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?
Call for Free/Open Source Deployment Count by November 5th
The un-official, Draft 7 of the upcoming American Medical Informatics Association Open Source
Working Group white paper to be voted on November 9th-11th can be found here. Again it will be voted on for ratification on November 9th-11th or so. Action is needed on your part to answer the question: If open source is so great why is no one using it? There is no aggregate data that I can find to counter this opinion. If you know of a Free/Open Source EHR/EMR deployment and could please send three pieces of information on each deployment that you have by Wednesday November 5th: General Location, software version and most importantly NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN SYSTEM. This paper could have national impact with this data. Please respond by email to ivaldes@hal-pc.org if you are able to obtain this data.
Vote for the Open Source idea
A National Dialogue is a site for proposing and commenting on ideas in Health IT created by the National Academy of Public Administration. (amoung others) The site is only open for a few days, if you have something to say (at least to this audience), now is the time.
I have already put forward the basic thesis of Insist on Open Source in Health IT that most LinuxMedNews sympathizers will agree with. The site is only open for comment for a few days. Please help me to get this message to the important organizations who are listening!
OpenEMR HQ To Hold Online Training
OpenEMR HQ, a small NE Oklahoma based OpenEMR and VistA consultancy and development firm, announced early Sunday afternoon that it will offer its fourth online OpenEMR training on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 5:00pm central time. The training, which will cover installing, configuring, and administering OpenEMR, will last for one and a half hours and contain a question and answer section.
Government Open Source Software Collaboratives debated at GOSCON
On October 22, government and private industry experts will debate the issues and opportunities presented by collaborative software development models at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) Portland, Oregon. The distinguished panelists have direct experience with successful public/private consortiums based on the open source software model in which developers as well as business and technical users collaborate to create new applications while sharing both the costs and the benefits.
Presidential Politics: $50 Billion for What Health IT?
The Obama campaign is promising to spend $10 billion per year for 5 years to spur adoption of health information technology. However, they give no specifics as to what the money will be spent on. The McCain campaign has similar goals but similarly does not put forward any specifics or dollar amounts. In the absence of specifics other than spending $50 billion over 5 years, let’s analyze that $50 billion expenditure.
VistA Menu Commands Map
Kevin Toppenberg’s VistA Menu Map can be found here and it is spectacular in how much it has. Everything for running a national hospital system including all the software to run a hospital cafeteria and dietetics service to a library. The amount of software is simply breathtaking. From the page: “A note of explaination about this file:
The VistA system is menu driven. There are over 9,000 separate options that could be directly called. Obviously this is too many to make any sense of. This document is a printout of all these options, organized into menus, as found in VistA. I created this file because I wanted a way of looking at the “forest” as well as the individual “trees”. I hope it helps someone…”
MedinTux needs french to english translators to spread worldwide
MedinTux is a powerful medical software, multiuser (using MySQL for data storage), easy-to-use (thanks to Qt development toolkit), complete, working from the GP to the hospital.
Its unique design makes it the most customisable software you can dream of.