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Live from the 2007 pyCon in Dallas, Texas

Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday February 24, 2007 @ 04:03 PM
from the Python dept.
Python is a unique programming language that is widely used in places like Google, NASA and many other companies for mission critical applications. I'm reporting from the 2007 Python convention pyCon in search of healthcare possibilities. I'm finding some but it seems as though straight Electronic Medical Record work has gone dormant. Tim Cook's efforts with FreePM which is now TORCH and Andrew Ho's work with Zope and OIO are the only examples that come to mind but it doesn't appear that Python has significant EMR software. That does not appear to be the case with PHP/MySQL which has a thriving community. Why?

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Re: Live from the 2007 pyCon in Dallas, Texas
by osproponent on Sunday February 25, 2007 @ 01:48 AM

The relative community size of PHP versus Python is much larger. PHP is easier to learn than Python and so I would say that the EMR writing community tend to pick easier languages to get started due to lack of experience (Care2x as an example). Unfortunately easier scripting languages do not make for great system software due to the sacrificed language features.

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Re: Live from the 2007 pyCon in Dallas, Texas
by davidm on Monday February 26, 2007 @ 03:27 PM

Anyone can code up a simple PHP system in an afternoon. It literally requires no understanding of software design. MySQL has also made it easy to be loose in development, which abets quick development.

This is not to say there are no professional PHP developers, but systems like Java and Python require much more study and practice, and are inherently designed for building long lived, interoperable software.

Python doesn't have the user base that Java has, so it is harder to find developers to develop and support Python applications.

Some would say a system should be about the interfaces and data formats, rather than the programming language.

What would be interesting is a map of available free/open solutions, library re-use, and how they can inter-operate.

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Re: Live from the 2007 pyCon in Dallas, Texas
by Tim Cook on Monday February 26, 2007 @ 07:39 PM

I'm happy to see that you are there.

My personal (and biased) attitude is that many people do not appreciate the power and responsiveness of Python and the power and flexibility of existing Python applications.

I am convinced that this is acceptable at this point in the acceptance in FOSS applications in healthcare.

I have expended a great deal of energy in trying to convince FOSS healthcare advocates that this is a good place to base their energies. It has become obvious that any people want to take shortcuts. I wish them well.

Python is a truely object oriented language and the two-level modeling concepts of openEHR are a proven approach t developing helathcare applications.

I look forward to establishing a cooperative and collaborative relationship with anyone and/or any organization that wishes to develope future proof healthcare applications.

Regards,
Tim Cook

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_cook@comcast.net

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Re: Live from the 2007 pyCon in Dallas, Texas
by Tim Cook on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @ 04:31 PM

I believe it should be noted that GnuMed is a Python based client server implementation.

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