[openhealth] Biosurveillance software

2010-03-09 Thread David Chan
Sorry for cross posting: Hi there, my name is Hector, im from Argentina, I want know if anyone can send me a little list of apps of Public Health and Biosurveillance e.g. epi-info, I need an alternative to this, to use in gnu/linux "mandriva" or another SO likes *nix. Let me know, thanks in advanc

Re: [openhealth] Using Cell Phones to interface with OpenMRS

2009-03-01 Thread David Chan
I am not sure if SMS has the same level of security in transport as the SSL enabled browser. I don't think transmitting private information without protection is acceptable under the current privacy legislation environment. Yes, OSCAR is accessible on any smart phone with a browser. David Dav

Re: [openhealth] Patient Portals and PHR's

2008-12-08 Thread David Chan
I am pretty sure Indivohealth supports CDA. David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University From: Mark Spohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 2:12:24

Re: [openhealth] Microsoft Office Labs: Future of personal health concept

2008-03-29 Thread David Chan
MS will be offering hand disinfectant cleansers available as a plug-in module to these "Surface" Computer devices running Windows 25 - also known as MS-MRSA! I should be spending more time watching uTube to keep my technology up-to-date! David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Profes

Re: [openhealth] PRESS RELEASE - WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0 Available - Open Source EHR]

2008-02-04 Thread David Chan
Congratulations Joseph and the WorldVistA team! Another FOSS breaking news: OSCAR was also the first EMR software that completed the OntarioMD specification v2.0 validation testing. Full certification is forthcoming pending a bit more paper work. OSCAR is open source software released under the

Re: [openhealth] Updates on some FOSS projects

2007-11-13 Thread David Chan
ining list. To edit the list, just create a > Wikipedia login. > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On 11/9/07, David Chan <mailto:davidhcchan %40yahoo. com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [openhealth] Updates on some FOSS projects

2007-11-10 Thread David Chan
regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On 11/9/07, David Chan wrote: > > > > > > > Wow Will this is good. I didn't know you've been busy! How do I make a > correction and add a couple of new ones? > -OSCAR's link should now point to http://oscarcanada. org (wh

Re: [openhealth] Updates on some FOSS projects

2007-11-10 Thread David Chan
y, the warnings etc) to use it locally in GNUmed installations ? Thanks, Karsten On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:46:41PM -0800, David Chan wrote: > X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/ 818.27 YahooMailWebService /0.7.152 > Subject: Re: [openhealth] Updates on some FOSS projects > > Wow Will this

Re: [openhealth] Updates on some FOSS projects

2007-11-09 Thread David Chan
Wow Will this is good. I didn't know you've been busy! How do I make a correction and add a couple of new ones? -OSCAR's link should now point to http://oscarcanada.org (which is better maintained than http://oscarmcmaster.org) -MyOSCAR (http://myoscar.org) is a Personally Controlled Health Recor

Re: [openhealth] Open Source Personal Health Record

2007-11-02 Thread David Chan
We have been using this project for a few years with much success: http://indivohealth.org David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University - Original Message From: cardiacsystem2006 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openhealth@yahoogr

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference May 8-11 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Passport and Visa Planning

2007-03-29 Thread David Chan
Nothing for Canada? David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department 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] OS

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-30 Thread David Chan
PING is now called Indivo (http://indivohealth.org/) and the recent conference generated a lot of interests: http://www.pchri.org/2006/ Best regards, David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University - Original Message From:

Re: [openhealth] messaging with HL7

2006-10-07 Thread David Chan
Do you have the link for this? David David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University - Original Message From: Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 2:25:49 PM Subject: [o

Re: [openhealth] drugref.org?

2006-06-18 Thread David Chan
OSCAR has been working closely with Horst (no longer on this listserv) from drugref but I am not sure if drugref2 is officially ready for download. It is best to contact them on their drugref.org site to clarify where they are at. We work with the Health Canada drug database but Horst said that the

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
In Canada we are watching closely the development of standards from the Canada Health Infoway. I sit on their Lab Standards group. Messaging standard will most likely be HL7v3 and terminology standard will likely be a combination of LOINC and SNOMED-CT. David --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi

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

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
P.S. OSCAR's main aim is NOT to sit on any throne but to help patients. Our programmers are reminded regularly to that very fine point;-) David --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred, > > First of all, a question (showing my ignorance)  -- > OSCAR is written  > in Java? > > Second

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

2006-05-08 Thread David Chan
Yes Will, OSCAR is written in Java (and uses MySQL for its database engine). The drug database web-engine is written in python (using the drugref project engine which uses PostgreSQL as the database engine). OSCAR is a very complex project. It is certainly capable of being deployed in very large

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

2006-03-30 Thread David Chan
rtantbut it should impose > as small a "tax' as possible, regardless of the > license, business model > etc. Automated scripts would go a long way to > achieve this. > > Would be interesting to hear from David Chan how > much effort was > required to certi

[openhealth] 3rd OSCAR User Group meeting in Vancouver

2006-03-15 Thread David Chan
OSCAR Open Source Electronic Medical Record in British Columbia The BC OSCAR User Group invites you to come and hear about Free / Open Source software and how physicians are driving the OSCAR Open Source Electronic Medical Record in BC. There will be a presentation by Dr David Chan, OSCAR’s

[openhealth] Update on OSCAR Development

2006-03-14 Thread David Chan
This is from one of our development partners in Toronto. Their dedicated team of programmers have developed a "Case Management and Order Entry" pluggable module to OSCAR. Have a look at their demonstration site and give them some feedback. There are currently known OSCAR installations for the homel

Re: [openhealth] ONCHIT EHR Certification Costs

2006-03-13 Thread David Chan
The OntarioMD Certification (or Validation as it is now called) was free when we subject OSCAR through the process last summer (http://www.ontariomd.com/en/services/cycle3.jsp). But we were clearly told that any future certification cost will be covered by the "vendors". For example, all vendor pro

Re: [openhealth] Drug Database was:OSCAR passed!

2005-11-25 Thread David Chan
That is true Karsten. Thanks for clarifying it. In fact, I hope Horst from drugref can help explain it better. My understanding is that in fact you can have multiple databases running concurrently. The last I heard, Horst was hoping that the WHO database can be released for use in drugref. Has anyo

Re: [openhealth] OSCAR passed!

2005-11-22 Thread David Chan
include drugref on our CVS site because we don't want to appear to have forked the drugref code. We continue to work closely with the drugref team to make drugref a truly collaborative project. Enjoy! David --- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 11:0

Re: [openhealth] OSCAR passed!

2005-11-19 Thread David Chan
*** It's official! *** OSCAR has been certified by OntarioMD under the Physician IT Program. The list of certified products will be published at www.ontariomdtsp.ca. From OntarioMD: “Certification means that the product has passed a set of requirements to ensure that the product can support defined

Re: [openhealth] OSCAR - Soap Wizard

2005-11-15 Thread David Chan
SOAP Wizard? > > On a side note, if everyone could take a second and > link to OSCAR at > http://www.oscarmcmaster.org/ , it is nearly > impossible to find via > google, and linking would help, I just linked in > from my blog. > > On 11/14/05, David Chan <[EMAIL P

Re: [openhealth] WSIS Tunis

2005-11-14 Thread David Chan
tus of the Oscar project is? > The homepage > seems to be gone, and I can't find a trace of it at > the McMaster > website. > > I wanted to show someone SOAP Wizard. > > On 11/8/05, David Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I support (that's 5)! >

Re: [openhealth] WSIS Tunis

2005-11-08 Thread David Chan
I support (that's 5)! David --- Molly Cheah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Tim, Adrian and Fred for your responses. I > don't want to flood > the list with individual responses. However, > Christian made a good point > on seeing OSHCA > > "as international umbrella organisation of various

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-22 Thread David Chan
OSCAR's main focus is EMR but at least one US company is implementing US billing: http://www.goemr.com/ The other areas of focus for international collaboration include: 1. i18N 2. MySQL as well as PostgreSQL 3. Drugref for drug database 4. web-service based decision support 5. Clinical Resource D

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth Pharmacy questions

2005-08-21 Thread David Chan
ieve has worked on putting in the WHO database. Is anyone willing to help him? David --- Fred Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks! this is great help. Am I to understand > correctly that this > system gives access to the official Canadian drug > interaction data

Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth Pharmacy questions

2005-08-19 Thread David Chan
Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try talking to David Chan and Horst Herb.the > Drugref project and > OSCAR have been working on these issues. > > Joseph > > Fred Trotter wrote: > > Hello, > >We have not talked about this much, but > Clear