Developer Release 0.0.2.0 of ResMedicinae

ResMedicinae is an open source practice management system that ‘…combines intuitive ease of use with the advantages of the Java platform. It uses latest technology adhering to common standards for medical software and will such be open to many other medical systems… Release notes within.

  • Refactored project; it is now based on the HMVC architectural pattern.
  • Dynamic GUI switching at runtime (Frame/InternalFrame/TabPage modes).
  • First gui prototype of “Record” module (Electronic Health Record).
  • See details at: http://www.resmedicinae.org

All Digital Hospital Costs Just $15 Million

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article touting an all-digital hospital which is being built at the Indiana Heart Hospital in Indianapolis. GE Medical Systems will be responsible for the technology. The cost: just $15 million dollars. “We are so totally committed to a paperless, filmless and wireless environment, that we won’t even have nursing stations,” said David Veillette, CEO of the Indiana Heart Hospital. “Instead, all of our caregivers will be able to input and retrieve information right at the patient’s bedside.” I wish them well, but the above is difficult to read with a straight face.

In-car passenger heat-stroke warning system on Linux

Linuxdevices.com is reporting on: ‘The EarthLink Simple Plug-and-Play Automotive Research Kit (SPARK) is a turn-key development system, based on Linux and open’ standards. It’s designed to let developers easily test, evaluate and develop automotive applications using familiar technologies. Our application uses the EarthLink SPARK kit as the basis for a heatstroke detection and warning system.

We connect a motion sensor and a temperature sensor to the SPARK in-vehicle device inputs and produce a software application designed to monitor the sensors and take action if the vehicle becomes hot enough to put the occupants at risk.

Developing applications for the SPARK in-vehicle �Clinux platform is similar to developing applications for desktop Linux systems. The kernel and libraries of the in-vehicle device are a subset of the typical full Linux system. The overall process is similar, using familiar tools like GNU make and the GNU compiler.”

Full story here.

Zope and Python for case management software

Using Open Source tools to build applications for health care seems to be one way of reducing administrative costs in health care and make more
dollars available for benefits. We are building a
suite of work flow software for case management using Zope and Python on Linux. This software is suitable for small to medium sized case management organizations and UM/UR companies who do not have large IT budgets.

CMF (Content Management Framework ) provides a natural basis for designing work flow systems
for case management. We have used CMF and Python
Products within Zope to model the user roles and their functions within a case management environment. Zope contains ready made functionality that can be easily “plugged in” for rapid prototyping and development of complex systems.

The main idea is to integrate all
the players on the web so that all information is captured and made available at one point. The system also has document management funtions to store and serve medical documents. Fax and email are integrated for facilitating communication between users for seamless electronic flow of cases across the entrie process. The goal is to eliminate “Green Folders” and enhance the mangability and control of the cost containment process.

Zope and Python are easy to use and provide the benefits of OOD for modeling the process flow and interactions. All entities are modeled as objects and are persisted to an RDBMS. RDBMS becomes a sine qua non for reporting using SQL based reporting tools. Folders are containers that possess the funtionality required by system roles. Inheritance and Acquisition within the Zope/Python environment allow for grouping related functions as DTML based documents. Specializations required per system role are overidden in the folders. For authentication the Login Manager product within Zope permits easy integration with a user database and helps enforce roles and access permissions.

Announce: Debian-Med Project

I’m proud to announce the official start of
the Debian-Med project. For detailed info just visit the unofficial project page. Probably the official address where these pages will be moved to will be http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ but this page is not available yet. Read on for how to subscribe to the project mailing list.

To subscribe to the mailing list, please send mail to

    debian-med-REQUEST@lists.debian.org

with the word `subscribe’ as Subject.
Please remember the -REQUEST part of the address.

Kind regards

Andreas.

UK fails to exploit open source

Both Vnunet and the Register have articles here and here respectively about the UK’s National Computing Centre which reports that the UK is under utilizing open source software: ‘…Michael Gough, chief executive of the NCC, said: “The UK would benefit greatly from the establishment of a stable alternative to the use of proprietary software, both in terms of business innovation and competitiveness, and in support of the UK software industry.” The Register article says that they are advocating a ‘…National Library of Open Source software and compliance tests, to independently evaluate open source products for reliability and interoperability…’

Web Card Enables Medical Records

The Oklahoman has a story about a company that has a wallet-sized CD-ROM which will hold your medical data: ‘…Using technology that allows information to be stored on credit-card-size compact discs, Martin developed the Medical Web Card, which can hold volumes of medical details — even X-rays — and is easily viewed by any computer with a CD- ROM drive…The first updated card is free. Subsequent cards cost $14.95…’ This is also the first story in the newly created ‘Hardware’ subject heading.

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