Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-30 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, What you say seems fine. But software patents can cause problems to us here. Most software come from the US and software is so expensive that there is rampant piracy of software in many countires. Recent WTO agreements have made this

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 176

2006-03-30 Thread Irving Buchbinder
A thought about storage for Minoru or upcomming back storage needs: I can't speak for each project, however, the FreeMED Software Foundation would be willing to MIRROR such archives, indeed host that sort of activity. I'm sure we can find groups/Open Source works who will also be willing to put

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 176

2006-03-30 Thread Tim.Churches
Irving Buchbinder wrote: A thought about storage for Minoru or upcomming back storage needs: I can't speak for each project, however, the FreeMED Software Foundation would be willing to MIRROR such archives, indeed host that sort of activity. I'm sure we can find groups/Open Source works who

Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-30 Thread David Chan
Joseph may remember the first time I had to take my previous EMR product (MUFFIN) through conformance testing. It took months of planning, documentation, test server and configuration, and then finally a week of testing - basically going through point by point of the system specification. I was