The Medical Banking Project announced that it is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center to organize a panel with top-level health care CEOs and policy experts to discuss the creation of a new “Federal Health Board” at its 2009 Medical Banking Institute on March 11-13, 2009 in Nashville, TN. More here http://tinyurl.com/medical-banking-fed
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Identifying U.S-African Collaborations and Projects that Would Benefit from Expanded Bandwidth to Africa
The Internet Educational Equal Access
Foundation (IEEAF), along with several partners, has received
a planning
grant from the National Science
Foundation to propose very high speed Internet extensions, on
the order of 10 Gbps, to connect the academic, research, health and
non-governmental organization (NGO) communities in African countries
to the rest of the world. Such connections would provide African
universities and medical centers connectivity equivalent to the best
available to comparable institutions in the United States. To win
the large grant that would allow the network connection to be implemented,
California Partners Release Open Source ELINCS Instructions Using Mirth to Transform HL7 v2.x into ELINCS (HL7-R1)
Contact — Tanya Laino 707.462.6369 HEALDSBURG, CALIF. — November 21, 2008 — Early this year Alliance Medical Center received a grant from California HealthCare Foundation to demonstrate a simple software tool to receive electronic laboratory results in the new ELINCS format. ELINCS (“EHR Laboratory Interoperability and Connectivity Specification”) is a messaging system intended to standardize the electronic reporting of test results from clinical laboratories into electronic health record (EHR) systems. A new “HL7-R1” format of ELINCS was adopted by HL7 this past Summer. Today Alliance Medical Center is joined by two partners in releasing a technical specification titled “Using Mirth to transform HL7 v2.x into ELINCS (HL7-R1).”
PhoneReminder 1.0, appointment reminder software for OpenEMR, released
OpenEMR HQ, a small software startup in NE Oklahoma, announced the release of PhoneReminder for OpenEMR. PhoneReminder is add-in software to the OpenEMR medical records package that allows users to automatically notify patients by phone (voice or text message) of upcoming appointments.
Feature on Midland VistA
Medsphere’s reference deployment of VistA, Midland Hospital, has been featured in computer world. The article reveals interesting facts that I was previously unaware of:
To assess these risks, Midland turned to Deloitte Consulting, which provided a plan to mitigate them: gauge Medsphere consultants’ willingness to sign on as Midland employees should Medsphere go belly up.
Overall a good article.
Open Source Ultrasound System from South of France
As Vincent reported in his post “Medical GNOME“, the French company Supersonic Imagine (founded in 2005) just announced its next-generation ultrasound system for breast lesion imaging that will come with mostly Open Source software components.
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DOCHS Extends Call For Papers
DOHCS the 2009 Demonstrating Open Source Heath Care Solutions conference, has extended their call for presentations until November 15th. The 3rd Annual DOHCS conference will be held on February 20, 2009 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The event will be held concurrently with SCALE 7x, the 2009 Southern California Linux Expo.
PRISM, Public Health Entry Into Open Source
An application developed and deployed by the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of STD is Public Health’s entry into the Open Source effort. Licensed under the GPL, the Patient Reporting, Investigation, Surveillance Manager or PRISM application an application designed for the management, surveillance, and reporting of infectious diseases aligned with the efforts of most public health programs. Its design to use automated work flows, business logic, external tools like Electronic Lab Reporting, are all part of the efficiencies and cost savings that are critical in a modern public health program.
Shreeve’s Receive 2008 Linux Medical News Freedom Award
Steve and Scott Shreeve are the recipients of the 2008 Linux Medical News Freedom Award. The two brothers founded Medsphere Corporation and guided its early rise to prominence. They were likely forced to leave the company in 2007 after a $50 million dollar lawsuit was filed against them by the company and which was settled under confidential terms. They remain steadfast in their support of Free/Open Source software ideals in medicine. Congratulations to the Shreeve’s recipients of the 2008 Linux Medical News Freedom award.
HealthQuiz
I am looking for open source software for the purposes of the ‘Patient-Computer Interview’. Does anyone know of any?