Here's the abstract of a paper presented at OSHCA2007 in May in KL.
Legal issues impacting the use of open source software in health care
by GK Ganesan
Software relating to healthcare: an introduction to some legal issues
This paper examines legal issues relating to the use of open source
For those who are interested to read the happenings before and beyond
Tunis, here's the url: http://www.gkpcms.com/beyondtunis/index.cfm/pageid/38
The */Beyond Tunis/* publication series is a unique intellectual
adventure launched by Global Knowledge Partnership
http://www.globalknowledge.org
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in patient care.
I will bring this issue to the attention of the PCDOM Committee at their
next meeting for their action.
Molly
Tim Cook wrote:
Thanks for the clarification that Primacare is not open source.
Regards,
Tim
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:57 +1100, Tim Churches wrote:
Molly Cheah
Churches wrote:
Molly Cheah wrote:
Dear all,
In view of the type of posts to these lists and that I do not wish
to be
drawn to the same type of exchanges that led to the demise of OSHCA
from
2003-2006, I would like to make the following statement. Besides, I
This is a challenge to OSHCA's interoperability efforts. Please
subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to participate in the FOSS efforts
co-ordinated by OSHCA.
Go to http://mailman.oshca.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/foss_health to
subscribe.
This is a follow-up to the OSHCA Conference 2007 with the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list had been set up, thanks to Soo Hoe.
This list is started as a result of the need to continue the discussions and
subsequent follow-up activities from the OSHCA Conference 2007 which was held
in Kuala Lumpur 8-11 May 2007 with the theme:
Moving the FOSS Agenda for
Hi Mark,
(see below)
mspohr wrote:
Dear Molly,
It was very good to meet you in Cape Town. I'm sorry that I was not
able to arrange to attend the OSHCA conference.
Yes. We would have liked to see someone from the Health Matrix Network
at the conference but there wasn't one.
This
Yes. There is negotiated rates (its in the conf registration form)
Hotel Accommodation : *Superior Room *@ *RM180.00 nett per room per
night *
* Deluxe Room @ RM230.00 nett per room per night *
* Deluxe Studio @ RM300.00 nett per room per night*
* (rates inclusive of breakfast)*
Current
A Malaysian friend who arrived at Newark Airport was charged USD350 for
a ride from the airport to his hotel. He thought that was the rate.
Similarly, you may be asked to pay RM100 from KLIA to your hotel in
Cititel in MidValley but by Mercedes that cost RM35+RM20 (KLIA express
RM35 and taxi
Dee Knapp wrote:
I'll not be able to make the meeting but here is a definition of tout..Dee
Thanx Dee. I was looking forward to see you in KL.
Molly
there are regular metered taxis at taxi stands in Kuala
Lumpur, and those are the best bet to get around once we take the train
from the airport to KL Sentral?
Are there types of taxis to be avoided (like the green taxis in Mexico
City)?
-- Bhaskar
Molly Cheah wrote, On 04/11/2007 06:39 PM
Dear all,
Calling all those who wish to participate or plan to attend the OSHCA
Conference 2007 from 8-11 May, please go to
http://mailman.oshca.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/participants to subscribe
to the list in order to receive updates and further information on the
conference.
Please e-mail
of Family Medicine
McMaster University
- Original Message
From: Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference May 8-11 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -
Passport and Visa Planning
*Visa
I have sent off an enquiry to the authorities regarding this requirement
for a signed formal document to apply for visa.
Molly
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
To get a visa we need a formal document to show that
there is a conference with dates and signed by
someone.
Nandalal
--- Molly Cheah [EMAIL
Hi Thomas,
I changed your subject matter because OSHCAdotorg is working. I
understand your current situation. However, there is no necessity to
resign as all committee positions lapse at the coming AGM on May 11 2007
when the AGM will vote in the new OSHCA Committee. The current one is
still
Thanks Christian for uploading these forms. Perhaps I should explain
that the travel expense estimates are to be completed by those who seek
to get financial support to attend the OSHCA Conference 2007 from May
8-11 in Kuala Lumpur. Priority will be given to presenters/trainers who
had or will
Apologies that the OSHCA web-portal is down since yesterday because of
the internet connection is down. We hope to get the connection up as
soon as I have response from our ISP provider. It also means that we are
unable to receive any e-mails to the mailing list at oshca.org. For
crucial
Tim,
When I click this Trial SIMILE link, it opens on same window and does
not take me back to the previous page, http://www.oshca.org/healthdir/
Maybe its better to make it open on a separate window.
Trial SIMILE Exhibit listing of free, open-source applications for
health and health care
You're right, Nandalal. I was given the contact to the OpenMRS to invite
them to the OSHCA conference in May by the new director of ICT for IDRC
as I understand that the project in Africa is quite exciting. As soon as
I get a firm commitment on the funding for scholarships for those
outside
Hi Klaus,
You mean as what you did in 2001?
http://oshca.org/oshca/history/oldweb/meet2001
I would suggest that the technical committee members take note of
Klaus's proposals. And thanks Klaus.
Molly
Klaus Veil wrote:
Christian,
I'd be happy to contribute something on HL7 and would also
for the FOSS community.
Klaus
_
From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Molly Cheah
Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 20:10
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics
Hi Klaus,
You mean as what you did in 2001?
http://oshca
standards in health
are essential to facilitating interoperability and how we can
encourage or lobby those standards to migrate toward the open plank.
My 2cent worth.
Stephen
On 1/19/07, *Molly Cheah* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Stephen (from APAMI list),
Let
*Preliminary Announcement!
*
*
OSHCA
*
/presents/
Moving the FOSS Agenda for Health: Setting the Framework for
Interoperability
*1-4 May 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*
Call for Presentations OSHCA 2007 - Annual Open Source Health Care
Alliance Meeting
This four-day conference
Forwarded Message
From: Philippe Aigrain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: iprpublicdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The report of this study has just be put on line on the European Commission DG
ENTR site at :
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/studies/publications.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6241923.stm
Radio goes the open source route
*A new generation of broadcasters are to join the world's airwaves after
the launch of open-source software which allows people to run a radio
station from a single computer for free.*
Campcaster takes a regular
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Asian eHealth Research Network for Developing Countries
Angeles University (Philippines) in collaboration with Asian partners at
Aga Khan University (Pakistan), the Molave Development Foundation
(Philippines), Primary Care Doctor's Organization (Malaysia) and the
just based on what we read in the Guardian, it appears to be on a
knife-edge anyway. But there has been substantive spending - CFH has
already spent many millions (I would think many times £100m) on message
development and other work that blithely assumes the central message
bank idea,
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[fossap] Asia Source II: Call for Applications
Dear Friends,
This is a call for applications for Asia Source II: Free and Open Source
Technologies for NGOs [Non Government Organisations] and SMEs
I am pleased to announce that OSHCA is now registered and will receive
its registration certificate by next week. The OSHCA web-portal
http://oshca.org had been up and operating since August 9th 2006. As it
is hosted temporarily on the Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control
(MCTC) Server, it is
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20060809_openhealthcare.html
IBM brings electronic medical records one step closer through open
technology
/ Contributes technology to open source community; Establishes
Innovation Centers to work with major players, business
http://fromgeneva.blogspot.com/2006/07/public-domain-open-standards.html
2 July 2006
Thiru Balasubramaniam
The recently concluded WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals related
to a Development Agenda (PCDA) meeting (26-30 June 2006) saw a rich
discussion on the public domain, competition
See this http://www.themekit.com/t_odt12.htm
Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
On Jun 4, 2006, at 9:24 AM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
Greg --
That's the new ISO Open Document Format standard. You can read it
with
OpenOfficce.org as well as several other applications (I think it is
supported by AbiWord
I'm looking at it actually to see if we could use it for the EVIPnet, a
WHO project that will harness evidence from research and practice for
policy decision making. I'm interested in the interface to capture data
from clinical practice to build up the database for research, something
like
Hi Alvin,
Agreeing on common standards is much more complex than meets the eye.
Have you seen this health IT standards directory by the National
Alliance for Health Information Technology? http://www.nahit.org/hitsdir/
The Standards Directory is part of the Alliance's drive to accelerate
There doesn't seem to be control of its use. Information (unofficial) of
its copy rights by WONCA is here
http://www.ulb.ac.be/esp/wicc/copyright-en.html
You can download the electronic version of ICPC2 from here.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/esp/wicc/ceo.html
When we started using it 6 years ago,
the possibilities of
different software models, notably for education, science and digital
inclusion programmes.
Dr Molly Cheah
Protem President, Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA)
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A two-part documentary, “Code Breakers” will be aired on BBC World TV
starting on 10 May 2006. Code Breakers investigates how poor countries
are using FOSS applications for development, and includes stories and
interviews from around the world.
Free/Open
Hi David,
I had taken a break, with no internet connection after the exciting
OSHCA Inaugural Meeting that was held on the 28th April. I believe
Joseph had prepared the voting results to be posted here. He should be
doing this any time now.
The duly elected protem committee will set out to
Penang - Singapore.
Molly
Molly Cheah wrote:
Hi David,
I had taken a break, with no internet connection after the exciting
OSHCA Inaugural Meeting that was held on the 28th April. I believe
Joseph had prepared the voting results to be posted here. He should be
doing this any time now.
The duly
and
these categories apply after incorporation too.
joseph,
true, there are only two named categories of members in the
constitution. there is also an informal category of membership
known as a founding member. for example:
- - - - Begin forwarded message - - - -
From: Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi everyone,
Further to my 7.02am note (just awoken then) and Joseph's subsequent instruction on the subject for today's discussion, I had copied and pasted that message below. The nice thing about this virtual extended meeting time frame is that I can add to my earlier note with some comments
Hi,
It's time that the Inaugural Meeting has come to a close, the longest
inaugural meeting that allows interested and supportive people across
the globe to move for the registration of OSHCA. The protem committee
will take note of all comments and submission and will deliberate and
then
Dear all,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome all those who are interested to
become the founding members of OSHCA, though I am aware that I am
within the earshot of others on the openhealth list who may not be
interested in OSHCA at all. However, as past discussions had been
carried out
Hi Irving,
In Malaysia we still refer to organisations such as the Free MED
Foundation as Civil Society by nature of its not-for-profit status.
Article 5.4.2.1 provides for registration of non-profits under . or
its equivalent which refers to Incorporation limited by guarantee and
which
Hi Will,
What you have done is incorrect. As you disagree with the constitution,
we will not be able to include your name in the list of founding members
to the ROS simply because the ROS will not register OSHCA. Therefore
there will be no OSHCA for you to be a member of.
I am posting this
getting OSHCA
registered.
Molly
With best regards,
[wr]
- - - - - - - -
On Apr 22, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Molly Cheah wrote:
Hi Will,
Your suggestions below pose a dilemma for me because of the time
frame.
As you're aware, in preparation for this inaugural meeting in 2 days'
time
Thomas Beale wrote:
A fund would then make sense to support these.
But I would like to postpone this discussion to the day when need arises.
doesn't the fact of paying the same number but in your own currency fix
this? E.g. 50AUD, 50M$, 50Euro, 50rupiah, 50USD, 50yuan etc? But Tim
seems
meeting to compose and pass a
constitutional amendment without prior circulation to the larger
membership.
Respectfully submitted,
[wr]
- - - - - - - -
On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Molly Cheah wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to announce the following:
1) 25th April 2006 will be the OSHCA
by the
24th April, everyone will support it and be a member. The membership
fees will be paid only when OSHCA gets registered.
Molly
Dave
Fred Trotter wrote:
Sorry, I do not find a link... should we be looking at www.oscha.org??
That
says the next meeting is in 2002 :)
-FT
On 4/21/06, Molly
I believe that OSHCA should be a not-for-profit but not a charitable
organisation. Free sometimes attract the wrong type of people who
may make up the numbers but do not show commitment to OSHCA's cause.
Besides there is a cost in servicing these free riders and I don't think
we want OSHCA
- Original Message - From: Philipp Schmidt To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] If any of the readers are in the NYC
area on Thursday 13 April, please stop by our open
source/standards/medicine symposium. We have a range of great speakers
and are hoping for a lively discussion. /p PS _ Apologies that
Since the list has become unduly quiet, I'm taking this opportunity to
provide a short update on the OSHCA registration.
The registration document is at version1 draft 3, sent out to the Protem
Committee yesterday. I think we are quite close to the final draft,
which will be uploaded to the
Richard,
I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the
decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to
resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I
don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others,
Tim
titled Important annoucement and oshca update. The mandate
to ressurrect OSHCA was given in January 2006.
Molly
Richard Schilling wrote:
The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear
indication that they've undermined themselves.
Richard
Molly Cheah wrote
Brian,
In not underestimating the importance of the Minoru mail archives, can
these be saved into a hard disk (40 or 80 G), since this is too big for
the yahoo archive limit? I already have some pledges of financial
support privately from some members and we can afford to purchase this
*GENEVA** FORUM - TOWARDS GLOBAL ACCESS TO HEALTH - *
*August 30- September 1st, 2006*
*International Conference Centre of Geneva, Switzerland*
Website: website: http://www.hcuge.ch/genevahealthforum
THEMES:
Access to health systems, Access to drugs, vaccines diagnosis,
corporate law. Personally I
think it is great that OSHCA will finally be incorporated, and given the
current Zeitgeist in many rich countries, that it will be incorporated
under a flag bearing the crescent and star.
Tim C
Molly Cheah wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to annouce that the transfer
My apologies, I mean qualify the governance of OSHCA's assets
Molly
Dr Molly Cheah wrote:
I've copy and paste the email from Networksolutions on the completion
of the transfer of oshca.org from Minoru Corporation to OSHCA which is
self explanatory on your question who owns the domain name
Based on recent postings perhaps I am wrong in using the term
incorporation for ressurrecting OSHCA and making it a legal entity. I
can understand the fear of business-minded individuals. I would from now
on use the word registration. I would like to re-post the Vision,
Mission, Principles and
)
are as follows:
Joseph dal Molin (Canada/US)
Adrian Midgley (UK/Europe)
Thomas Beale (Australia/Pacific islands)
Nandalal Gunaratne (Sri Lanka/Asia)
Molly Cheah (Malaysia/Asia)
I hope to keep the protem committee small for quick decision making but
hope to add 2 more names, preferably from South America
Hi all,
We need to move to the next stage for resurrection.
1. Where to incorporate
It has been pointed out that its critical that OSHCA has an
international focus. I think there is an agreement that incorporation
should be in a developing country, though I have received e-mails
privately
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
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 viable and sustainable
alternative in mainstream ICT for positive impact
wrote:
Hi Molly,
some weeks ago, about 22 of us mailing list members expressed their
support for incorporating OSHCA. I take the liberty to list those:
- Molly Cheah
- Brian Bray
- Adrian Midgley
- Fred Trotter
- Tim Cook
- Christian Heller
- Joseph Dal Molin
- David Chan
- Nandalal Gunaratne
/06, Dr Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will,
When we're discussing resurrecting OSHCA, we're going beyond organising
conferences, which organisations like IMIA,AMIA or any organisations
advocating open source can do from time to time. We've also gone beyond
the debate on the need
Hi everyone,
I must apologise for the lapse in time following the flurry of
discussion during the month of November 2005 just before the WSIS in
Tunis on the ressurection of OSHCA. I was prompted by Joseph to see if I
had recovered from the trip. There was so much to do as follow-up to
such a
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Use of OSS and ODF in Health and Medical Systems
Jun 22-23, 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah
Special Track at the
19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
The support of Open Source Software (OSS) and Open
Hi,
Based on responses to my earlier e-mails, it appears that there are not
many from the openhealth community who will be in Tunis next week.
Nevertheless, I had suggested meeting up on the 16th Nov at the Sharing
the Future pavilion 1307.1, Coffee Point. I'll keep the timing flexible
and
Hi!
It's almost 2 years since we last annnouced on this list about meeting
up of those who were attending WSIS Geneva Phase. I will be attending
the WSIS Tunis Phase from 13th November till 20th November. I am
wondering if anyone else from this list is going to be there so that we
can meet?
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