Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk
MPI would include the result of the EC PICNIC project some years back I think.
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--- David Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks David. Please clarify the following for me: The MPI has to be global to be of any use, each human being being uniquely identified. To what layer/level the identification entities can be extended, maybe of concern to individuals and countries. WIll this affect the lobal application of unique identifiers? Nandalal 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 responses. The EIS is a joint effort of the OMG and HL7. We would like to provide an implementation of EIS as part of OpenEMed and are soliciting help in anyone interested in doing so. Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix project anything was done regards the development of an MPI using OpenEMed, except the Patient identification terminology service itself. Therfore your peoject maybe the first open-source one, if it is used for this purpose in the future. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:wross%40openhre.org wrote: Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. There are lots of fine project lists out there. I do not want information that I could find on Google. I want the inside scoop! Who are the loosers who are the winners. In some of these areas I already know the answers, and I simply need a gut-check. In other areas I am truly ignorant. Feel free to email me privately if you want something to be off-the-record. Regards, -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com http://www.fredtrotter.com - - - - - - - - [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.462.6369 [office] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS,
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The PIDS specification deals with this fairly well, in my opinion. It is similar to naming issues in DNS. It specifies that an identifier must be unique in a domain, but this could be hospital lab, a hospital, a regional care provider, a state or a nation. It enables mapping between identifiers 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:forslund%40mail.com wrote: Thanks David. Please clarify the following for me: The MPI has to be global to be of any use, each human being being uniquely identified. To what layer/level the identification entities can be extended, maybe of concern to individuals and countries. WIll this affect the lobal application of unique identifiers? Nandalal 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 responses. The EIS is a joint effort of the OMG and HL7. We would like to provide an implementation of EIS as part of OpenEMed and are soliciting help in anyone interested in doing so. Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix project anything was done regards the development of an MPI using OpenEMed, except the Patient identification terminology service itself. Therfore your peoject maybe the first open-source one, if it is used for this purpose in the future. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:wross%40openhre.org mailto:wross%40openhre.org wrote: Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ http://www.openempi.org/ http://www.openempi.org/ http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo
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Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix project anything was done regards the development of an MPI using OpenEMed, except the Patient identification terminology service itself. Therfore your peoject maybe the first open-source one, if it is used for this purpose in the future. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. There are lots of fine project lists out there. I do not want information that I could find on Google. I want the inside scoop! Who are the loosers who are the winners. In some of these areas I already know the answers, and I simply need a gut-check. In other areas I am truly ignorant. Feel free to email me privately if you want something to be off-the-record. Regards, -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com - - - - - - - - [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.462.6369 [office] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 - - - - - - - - Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com
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--- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The African project OpenMRS (see http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS ) is, to my mind, the most exciting open source clinical application at present, in the field, good technical underpinnings, and charging ahead. Thanks Tim for this info, I was not aware of this project. It seems to be in development stage yet, and the link is http://openmrs.org It is using the same FOSS software as OSCAR BTW OSCAR is alive and well too! GNUmed (http://www.gnumed.org/ ), which is also technically very good, is finally getting somewhere after many, many years of effort. EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x I take my hat off to the Hospital OS team in Thailand: http://www.hospital-os.com/en/ Yes, unfortunately the English version of the new 3.0 is not available yet PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. Mirth looks exciting and well-executed, and we are keen to use it. Has anyone tested it or used it for serious work? Public health/epidemiology (think avian/pandemic influenza): OpenEpi is a useful tool: http://www.openepi.com/ Our own NetEpi project (see http://www.netepi.org ) is approaching its Version 1.0 release - V1.0beta and updated Web site by the end of Jan 2007, plus, I hope, a bootable liveCD demo disc, with V1.0 final to follow in Feb. The disaster Mangament Project Sahana, is developing a module for pandemics, and I will be joining in it's finalizing touches soon. http://www.sahana.lk/ Nandalal Tim C Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk
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 responses. The EIS is a joint effort of the OMG and HL7. We would like to provide an implementation of EIS as part of OpenEMed and are soliciting help in anyone interested in doing so. Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix project anything was done regards the development of an MPI using OpenEMed, except the Patient identification terminology service itself. Therfore your peoject maybe the first open-source one, if it is used for this purpose in the future. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:wross%40openhre.org wrote: Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. There are lots of fine project lists out there. I do not want information that I could find on Google. I want the inside scoop! Who are the loosers who are the winners. In some of these areas I already know the answers, and I simply need a gut-check. In other areas I am truly ignorant. Feel free to email me privately if you want something to be off-the-record. Regards, -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com http://www.fredtrotter.com - - - - - - - - [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.462.6369 [office] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 - - - - - - - - __ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com
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Nandalal, The work Stuart and I are doing on the openempi.org website is not the development of a specific MPI package. Instead, we are proposing to study any open source MPI package, and to review and document their identity disambiguation algorithms. The idea behind the website is that the accumulation of a library of algorithms which have been abstracted from the various packages will be a benefit to all the open source MPI packages. The start for the project came when a colleague asked if I knew of an open source MPI he can use in his .NET environment. That's when I realized that a library of open source algorithms would help advance all open source MPI projects. The fun part of this is that this type of library is only possible with free or open source code. With best regards, [wr] ps: There was no MPI work in the Phoenix project. The billing and scheduling development work done during the Phoenix project has all been released into the ClearHealth code under a GPL copyright. On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:38 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Hello Will, I do not see any MPI projects in the OpenHRE except the description of four Patient-Data Matching Software. The OpenEMed project is somewhat dormant and did not have a fully developed MPI software based on it's Person identification service. I am not sure if during the aborted Phoenix project anything was done regards the development of an MPI using OpenEMed, except the Patient identification terminology service itself. Therfore your peoject maybe the first open-source one, if it is used for this purpose in the future. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. There are lots of fine project lists out there. I do not want information that I could find on Google. I want the inside scoop! Who are the loosers who are the winners. In some of these areas I already know the answers, and I simply need a gut-check. In other areas I am truly ignorant. Feel free to email me privately if you want something to be off-the-record. Regards, -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com - - - - - - - - [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.462.6369 [office] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 - - - - - - - - __ __ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links [wr] - - - -
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On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:31, Fred Trotter wrote: ... EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE OpenEMR will have a long-awaited release out in the next couple of days. I have a list of about 70 improvements, but here are some highlights: * New frame-based layout for improved workflow. * Support for dispensing and inventory management of in-house drugs, and point-of-sale cash checkout. * General-purpose fax and scanner support. * X12 835 remittance processing for primary claims. * Address book module, useful for referrals. * New encounter forms: several for ob/gyn and mental health, Body Composition, Football Injury, Hist/Exam/Plan, Scanned Notes, Physical Exam, CAMOS (for generating orders), and some older forms resurrected from prior OpenEMR versions. * New reports: Collections report, Unique Seen Patients, Sales By Item, Receipts by Payment Method, Patient List, Patient Appointments. * Reworked patient statements to show more detail. * Various scheduling improvements. * PHP5 compatibility. * MySQL 5 compatibility. Rod www.sunsetsystems.com
Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk
Hello World, Like Fred I'm also speaking at SCALE. During the afternoon at SCALE my presentation will discuss FOSS options for MPI solutions. Here's my short list of open source MPI projects: [1] OpenEMed [2] OpenHRE If you know of any further FOSS options for MPI, please send me links to the MPI project(s). Also, Dr. Stuart Turner and I have launched a small portal to persistently track FOSS options for MPI solutions. http://www.openempi.org/ All comments and suggestions are welcome. With best regards, [wr] - - - - - - - - On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. There are lots of fine project lists out there. I do not want information that I could find on Google. I want the inside scoop! Who are the loosers who are the winners. In some of these areas I already know the answers, and I simply need a gut-check. In other areas I am truly ignorant. Feel free to email me privately if you want something to be off-the-record. Regards, -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com - - - - - - - - [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.462.6369 [office] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 - - - - - - - -
Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk
Fred Trotter wrote: Hello OpenHealth, I hope you are all aware of the SCALE healthcare day... http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/ If you can make it you should, the speakers line up is full of real players in our industry. I am scheduled to talk on Whats going on in healthcare the intent of my talk is to give a summary about what is REALLY going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare. I want to talk about what projects are moving and which projects are dead. I want to talk about what we as a larger community are doing well with and what we as a community are doing poorly with. In short I want to present my audience with useful bias as opposed to mere information. I fully intend to make some bold statements about the state of our industry. But I do not want to do that without having more information about what is really happening. So I am turning this question on the community? What IS going on in Free and Open Source Healthcare? Here are the areas that I would like commentary on. Please feel free to comment on areas that I am overlooking. First whats going on in medical imaging? ie Osiris Second what is happening in Genomics/Protenomics/Cell Modeling? i.e. http://www.bioconductor.org/ What is happening in decision support/diagnostics? OpenPsyc etc etc GELLO - http://www.openclinical.org/gmm_gello.html - is it really needed, and are there any open source implementations of it yet? Clinical Trial/ Research Software ie OIO The open source statistical environment, R (see http://www.r-project.org/ ), is going from strength to strength and is becoming a widely used tool in many areas of biomedical research, and the dominant tool (with add-on libraries like Bioconductor) in a few biomedical sub-disciplines. Drug Database - i.e. Uversa effort EHR clinical i.e. MirrorMed/ClearHealth -- VOE The African project OpenMRS (see http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS ) is, to my mind, the most exciting open source clinical application at present, in the field, good technical underpinnings, and charging ahead. GNUmed (http://www.gnumed.org/ ), which is also technically very good, is finally getting somewhere after many, many years of effort. EHR hospital ie. VistA/Care2x I take my hat off to the Hospital OS team in Thailand: http://www.hospital-os.com/en/ PHR ie Indivo Interoperability/MPI Mirth/OHF etc etc. Mirth looks exciting and well-executed, and we are keen to use it. Has anyone tested it or used it for serious work? Public health/epidemiology (think avian/pandemic influenza): OpenEpi is a useful tool: http://www.openepi.com/ Our own NetEpi project (see http://www.netepi.org ) is approaching its Version 1.0 release - V1.0beta and updated Web site by the end of Jan 2007, plus, I hope, a bootable liveCD demo disc, with V1.0 final to follow in Feb. Tim C
