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from the Roll-Your-Own Practice Management System dept. A surprise hit at this year's SCALE expo in Los Angeles was a presentation by a Dentist from Scotland who had come to DOCHS last year to learn more about open source software for healthcare. After becoming dissatisfied by his proprietary practice management software, he decided to create his own open source solution - and become his own, one-man open source project! The result was Open Molar: http://openmolar.wikidot.com/start - And it all started at the DOCHS conference. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! ( 677 bytes in body)
from the VistA dept. Open Source Community, below is a letter that you can personalize and post on the public comment website. It is very important that you do this, the policy and the press is on fire and our duty is to educate our policy makers. 2 things you must do to help: Post your letter here: http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480a7c4a8 And fax, email, or cal your representatives. Below is the letter:
from the Standards and Specifications dept. Can someone compose a letter, short, clear, and to the point? The letter needs to hit the big points of how the open source paradigm addresses the problems. This will be the letter that the open source community embraces and uses to inform our policy makers by fax, email, in person. DEADLINE for public comment MARCH 15. That means do it now! Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
from the dept. I don't have the expertise to fully comprehend these NPRMs that were recently issued, but did spend the last few hours reading large chunks of all three. The area they cover is huge, and I fear open source and small EHRs are about to lose big, and big corporate EHRs are about to get total lock-in courtesy of our government. The bills cover a lot of territory, proposing many requirements that I do not think support "meaningful use" requirements. There are numerous interesting items, one surprising to me was that the ONC expects a Certified EHR will cost $163 million over 3 years to develop, excluding costs for testing and certification. The majority of the NPRM is framed with that mindset. The ONC-HIT proposes a single certification body (who could've guessed) and expects only 3 vendors to apply for certification during the initial phase because of the cost and complexity of meeting the Certified EHR requirements. If anybody knows how to read and respond to these types of things I suggest you do it now. Public comment period is very short, ends 3/15/2010. References: To see public comments or make your own, go to http://www.regulations.gov and put in search term 'E9-31216' or 'E9-31217'. I particularly like the public comments at this link. "Additionally a rushed, not well planned conversion to a new EMR will create the risk of a costly implementation failure with users ultimately rejecting the system.NMHS believes that the data gathering required for meaningful use will require more resources than it can afford." Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (4 comments)
Posted by Greg Caulton on Tuesday March 02, @05:09AMfrom the dept. Visit PatientOS, Inc. at HIMSS 10, booth 4124. You can't miss the orange shirts :-)  Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (2 comments)
Posted by Mark Street on Tuesday February 23, @05:44PMfrom the Mirth Corp. dept. Marketwire is abuzz with this press release (full release after the break): IRVINE, CA, HEBRON, NE, and UKIAH, CA - February 23, 2010 - Mirth Corporation, the leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, working with partners at regional Health Information Exchanges and Hospital Systems, announced a successful demonstration of "the Health Internet" -- a network of networks through which patient data can be safely and rapidly exchanged to place critical information at clinician fingertips where and when it's needed.
Posted by Samuel T. Bowen, MD on Tuesday February 23, @04:19AMfrom the dept. The OpenEMR Project releases their newest version of the popular FOSS software, 3.2. There are a number of improvements of existing features with a lot of bug fixes. This is preparation for a new GUI making OpenEMR easier to use than ever with improved practitioner work flow. The current project has 30 professional developers who have busily working on Meaningful Use certification. This next release will be 4.0 and allow physicians to have a FOSS electronic health record that will qualify them for the new federal incentives. We are about 60% throught this process and expect this major release out this summer. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! ( 1742 bytes in body)
from the dept. Dear readers, When you search for free Dicom viewers you get a bunch of them. The categories include: 1.) Free to use but no sourcecode 2.) Free to use and sourcecode but only on MS Windows 3.) Free to use and sourcecode but only on MacOSX 4.) Sourcecode but beta at best on GNU/Linux Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (1 comment, 999 bytes in body)
Posted by apfelkraut.org on Sunday February 21, @07:52PMfrom the medical foss promotion dept. Medfoss.apfelkraut.org should provide a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects for the health care domain. Moreover it should offer a platform to foster the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences about these projects. In detail the following features and services are available:
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from the dept. SCALE 8x the 2010 Southern California Linux Expo will be returning to Los Angeles for its 8th annual event this coming weekend. SCALE is a community run Linux and open-source conference which will be held February 19-21, 2010 at the LAX Westin. While the name says Linux, sessions will focus on a wide variety open-source topics intended for users, developers, and administrators of all levels (including BSD related sessions). Keynote presenters this year will be Karsten Wade of Fedora, and Tarus Balog of OpenNMS. The exhibit hall running on Saturday and Sunday will offer demos by about 80 commercial and open-source/non-profit groups such as IBM, OpenSuse, HP, Red Hat, Yahoo, SoftLayer, and more. In addition to over 50 seminars and tutorials at SCALE this year, there will be a number of events colocating at the conference. These include UbuCon, Zenoss Community Day, Women in OpenSource, Open Source in Education, StatusCamp Los Angeles, and a ClearHealth 3.0 training day. With so much going on there really is something for everyone at SCALE 8x. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! |
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