LinuxPlanet: Heart of the Penguin

Thanks to Karsten Hilbert for this link. LinuxPlanet has an article on the use of a Beowulf cluster for defibrillator research: In a small server room on the campus of UAB sits a kitchen supply rack, with four big shelves, each of which holds four dual-processor Dell computers. These sixteen boxes are hooked together in a standard Beowulf cluster, so that all 32 CPUs are working on the same computations in concert, providing a level of computation, their administrator believes, that rivals the performance he could get out of a supercomputer and at a fraction of the cost.

Dr. Andy Pollard is a Biomedical Engineer who is very familiar with using supercomputers and mainframes. Throughout much of the last 15 years, he has used them to perform the billions of calculations needed to simulate the effects of electrical fields on human heart tissue in a deep effort to understand exactly what are the triggers for a fibrillation event…

OpenEMR Released

OpenEMR has been in development and beta testing for the past 2 years, and is finally released to the public for download. The system is cross platform, and operates on top of Apache or IIS, PHP and MySQL. OpenEMR is fully HIPAA compliant and includes advanced authorization and auditing functionality, HIPAA-mandated automatic timeouts, group-based user configuration, extensive logging, and supports patient-requested file changes. There is a growing developer base dedicated to making extensible and configurable encounter forms and patient/office statistical reports, and Synitech will soon release its template Notice of Information Practices intended for use with OpenEMR.

OpenEMR is a modular, HIPAA compliant, Open Source, cross-platform Electronic Medical Records system (EMRS) developed by Synitech Incorporated (www.synitech.com). It facilitates efficient office management through automated patient record journaling, and has been successfully integrated with third-party technologies including speech recognition, secure wireless access, touch screen portables, and biometric authentication. Interface screens are themable and optimized for consistency, simplicity, speed of access to patient information, and minimum eye strain. OpenEMR is based upon widely-used public standards to achieve maximum compatibility with evolving technologies.

Loads of Linux Links (LoLL)–Version 1.0.1 Released!

Loads of Linux Links (LoLL)–Version 1.0.1 Released.

WHAT: GPLed Database and software to generate a website with 3000+
subject-classified and searchable Linux links for all levels of Linux users.

WHERE: Loads of Linux Links (LoLL) home page (http://loll.sourceforge.net);
project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/loll); file release area
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42381); CVS
repository (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42381), mailing list
(http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/loll-general), and the
generated website (http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links) which is the
place to do your Linux searching!

WHY: Provides convenient access to information needed by all levels of Linux
users.

HOW: LoLL GPLed software and data (scripts,
configuration files, and a bookmark file that contains the basic link
information), are used in combination with bk2site
(http://bk2site.sourceforge.net) to generate the Loads of Linux Links
website (http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links).

WHO: Andrew Willard (willychilly@users.sourceforge.net) and Barbara E. Irwin
(beirwin@users.sourceforge.net).

For additional information about this project, including what’s new for version 1.0.1 see:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=840785&forum_id=9920.

Sales Force Automation Software for Pharmaceuticals Industry

e-Zest Solutions Pvt.Ltd. has launched PharmaForce, the first Open Source technology framework (Linux, PHP and PostGreSQL) based Sales Force Automation Software for the Pharamaceuticals Industry. With Linux / Open Source, this platform offers low cost of ownership and stable application experience. Read on for the full press release.

e-Zest Solutions Pvt.Ltd. has launched PharmaForce, the first Open Source technology framework (Linux, PHP and PostGreSQL) based Sales Force Automation Software for the Pharamaceuticals Industry. The Linux / Open Source Platform offers low cost of ownership and a stable application experience.

PharmaForce is an online Sales Force Automation System for Pharmaceutical Companies. It allows linking all sales field personnel across the country with the HO [home office]. Pharma Force Provides valuable information on Daily visits to Doctors, Chemists, Stockists, Primary and secondary sales, Productwise stocks with Depots and Stockists, Stocks of Samples/Gifts with Reps, Overdue invoices.

PharmaForce bridges the gap between corporate headquarters and representatives, mobile and in remote locations. Pharma Force acts as a tool to keep the MR and the managers informed about the latest in the market and the Company news.

PharmaForce aims at reducing the drudgery of filling up long messy forms repeatedly and mailing two or three copies to the corporate office,
re-entering the forms in another application package etc. This section
provides facilities for filling in the doctor visit details & also
samples & gifts distributed daily. Also provided are several facilities
for the Representatives viz. planning their daily activities, schedulers,
and auto-generation of repetitive information.

PharmaForce is a scalable, and configurable model with no additional
hardware that can be customized across any hierarchy or geographical
breakup. The representative can log in to the Pharma Force system with
his pre-designated user ID and password and can enter his daily call
reports. These will also include his sample/gifts disbursements, stockist/retailer order booking. The PSR / MR can also enter his expense statement, tour
plans, and other related information. The Pharma Force system also incorporates
a bulletin board and a feedback system that keeps him informed about
the latest related corporate and technical information.

All the information thus entered will reach the Corporate Office through
the Internet and this Information will be updated in the corporate databases
by the Pharma Force Client Server module. Built around this is an advanced
Data Mining, analysis and reporting tool that will help the company
analyze information related to market and product penetrations, cyclic trends and so on. Value – Adds are the online reports available of a months data for the Managers on the Move. Facilities like Alerts, reminders,
Schedulers, auto generation of repetitive information is also provided.

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    • Any Information on Freemed?

    Does anybody know if the Freemed project is still active/going forward? Also,is anyone familiar with any individuals/physicians/groups that are successfully using Freemed? I downloaded the package and set it up. It seems pretty cool and extensive. Besides its supposed to be a competitor to Medical Manager. I would be interested in even helping with the project to whatever extent that I can.

    HLDN: HIPAA’s Impact on Radiology

    Health Leaders Daily News has a feature article on HIPAA’s impact on Radiology: ‘…If radiology images and reports were confined to the radiology department, implementing HIPAA privacy and security regulations in the industry would not be as challenging because the problems could be localized and manageable. But images and reports are distributed and accessed by personnel throughout the hospital (in the ER, ICU, etc.), and even by physicians outside the hospital. With the advent of digital archiving and transmission of images and reports, the HIPAA challenge becomes even greater. Proper access control, authorization and subsequent audit trails are critical…

    Pharma IT Opens

    Robert Perry wrote in saying: I have just implemented a new site on the web www.4pharmait.com
    specifically for Information Technology (IT) professionals who work in the Pharmaceutical/BioTech industries. The site is based on Linux/PHP/MySQL PHPNuke implementation.

    If your readers would like to connect with other PharmaIT professionals working in the pharma industry please visit www.4pharmait.com. Feel free to add http://www.4pharmait.com to your list of medical computing links.

    Kind Regards,

    Bob

    Two Linux Supercomputers

    Here’s a pair of supercomputing articles for your interest courtesy of Karsten Hilbert: ‘…Biotech company Medica Holdings Ltd today said it had formed an agreement with IBM that will allow its subsidiary Cytopia to speed up discovery of drug candidates to treat immune disease and cancer.

    Medica said the Melbourne-based Cytopia would deploy IBM’s latest generation Linux supercomputing technology, allowing it to increase 100 fold its speed and selectivity in screening drug candidates… You can find this article here. The next one can be found here: ‘…It may not be much more than a pipsqueak right now, but the computer system now being set up at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is expected to grow into the world heavyweight of Linux supermachines…

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