[openhealth] FOSS Med in Second Life

2008-02-21 Thread John Norris
Just as a proof of concept I accessed ClearHealth's demo from within the Second Life Client. While ClearHealth is not really "in-world" it can be used as an adjunct to the experience. I have a post up on my blog about it: http://tinyurl.com/239tzu There are a number of healthcare training and ed

Re: [openhealth] Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-21 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:03, Fred Trotter wrote: ... > Keep in mind that FMSF, in whatever method we use to make it, will > hopefully be sponsoring development ... > we would hope to work with organizations > like WebReach or ClearHealth or a development oriented foundation to > get specific

[openhealth] Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-21 Thread sickleofzeus
Dear Fred, I am not pretending when I stated that Open Source Medical Software was created to serve this purpose. This language was and is in the OSMS incorporation documents and part of the Bylaws.After many months of not attracting attention to the OSMS project I did invite a number of acti

[openhealth] An opportunity or crushing competition?

2008-02-21 Thread Wayne Wilson
Walmart is franchising clinics in their stores and partnering with solution providers as well as regional health systems. Here is a chain of reasoning that might apply: Walmart mandates that it's franchisee's use eClinicalWorks software. Check it out. It's your target in the US market. I was i

Vermont (was) Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-21 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
WorldVistA EHR is CCHIT certified. OpenVista is Medsphere trademark and product and is not CCHIT certified. The VITL folks did show an interest in WoldVistA EHR... but their selection process was structured, as these things typically are, with the mindset the legacy procurement model born of the

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 539

2008-02-21 Thread Wayne Wilson
On 21 Feb 2008 09:04:22 -, > 2a. Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation >Posted by: "Tim Cook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tw_cook >Date: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:02 am ((PST)) > > Health informatics in general and certainly the use of FOSS in > healthcare is so young that there is a VERY

Re: [openhealth] HIMSS in Orlando

2008-02-21 Thread Fred Trotter
I will be going to HIMSS and I would like to arrange another FOSS meetup!! -FT On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is anyone on this list attending this conference? > http://www.himssconference.org/ > > It would be great to hear thoughts about Eri

[openhealth] Re: HIMSS in Orlando

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Cook
Well, immediately after sending that query; I see this headline on CNN: "Google ventures into health records biz" http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/21/google.records.ap/index.html On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:08 +0100, Tim Cook wrote: > Hi All, > > Is anyone on this list attending this conferen

[openhealth] HIMSS in Orlando

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Cook
Hi All, Is anyone on this list attending this conference? http://www.himssconference.org/ It would be great to hear thoughts about Eric Schmidt's (Google CEO) keynote and if any open source advocates have a press pass for the press conference afterwards that would be very cool. Maybe they are ab

Re: [openhealth] Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:03 -0500, Fred Trotter wrote: > Hello, > We are starting a 501c3 non-profit foundation to advance > FOSS in healthcare. Here is our "mission statement": > > To improve the quality of healthcare through the advancement of Free > and Open Source Medical Software. The Free M