Re: [Hardhats] Re: [openhealth] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act

2009-05-11 Thread David Forslund
> > > Subject: [Hardhats] Re: [openhealth] Announcing Liberty Medical > Software > > Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act > > > > > > This is unlikely to be a problem if we simply consistently refer to > > > the organ

Re: [openhealth] Announcing Liberty Medical Software Foundation and a petition in support of the current VistA as Utility act

2009-05-09 Thread David Forslund
My only concern about this proposal is that there is a company with the name Liberty Medical out there (http://www.libertymedical.com). That might create some confusion as well as some legal issues, but then I'm no lawyer. (in fact, when I saw the title of the email, I initially thought it was

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread David Forslund
Tim Cook wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > >> OpenEMed should certainly show up in the list of healthcare software >> applications. >> I have no idea of how to do this with JSON, particularly, since I see no >> mention of any JSON >> links on the referen

Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare

2007-03-10 Thread David Forslund
The link for OpenEMed would better point to OpenEMed.org rather than OpenEMed.net. Also, I don't see any link to JSON data. OpenEMed should be listed as a application framework, not as a standard. It implements a set of standards, but isn't a standard in its own right. Also CORBAmed should b

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-03 Thread David Forslund
If one uses a structured report along the lines of the ASTM CCR, then I think it would be "relatively" easy to remove the sensitive information, since all of the data would be tagged. Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Will, > > It is not a good idea to have sensitive information in > free text. I

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-02 Thread David Forslund
That is the reason for the patient consent in the HIPAA regulations. In my opinion, the patient would need to review the data to approve its release. The usual escape clause is for the data to be used in the normal care of the patient But if it is for some other purpose, then it needs specifi

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-02 Thread David Forslund
Agreed. Such an action would at least have to have approval of a local HIPAA board. How would one "prove" it is reliable at removing protected information? If it is an algorithm, the algorithm would need local approval. Dave Maury Pepper wrote: > > 1. How good does it have to be? Is 5% leakag

Re: Holding the Vision While Achieving Practical Integration/Interoperability Today (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread David Forslund
Tim Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > >> Joseph Dal Molin wrote: >> >>> Open source efforts/software like OpenMRS, WorldVistA (VistA Office >>> etc.), OSCAR etc. that are focused on diffusion/uptake and continuous >>> improvement. All

Re: Holding the Vision While Achieving Practical Integration/Interoperability Today (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread David Forslund
is the 23rd annual meeting devoted to the immanent >> transition from paper to digital charting. >> >>http://www.medrecinst.com/conference/tepr/index.asp >> >> Meanwhile, in my rural region of California, 2007 may be the year we >> see adoption of EHR rise

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-17 Thread David Forslund
Paul wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks for your thoughts. These discussions can get religious fairly > quickly, so I'll just say that the bottom line for us is a simple one: > we're supporting an open-source collaboration less to meet/support > longstanding specifications that have fairly low uptake to t

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-17 Thread David Forslund
Tim Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > >> I've seen no real >> effort in the open source community to embrace interoperability. >> Certainly interoperability has >> been opposed by much of industry until recently, but there is no good >> re

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-17 Thread David Forslund
lity to dynamically evolve (on-the-fly) data collection forms and > other aspects of the database schemas is also a large added > complication. We have some ideas, proven in practice in other, > non-health settings, about how to tackle these challenges, but think > there is perhaps 6-12 pe

Re: [openhealth] Hi folks..

2007-02-17 Thread David Forslund
Paul, I have a question as to the interoperability of OpenMRS. At what level can or could it interoperate with other systems? It seems to have its own API rather than some of the "standard" APIs out there. This information says that OpenMRS isn't another "stovepipe", but only talks of how o

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-14 Thread David Forslund
for multiple identifiers for the same person. This is all spelled out in the spec originally published in 1998. This is likely to be expanded with the EIS specification now being considered by the OMG (and HL7). Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > --- David Forslund <[EMA

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-13 Thread David Forslund
OpenEMed continues to be in modest development but perhaps not visible at a higher level. The MPI work is based on the OMG PIDS standard. It is open source and has been so since 2000. The next generation of PIDS will result from the current EIS RFP from the OMG which is currently soliciting resp

Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures

2006-12-11 Thread David Forslund
ir copyrighted descriptions. > > > The project would be to create new descriptions that were functionally > > > the same and could be freely distributed under an open license such as > > > the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/ > <http://creativecommons.org/&g

Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures

2006-12-11 Thread David Forslund
as > > the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/ > <http://creativecommons.org/>). > > > > /Mark > > > > > > > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>, David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures

2006-12-11 Thread David Forslund
the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/ > <http://creativecommons.org/>). > > /Mark > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>, David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > This effort would requi

Re: [openhealth] Re: list of diagnoses and procedures

2006-12-11 Thread David Forslund
This effort would require commitment from the payor that they would accept those codes for reimbursement. Otherwise this effort will be relatively useless. Dave mspohr wrote: > > The goal of the CPT code project would be to create a version of > procedure codes for use in billing in the US that c

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: HSSP Passes Major Milestone Today!]

2006-12-09 Thread David Forslund
-rlus.wikispaces.com/ <http://hssp-rlus.wikispaces.com/> > > As a frame of reference, here's the FAQ from HSSP. > > http://hssp.wikispaces.com/hssp-faq <http://hssp.wikispaces.com/hssp-faq> > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Dec

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: HSSP Passes Major Milestone Today!]

2006-12-08 Thread David Forslund
Falls Church, VA 22041 Tel: +1-703-845-3277 Mobile: +1-301-335-0534 + _mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] David Forslund wrote: > > Here is an opportunity for the open source community to contribute to a > significant new standard for healthcare. > Anyone willing to participate in a response to

[openhealth] [Fwd: HSSP Passes Major Milestone Today!]

2006-12-08 Thread David Forslund
Here is an opportunity for the open source community to contribute to a significant new standard for healthcare. Anyone willing to participate in a response to these RFPs? Dave Forslund [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [openhealth] Open standards are meaningless.

2006-12-03 Thread David Forslund
OpenCTS as part of OpenEMed that could be used in this context. All open source, of course. Thanks, Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > --- David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:forslund%40mail.com>> wrote: > I think > > EHR applications should be interope

Re: [openhealth] Open standards are meaningless.

2006-12-02 Thread David Forslund
Just a comment: I like OpenEHR, but it is erroneous to refer to it as an "open standard". The term "standard" is usually reserved for something certified as a standard by an organization or that is a de facto standard by its widespread use. Neither of these apply to OpenEHR at this time. It a

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-27 Thread David Forslund
Because that will result in massive loss of clinical information and lack of availability when needed and failure to get it updated in a timely manner. If everyone in the world was a responsible person, this might have a chance, but people make mistakes and forget things. I'm all for a person to ha

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-27 Thread David Forslund
sort, especially in this era, when people are > moving from country to country and suddenly need their > records in a strange land! > > --- David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:forslund%40mail.com>> wrote: > > > Absolutely not! I do want the patient to be in >

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-25 Thread David Forslund
ess without fail to the patient in > an emergency, which may happen in another country at > an ungodly hour. > > Unfortunately not every country has such a well > developed, GP based system, as in the UK. > > Nandalal > > --- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-24 Thread David Forslund
I'm not sure what Thomas' view is, but here are my $.02. Thinking of messaging tends to distract one from trying to solve the real problem. The idea seems to be that sending messages around is good and people will eventually be able to figure out what they mean. One needs to worry more about sema

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: Draft Healthcare Domain Task Force RFP's Available]

2006-10-17 Thread David Forslund
Sorry about the earlier email. I forgot that the mailer strips off attachments so I'm sending it as inline text. -Dave David Forslund wrote: > > For those looking for interoperability, here is the chance to > participate in the next generation > of interface specifications

[openhealth] [Fwd: Draft Healthcare Domain Task Force RFP's Available]

2006-10-17 Thread David Forslund
For those looking for interoperability, here is the chance to participate in the next generation of interface specifications. This is a joint effort of the OMG and HL7 and interested parties. -Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit yo

Re: [openhealth] Needed: (mammographic) recall with some tracking

2006-10-14 Thread David Forslund
In fact, I believe the PIDS used by OpenHRE is from OpenEMed (although their report doesn't mention this). I know it started that way but haven't heard from them for quite awhile. As for Adrian's points 1) and 2), the PIDS specification and implementation are designed to fulfill both of those r

Re: [openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocket July 9 through July 16

2006-07-07 Thread David Forslund
I would hope that your campsite would be out of range of a blackberry. This would help in the overall isolation that should be the goal of the camping experience. Dave K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > > They don't call them Crackberries for nothing!!! > > Seriously, I have to take it with me because it i

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-30 Thread David Forslund
I apologize for bringing this up, but it does affect my relationship with OSHCA since it is being incorporated in Malaysia.  I will be unable to support OSHCA in Malaysia because of the politics/human rights issues I see happening in that country. Sorry, Dave Forslund K.S. Bhaskar wrote: >

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-30 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > What is happening with the setting up of OSHCA in Malaysia?  It has been > > quiet for some time now. > > My understanding is that the papers have been filed with the relevant > authority and presumably they are being or w

[openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-29 Thread David Forslund
What is happening with the setting up of OSHCA in Malaysia?  It has been quiet for some time now. It is disturbing to see the Prime Minister of Malaysia shaking hands with the Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Zahar.   What possible good can come from that?  How are we supposed to interpret this actio

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-22 Thread David Forslund
I hope no politicians have anything to do with the OMG HDTF.  This would be a severe mistake since it would then contain nothing technically useful.   A requirement that "industry" come up with rigorous interoperability requirements would be useful. The issue of "humanely motivated reason" is

Re: [openhealth] Re: Nationalized Medicine was: article re IBM and others contributing open source epi and other

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
Tim Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Tim Cook wrote: > >  > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >  > Hash: SHA1 > >  > > >  > ivhalpc wrote: > >  > > >  > > > >  > > I wonder how this is all going to end

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
. These specifications are early examples of what is now popularly known as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Dave Greg Woodhouse wrote: > > > --- David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - > HL7 is only a partial "solu

Re: [openhealth] Re: Nationalized Medicine was: article re IBM and others contributing open source epi and other

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
Tim Cook wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > ivhalpc wrote: > > > > > I wonder how this is all going to end and I fear it will end badly as > > in Nationalized medicine in the US > > Would that truly be a bad thing?  I'm not sure how a transition would > work but answer

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
HL7 is only a partial "solution" to interoperability as you indicate and less than most might have thought.  Which is why there is the HSSP effort underway which is picking up from the OMG HDTF effort almost a decade ago.    The OMG HDTF made enormous progress toward interoperability but it is

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
be > torpedoed in a proprietary world. It doesn't matter what standards > real or future that reach all the way up to the GUI say. FOSS > eliminates many of these problems or makes them tractable. Again, I'm > probably preaching to the choir on this list. > > -- Ig

Re: [openhealth] Re: article re IBM and others contributing open source epi and other

2006-05-19 Thread David Forslund
when costs continue to climb out of > control because of this kind of insanity. > > -- Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS > -- Editor: Linux Medical News > -- http://www.linuxmednews.com > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &

Re: [openhealth] article re IBM and others contributing open source epi and other

2006-05-18 Thread David Forslund
IBM is part of one of the ONCHIT "winners". Also IBM is participating in the HSSP effort. Sounds like normal operations for IBM. I've not found a technical reference to the IHII yet, although the ONCHIT required at least some of the response to be open source. Dave Forslund Nandalal Gunaratne wr

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread David Forslund
It isn't clear to me the role that OSHCA can/should play in the standards world.   It might be useful for the community to agree on things that "everyone" will support, but that alone doesn't make it a "standard". Standards my be dictated by national entities or other bodies outside the contr

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread David Forslund
In the US  (and UK) SNOMED-CT is freely available.    Do folks use the ICPC-2 spec?  If so what do you all think of it? Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > "Alvin B. Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement > on standards. C

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread David Forslund
ratne wrote: > > > David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The coding system standards in the US have been specified by CHI.   We > should share coding systems, but > even more important is to provide mappings between coding systems, since > not everyone will ever use

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-10 Thread David Forslund
Alvin B. Marcelo wrote: > > Tell me where I can find something of the Phillipine RUV system for > procedures? > > http://www.philhealth.gov.ph/download/RVS2003.pdf What is the meaning of the RVU column in this document? Someone needs to do a mapping of this to one of the other UMLS data models

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-08 Thread David Forslund
As most of you know by now, OpenEMed uses a service oriented architecture based on the OMG  PIDS/COAS/RAD/LQS standards, with PIDS using by default the HL7 2.3 PID segment of patient identification.   COAS uses various HL7 codes for observations (or any other coding system that is available). L

[openhealth] Re: voting results

2006-04-28 Thread David Forslund
Will we hear the voting results or are they posted somewhere? What is the point of the election unless the votes are reported? Have I missed something? Dave Forslund SPONSORED LINKS Software distribution

[openhealth] OSHCA voting

2006-04-26 Thread David Forslund
When will we hear how the voting went? Thanks, Dave Forslund YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "openhealth" on the web.   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Inaugural Meeting - Closing remarks

2006-04-25 Thread David Forslund
I commend Molly and the Protem committee for all of the hard work. I assume the digestion of this event will include reporting how the voting went. ( I've been curious why "protem" was used for the committee name instead of "protemp"?) I supposed I should have followed all the openhealth discu

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread David Forslund
I don't understand the complaint about Will's concerns.  The voting wasn't done when he indicated his comments. So why do you say that "everything was done and over with"?  What is the voting about then?  Perhaps I'm missing something important?  I thought voting was a "democratic" process. :

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread David Forslund
REED with only one resolution.   given the > process we have created, i will be surprised if they don't all pass. I did about the same. Dave > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:10 AM, David Forslund wrote: > > > If the process requires all o

Re: [openhealth] Re: oshca inaugural meeting - constitution

2006-04-25 Thread David Forslund
If the process requires all of the items to be approved to move forward, I submit it is fatally flawed.  If all are required to be approved then there should simply be one vote up or down.  If not then the results of the process should be able to go forward based on the various possible outcomes

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-23 Thread David Forslund
Interoperability certainly isn't the "only" issue.  However, you will find that it is an integrating issue.  That is it brings a number of important issues together and actually reduces cost.  There is never a question of whether one needs to interoperate, only when.  Typically people want to

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-22 Thread David Forslund
: > > > David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David, > > If the OSHCA takes on the task of making the "glue" > > * to get FOSS for Health groups to understand the true value of FOSS > which is sharing/contributing and collaborating with

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-22 Thread David Forslund
I agree precisely with Thomas' succinct statement.   Healthcare is still dealing with and producing silos that can't easily be penetrated. We have found it easier to tackle this in locations that have no existing infrastructure to overcome, such as underdeveloped regions (of which we have many i

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-22 Thread David Forslund
ill be up to its membership and the goal > creating a "formal" organization will allow the scope of what OSHCA can > accomplisy, through funding etc. to expand significantly. > > Joseph > > David Forslund wrote: > > Is OSHCA membership intended to simply be an is

[openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-22 Thread David Forslund
Is OSHCA membership intended to simply be an issue of who can vote on decisions by the organization or does it entail other matters?  Most organizations allow for observers and external contributors, but those can't vote on organizational decisions.   For example, can anyone participate/atte

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA inaugural meeting - important announcement

2006-04-21 Thread David Forslund
Yes, it would be nice if this info was put on the oscha.org web site (or at least told there where to find the information).    I don't understand "representation by region". I assumed that people from anywhere can join and that region doesn't matter. I also don't understand the use of HDI.  

Re: [openhealth] Areas for cooperation and collaboration for OpenHealth

2006-04-20 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Tim.Churches wrote: > >  > David Forslund wrote: > >  > > OMG HDTF:  PIDS, COAS, RAD, LQS > >  > > >  > In case anyone else is looking for these, this message provides > pointers > >

Re: [openhealth] Areas for cooperation and collaboration for OpenHealth

2006-04-20 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > OMG HDTF:  PIDS, COAS, RAD, LQS > > In case anyone else is looking for these, this message provides pointers > to them - they are nigh-on impossible to find just be navigating around > the OMG Web site: http://www.omg.or

Re: [openhealth] Areas for cooperation and collaboration for OpenHealth

2006-04-19 Thread David Forslund
e worried about licensing issues. Dave Tim Cook wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Forslund wrote: > > OMG HDTF:  PIDS, COAS, RAD, LQS > > > > This little snippet from the OMG specs I have seen really makes > me want to spend my time imple

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-19 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > My general comment is that it is never to early to consider > > interoperability.  The cost in the design > > up front is very small compared to later.   Designing systems with a > > "SOA" approach is actua

Re: [openhealth] Areas for cooperation and collaboration for OpenHealth

2006-04-19 Thread David Forslund
OMG HDTF:  PIDS, COAS, RAD, LQS Dave Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > What we have done shouldn't be the issue at all.  What is important is > > that there has been standards > > in this area for some time (98-00).  I've heard people complain that

Re: [openhealth] Areas for cooperation and collaboration for OpenHealth

2006-04-19 Thread David Forslund
alvinbmarcelo wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Good to see you're still here. > > Way back in 2001, I unsubscribed from openhealth (still in Minoru back > then) because I felt much of the discussions were very theoretical and > I had not much code/experience to contribute. Well now, we have source > code (

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-19 Thread David Forslund
ms universal in healthcare and other domains. If there is a mechanism in CHITS to "glue" things together, I would like to see the documentation so I could see what is involved.   Unfortunately, if it is only in PHP, it makes it more difficult because it has PHP artifacts. Anyway, tha

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-18 Thread David Forslund
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > alvinbmarcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think everyone in openhealth will agree to what you say Alvin. But > we need to set these standards first, and from what i can see this is > not going anywhere. The HSSP folks are doing this now. Service Oriented Arch

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-18 Thread David Forslund
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David, > > The only open source system I'm aware > of that has tried to follow this pattern is the OpenEMed software :-) > > Why is this so? Why is it that others hae not used this

Re: [openhealth] Re: Community Health Information Tracking System www.chits.info

2006-04-17 Thread David Forslund
Alvin, We had exactly this approach with the OMG HDTF (aka corbamed) in the late 90's. There are standards there which do exactly this (long before people thought about doing web services). In addition, this is now being revisited with the HSSP joint effort of HL7 and the OMG (hssp.wikispac

Re: [openhealth] EHR Review makes progress, needs help!

2006-04-06 Thread David Forslund
Is someone going to review OpenEMed? I'm not sure who is using it, but it has been the basis for several EMR efforts and has been downloaded some 15,000+ times from Sourceforge (?!). It will have full support for the ASTM CCR shortly. Thanks, Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > It seems to me

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-30 Thread David Forslund
n Malaysia won't help much in this respect. I assume that OSHCA has engaged a lawyer to deal with this business process and to make recommendations. Dave Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Tim.Churches wrote: > > > David Forslund wrote: > > > > Mo

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-29 Thread David Forslund
Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Molly, > > > > Incorporating OSHCA in the US doesn't necessarily imply US domination. > > No, but US citizens need to be sensitive to the negative feelings > towards the US which are present and growing in many co

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread David Forslund
he > developing world that needs help. > > Molly > > > > >Richard > > > > > > > > > >Molly Cheah wrote: > > > > > >>I was born in Malaysia and lived through the period where we obtained > >>independance from the British

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread David Forslund
correctly? I'm not suspicious about other countries' law; rather trying to understand the issues, requirements, reasons, and advantages. Sometimes people make decisions without understanding the reality of the choices. -Dave Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > >

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread David Forslund
ke OSHCA is IMHO > >not a major concern. What is more important is how the countries laws > >influence governance. > > > >David Forslund wrote: > > > > > >>I don't understand why this is good or even relevant. What should > >>matter is the l

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread David Forslund
wants to do internationally. Dave Tim.Churches wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > I don't understand why this is good or even relevant. What should > > matter is the legal protection > > provided by the incorporation in the various countries participating, > &

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread David Forslund
I don't understand why this is good or even relevant. What should matter is the legal protection provided by the incorporation in the various countries participating, which I think was Richard's point. Dave Forslund Tim.Churches wrote: > Richard Schilling wrote: > > If I were involved in the in

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-24 Thread David Forslund
e may need to be re-written is no big deal. Dave Thomas Beale wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > Will, > > I agree with you, which is why I also argue for using standards for > > the communication and > > interfaces in a system. That way one can replace the syste

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-24 Thread David Forslund
n the > specific software package (in this case "HealthPro"). > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Mar 23, 2006, at 9:39 PM, David Forslund wrote: > > >> Is this workflow put into a "computable" form or is it just to help >> unders

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: Re: [n-gaa] Is Open Source Good for Innovation?]

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624944 is the link to the article I intended to post. David Forslund wrote: > I thought folks might like to see this article. Any comments? > > -Dave > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the we

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: Re: [n-gaa] Is Open Source Good for Innovation?]

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
Sorry about the mailer stripping the message. Dave David Forslund wrote: > I thought folks might like to see this article. Any comments? > > -Dave > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -

[openhealth] [Fwd: Re: [n-gaa] Is Open Source Good for Innovation?]

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
I thought folks might like to see this article. Any comments? -Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
Will, I agree with you, which is why I also argue for using standards for the communication and interfaces in a system. That way one can replace the system with others that implement those same standards. This allows even for a replacement of an open source solution with a proprietary one

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
and comprehensively > add the necessary features to the base ClearHealth product. All the > new code being paid with grant funds will be released under the > GPL. The project portal is located here: > >http://www.phoenixpm.org/ > > With best regards, > > [wr]

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
rHealth product. All the > new code being paid with grant funds will be released under the > GPL. The project portal is located here: > >http://www.phoenixpm.org/ > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Mar 23, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Da

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
Tim Cook wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Forslund wrote: > > I'm trying to understand what these reference view points have to do > > with getting the data between organizations. > > In a single care place, the data fo

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
So, when some information has to be transfered from one team member to > another one, they have to use the continuity of care system in order to > know who is in charge at this moment. Elsewhere, the information may end > up at a doctor's you no longer visit. > > Co

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
Philippe AMELINE wrote: > Will, > > Who is the "user" you want to show workflow diagrams too? > Is he/she an health professional or a citizen/patient? > I can't speak for Will, but I think workflow is useful for the tasks that people need to do in caring for a patient. In the work we did with

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
I wholeheartedly agree with you, Will!Do you have some example workflow diagrams that you have found useful? Dave Will Ross wrote: > Philippe, > > Actually, I am still talking about Wayne's focus on the user. As a > project manager I spend much of my time in a balancing act by > advocat

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
Communication between HIS isn't specifically a need of a citizen, just the results of it. It has been almost impossible for a patient to be able to see or possess a record of their healthcare which is being done by a variety of organizations and providers. This need for a "virtual healthcare

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-23 Thread David Forslund
stable releases, too. Dave Tim.Churches wrote: > Thomas Beale wrote: > > David Forslund wrote: > > > > > > We have been using workflow engines for a while. The one I happen to > > > prefer is Shark (http://shark.objectweb.org) > <http://shark.objectwe

Re: [openhealth] Demonstrations & Standards.

2006-03-22 Thread David Forslund
), we end up with a plurality of engineering > solutions and national authorities or standards committees then have to > decide between them and anoint one or the other, or at least a few. > > > > David Forslund wrote: > > > The vendor lock-in was the > > >biggest

Re: Open Source Interoperability (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: OS at MedInfo 2007

2006-03-19 Thread David Forslund
Thomas Beale wrote: > David Forslund wrote: > > I think we should have some time of interoperability testbed for open > > source systems with each other and with other > > non-open source systems. Interoperability and open source can be quite > > orthogonal. Certai

Re: Open Source Interoperability (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: OS at MedInfo 2007

2006-03-19 Thread David Forslund
I think we should have some time of interoperability testbed for open source systems with each other and with other non-open source systems. Interoperability and open source can be quite orthogonal. Certainly all systems need to today to indicate their level of "interoperability" and how that

Re: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list

2006-03-17 Thread David Forslund
I second Will Ross position and Bhaskar's recommendation. The yahoogroups email is working fine as far as I can see. I think it was problems with the other list that had caused some trouble in the past. Let's put this behind us and move forward. Dave Forslund Will Ross wrote: > I agree with

Re: [openhealth] Open Source Clinical Messaging Software

2006-01-11 Thread David Forslund
Have you looked at openedi on sourceforge? Dave Will Ross wrote: > I'm looking for one. At any stage of development. Any suggestions > will be welcome. > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > will ross > mendocino informatics > 216 west perkins street, suite 206 > ukiah, calif

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

2005-11-24 Thread David Forslund
u, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:35:48AM -0700, David Forslund wrote: > > > "The Drug Product Database (DPD) system captures information on > Canadian human, > > veterinary and disinfectant products approved by the Drugs Programme > for use in Canada." > > > > So it

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

2005-11-24 Thread David Forslund
I also don't see anything different about use outside or inside Canada. However, I do have a question about the Canadian nature of the data. It mentions the use of French characters in the data and in the identification of products no longer marketed in Canada. It also says "The Drug Product

Re: [openhealth] OSCAR passed!

2005-11-22 Thread David Forslund
I guess it is too much to ask that these databases be made available in a database independent format. This way they could be incorporated into existing systems that don't happen to have (or don't want) PostgresSQL running. It seems to me that the descriptions of the data and the data could ea

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