Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-16 Thread balu raman
I strongly suggest that you work with Dr.Bowen that already runs a non-profit, oemr.org, for FOSS in healthcare, to avoid splintering efforts. If I remember correctly, there was an attack on 'patientOS' with the same reasoning. Regards, balu raman office manager ryder brook pediatrics

Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Feb 16, 2008, at 9:31 AM, balu raman wrote: I strongly suggest that you work with Dr.Bowen that already runs a non-profit, oemr.org, for FOSS in healthcare, to avoid splintering efforts. If I remember correctly, there was an attack on 'patientOS' with the same reasoning.

Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-16 Thread Tim Cook
Hi All, On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:59 -0800, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: I'm not familiar OEMR, but if it stands for Open EMR, isn't that a particular product? In any case, I don't think anyone has a moral right to insist that anyone wanting to work in the area of open source medical

Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-16 Thread balu raman
Hi All, May be, I should not believe everything I read on oemr.org's stated goals as a non-profit. I don't know if oemr.org is solely setup as a non-profit for openemr product alone. We have been using openemr in our practice for the past 3 years and it has worked out well. That does not mean

Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-16 Thread Fred Trotter
Rod wrote: I'd have a very hard time being interested without (at least tentative) answers to those questions up front. How can you not care if another perfectly good organization is already dedicated to the same things? fair enough. Answers below: Tim wrote: There is nothing wrong with