This could be good for everyone:
http://digg.com/tech_deals/Open_Source_Medications_Database
If you could please digg this article, it could get some good exposure.
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Dr. Valdes,
Where can I find information on
purchasing the VistA-Office EMR software?
Thank you.
Dr. Daniel Yacono
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Using Tomcat
eChannel line reports: 'According to a newly released IDC study, open
source software has spread far beyond Linux and is gaining enormous
momentum. The study, which analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000
developers in 116 countries, finds that developers worldwide are
increasing their use of ope
Hello all,
I have need to have Python/Zope/Plone and MUMPS/GT.M/VistA to be able
to interact (ie exchange or use each others data). Probably this will
be through xmlrpc but any way that works is fine. If you've done this
before or know how to do this and/or can develop and can teach me how
it
Hello all,
I received a request from a Linux Medical News reader from Spain
asking about a spanish version of VistA. Does one exist or is it in
progress?
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Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to ma
Nominations are officially open for the 6th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom Award to be presented at the November 11th-15th AMIA Fall
conference in Washington, D.C. Deadline for entries is July 30th,
2006. This is NOT a officially sponsored event of AMIA. Free and open
source software isn't
According to this Evans Data Corporation survey, the number of Linux
developers and Windows developers will be equal by the end of the year
2006. This development was noted by LinuxToday editor's: '...With its
dominant adoption rate, Apache may be doing more for the cause of open
source devel
I'm wondering if the VA's Java efforts and this new kid: the Eclipse
Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) are going to have anything to do with
each other?
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1148373684/index_html
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Hello all, Has anyone done Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
software integration with VistA such as integration with something
like Sugar-CRM or Salesforce?
Thanks!
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The reprters of Linux Medical News never make theze mstakes and
therefore do not supher from this problem :-)
-- Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical News
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:34:37 -0700
"Ben Mehling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As anyone that's
All,
In moving the hardhats list to other environments: One thing to
consider is that currently the Plone community http://www.plone.org
which creates the software that runs the worldvista.org website is in
a frenzy of activity to create some great foruming software called
PloneBoard. They've
Has there been any work of any kind integrating a Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) system such as Sugar-CRM or Salesforce
with VistA? Thanks!
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Get stuff
Cindy was Linux Medical News ace reporter for four years before she
passed on. Despite some quirks such as thinking everyone was a
Chihuahua, she had a true talent for getting the inside track for
important meetings and being around powerful people in the Free and
Open Source Software in medi
I personally found him to be all over the map in his speeches and he
seemed to be taking positions that appeared to be doomed to failure
from a technology standpoint. My favorite was in an interview where he
said something to the effect of: we're not going to enforce standards,
but everything s
David Brailer has resigned. MSNBC is reporting that 'Dr David Brailer,
the man charged by President Bush with ensuring that half of all
Americans have a portable electronic health record within a decade, is
to step down two years after taking on the job...' This is a
tremendous loss for the F
iHealth and Technology brings you a Forrester Whitepaper: Open Source
Software Primer for Health Care Leaders. "While not heralding the end
of commercial software vendors, the report concludes that conditions
are ripe for open source solutions to take root in health care, and
that it will lik
In a Hospital Connect editorial, Delaware senator Tom Carper has
endorsed the Veterans Affairs VistA software as a reference model for
a national standard EHR: "...Efforts are underway within the federal
government to ensure that all health care providers will be able to
use IT in a uniform a
Dr. Omar El Hattab was a Cancer Epidemiologist at the National Cancer
Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. He was responsible for getting
DHCP (the precursor to VistA) installed at his cancer institutes. In
order to help Linux Medical News readers understand the challenges he
faced in setting
ng. In any
case I have changed 'interoperability protocol' to 'messaging
standard'. I've also changed the UI paragraph slightly to emphasize
that I'm referring to the user interface, not the data layer.
Again, thank you very much for your insightful interest and comme
ate? It is important to ask the question given the United States rich
history of failure and two notable successes with large scale Health
IT."
Read the full article at
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1134404398/index_html
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical News
-- http://www.linuxm
The December 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics has a report that
found a coincident increase in mortality after implementing a
'Commercially Sold' Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system.
The increased mortality may have been due to delays in medication and
IV administration in th
Is there any activity looking specifically at the use of Open Source
software in the management of disease related data in Oncology
patients?
I am a radiation oncologist interested in pursuing some Open Source
development in the area of managing data associated with the
management of cancer
In these days where one increasingly has to take personal
responsibility for appropriate medical coverage, Intuit's Quicken
Medical Expense Manager fills the bill. While not an Open Source
product by any means, it does take a different perspective...the
patient's. Many of the projects covered o
Hello all, I'm preparing for next weeks panel discussion at amia.org's
fall conference on Deploying VistA. I'm doing the Public Policy part
in keeping with the conference theme. I have a bunch of stuff already,
but does anyone have a history of VistA from a legislative angle?
Major dates and
Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know that the VistA Panel
discussion and B. Lord's demo for this year's Fall AMIA in Wash D.C.
October 25th at 10:30am location to be announced was featured in an
e-mail to sent out to all AMIA members. I think they are going to be
very well attended. -- IV
September 19th, 2005 CMS released an 'evaluation version' of the
highly anticipated Vista Office EHR (VOE) according to a CMS website
press release. Highlights of the press release are that apparently CMS
is going to evaluate how implementations are working at a limited
number of beta test site
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Hi, There is a researcher that is looking for a testbed of two clinic
sites running VistA that currently do not exchange e-records but DO
exchange patients often enough to examine staff workload patterns.
Please let me know if you have knowledge of such a place. -- IV
Hello all,
I have just received word that: 'Deployment of the VistA Free and Open
Source EHR/EMR Stack' Panel discussion will be held October 25th, 2005
at 10:30am-12:00pm in Washington D.C., exact location will be printed
in the on-site program. I'm guessing that this is going to be very
wel
Wow, I just checked the statistics for visits to Linux Medical News
this month and they are way up. Highest search term on LMN: VistA
Office.
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Gregory, you are sick. Sick, sick, sick :-)
I'm sure you've read the 'Dragon book'? If not, then it is a nice
little fluff piece on compilers :-)
-- IV
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:01:58 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-m
Uversa has decided to reply to the recent ONCHIT RFP regarding an open
source prototype implementation of a National Health Information
Network. We need volunteers to commit different types of healthcare
facilties to receiving and sending secure patient data from this
network. So far the resp
Is anyone working on a VistA HL7 v3 records import/export? -- IV
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LinuxMedNews-Announce list -- Brief news update.
More grant RFP's are out. These are for Rural Health Information
Networks. The first one is to: ''...Support development of rural
health networks. Grant funds are used to support activities that
strengthen the organization
people and projects
are
already 'pinned down' in pending RFP's. -- IV
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:22:26 -0500
"Ignacio Valdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree, this is the proverbial 'it' for FOSS in healthcare. There
are many millions of dollars at stake here.
The Health and Human Services Department plans an open-source
set-aside for one of the six contracts it wants to award for
prototypes of a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). More
details and link:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1120669316/index_html
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I have just now created a Grants subject heading on Linux Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com that anyone can post too. Staying vigilant
and populating this subject heading reliabily and accurately is a
problem for me alone with my current workload. I will probably miss
many announcements
Nominations are officially open for the 5th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom (formerly Achievement) Award to be presented at the October
22nd-26th AMIA Fall conference in Washington, D.C. Deadline for
entries is July 30th, 2005. Currently this is NOT a officially
sponsored event of AMIA. Free
piece of work that would require an
established vendor and many other parts. If you are serious about
participating in this, please read the RFP first, then contact me
offline as soon as possible as there are only a few weeks to get a
proposal together.
Thanks!
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Editor
Nearly $1 million Awarded to WorldVistA for Vendor Training
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today
that WorldVistA has been named '...as a vendor support organization to
provide vendor training on VistA-Office EHR' But what does it all
mean? We spoke with Wor
There is now a health record available on the Internet for 'every
American at no cost' called iHealth Record which is supposedly
endorsed by many major medical societies. A tour is available
http://www.ihealthrecord.org/tour.html According to the FAQ: '..The
iHealthRecord does not sell patient
On Entrepreneurial Seizures in Health Care
'...So many in the past have had a health IT entrepreneurial seizure.
A health IT entrepreneurial seizure can summed up with the following
phrase: 'We'll get a bunch of money and some great programmers, go to
work, and after a few years, show these dumb
This just in from Dan Johnson, MD:
'Open-Source VistA to emerge in 2005
First, this is not an "announcement," in the sense of Grand Hoopla. It
is news that a door is creaking open: The Wisconsin QIO (Quality
Improvement Organization; formerly known as a PRO - Professional
Review Organization), M
-To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
VistA is Public Domain, not Open Source, always has been, always (at
least
should) will be.
-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ignacio
Valdes
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:38 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.so
I would suspect that the license would have to come down to either GNU
GPL or FreeBSD type-license. Now, deciding between the two: let the
games begin! :-)
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This just in on LMN: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1114090027 Why has
Ontario, Canada chosen to link their Smart Systems for Health Agency
to the proprietary .NET technologies? I recently was perusing the
website for the Ontario, Canada Smart Health initiative and noticed
that a lot of the job po
Did you notice the new granting institutions mentioned?
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1113236924/index_html
They are making grants for $100,000 to $1,000,000 which was off of my
radar. Unfortunately, the first round submission deadline was March 1.
They imply that there will be more ro
Would that be Mac OS X? -- IV
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:31:29 -0400
Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ignacio, I think it will be ported to the MAC, not Oracle. At the
meeting I
heard two programmers had done it a few years ago and no longer
have their
code, so the hope is to do it ag
Hello all,
With the gracious help of Nancy Anthracite and without benefit of
actually attending the Boston meeting, I have created this summary of
the meeting:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1113172411/index_html
If there are major announcements and discussions that I did not
include,
As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable
medical errors which Free and Open Source electronic medical records
software could reduce. A contender in this area is the Veterans
Administration (VA) public domain VistA codebase and large community.
In a major advance for FOS
Linux Medical News is 5 years old as of yesterday. It all began with
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/954458835/index_html the
first posting. Since that time, there have been 970 posted articles, a
great deal of editing, and millions of visitors. Has the landscape
changed much since th
tions, new logo combination and product suggestions to my e-mail
are welcome.
Thanks to John Norris for making this happen. Sincerely,
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical news, JOSMC
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com
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Howdy,
Would anyone be anyone interested in doing a VistA workshop at the
AMIA fall conference? AMIA has increased their efforts over the last
few years to actively include Free and Open Source Software. To that
end, they have had special sections for FOSS in their conferences and
established t
Hello all,
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the Boston meeting. I would
like to deputize someone to report on the meeting for the
approximately 20,000 visitors/week Linux Medical News readers. Editing
support by myself is provided. Please contact me off list if you would
like to cover
Oops! Oh well, a wiki has already been done. Sorry Dave. -- IV
Original Message
Subject: VistA Community Documentation Wiki (was) Greetings Hardhats
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Wiki!
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:31:05 -0500
From: Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.ne
If there is no Wiki for VistA, then I've created a ZWiki page for
VistA here:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/vista
Please feel free to use it. Linux Medical News is unlikely to go away
soon so the hosting for this should continue for quite a long time.
Any content placed in it is unde
Per Will Ross on the amia OSWG list and as a result now on Linux
Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1106068472/index_html:
This is a reminder for anyone who has not heard about the Software RFP
available for the Phoenix Practice Management ("PhoenixPM") software
project. The
Hello all, I will be unable to attend the community meeting. Could
someone please take notes and post them to Linux Medical News about
the goings on? Thanks!
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Crawford, a good way to get exposure is on Linux Medical News. Please
post the information to the site and I will edit it into shape. LMN is
averaging 13,000 visitors/week and is syndicated by many sites. This
average usually climbs a lot in the fall and declines in the summer. I
need to toot i
Nancy, can you send me a link to a press release for this? I would
like to announce it on Linux Medical News. Thanks! -- IV
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:39:42 -0400
"Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of the world's most sophisticated software systems for keeping
electronic health record
How's this?
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1092005186/index_html
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:35:59 -0400
"K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also, please publicize this as widely as possible for maximum
exposure.
Remember we want all who may be interested to know about it.
-- Bhask
I received this to my private e-mail. Could anyone help the Dr? -- IV
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I work part-time in a VA hospital. I would like to
purchase a version of CPRS for my private office. Do you know if there are
any vendors who offer this? Thanks f
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