
> mission statement too long? I think about 5-7 points would suffice.
>
>
> Nandalal
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>I've tried to put together views expresed so far, but runs into difficulty at
>some points. The Mission statements are a bit unruly. Needs help.
>
> Vision:
>
> Free and Open Source Health Care Software will provide a better worlwide
> collaborative environment for developing a viable and sustainable alternative
> in mainstream ICT for positive impact in health
> outcomes as adjunct to building a global knowledge society.
>
> (I'm quite comfortable in not using the word "solidarity". The only reason I
> considered it was because the UN's Louis-Dominique Ouedraogo of the Joint
> Inspection Unit used the terms "freedom, solidarity, sustainable development"
> during the workshop in Tunisia recently titled "Software for development: Are
> Free/open source software the answer?". Incidently his answer to that
> question is "yes" based on 2 reports on open source that will be tabled at
> the UN General Assembly this year. Hope the reports don't don't get derailed
> :))
>
> Mission:
>
> 1. Advocacy role to promote to policy makers the concept of open standards
> and open source in healthcare so as to adopt or give equal opportunity to
> such
> solutions
> 2. Provide leadership role in refining the FOSS concepts as applied to
> healthcare to ensure best practices and patient safety are not compromised
> 3. Make recommendations on Guidelines on Health Information Standards and
> commit/coax/advocate? adherence to them
> 4. Provides Guidelines for Quality Control on open source software develpment
>
> 5. Assist in finding/prioritizing funding for projects to reach critical mass
> 6. Promotes and helps the formation of development consortia for health care
> related projects
> 7. Solicits membership from strategic organizations
> (help is welcomed to consolidate the mission statements)
>
> Principles
>
> 1. Promote a globally sustainable approach
>
> Open source software development encourages global collaboration. OSHCA will
> encourage approaches that seek active participation by users, developers, and
> policy makers from all parts of the world.
>
> 2. Stay lightweight and flexible
>
> In the spirit of open source where development is user and needs driven,
> facilitation needs to support highly desirable dynamism, adaptability, and
> flexibility. This approach seeks to facilitate natural processes that produce
> unprecedented quality, usability, and cost effectiveness.
>
> 3. Be open to diverse opinions and technologies
>
> OSHCA is inclusive of all health care-related open source activities. In an
> open source world, the success of an idea, standard, or product is measured
> by its practical use.
> (I have difficulty trying to relate the second to the first statements, as
> pointed out by Thomas. Any help here?)
>
> 4. Ethical Deployment
>
> OSHCA's focus is the legal and ethical deployment of reliable and robust open
> source systems in all areas of health care. This means taking leadership role
> to ensure standards are maintained and working with legislative and standards
> bodies to encourage the inclusion of open source principals in their policies.
>
> Activities
>
> 1. OSHCA Conference
> 2. Maintain OSHCA web-portal
> 3. Maintain database of open source health care softwares
> 4. Maintain database of open source programmers
> 5. Maintain database of individuals, non-profits and commercial enterprises
> supporting and maintaining open source health care softwares
> 6. Form groups on developing guidelines on health information standards,
> quality control on open source software development, etc.
>
> Molly
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