was not able to clearly
document it. Could you point me to papers that document it?
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to be the right kind of approach.
I do agree with you. It seems to be good.
hope this helps,
What?
The fact that you have been graciously sharing with us your knowledge
and experience?
You bet it helps us! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us,
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to the must read status.
The paper is freely available from:
http://www.vm.fi/tiedostot/pdf/en/65051.pdf
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pragmatic enough?
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on:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-06-11-031-26-NW-MR-PB
Or, download the (small) report file from:
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2004/linux-adoption-in-the-public-sector.pdf
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are at:
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~celio/livrobd/docs/benchmark.html
(*) Prof. Cardoso Guimarães is an associate professor at the Computation
Institute - Unicamp - Brasil. [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~celio/]
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A very interest interview with Lawrence Weed, the developer of the
problem-oriented medical record (Weed lists). He believes that
computerized support tools mean better care.
The full article may be found at:
http://www.health-itworld.com/emag/070104/289.html
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A few times I have needed to implement routines that output Adobe
PostScript for the purpose of printing barcodes in several different
languages. Recently this has provoked me to cook up the following
routine that implements the printing of barcodes entirely within level 2
PostScript. This means
. As an antidote to
the common management failures of v1 efforts, *this essay explores the
common mistakes with new efforts, and offers advice on how to avoid them*.
Seen at: http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue36.htm
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be downloaded from:
http://linuxha.trick.ca/_cache/da.pdf
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Some time ago we looked at it as a possible candidate to inclusion in
the Care2x project. We could not find a well documented piece of working
code for it.
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of. What they
don't realize is that by optimizing their site for the search engines,
if done correctly, they can also optimize it for their site visitors.
More on: http://tinyurl.com/6dwlp
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This announcement has been posted recently in the
comp.protocols.dicom newsgroup.
From: José Antonio Pérez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dicom
Subject: Open source DICOM and healthcare software site
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:07:44 +0100
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I am
will towards Open Source... when will IBM open
source the DB2 dbms? :-)
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This is interesting for all of us that have a web presence somewhere:
The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004
seen at:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html
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/operate a Healthcare Information System
without those awful creatures... the doctors. :-)
Seen on: http://e-healthexpert.org/
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required to administer Linux servers and workstations.
More on the source URL: http://e-healthexpert.org/node/20
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VA Health IT Sharing: is this the way to go?
By J. Antas
Created 2005-03-08 10:43
The Healthcare Informatics Online magazine has an article by Peter Groen
(director of the Veterans Health Administration's Health IT Sharing
program), were he talks about the Health IT Sharing Program, a four
Why you should use Open Source Software in your Healthcare Organization
By webmaster
Created 2005-03-07 10:34
David A. Wheeler presents in his a site Why Open Source Software a
thorough analysis on why you should seriously consider to use Open
Source Software in your organization.
Source URL:
The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) just published an
article by Koppel et al. about the impact of a widely used computerized
physician order entry (CPOE) system in facilitating medication errors at
a hospital. CPOE increased the probability of 22 potential sources of
managed by smart peoplehave such trouble countering or
embracing disruptive innovations that are on the horizon.
More on: http://e-healthexpert.org/node/41
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, integrated
clinical information reduced use of ambulatory care while maintaining
quality.
See more at: http://e-healthexpert.org/node/45
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The recent JAMA article on Computerized Physician Order Entry (Role of
Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in facilitating Medication
Errors) seems to have created controversy: Health-IT World, March 15,
2005 Debate Swirls Around JAMA Article Critical of CPOE
Debian weekly news reported an analysis performed on the Creative
Commons licenses.
Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses. Evan Prodromou [10]worked on the final
revision to the draft summary of the Creative Commons 2.0 (CC)
licenses. This document gives a summary of the opinion of debian-legal
members
For nearly 30 years, Wharton management professor Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
has taken the art of business strategy and put it under a microscope.
Over time, he has brought one critical element into irrefutable focus:
Creating strategy is easy, but implementing it is very difficult.
In his new
The MIT Guardian Angel group
By J. Antas
Created 2005-03-25 11:26
A heterogeneous group of people from the MIT, Tufts NEMC, Childrens
Hospital (Boston) has been working in several very interesting projects:
PING (Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian)
HealthConnect
W3-EMRS: World Wide Web
Article: Structuration Theory and Conception-Reality Gaps [...]
Author: Angelina Kouroubali
Rating: 5/5 - *must read*
One of the most insightful articles about the reasons why Clinical IT
projects succeed or fail must be Angelina Kouroubali's article:
Structuration Theory and Conception-Reality
Ignacio Valdes wrote:
Linux Medical News is 5 years old as of yesterday. It all began with
Congratulations. Keep up the good work.
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The 10th Step to Control Health Care Costs: Implement modern Health IT.
The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent
research on health and social issues, has an article on Taking a Walk
on the Supply Side: 10 Steps to Control Health Care Costs
That article presents 10
Innosight [1] which, as you may know, is the latest endeavor of Prof.
Clayton Christensen, the author of the Disruptive Innovations Theory
[2], has an interesting analysis of what went wrong in the Merck Vioxx
case. The full article is freely available in .pdf format from: The
Winners Curse
Standards are a critical subject in any activity. Healthcare has been
pestered for years by a Babel tower of proto-standards and lousy
standardization efforts.
It seems that a long time offender - HL7 - is showing some activity at
the (long dued) effort of moving from the fuzzy and profit
The 26 April 2005 edition of the European eGovernment News Roundup,
reports that according to a recent study by Frost Sullivan the
European e-healthcare industry is moving towards consolidation and the
market is set to double in size within five years.
Anticipated sustained investment in this
.htm
Also interesting is Michael Banck's blog on the same subject:
http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html?start=30
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Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
Under the theory that it is better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness, I have created a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) is a robust place for mailing
lists and electronic communities, including a file repository,
searchable
A study published at the Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. (2005 Jan;49(1):62-5.)
documents what seems to be an emerging (and rather unexpected) trend:
Clinical IT (HIS) systems increase the time that healthcare workers
spend documenting their activities and not the other way around.
One could always
Alric wrote:
Is anyone able to get the actual document.
You may buy it from the editor (I do not know why the electronic
versions are not free):
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=callWizardwizardKey=salesAgent:1115386861889action=show
One member of my Nusing Informatics
cumbersome, even if the actual
typing is easy. A smart system will pop up the entry fields when
needed, but making it smart may be quite an undertaking indeed.
I couldn't agree more.
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to take a look at:
http://www.opensourcecms.com
J. Antas
PS - At http://e-HealthExpert.org we are also using a free/open source
Content Management System (in this case Drupal from www.drupal.org) to
manage the site contents. Most of the time it produces fully W3C
standards compliant HTML and CSS
Librenix has an interesting article about the the hidden dangers in
changing to .NET / Mono (Mono is the free/open source version of .NET
environment).
The article Mono-culture and the .NETwork effect is available at:
http://librenix.com/?inode=3501
=20050516122114637
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deprived of the
paper-based medical record: a case report,
and has just been made freely available at:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmedpubmedid=15488150
reports
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. They are all limited means to
reach a common end: to better help other human beings.
feel free to add more to the list.
Fear not, I guess that my freedom has not being menaced yet.
Best regards,
J. Antas
The Journal of Medical Internet Research has an interesting article
about the currently available (published) definitions for eHealth
(e-Health).
That article, by Hans Oh et al., is named: What Is eHealth - A
Systematic Review of Published Definitions [1]
From the article abstract:
Context:
individually/socially constructs
meaning as (s)he learns).
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Consulting Times just published a very interesting article by Tom
Adelstein, named Linux vs Microsoft XP: Optimizations Make Linux the
Killer Desktop.
That article, subtitled When the Linux desktop gets performance tweaks,
people can see a significant difference. Windows XP just cannot keep
Newsforge published today (2005.05.24) an article named: *Moodle: An
open source learning management system*
From that article:
Distance education is becoming more important in today's connected
world. Universities and schools are supplementing traditional
classroom-based learning with
hardware
compatibility and limited setup user-friendliness that gets the spotlight.
A must read at:
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/18/2033216.shtml?tid=149tid=73tid=16
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There is a Russian site that keeps a software directory of equivalents
/ replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux:
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
From that site:
One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is
the lack of knowledge about
and to be proficient in using the systems).
It seems (once again?) that now that these new rules are out, all will
be well in the British NHS.
The (rather small) NHS document is available from:
http://www.isb.nhs.uk/pages/docs/healthrec_compractice.pdf
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combined with the free PBX Software Asterisk
(http://www.asterisk.org/), could become an welcome help for
inter-hospital communication needs.
The full article may be found at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/02/computex_skype_handsets/
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Linux Journal has a nice article signed by Tom Adelstein, in which he
expresses his belief that open-source and standards compliant Linux
quickly is becoming the enabler in today's complex IT infrastructures.
Some highlights:
...Enterprise transformation appears to exist in a continuous loop.
Seen on http://distrowatch.com:
So how do you feel about the fact that Gentoo's founder Daniel Robbins
now works for Microsoft? (http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050613-drobbins.xml)
If you don't find anything wrong with the concept, let us re-phrase
the above sentence: Daniel Robbins, one of
the high reliability cluster.
The system is (reliably!) running since Feb. 2005. It is expected to
grow up to 250 GB over the first 2 years (but it has a present practical
ceiling of 16 TB).
For those interested in the subject there is a paper describing the
experiment.
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The IT Managers Journal has an article on How to hire the best
people, and quickly.
Some highlights from that article:
If you are hiring a developer, the best information is a direct test of
their ability to work on software. I hire developers for distributed
development teams, so it is
Published on e-HealthExpert.org (http://e-healthexpert.org
http://e-healthexpert.org/)
British Medical Association Chairman claims that the UK's Choose
and Book program is a fiasco
By J. Antas
Created 2005-06-28 21:20
An article at the EHI Primary Care site reports that the chairman
://www.sida.se/content/1/c6/02/39/55/SIDA3460en_Open%20SourceWEB.pdf
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Heitzso wrote:
Anyone know the current status of open source small practice
management programs? Or what web sites that monitor open
source health programs are current?
Try http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/5730
and http://sls.netpatia.com/?q=taxonomy/term/5
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Original Message
Subject: Help request
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:23:57 +
From: Álvaro Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear colleagues,
A student of mine will begin as soon as possible a research about
information systems impact on health organisations and professionals
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