The Southern California Linux Expo continues to sign distinguished speakers for SCALE 3x, the third annual So Cal Linux Expo. Here are the most recent additions:
*Kevin Bedell – LinuxWorld Magazine
*Jason Schultz – Electronic Frontier Foundation
*Marc Hamilton – Sun Microsystems
*Charles Coble – EMIC Networks
*Paul Von Stamwitz – 3ware
*Tim Jones – TOLIS Group
The italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma Dipartimento Malattie infettive (department of infectious diseases) has started to use an open source HIS. The installation was done by the MFH company under the management of Marco Fiorletta.
For verifications , pls. contact:
Marco Fiorletta
Via di Campo Romano 30, 00173, Roma
+39-067230668 (r.a.)
[fiorletta at mfh.it]
Continuity of Care guidelines go to a vote The balloting is set to begin Sept. 1 on a Continuity of Care implementation guide for the healthcare industry, which means the guidelines could be in place before the end of the year. Source: Healthcare IT News / Bernie Monegain The link to the whole story is here This is a very promising attempt to set a standard for the core data of a continuouity of care record. Which includes i.e. “summary of the patient�s health status (e.g., problems, medications, allergies) and basic information about insurance, advance directives, care documentation, and care plan recommendations”
President Bush has announced the goal of ubiquitous electronic medical records in 10 years: “On the research side, we’re the best — we’re coming up with more innovative ways to saves lives and to treat patients,” Bush said. “But when you think about the providers’ side, we’re kind of still in the buggy era.” The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) had this reply from AMIA president Charles Safran.
Healthcare Informatics has an article on forming a bank-like collaboration for Health IT: ‘More than 30 years ago, competing banks formed the VISA credit card collaborative and, together with the merchants, built a real-time, private financial information exchange at the point of service. Transactions are processed for less than one cent. Some people wonder, If the banking industry can do this, why can’t healthcare? Well, it can…’ Thanks to David Derauf for this link.
Healthcare Informatics has an article on Nine Tech Trends in healthcare, one of which is Open Source. Good to see that they are waking up to what Linux Medical News readers have known for almost four years. From the article ‘…Healthcare providers, notoriously slow to try emerging IT solutions, have begun to take notice of open source, and some have embarked on projects. “We’re in the embryonic stage now. Open source is just starting to get visibility,” says Tim Cook, president of Open Paradigms L.L.C., South Fulton, Tenn., and developer of Torch2, an open source electronic health record and practice management application. “This is a burgeoning movement that has been going on for quite a while and will continue to grow as more IT professionals learn about it.”
Noted PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak writes: ‘The sadomasochistic nature of programming, in my opinion, means that open-source software will always be better than commercial software. This is a whopper of a concept, but something has to account for the excellent code coming from the open-source movement. It may seem like an exaggeration, but hear me out on this one…
href=”http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/26/039241&mode=nested&tid=29&tid=30″>article about installing Linux from a ‘senior Unix systems administrator for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he is team lead for open source initiatives, Lawson Systems Administration, and DNS…’ Hooray, this sounds interesting. Thanks to Adrian Midgley for this link.
Past contributor to Linux Medical News Daniel Johnson, MD has written an article for Healthcare Informatics: ‘…We need a national medical record. Wait a minute. We already have one–VistA, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) electronic health record…VistA already encompasses more Americans than any other medical record. It works well, has been around for more than 20 years, and uses proven, reliable database technology…