Recently Joseph Conn wrote an excellent article on VistA. A Modern Healthcare reader replied with a comment titled Antiquated system slowing EHR transformation which essentially argued that VistA was holding health IT back… because its old.
Thankfully Modern Healthcare has also published my reply VistA: You say ‘antiquated;’ I say ‘proven’. I offer more thoughts on the subject over at GPLMedicine.org in my post ‘antiquated’ vs ‘proven’
eHealth News Portal is presenting a news article related to the last IBM announce that it has made available an advanced software technology that can help predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to the open source community. The tool will aid scientists and public health officials in understanding and planning more efficient responses to health crises, ultimately providing new tools for protecting population health.
What happens when a fan of Free Software and wikies wish to motivate your girlfriend to her Medicine studies? You could think in many things but possibly not to create a multilanguage wiki about Medicine and human health to her, but was exactly that what I did, and I couldn’t choose a best gift.
This way has borned in 2006 Medwiki, the medical wiki, today available in two languages, Brazilian Portuguese and English, where free (as is air) knowledge about Medicine and human health are being built and growing.
Click Read More for the full text of the announcement: “Honolulu based Blue Cliff, Inc. has been awarded two contracts to install and implement the VistA Electronic Medical Record System. The State of Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) awarded a contract for the installation and implementation of Blue Cliff’s Open Source VistA (OS VistA) hospital information system at their Orofino, Blackfoot and Boise Idaho locations. The second contract was awarded by Lakeview Healthcare Systems, Inc. (LHS) for the implementation of Blue Cliff’s Vista Electronic Medical Record (Vista-EMR) information system at fourteen of its sites in five states, including the site of its joint venture with Virginia NeuroCare Services, Inc., Lakeview Virginia NeuroCare, L.L.C.. Virginia NeuroCare is a Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Core Program in Charlottesville, Virginia serving military and civilians in multiple residential facilities and an outpatient rehabilitation clinic…”
After a number of years of public hibernation, Freemed-YiRC is out with a new release, Beta0.99. This is expected to be the last release before V1.00. Freemed-YiRC has been developed with Ohio’s agencies in mind, however it is modular and can be adapted to other states/countries.
After a number of years of public hibernation, Freemed-YiRC is out with a new release, Beta0.99. This is expected to be the last release before V1.00. Freemed-YiRC has been developed with Ohio’s agencies in mind, however it is modular and can be adapted to other states/countries.
I have written a short guide to software licensing in medicine: Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine. This covers the problems of license proliferation, the issue of proprietarization and several other key licensing related issues.
This is a work in progress. Please help me make this a valuable resource, by providing your comments and feedback.
We are live from the 15th annual VistA community meeting on the campus of the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, Washington. The major news so far is the announcement of a subscription service from the WorldVistA organization for updates to the CCHIT certified WorldVistA EHR/VOE 1.0 Details to follow.
FSDaily (www.fsdaily.com) is a news hub entirely dedicated to free and open source software, where users can vote stories up and down. It uses Pligg (www.pligg.com) – like Digg, but just for free software.
There doesn’t seem to be much, if any, health related material there at present – but I am sure the imaginative contributors to LMN could change that quickly.
It is in its early days, but could provide a vehicle to share our interests with the wider free/libre, open source and Linux software communities.
We are very excited to announce the release of Mirth 1.5. This new version offers improved performance and reliability. Additionally, Mirth
1.5 delivers useful new features and bug fixes. Mirth now supports several internal databases including MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, and PostgreSQL to better integrate with your existing systems. Mirth 1.5 also includes a more robust and responsive administration and development environment along with a new utility for managing the Mirth server configurations.
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