Re: [openhealth] ClearHealth questions

2005-08-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Nandalal Gunaratne MS FRCS Urological Surgeon Will, Considering how much you have you have personally improved our community with working code, I feel a little silly lecturing you. For that matter almost everyone on this list is quite clearly the choir

Re: [openhealth] WSIS Tunis

2005-11-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
this year for its activities and had been told that we will get another RM1million before the end of the year to disburse to our NGO members for their projects. This is for tobacco control. Rgds, Molly Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: I support this as well, but what does this support mean

Re: [openhealth] OSCAR passed!

2005-11-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hooray! Cheers to OSCAR team! Nandalal David Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** 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

Re: [openhealth] Framework for interoperability between existing softwares

2005-12-29 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
, they could pulll off something workable without the huge financial input made by the British. Nandalal Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Koray Atalag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: namely CEN TC251, is centered around openEHR metholodologies and artifacts...Also as far as I know

Re: [openhealth] The Question

2006-01-06 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Accept impermanance as the universal truth in our daily living, and that helping others is what really helps you. Nandalal --- Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any of you read The Edge ( http://www.edge.org/ ) you'll be familiar with John Brockman's annual big question to a chosen group

Re: [openhealth] Re: Takin' it serious...

2006-01-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Since we started off with dangerous questions, aren't everyone taking things too seriously? The more dangerous the suggestions, the better? ;-) Nandalal --- Peter Holt Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tim, I believe you're being trolled. -- Peter. Always do right. This

Re: [openhealth] RE: The Question

2006-01-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi William, In which countries are they active? Nandalal --- William Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RE: ...when will more not-for-profit medical organizations band together... Not such a dangerous idea. A group of international nonprofit health agencies has recently formed a

Re: [openhealth] RE: The Question

2006-01-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- William Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get more info? The website www.engenderhealth.org does not give any clues. NPOKI gives nothing much on a google search. Nandalal Collectively we work in over 160 countries. I won't list them all, but here's a short list of the countries

Re: [openhealth] OSS collections

2006-01-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
is also useful for this purpose. However one really good site with descriptions, reviews and classifications would be nice. You are aware of the excellent state of the art, OSCAR project in Canada, based on JAVA which plans to cover almost everything in health care, eventually? (with apologies to

Re: [openhealth] Resurrecting OSHCA - updates so far....

2006-01-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Dr Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Molly, I have made some changes/suggestions to your excellent draft. But is the mission statement too long? I think about 5-7 points would suffice. Nandalal Hi everyone, I've tried to put together views expresed so far, but runs into

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thomas Beale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:yes...well, systemic solutions to interoperability require systemic changes to the architecture, not ad hoc additions on the outside. You have to be consciously designing for interoperability (along with the other 28 incredibly complex things you

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem in people not learning from VistA is that it is so difficult to install and run! The other point is that the various modules have different licences. It is not fully open sourced in that sense (or am I wrong?). Some of the largest

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Phillipe, I would like to know your approach to things, more clearly. The list I made is more in fun than an initiative for OSHCA!! My interest infact is in the use of IT for the area of Research, audit and CME for clinicians. The BIG jobof making those for administrators, managers,

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble comes from using the word FREE (FOSS) in an increasingly commercial world of software. Maybe commercial users of FOSS should drop the word Free and call it OSST (open source software technologies). Free as in beer belonged to the last

Re: [openhealth] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! A bit complicated but understandable. But Wine is needed to get the CPRS GUI going? IT is a pity that there is no GUI for unix systems WHile your liveCD based on DSL is commendable, it is one of the most diffcult liveCDs to configure and

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
to know the difference? :-) Nandalal On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:14 -0600, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble comes from using the word FREE (FOSS) in an increasingly commercial world of software. Maybe commercial users

Re: [openhealth] Re: Software Developers, BOTH too rigid and too complex

2006-01-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Rick Stockton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone advise me, why does OpenEMR tend to have so many checkboxes in its forms? (I am without a clue, just a sentence or two is sufficient.) Free form

RE: [openhealth] Re: Software Developers, BOTH too rigid and too complex

2006-01-30 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Koray Atalag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls. do not take my prior post as advertising of a company; and I assure you that I have no financial interest with this company... If it was it was poor advertising! The link gave a 404 error :-( Thanks for a dumb gui for dumb and dumber

Re: [openhealth] [Fwd: [GPCG_TALK] Open Source Software: A Primer for Health Care Leaders]

2006-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim has done a good job of analysing this report. I do not think anyone whould have the freedom to create their own versions of what FOSS means and the licences mean as well! There is however a subtle difference between open source software and Free

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSS for Healthcare Leaders Primer

2006-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
ivhalpc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I haven't been reading openhealth digests lately :-) I've been BUSY ;-) -- IV Fishing? Nandalal --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Ignacio Valdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iHealth and Technology brings you a Forrester Whitepaper:

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

2006-03-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too agree. Certification is a matter of standards and quality. ther should be no compromise. The FOSS once equally certified maybe able to make stroner claims. However because of the collaborative/community type of development, there could be a waver of

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

2006-03-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Business Readiness Rating™ - Home Could HIS be included here as well? NandA Thomas Beale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Tim.Churches wrote: Will Ross wrote: Fred, I oppose the creation of a separate open source certification process. I think it compromises the opportunity for

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Wow after all that feedback I'm honestly trying to pick where to start on this one. I'm seeing some confusion here between legal aspects and the socio-political. Perhaps this is because socio-political is far more important in asia

Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update

2006-03-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next GKP annual meeting is here in Sri Lanka. Anyone coming? :-) NandA Molly, I think you should incorporate in Malaysia eventually. As a Malaysian you'll have a very easy time doing it and know what it means. The members of the

Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a great admierer of the US and it's people, the films, the sports, the comics on which I was introduced to reading :-) I still think it is one of the best countires and even the President is not all bad flamebait Most of the FOSS software come

Re: next steps. (was Re: [openhealth] Important announcement and oshca update)

2006-03-30 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
they? The digital divide is maintained. This is why any laws that may affect FOSS worries us as it is the only way forward. Even those in the US and EU do not think software patent issues are silly. NandA Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Definitely no anti-US sentiments from here

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA registration update

2006-04-05 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Constitution of the Open Source Health Care Alliance Hi Molly, A few questions/suggestions. 9.3 - Names for the above offices in Article 9.1 shall be proposed and seconded and election will be by a simple majority vote of the members at the annual

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

2006-04-06 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It seems to me that Fred is going to review just these, and others are supposed to chiop in with some reviews or part of reviews of any other EMRs worth talking about. Open VistA remains to be reviewed and OSCAR. Zope based SPIRIT? and OIO are two others that come to mind. While the ones

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It is indeed most encouraging to see such developments. When I clicked the screenshots i was taken to the Microsoft web site!!! Your link should be http://www.mirrormed.org/fb/ Not http://http//www.mirrormed.org/fb/ Regards nandalal Ignacio Valdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are quite right, TIm. This is a funny thing with Firefox. I am using 1.0.7 maybe they ahve sorted things in 1.5.1, hopefully! Nandalal Tim.Churches wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: It is indeed most encouraging to see such developments

Re: [openhealth] MirrorMed Highlights FOSS in Action

2006-04-16 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, All the following work with Firefox - in that i am taken to the correct URL! What were you trying to point out here? Nandalal That leads to a whole genre of single word, non-deterministic URLS in Firefox. Try these (in Firefox, results

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

2006-04-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
alvinbmarcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a very good system. Congratulations! I will try this and introduce it to my colleagues in community health. Maybe some of them are already aware of it. Nandalal Hello all. This is Alvin Marcelo (formerly of NLM)

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

2006-04-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
. www.oemr.org -- Rod www.sunsetsystems.com On Monday 17 April 2006 08:58 am, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Andrew Schamess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, There are several open source products but I doubt if any one of them can do all that you ask. LAMP based ones include

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA Membership question

2006-04-22 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
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 ideas and code *to demonstrate the value of interoperability and

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

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Will, Please forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing ;-) They have not done this before! Perfection is worth striving for, but it is almost never reachable, Therefore it was agreed by most of us that it was OK to get it

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

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Fred Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, There was enough time given for dissent/discussion. Molly asked everyone repeatedly to comment on the issues. We can't wait for ever, therefore a time limit was set, and the FINAL draft was set down. Therfore there was really nothing to

[openhealth] The Free Standards Group Announces Availability of First Integrated Linux Desktop Standard

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
LSB 3.1 also incorporates the recently approved ISO standard LSB Core (ISO/IEC 23360) into the standard. The Free Standards Group also has said that Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, Asianux and others are all certifying their versions of their operating systems to the LSB, delivering true world-wide

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

2006-04-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
, which is seconded and passed. does this disrupt the process or is it a legitimate part of the process? you decide. [wr] - - - - - - - - On Apr 25, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Fred Trotter wrote: Fred, There was enough time given for dissent/discussion. Molly asked

Re: Openhealth Archives? (was) Re: RES: [openhealth] OSHCA - Notion of founding members

2006-04-29 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear sir, unfortunately, i believe the record will show that i am qualified to share the disputation sandbox from this side of the pond. we can't have california not represented; after all, look who we elected governor. Yes! And he will be back!

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

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Could you please explain the difference between the Templates (there are quite a few of these, but very basic) and the eforms? If one needs to add patient data regarding the procedures they undergo, what is the best approach? I believe that all the data is stored in the MYSQL database, and

Re: [openhealth] Standards for health information systems

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
... Thanks Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm collating standards (open or otherwise) that are being used in open source health applications. I'd appreciate if the developers on the list would explicitly publish what standards they base their applications on and perhaps we

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

2006-05-09 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi David, Does OSCAR allow patients to keep their own records or access them? Are you hoping to implement something on the lines of PING? I have installed OSCAR and am trying it out. I installed it on Ubuntu, and I am also documenting things as I go along. As a surgeon I must find a way

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

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
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 on Ubuntu Breezy

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

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jel Coward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Have you got the latest build with the greater granularity of permissions? OSCAR 2.1.0 is what I am experimenting with. -- Jel Coward SPONSORED LINKS Software distribution Salon software Medical software

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

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jel Coward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Have you got the latest build with the greater granularity of permissions? OSCAR 2.1.0 is what I am experimenting with. -- Jel Coward SPONSORED LINKS Software distribution Salon software Medical software

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Alvin B. Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding systems included. Unfortunately the best nomenclature coding system is SNOMED-CT which is a proprietary product. But I am sure the new versions of the ICD

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me take an even stronger position. If you really want to secure your network of PCs, you should run the OS off a Linux live CD-ROM which cannot be infected. It is so straightforward to create customized Linux live CDs, that I see no reason to not

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
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 the same coding system. OSS could lead by

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has it's benefits, but not a great practical solution, nor safe enough, as one may want to assume. [KSB] Like perfection, absolute security does not exist in this universe. All we can do is make intelligent trade-offs! Yes! This truth makes

Re: [openhealth] Standards

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
James Busser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the way it is and multiple licences are necessary depending on the number of users. Maybe things have changed recently? Nanda Gunaratne On May 11, 2006, at 8:23 AM, David Forslund wrote: In the US (and UK) SNOMED-CT is freely

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvin B. Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding systems included. Unfortunately the best nomenclature coding system is SNOMED-CT which

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
? alvin --- Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvin B. Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding systems included. Unfortunately the best nomenclature coding system

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
as to what one means by free. (as in beer vs ideas). Dave alvin --- Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvin B. Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are quite right. Interoperability depends in turn on the agreement on standards. Coding systems

Re: [openhealth] Zombie hacker pleads guilty to hospital infection

2006-05-12 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Jason Tan Boon Teck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well anything making the work of an evil mind more difficult is worth it :-) Total security being a myth. Nanda On 5/12/06, Franklin M. Siler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 11, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Jason Tan Boon Teck wrote:

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

2006-05-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Is NetEpi based on EpiInfo or something growing out of that?? I used EpiInfo it some years ago and can remember writing to the CDC to create a linux version :-) Regards Nanda Gunaratne Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignacio Valdes wrote: Linux Apache MySQL PHP server setups are

Re: [openhealth] Standards -- more questions

2006-05-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
ICD-10 has tried to be more accurate in making the diagnosis, thereby going into great detail, with the obvious effects of bloat. The ICD-10 -PCS is taking quite the opposite way of doing things, but could be difficult to get people to use it for this reason. They will not have their

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

2006-05-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I will tell some people who are into epideomological aspects of healthcare to look at Netepi. Regards Nanda Gunaratne Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Is NetEpi based on EpiInfo or something growing out of that?? I

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

2006-05-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
This is another interesting paragraph A statement from IBM said the company will engage with industry leaders. But it did not mention whether it will coordinate efforts with the so-called Interoperability Consortium—a group of large IT vendors including IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft

Re: [openhealth] Beyond standards.

2006-05-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think your argument to convince business is pretty good, if they are accepting it. In the same way we mayed a way to convince them that the use of interoperability also saves them a lot of money in the long term and gives them bargaining power when purchasing software from different

Re: [openhealth] Re: OSHCA

2006-05-31 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I second what Tim says. Do not think of the politics/politicians of the country concerned, but of the ordinary people of that country, who form the WASTE majority! Your expertise is of value to them. Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Forslund wrote: I apologize for bringing this

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

2006-06-21 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I agree with Tim. VistA has a lot going for it, but there are some good fully FOSS projects that can be developed further. They are build on modern languages and well established FOSS - like LAMP. The end users are more IT literate now than at the time VistA started, and would like to be able

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

2006-06-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thanks Joseph, for the clarification. It is good to know that the value of the open source model is becoming more accepted and that in the future, GUI based versions of VistA too, will be open source. What type of open source licence is likely to be used for these implementations? Public

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

2006-06-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thank you for clearing many things. However, the way VistA is developing and branching out, will create many problems in the future. I hope World Vista takes suitable precautions to ensure that future users of the FOSS version of World VistA, will not get into difficulties as you have pointed out

Re: [openhealth] FOIAVistA SemiVivA 20060615 available

2006-06-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
You said: As always, critiques, comments and questions are welcome. Are you serious? If you are, let me request that a document on how to use this, once installed, with a real example, with screenshots where necessary be put up. Without this it is useless. The LiveCD you kindly sent me was not

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

2006-06-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
. Therefore it will remain dependent on a commercial product even on linux! But if it works, this is acceptable in my opinion, as CPRS itself can be modified by anyone subsequently. Nandalal --- Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote

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

2006-10-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
that could prompt and print mammogram requests over the 10 years of our surveillance? What do they mean exactly by requests? Ideally it would be a program which would also act as a very basic database of patients such that we could recall all basic details (i.e. Node positives or Grade

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Adrian Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as The Rt Hon Mr Anthony Blair MP steps back to being a back bench MP, the plan is likely to fall apart. I hope not! In the sense that the NHS forgets about plans for EMR. Maybe a more sensible and practical approach will result? Nandalal --

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
IT would seem to me that, what you favour is a system where, all patients will have their EMR with their GPs and nobody else and nowhere else. What is done in a hospital encounter, for example a Urological Surgery, Cardioloical tests, CT scan reports, will be sent to the GP for inclusion in the

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I presume you mean that holding it at the GP level is far more stable for the patient? Admin/manager changes can vary, and their approach to change as well. THerefore it all depends. As for change in underwear, this could vary as well, if you listen to this story :-) A customs officer was

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
in a distributed EMR with control by the patient. Sometimes we called this a Virtual Medical/Patient Record (about 10 years ago in a journaled publication). Dave Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: IT would seem to me that, what you favour is a system where, all patients will have their EMR

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-27 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Why not hand over the keeping of the patient records to patients ( like PING), where clinicians just upload to this, and they also carry it with them in a storage format that is secure and easily accessible? The National Health Card Taiwan

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-11-28 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I would certainly like to help. Since I am a Surgeon interested in HIT (rather than a HIT specialist interested in surgery!), tell me how I could help, and I most certainly will. Best regards Nandalal --- Thomas Beale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Ross wrote: in other words, in my

Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt

2006-12-01 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University - Original Message From: Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:41:32 AM Subject: Re: [openhealth] Re: GPs Revolt Why

Re: [openhealth] Open standards are meaningless.

2006-12-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- David Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think EHR applications should be interoperable without having to use the same underlying code. Given some time and effort I would like to show that OpenEMed can accommodate the OpenEHR specifications. Since the archetypes are central to

Re: [openhealth] Please help out my little website.

2007-01-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Done! :-) --- Ignacio Valdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've written an original book review on Marcel Gagne's Moving to Free Software book on Linux Medical News. Book reviews tend to generate a lot of traffic for a website but the current queen of it all is Digg. If you have

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
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

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-13 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- 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

Re: [openhealth] SCALE talk

2007-01-14 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
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

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] OSHCA Conference - Preliminary Announcement]

2007-01-17 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open Source is also a open standard of software development! We need to define/re-define these open standards, remove the obsolete and invoke those of the future. As for objective 4, we need to discuss this now rather than wait. Think big and start small

Re: [openhealth] Re: [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] OSHCA Conference - Preliminary Announcement]

2007-01-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hello THomas, To give you an idea of the kind of thinking that could be exposed, here is my opinion: I think they should be open and freely usable - in fact I think the only sensible business model for standards development is to give them away free and charge some money for

Re: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics

2007-02-05 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Hi Christian, You are right on-the-ball here. What the asian colleagues would want is exactly what you suggested - intro to the core of the standards and what they mean in simple short form. They may also want more interactive hands on stuff regards FOSS apps rather than talks on them. The thing

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-18 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
This is just the type of discussion we should have in the May OSHCA Conference!! FOSS interoperability - from theory to practice Nandalal --- David Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Churches wrote: Paul wrote: Hi Dave, Our API is built around the standard health objects

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
The power of this approach is hard to appreciate until you're in a situation where lots of people have lots of things they want to characterize in a system. It allows non-developers to own and augment their own notions of what data matters to them, without altering the underlying

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
? Nandalal --- Thomas Beale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: The power of this approach is hard to appreciate until you're in a situation where lots of people have lots of things they want to characterize in a system. It allows non-developers to own

Re: [openhealth] Re: Hi folks..

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
and inaccuracy, will last forever. The correct path is the middle path. nandalal --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thomas, --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Beale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: The power of this approach is hard to appreciate

Re: [openhealth] openEHR archetype licensing by UK NHS (was Re: Hi folks.)

2007-02-20 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I agree with Tim. The licensing is ambiguous in regard to open licenses (OSI) and copyleft principles of FOSS. However OpenEHR may want to keep this open for change. The archetypes at least, must be protected from being commercialised as they are the collaborative work of many people. Nandalal

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-23 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Joseph Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Does this have a GUI interface? IS there a demo online to try out? Nandalal --- Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a couple of important clarifications to Bhaskar's post: Please note that this VERSION OF THE software has

Re: [openhealth] VistA Office EHR SemiVivA 2.3.1 released

2007-02-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
It was VistA itself I was asking about. Porting it to Java was being attempted, was it not? Nandalal --- Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPRS is based on Delphi not MUMPSand yes it is being ported to Java by VA. Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Right now

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Will, It is not a good idea to have sensitive information in free text. If you do, it should not go to general circulation, right? How can one extract such info from free text? One way is to remove such words from free text files using a macro of some sort. FInd and replace can be used to

Re: [openhealth] Suppressing Sensitive Info From Free Text

2007-03-03 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Thanks Ross! Due to your question i have come to know the present state of text mining and NLP. These will give you your solution I guess. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1089824dl=acmcoll=CFID=15151515CFTOKEN=6184618 nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear 80n, This is,

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-08 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
If Medsphere OpenVista is to be included in OSHCA, alongside World Vista, please give me the details that should be included and if any clauses need to be mentioned. Nandalal --- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred Trotter wrote: The software in question was not VistA at all. It was

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

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think Tim can add a home button on the first page Nandalal --- Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, When I click this Trial SIMILE link, it opens on same window and does not take me back to the previous page, http://www.oshca.org/healthdir/ Maybe its better to make it open on a

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

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
--- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: it separates the data from the presentation. Not every view has to use or display every data element. Tim C This is what Zope does too! Nanda

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

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Tim and David, I wonder if David is looking at the Tiddlywiki? Given below is the part of the JSON file and the links are correct. The CorbaMed link has been corrected. It is not listed under standards anymore and is under software applications. Is it necessary to have application framework as

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

2007-03-10 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
David, You are the best person to advice us on this matter. What should go into the open standards in healthcare? section? The list below is what I compiled for starters to be edited and corrected. Nandalal Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) Project eHealth Standardization Coordination Group

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

2007-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I think a map will be cool. There is a map in one of the exibit demos, but it does not show up when I go into it. Tiddliywiki is a really nice tool. I can add a gui toolbar to it and make it editable, then anyone can easily edit it. It is easier than exibit in thay way. But on the other hand

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

2007-03-11 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: Subject: Re: [openhealth] Experimental OSHCA catalogue of FOSS application for health and healthcare --- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: it separates the data from the presentation. Not every view has to use

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

2007-03-24 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
To get a visa we need a formal document to show that there is a conference with dates and signed by someone. Nandalal --- Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Visa Requirements for Travel To Malaysia* Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months...

Re: [openhealth] Link to Riehle's Economic Motivation of Open Source Software

2007-04-15 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
We must not forget the end user who can contribute ideas, report bugs and thus feels closer to the developer and has a sense of belonging to a community - our software. Nandalal --- Will Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Riehle. The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I do too! Nandalal Gunaratne MS FRCS MRACS --- Fred Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your application is sounding more and more exciting!! I look forward to your release! -FT On Dec 19, 2007 8:37 AM, Hemant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Balu, Good Sleuthing! Yes, Jess

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