Recent conversations with knowledgeable colleagues has recently reached a point where it is difficult to have a rational conversation about any aspect of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software without having to invoke an entire other discipline to speak about it. As well, the lines of demarcation between EMR software engineering, law, licensing, economics, politics and public policy has now become so intertwined that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell where one ends and another begins. A nexus may have formed in which these are inextricably linked.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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humaneasy
4 years 37 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago
Oh! This is a long history :) On
Oh! This is a long history :)
On Care2x[1] by now we use EMR, and HXP[2] and HL7[3] to share data but the future may be rather diferent to solve this issues.
On Care3G[4] we are planning to use some modular abstraction that allow people to create the kind of medical record they want with the standard they want and it will be one of the hardest things to pull out.
By the end we may have something usable mixing both project's options.
[1] http://www.care2x.org/
[2] http://hxp.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://pear.php.net/package/Net_HL7/
[4] http://www.care3g.org/
ivaldes1
4 years 37 weeks 15 hours 34 min ago
One of the most technically broad
One of the most technically broad and connected in many ways for the United States is the Veterans Affairs VistA software which the WorldVistA organization is coordinating in the private sector with CCHIT certification etc. WorldvistA's website is http://worldvista.org