Hello,
My name is Fred Trotter and I am the project manager of ClearHealth and FreeB. I am formally proposing a consolidation between the ClearHealth, OpenEMR and FreeMED projects.
So far I have discussed this issue with the FreeMED BOD, and several OpenEMR community members. At this point, it is time to put the proposal to the community.
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You may recall an “earlier LMN posting”:https://www.linuxmednews.com/1115819855/index_html that refered to a blog by Brad Barclay. The blog was inspired by the underwhelming response regarding open source strategies by three healthcare IT decision makers at eHealth2005.
I had an opportunity a few days later at a “BCHIMPS”:http://www.bchimps.bc.ca/ meeting to ask Mr. Richard Alverez, CEO Canada Health Infoway, specifically his strategy for open source licensed software use in Infoway projects. His response led me to believe that there is some confusion regarding the concepts of the open source licenses and specific software packages. As well as a general lack of awareness of the long term benefits that open source software can bring.
“Press Release”:http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/news-events/index.php?loc=20050601&lang=en
Montreal, June 1, 2005 – Infoway has launched an Open Source initiative that will help demonstrate how independent health information systems can exchange information with one another. This interoperability is critical to bring authorized healthcare providers complete and accurate information when and where they need it, allowing them to make better diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Open Health Records Exchange (OpenHRE) is participating in a national prototype health records exchange project. On Wednesday June 1, 2005 Connecting for Health announced a demonstration project featuring three communities testing the Record Locator Service (RLS). The demonstration is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2005. Connecting for Health is a public-private collaborative designed to address the barriers to development of an interconnected health information infrastructure in the United States. OpenHRE is an open source project devloping a standards-based, scalable, multi-level Record Locator Service with federated records exchange and secure access control. The OpenHRE RLS is based on the OpenEMed project.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released a report summarizing over 500 responses totaling nearly 5,000 pages of information to the HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONCHIT) Request for Information (RFI) published November 15, 2004 seeking public comment on how to best achieve widespread interoperability of health information through a nationwide health information network (NHIN).
The US Patent and Trademark office has received a patent application for an open source electronic medical record.
The application number is US 2004/0172307 A1 Publication date: Sept 2004.
I found the prior art differentiating factors particularly entertaining:
FYI, folks – I posted a “bounty” over on voip-info.org for the enhancement of the linux-based open source PBX to include functionality that would be appropriate for medical offices.
See: This post on voip-info for more info on my proposal .. and This asterisk summary for more info about Asterisk – a wonderful open-source project.
Topic revisited. Does anybody have a filemaker template for patient signout that maybe I could implement into a medicine residency program?
Thanks
Today osnews.com released a ClearHealth article. This brings to a close a flurry of activity that begun when Uversa announced the release of ClearHealth 1.0 RC1
Our press release was picked up all over the
web, however nothing matched the drama on Linux Medical News
Today the OpenEMR project has produced its first major release since moving to SourceForge back in March.
Some highlights of the 2.7.2 final release are:
The SourceForge OpenEMR project pages can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/.