[openhealth] Re: request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-09 Thread sickleofzeus
Dear Karsten, Also, please do be specific in your statements: how usable for me, as a physician, in private practice may or may not actually mean can do US billing which is all I care about. I don't use any of the electronic health records to do billing. I use an old DOS based practice

[openhealth] Re: request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-11 Thread sickleofzeus
Dear Nandalal, Nice thoughts! If you are having Zope on your server i hope you tried Open Infrastructure for Outcomes, which is the best software for research and audit for clinicians you can get! Torch is another quite complete and usable system running on Zope. I have setup OSCAR

[openhealth] Re: What to Call the OpenEMR/ClearHealth/FreeMed/MirrorMed Universe?

2006-05-13 Thread sickleofzeus
Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignacio Valdes wrote: Linux Apache MySQL PHP server setups are so common that they have their own designation, collectively called 'LAMP' applications. It seems that in the United States, the hotbeds of FOSS Electronic Medical Records (EMR)'s

[openhealth] Re: What to Call the OpenEMR/ClearHealth/FreeMed/MirrorMed Universe?

2006-05-13 Thread sickleofzeus
Not to mention OpenEMR runs equally well on Linux and MS Windows. Oops. Not to hurt anyones feeling but I forgot to include Mac OS X. Besides the BSDs, The only hard installs are actually late model open SUSE 10.1 and later. The SUSE developers changed some locations of libraries that

[openhealth] Re: Beyond standards.

2006-05-19 Thread sickleofzeus
My earlier suggestion that open source projects work towards a single killer app fell kind of flat. However, would not interoperability be improved at least among the open source health care solutions if the different projects were trying to at least cooperate instead of heading blithely off

[openhealth] Re: VistA Office as 'open' EHR software

2006-06-24 Thread sickleofzeus
Copyright protection in the United States is interrelated with the definition of public domain. Copyright protection in the US expires albeit the expiration dates are quite long. Copyright even survives death. Survivors of artists such as Elvis Presley continue to receive royalties long after

[openhealth] Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-19 Thread sickleofzeus
it's difficult to say who would best serve on BoD or BoA I agree that OSMS is strongly associated with the OpenEMR project but that is not fixed in stone. I also agree with Fred Trotter that a project neutral organization will be good for all the FOSS medical software projects. Fred or

[openhealth] Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-19 Thread sickleofzeus
it's difficult to say who would best serve on BoD or BoA Dear Fred, I don't want this to sound mean spirited (or self serving) but there is of course an obvious, significant, conflict of interest to your proposal. Are you going the on the Board of Directors or the Board of Advisors for this

[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

[openhealth] Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation

2008-02-25 Thread sickleofzeus
Dear Tim, We are listening and I am definitely reading your comments. You have very good thoughts and are contributing to this discussion in a very thoughtful manner (as is usual for you). I apologize if my comments here seem antagonistic. That is not my intention. I am not trying to tear

[openhealth] Re: FOSS Health logistics

2009-07-21 Thread sickleofzeus
--- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, fred trotter fred.trot...@... wrote: Hi everyone, So we have just gotten 95% confirmation that the facilities for FOSSHealth 09 (which happens at the end of the month) will be provided by HAL-PC. http://www.hal-pc.org/ HAL-PC is the largest PC