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  California HealthCare: Open Source Market Assessment
Medical Open Source Development Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Friday January 18, 2008 @ 04:40 AM
from the medical-open-source-development dept.
An in-depth article on F/OSS EHR's including comparisons and contrasts of the front-runners has been published by California Healthcare Foundation: Open-source electronic health record (EHR) systems, have proliferated in recent years. This executive summary presents the findings from an evaluation designed to determine whether these systems, commonly referred to as free and open-source software (FOSS), are suitable as ambulatory EHRs. The authors investigated a number of FOSS EHR projects to assess their organizational structures, development communities, functional capabilities, and available implementation and support services. The evaluation also analyzed the potential advantages of FOSS EHR systems for physician practices, as well as the limitations and general challenges of this alternative approach to acquiring clinical information technology.' Linux Medical News is mentioned in the Appendix. Woo hoo! This link courtesy of Alesha Adamson. Digg this article



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    Re: California HealthCare: Open Source Market Asse
    by Tim Cook on Saturday January 26, 2008 @ 08:09 AM
    Great work!

    It should be noted that one of the applications reviewed ( PrimaCare pcdom.org.my ) is not truly open source. Not the fault of the authors/reviewers because they do advertise that they are open source (GPL) and have won open source awards in Malaysia, yet none of their customers are allowed to re-distribute the application. This is a well known debate on open source mailing lists in Malaysia, within OSHCA and on the OpenHealth mailing list (yahoo groups).

    Also noted is that TORCH didn't completely die when it's lead developer (me) left the project. One of the primary contributors took over. Dr. Michael Rowley has kept the torch burning though he isn't as public as he could be. He has been busy evolving it with the framework, adding more practice management features and adding a complete accounting system for primary care clinics. The website is at http://www.torchmd.org/ If he had a good community builder to help with that aspect this would be a wonderful addition to the community. TORCHMD is really a complete re-write of what I did. Just using some of the same basic concepts. I know that he is working closely on some RHIO related stuff as well. Since I am working outside the US now it would be great if he had a US based "community manager" help him in developing this area.
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    • Re: California HealthCare: Open Source Market Asse
      by Tim Cook on Saturday January 26, 2008 @ 09:28 AM
      Another comment I failed to include above.

      Does ClearHealth REALLY have non-free libraries?
      If so, is there a functional ClearHealth without them?

      Could David Uhlman respond to this?


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