Immunisations have two elements to them...
There is an _event_, which might be of relevance to billing or side
effects;
and then the more interesting one usually is the _state_.
Strictly one might regard testing immunity as necessary to assert a
state of immunity, and we do that for Hepatitis
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 21:15 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
I believe there's some work being done to extract data from Medisense Optium
Xceed blood glucose meters, for the benefit of non-Windows users (and
possibly Windows users who don't want to use Precision Link.)
I have the device on my desk.
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:48 +0800, Molly Cheah wrote:
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
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:42 -0700, Fred Trotter wrote:
I think we should not start a new mailing list. The openhealth list has the
same goals as the OSHCA organization, and already has considerable
membership.
We might need an openhealth-talk mailing list, to preserve the bandwidth
of the
of editorial oversight of such a
catalogue would be needed, to prevent accumulation of junk and off-topic
unsuitable references.
We have Linuxmednews ... and JOSMI
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approaches that seek active participation by users, developers, and
policy makers from all parts of the world.
THis is newly pilitically topical and good.
Molly's work is as always good.
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some might like to comment there?
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To what extent do existing FLOSS solutions provide services for a
service-based architecture, or make use of those that might be provided
by other systems nearby or distant?
Two of the Master Patient Index candidates looked as though they might
fit in to such an environment...
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Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
...
Public Domain is a bit tricky on the legal front,
No. (IANAL, but it is not tricky, and doubly not on that front)
as legally it is owned by the US Public,
No.
and therefore, the US government.
No (and to digress, I'm no American but I understand the publishd model
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
I agree with Tim. VistA has a lot going for it, but there are some good fully
FOSS projects that can be developed further. They are build on modern
languages and well established FOSS - like LAMP. The end users are more IT
literate now than at the time VistA
Tim Cook wrote:
The problem with VistA is the disconnect between the discussions here
about it being open and the FACT that it is not licensed and
maintained under an open source license. In fact according to Dan
Johnson there has been at least one incidence where a group was
prohibited from
Franklin M. Siler wrote:
I'm not a lawyer, but you're both wrong. Public Domain is,
roughly, the lack of copyright
which cannot occur _accidentally_. (At least now, in the UK).
, and occurs as a result of several
several circumstances:
1) the work is by a public body, such as the US
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
I hope World Vista takes
suitable precautions to ensure that future users of
the FOSS version of World VistA, will not get into
difficulties as you have pointed out in your last
sentence.
Some of this was discussed in November 2000
recall all basic
details (i.e. Node positives or Grade 3s) for audit and research etc.
What approach does the panel favour to offering a supportable open
source approach to this?
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Dr Molly Cheah wrote:
I am pleased to announce that OSHCA is now registered and will receive
its registration certificate by next week.
Good. Thanks for the work on what we all know to be a harder job than
it looks.
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Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
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wrote:
It is also a bad idea in terms of
security, as Ross
Anderson and others have repeatedly pointed out. In
short, it is doomed
to failure.
Bad start for HIT if this so
Thomas Beale wrote:
Adrian Midgley wrote:
The driving force for the programme was, so far as I can tell, a pitch
by Sir William Gates 3 over lunch at number 10 to the outgoing prime
minister, and therefore, in the nature of these things, as The Rt Hon Mr
Anthony Blair MP steps back
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
I hope not! In the sense that the NHS forgets about
plans for EMR. Maybe a more sensible and practical
approach will result?
Nandalal
Not unless the current one falls apart.
Apropos of which, when/if it does, I need something better to present...
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
IT would seem to me that, what you favour is a system
where, all patients will have their EMR with their GPs
and nobody else and nowhere else.
Not so. The principle generalises and scales well.
What is done in a
hospital encounter, for example a Urological
Thomas Beale wrote:
Having the shared EHR literally at the GP clinic is unlikely to be a
good approach for technical reasons, even though the GP will in many
cases be the best gatekeeper. A better solution is on secure servers at
about the level of the primary care trust (UK)
**
The structured mess in the bucket approach. It does appear to be within
our capabilities.
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Thomas Beale wrote:
I would like to know if anyone here is interested in being able to play
with a demonstration system (located in Australia) over a web-service
(published API);
Interested, yes.
Capable ... perhaps less so.
Is Python at all likely?
Which end of Australia is it?
for second line support, and this list for
implementation advice and/or training?
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
call this list of people/firms for second line support,
Nope, no support available for GNUmed apart from the mailing
list.
I know it is early, however considering how we may build a rudimentary
support ecology is probably worthwhile, and should not be left until the
MPI would include the result of the EC PICNIC project some years back I
think.
Will Ross wrote:
I'm looking for a tool to suppress sensitive information (e.g., HIV
status, etc.) from free text clinical notes prior to allowing the
notes to be published from a protected, physician-only area into
general circulation patient records for the clinic. What existing
FOSS
The primary healthcare special interest group of the british computer society
is a significant audience.
Openhealth list members might feel they have something to offer.
Patient Controlled Worldwide Health Records - Putting the Patient at the
Heart of Care
BCS Annual Conference - 28th and
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/health_committee/hcpn070205.cfm
They ask for written evidence.
It would be nice to submit some...
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Interesting development, with indications of follow up work going on.
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.pageobj_id=135394
Tim Churches wrote:
Thomas Beale wrote:
Tim,
all archetypes published on openEHR are for free use, forever.
Otherwise
they don't go there. Free archetypes is our credo.
Yeah, but where, in writing, does it say that? Any lawyer will tell you
that credos don't count in court when push
general and long
term purposes.
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Do we know
http://www.patientos.org/
... already?
Adrian
Fred Trotter wrote:
WorldVistA EHR is using the CCHIT certification in a similar fashion
that many FOSS companies use trademarks. For instance
Another instance is that as a Debian user here I am using an email
client called IceDove, whereas many of the Linux users here, and even
the Windows
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/05/07/bisb0507.htm
Expensive - by UK standards - if they don't take the adverts.
I suspect that the licencing model is such that when the company folds,
the software goes away, or alternative and likely more expensive ways of
supporting what by then will be
)* briefing a few years ago.
There may be opportunities ahead.
* So it doesn't just make spacecraft explode (See Tufte's comments).
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Molly Cheah wrote:
No Tim. That was Tims' intepretation of what is open source. Frankly,
PCDOM was being careful of building up its business model and its
strategic alliances with organisations to ensure sustainability and
accountability issues which are being built into its PCDOM PrimaCare
I could be interested provided the licence is appropriate, one of the
open source or CC ones.
As one source of interactive guideline material, it is possible Ganfyd
http://ganfyd.org which I'm involved in might be useful.
The formalisation of information structure required for that may be
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
Interesting. But how did you get the name? ganfyd?
The original conversation it arose from was about people sent to
Get A Note From Your Doctor
commonly for something perhaps not the best use of time.
We moved on from that to deciding to have a
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Tony McCormick wrote:
Pretty ... but realistic? I admit that the 'Surface computing system
is the first new technology I've seen from Microsoft that is impressive,
however.
The future will be white and shiny, and the walls will watch you.
are a problem.
If they are on devices, less so.
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I suppose we should be offering assistance, since we have solved some of
the problems they may not yet have considered, as well as some of the
ones they have not solved.
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Does anyone have candidate software?
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Alvin Marcelo wrote:
Hi Adrian,
Have you encountered First Databank?
www.firstdatabank.com.au
FirstData took over a firm based here in Exeter.
I believe they built a (curated) warehouse that allows you to slice and dice
through the many
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I did, however, have some concern regarding your FOSS philosophy
discussion at http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?
http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?
title=FOSS_Philosophy. There appears to be a double-standard by
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Stephen Beller wrote:
You're right. I looked for a discussion or comment tab on wiki
page, but couldn't find one;
Talk
MediaWiki, best available Wiki software at present as used by
http://ganfyd.org which I'm involved in.
and I thought about
of the points on it may be useful for persuading people to prefer
or accept a FLOSS approach or application.
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This may be interesting.
Mike Bainbridge is clever and a nice guy. I don't know the rest. Mike
will, I suspect, be very tightly constrained in anything he might say
since he is mired in the NHS CfH program.
I don't expect to go to this, I have too much other travel to do.
A
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Fouad Bajwa wrote:
MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its
infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
http://openmanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/07/mss-blunder-with-mojave-experiment-uses.html
3 sensible choices.
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hotels can be found on the Internet at various prices.
For further information www.chirad.info/efmi_stc
I'm away, but that looks interesting.
Surely there must be several organsiations and people who would have an
interest there, on this list.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081209091525428
This article from the unimpeachably Open Source Groklaw site points to a
guide from the European FSFE on how to deal with organisations, firms
etc who have copied and distributed program code outside its open
licence conditions.
There is
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Fouad Bajwa wrote:
From what I see from all the projects, no one seems to be giving
strong options except for OSCAR and OpenMRS, most of the solutions
seem to be talking about it but nothing actually operational.
on this, to governments, and the
philosophy and engineering merits not lost.
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There are a family of ways of course, and a more distributed one, not
depending on aggregation in the same central place for all patients
would be better, and fit countries other than the UK better.
But I submit this as the first drawing of a proof of concept
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Tim Cook wrote:
Publishing and Depository Services
Public Works and Government Services Canada
...
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As is often the case, the French version is a usefully precise one.
We could of course ask them to make it copyleft or release it under a
Creative Commons Licence of
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Details of the European Commission's FP7 programme are below. There is
?32 billion of funding so must be at least of interest.
One or more of us might also consider registering as an expert.
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K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6107892.stm alludes to research that
up to 25% of keyboards are infected with the MRSA superbug. So, we
could make a perhaps not entirely tongue-in-cheek claim that increasing
EHR adoption
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn261.pdf
As a reference for those who might be involved with that, and with UK
agencies.
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About 200 miles from there.
Tim Cook wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 14:01 +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In the office)
wrote:
Has anyone looked at the PC-DOM source code?
I can't find it.
Molly told me that you have to be a Malaysian GP to get the application
and the source code is provided to them.
So not the most open
Has anyone looked at the PC-DOM source code?
I can't find it.
That's the Malaysian Primary Care system presented IIRC at Geneva, and
in production use in some of Malaysia.
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Tim Cook wrote:
The impression I took away was that Primacare is 'technically' open
source. However, IMHO the spirit of open source and collaborative
development is not there.
It seems like another unnecessary hostage to fortune for OSHCA.
As well as an odd interpretation of the advantages
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/newsroom/news-stories/eprescfunctspec
grab the PDF from there.
This is possibly useful for anyone writing such things, as an example of
what a health service may be looking for or thinks should be in a
prescribing system.
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Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
FYI.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
*WorldVistA EHRTM VOE/ 1.0 Available
Excellent.
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