In a post entitled Show me da money (a cautionary tale) the Adventures in Open Source has pointed to the Medsphere vs. Shreeve case as a warning Open Source companies seeking VC funding. The blog is maintained by Tarus Balog, who is the CEO of OpenNMS company.
California HealthCare: Open Source Market Assessment
An in-depth article on F/OSS EHR’s including comparisons and contrasts of the front-runners has been published by California Healthcare Foundation: Open-source electronic health record (EHR) systems, have proliferated in recent years. This executive summary presents the findings from an evaluation designed to determine whether these systems, commonly referred to as free and open-source software (FOSS), are suitable as ambulatory EHRs.
DOHCS ’08 Conference – ZDNet Interview
Dana Blankenhorn over at ZDNet interviewed David Uhlman CEO of ClearHealth on the upcoming DOHCS ’08 (Demonstrating Opensource Health Care Solutions) Conference February 8th, 2008 at the Los Angeles Westin LAX. You can find details about the event at www.dohcs.org.
“In medicine, open standards have never been open. The entrenched interests and lobbies have motives to co-opt so-called ‘open standards’ for themselves. Without open source you can’t get people sharing data.”. Read more of the interview with ZDNet on the event here. Linux Med News readers can pre-register (select purchase tickets) and attend the event for free using the coupon code (not promo code) “OPENHEALTH”. Hope to see you there.
Open Source Developer Open House This Weekend in Seattle
YOU’RE INVITED TO COGNITION GROUP’S FIRST EVER OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT OPEN HOUSE
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If you are reading this message and you are in the Seattle area, you are welcome to attend Cognition Group’s first ever Open Source Development Open House. The open house is being held for open source developers and companies that use open source to gather and collaborate on projects, discuss work opportunities, and strategize about open source. While most open source groups focus on making a statement about the evils of proprietary software, this open house will focus on how developers can band together and work on projects and how to involve companies of any size in the work.
Overview of open source software for the health care sector
At freemedsw.apfelkraut.org an overview is available that lists most (hopefully somewhen all) open source projects for the health care sector. It contains only projects whose usage is not limited and that have recently been active (last news or releases not older than a year).
For each project the name, homepage, license type, supported platform(s) and client type (web-based vs. native) is specified. There is also the possibility to submit new projects via a form.
FMYiRC Project is Hiring
CCHIT’s Testing Framework Laika On SourceForge
CCHIT’s Open Source interoperability testing framework ‘Laika’ project has a site on sourceforge with some interesting upcoming events such as: ’14 Jan Laika v0.1 demo to CCHIT leaders’. This project is noteworthy because it is open source and that it is from CCHIT and was previously mentioned on LMN here. From the website: ‘Laika is named after the dog and first living animal to enter earth orbit, paving the way for human space flight. This effort will likewise demonstrate that the grand challenge of interoperable EHRs is attainable and will inspire others to follow.’ Thanks to Fred Trotter for the link.
GNUmed 0.2.8.1 released
A few bugs have surfaced in the 0.2.8.0 released. We have released an update.
FIX: crash on setting Windows SetFocus() on dialogs in gm_show_*()
FIX: crash on passing identity to cDTO_Person.import_extra_data()
FIX: failure on PG server version checking on MacOSX (bootstrapper)
FIX: crash on MacOSX after clicking OK in Snellen config dialog
FIX: crash on missing slave personality
IMPROVE: do not crash on not being able to write to the config file
IMPROVE: touch user config file so it exists when needed
Medsphere Lawsuit Makes Top 10 FOSS news in 2007
Information Week has rated the Medsphere vs. Shreeve lawsuit as number 9 in the top ten Open Source stories of 2007
SCALE Announces 2008 Speaker Line Up
SCALE has announced its speaker line up for 2008. Speakers will include Don Marti, Josh Berkus (Postgres), Bdale Garbee (HP), Jono Bacon, and others. In addition to the recently announced speaker line up, registration is now open and available online. SCALE will be held Feb 8 -10, 2008 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin in Los Angeles California.