Instantiation corporation has made its GWTDesigner available to the Foundation for development.
The Board of the FreeMED Software Foundation wishes to recognize the generous contribution of Instantiations Corporation of the GWT Designer, a designer for Google Web Tools .
PR: Misys Connect Goes Open Source
Misys has officially released Misys Health Connect. However, the software was only made available on CD if you attended the SCALE conference. The company plans to release the software on the Internet in the coming weeks.
February 7, 2008: New York (PR Newswire) — Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company announced today that it will release components of proprietary source code to the open source community at the Southern California Linux Expo (Scale), in Los Angeles on February 8. Scale signifys Misys’ first conference appearance into the open source arena.
FOSS Survey of Tools for Decision Support
An overview of the processes and FOSS tools used to model and implement medical decision support can be found in, Free and Open Source Enabling Technologies for Patient-Centric, Guideline-Based Clinical Decision Support: A Survey by T.-Y. Leong, et al in the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2007.
LinuxMedNews is mentioned as one of several good places to find Open Source healthcare software! See note 19.
ZDnet: Call for ‘Open Source Values’
ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn opines about ‘open source values’ in this op-ed piece: ‘The Committee for Economic Development, a 65-year old advocacy group which claims to represent “the best in business thinking,” has issued a clarion call for open source values in medicine…’
Final Notice: DOHCS ’08 Conference Friday Feb 8th
This is just a reminder that the Demonstrating Opensource Health Care Solutions Conference (DOHCS) ’08 conference will be taking place this Friday February 8th at the Westin LAX Los Angeles. This event brings together many of the brightest minds in Open Source health care to discuss and evangelize the latest and greatest happenings with case studies, technical looks and more. This years event features both a business and technical track.You can find out more information by visiting http://www.dohcs.org . LinuxMedNews readers can pre-register (select Purchase Tickets) to attend the event for free by using the coupon code (not promocode) “OPENHEALTH” at checkout. Hope to see you there!
WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0 available
WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0 is (finally!) available to download.
WorldVistA announces the release and availability of WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0, the only open source EHR that meets Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM) ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2006. WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0 is based on and compatible with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) world renowned EHR, VistA�.
Webreach: A Company To Watch
Webreach, Inc. are the makers of the Mirth software and appliance. Briefly, Mirth is a Free/Open Source HL7 interoperability stack which also provides multiple other services such as security. The company packages the stack and services into nifty hardware appliances and provides paid support. They are a company to watch.
MH: Underground developers group to reunite
Modern Healthcare has an an article (registration required) on the Underground Railroad reunion: ‘Members of the Underground Railroad, pioneer developers and defenders of the clinical computing system now in use at more than 800 healthcare sites within the Veterans Affairs Department, will reunite next month, coinciding with a meeting of federal health executives at the Institute of Medicine in Bethesda, Md…The reunion banquet is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Positano Ristorante Italiano in Bethesda, Md.. The banquet is open to activists in the Underground Railroad as well as others who might be interested in its history. To RSVP by Friday, Feb. 1, contact Munnecke at tom@munnecke.com.’
GNUmed server package available
Yesterday I had a nice surprise in my email inbox. Paul Grinberg from PCLinuxOS contacted us with a the announcement that he had built a server rpm which provides a painless setup of the GNUmed server backend. Imagine my surprise when a few tweaks to the spec file were enough to make this work on openSUSE.
Wow. We now have the full end to end solution available for users. All it takes is:
‘zypper install gnumed-client gnumed-server’
PatientOS v0.40 Lab Results, Portal and Email.
http://www.patientos.org open source and free EMR adds laboratory results inbound, a result viewer, and a demonstration of how a Patient Portal can be integrated.
Version 0.40 also adds basic communication orders, automated emails, and batch job scheduling.
Screenshots and video is available.