Today, among other talks, I was able to hear Dr. Deborah Peels “Views from the top” session entitled “The Privacy Imperative in Healthcare IT”.
Technically, she did not say anything specifically about open source software (she did mention VA VistA)
It was an excellent talk, and it has addressed several of the concerns that I have raised in the past over at FredTrotter.com. Since I have criticized here there, I thought I should discuss Meeting Dr. Peel over at my other blogging home…
-FT
Medsphere and Tolven announced (article here) at the annual HIMSS show that they will form a new partnership to “Surround, Supplement, and Renew” VistA as a viable platform for forward thinking health care organizations. The announcement is loaded with buzz-words, but a close read implies that Medsphere is attempting to reach out to other providers to include them in their currently non-existent ecosystem.
The Linux version of Synapse EMR has been refreshed in preparation for the release of a LivePC containing both the client and server. The latest release is now almost functionally equivalent to the Windows version. Instructions are available on how to install the client on Ubuntu 7.04.
Ignacio invited me to represent LinuxMedNews at this years HIMSS conference. There is a lot of FOSS activity here, we have already been to the first important Open Source focused talk from Janice Honeyman-Buck
The FOSS healthcare community is very small, and we all know tend to know each other. We go to many of the same conferences, we track the same mailing lists (mostly openhealth) and we track the same blogs (you are reading it…). One of the refreshing things about our movement is that once in a while, someone will have the same ideas, for the same reasons and start working without any contact with the blogs and mailinglists that I follow. For me, meeting Dr. Janice Honeyman-Buck was one of those moments. I meet Janice about 30 minutes before her talk and
we immediately hit it off.
Many news sources are reporting the Google PHR Pilot announcement such as the NY Times: ‘…on Thursday, Google’s technology for personal health records, which is still in development, is getting a big endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic. The big medical center is beginning a pilot project to link the health information for some of its patients with Google personal health records…’
Misys has released Misys Health Connect on Sourceforge as the ‘Braid’ project. Ryan Bloom comments ‘…There are a couple of caveats. First, we know that not all of the unit tests pass, that is one of our first projects now that the code is out. Second, most of the development team is about to head to HIMSS, so we aren’t going to be quick to respond to questions until after we get back…’
GENEVA — Feb 19, 2008 ‘ The creators of OsiriX, the advanced open-source PACS workstation DICOM viewer for the Mac OS, will for the first time show the new version of their 64-bit viewer on the new Mac Pro 8-Core workstation at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2008. (Full text of the announcement after the break.)
GENEVA — Feb 19, 2008 ‘ The creators of OsiriX, the advanced open-source PACS workstation DICOM viewer for the Mac OS, will for the first time show the new version of their 64-bit viewer on the new Mac Pro 8-Core workstation at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2008.
“Wired”:http://www.wired.com magazine has an interesting article on 33 things that suck; and why. Medical records is “one”:http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_medical_records of those things.
I think the perspective that the author takes is interesting because it is totally outside (I think) of how most of the readers of LMN think.
OpenMedSpel, a free and open source medical spelling word list, is now available as add-ons for Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey.
The availability of a free and open source browser based medical spelling application is of great value for those who use or develop browser based medical applications such as electronic medical records.
Learn more about OpenMedSpel here.
CRO StatWorks implements OpenClinica to facilitate Electronic Data Capture (EDC) for industry-sponsored clinical trials.
StatWorks, Inc. Supports Industry Trials with OpenClinica Enterprise
(Research Triangle Park, NC) February 15th, 2008 StatWorks’, Inc., a contract research organization (CRO) specializing in statistical and data management services, announces it has selected OpenClinica Enterprise to facilitate Electronic Data Capture (EDC) for industry-sponsored clinical trials. StatWorks is one of the latest in a growing roster of CROs to rely on OpenClinica to power their clinical studies.