‘The purpose of the PhoenixPM project is to develop an Open Source Practice management Software solution for a network of small safety net clinics in Northern California. The RFP can be downloaded from the project portal here. Deadline for proposals is Friday 28 January 2005.’
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Documentation of OpenEMR List of Features – Update
Documentation of OpenEMR’s list of features has been updated for January 2005. The 40 page guide to OpenEMR is available in the Documentation section of Downloads for Linux. The new list includes updates in 24 category areas. Those categories relate to features in OpenEMR including:
Medical Manager Dealer and Two Billing Companies Choose Open Source EMR
Two medical billing companies and a consulting company specializing in WebMD’s Medical Manager software choose OpenEMR. Two medical billing companies and a consulting company specializing in WebMD’s Medical Manager software choose OpenEMR, a free, open source practice management, EMR and billing application to offer their medical clinic clients. Pennington Firm, LLC, a San Diego, California based open source software development company, has been selected to assist these three companies with their OpenEMR implementation and customization projects.
Free, open sources tools for population health epidemiology and public health practice
NetEpi, which is short for “Network-enabled Epidemiology”, is a project to create a suite of free, open source tools for epidemiology and public health practice. The project web page is at http://www.netepi.org. Anyone with an interest in population health epidemiology or public health informatics is encouraged to examine the prototype tools and to consider contributing to their further development. Contributions which involve formal and/or informal testing of the tools in a wide range of circumstances and environments are particularly welcome, as is assistance with design, programming and documentation tasks.
PhoenixPM Software Development RFP
Today the Phoenix Practice Management (�PhoenixPM�) project released a software development RFP seeking proposals to provide Open Source software consulting, application development and system integration services. The PhoenixPM software development project will specify, identify, develop and deploy a Practice Management Software solution for use in a California Federally Qualified Health Center. The PhoenixPM software solution will automate and expedite the daily tasks of registering and scheduling patients and billing for patient encounters. Original software development under an Open Source license may be necessary to meet project specifications. The project will culminate in a pilot installation of the software at an FQHC in Mendocino County, California. A zip archive of the RFP can be downloaded from the project portal. Questions can be directed to wross@openhre.org.
New Site For SUSE Beginners
SUSEroot just went live, a site designed to help new SUSE Linux users get acquainted with their new operating system.
There is also a large section dedicated to helping MS Windows users decide if they are ready to make the switch to Linux, information on general Linux advocacy, and my new Firefox extension, SEOpen, designed to assist in search engine optimization efforts. I welcome content submitted by Linux community members about any Linux-related topic (even other distributions), details about submissions can be found here.
WPC Releases XML Schemas for HIPAA Transactions
WPC has released Open Source schemas representing the HIPAA transaction sets. Representing HIPAA EDI data in XML just became much easier. WPC, publisher of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction implementation guides adopted under HIPAA, is pleased to announce the release of W3C complaint XSD, Open Source Schemas, under the GNU license. Created directly from the same database as the federally mandated implementation guides, WPC schemas provide a single source for an XML representation of the HIPAA transaction standards.
You can find more information and downloads here.
Yahoo Group for MBN scam victims open
Editor’s Note: Linux Medical News is devoted to Free and Open Source Software in Medicine so this is off topic. That said, the response to our previous story on Medical Billers Network has been overwhelming. Too overwhelming. Please put all your future posts to this announced discussion group that Linux Medical News did not create or run. I have opened a new Yahoo Group to organize all the victims of the Medical Billers Network scam. I ask that if you were scammed out of your money by Medical Billers Network as I was, please join my discussion group here.
Open source handheld, wireless access to patient data
There is a project underway at Creighton University that may interest a few LinuxMedNews readers. LARA (Live Anywhere Record Access) is a system I have developed with the support of the Department of Pathology. LARA essentially builds a bridge between the hospital’s information systems and Creighton doctors’ wireless enabled handhelds, allowing them to access lab results, radiology reports, vital signs, medications, etc. from anywhere in the hospital. It is written entirely in PHP, is running at Creighton on a duel 2Ghz Xserve G5, and connects to Oracle and MySQL databases for data retrieval and logging, respectively. All that is required on the handheld device is a web browser that supports 128-bit SSL and network connectivity. Screenshots are available here.