At the 2010 VistA Community Meeting, Astronaut, LLC Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS outlined 2010-2011 VistA Community Challenge. The challenge is for the community to have 100 new VistA installations in real clinical settings in 2010 and 1000 in 2011. “I look forward to this community genius, cooperation, and just plain hard work in achieving these goals.”
Modern Health Information Technology Hippocratic Oath v. 1.0
The following is a Modern Health Information Technology Hippocratic Oath version 1.0 based on the Modern Hippocratic Oath
“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgement, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won Health IT software gains of those clinicians and software engineers in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such software knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. Continue reading
GNUmed job openings – what it takes to run a free software project
Choice is good. Having many software packages for the same job to choose from is great. Every now and then someone pops up and announces a new EMR project because the currently available one just don’t cut it. The GNUmed project has been around for a while and would like to offer some hints on what it takes to run a free software EMR project. Here are some job descriptions a company would have to post when starting from scratch.
GNUmed public relations manager
FOSS Losing a Corporate Friend in Healthcare
A short time back; many of us hoped that the healthcare IT market was shifting a little towards embracing open source. This was based mainly on the Misys Healthcare division looking for open source leadership.
https://www.linuxmednews.com:8080/linuxmednews/1218594123/
But now ….
Ask LMN: Any FOSS available for interfacing laboratory equipments like autoanalysers, preparing bardcodes stickers etc/
I am working in a hospital. My hospital has recently gone for a proprietary software for interfacing with laboratory equipments like autoanalysers etc. The system helps in fetching results from those equipments into a database. I seek your help in identifying any FOSS doing similar things. Alterntively, if I were to develop one on my own where are the details about the protocol?
Statistical Bias
This article is yet another example of pervasive proprietary EHR statistical bias.
The linked article excludes an enormous segment: Veterans Affairs VistA, its close cousin IHS RPMS and its increasing number of private sector deployments. There are approximately 1,000 VA outpatient clinics and many more Indian Health Service outpatient clinics as well as more and more private sector deployments. Not counting them or pretending that they don’t exist gives an inaccurate view.
OpenEMR at OSCON 2010 in Portland Oregon
We are pleased to announce the following for OSCON 2010.
Tony McCormick and Dr Sam Bowen will be presenting for OpenEMR (oemr.org)
* Taking OpenEMR, a GPL EMR to ARRA Meaningful Use Certification and beyond
It has been scheduled for 16:30 on 21 Jul 2010.
OSCON 2010 — http://oscon.com/
Portland, OR — July 19 – July 23, 2010
Tony McCormick
www.mi-squared.com – 503-564-4670
21st VistA Community Meeting
If you have been wondering: What’s all the fuss about VistA? Where can I learn more about VistA? Who is the VistA Community? Can I use VistA in my hospital, clinic etc? How can I contribute to the improvement of VistA? Then plan on attending the 21st VistA Community Meeting, June 8 to 11, 2010 at George Mason University, Fairfax Virgina. More details after the break.
VistA Modernization Report Features Open Source
A Veterans Affairs requested VistA Modernization Report is now available. The good news: it prominently features and recommends open source and discusses the prospect of VA VistA as a national standard. The bad news is that it appears to be progressive while actually being regressive from current and past VA experience and practice.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix a Winner
Ubuntu Netbook Remix (reviewed version 10.4) is Linux like you’ve never seen before. It has a smooth, attractive, interface that works very well with the netbook form factor. It is a clear winner, as good as if not better than operating systems from enormous corporations. There was a gotcha on my HP Mini installation in an otherwise great work.