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Open source crusade, Cons and Pros?
Replied Feb. 3, 2009
Open source crusade, Cons and Pros?
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Open source crusade, Cons and Pros?
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- What is your Health Informatics Role?
- Systems Analyst, Director at Meta Healthcare Systems Ltd.
- About Me:
- Researcher, IT consultant, software architect & engineer, entrepreneur and open source enthusiast.
My interest lies in healthcare IT and how open source and open knowledge concepts and projects can contribute to the healthcare systems in developing and emerging countries.
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MedInfo 2010
September 13, 2010 at 9am to September 16, 2010 at 5pm – Cape Town International Convention Centre
Cape Town, South Africa will host the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics from the 13 - 16 of September 2010. The medinfo2010 website has been relaunched with information on submissio…
Organized by IMIA/SAHIA | Type: Conference
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How Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care
September 22, 2010 from 3pm to 4pm – Online via Microsoft Live Meeting
Join us for a webinar presented by Dr. Leigh Hamby, EVP and CMO of Piedmont Healthcare for a demonstration and in-depth discussion about his methodology, tools, and collaboration with Recombinant for…
Organized by William Stetson | Type: online, via, microsoft, live, meeting
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Indonesian Health Informatics Forum 2010
October 21, 2010 at 8am to October 26, 2010 at 5pm – Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia
The 1st Indonesian Health Informatics Forum (IHIF) 2010 invites practitioners and researchers on health informatics to submit their paper for the 1st Indonesian Health Informatics Conference which wi…
Organized by SIMKES Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University | Type: national, conference
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Hospital Efficiency Asia 2010
November 2, 2010 at 9am to November 3, 2010 at 7pm – Malaysia
The Hospital Efficiency 2010 summit will bring together senior levels experts from hospitals in Asia to share on what actions they have taken to improve patient flow, safety and work flow processes,…
Organized by Rani Kuppusamy | Type: conference
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I'd like to invite you to "Open source crusade, Cons and Pros?" discussion.
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http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com/forum/topics/open-source-crusade-cons-and?page=1&commentId=2068976%3AComment%3A15077&x=1#2068976Comment15077
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Abbas
It’s an opportunity to share the knowledge base for a mutual benefit in the field of Electronics Medical Recording & Practice management system.
Lets create a space for understanding each other in terms of professional needs.
Thanking you.
US Panigrahy
VP Sales & Marketing
Sindhu Synergy Ltd.
us.panigrahy@sindhusynergy.com
Skype Id:- us_panigrahy
first: Yes, all DB like ICD-10, Phramcological DB incl. Risk Analysis and in future other knowledge management DB are installed on the card. Since each DB has about 100 to 200 MB and the cards capacity is today starting at 2GB up to 16, but in 6 month we will use only 4GB up to 32GB, capacity is not the problem.
Second, presently we offer an card-own Linux. We still work and experiment on other solution, but at the moment that seems to be the best. The card-Linux operates inside an Win-bubble, therefore does not demand restart of an MD PC.
Thirs, the card-internal system is a XML application with a strong, presentenly 99.99% save environment. In a few month we will work with a USB card that will have a microprcessor, similar like a Smart card. Than security will be 100% (unless you count the super computers of the NSA). and fourth and last: It is exactly various non-compatibale OS in hospitals that demand that the data management is on the card and not on the host system. we can take i.e. any data format in, change it into an XML object (unless teh sender has done so already) and than continue with all further methods with the same XML datastream. Eventually, at least for each patient on the card, you have created a unified standards. What will be from there? we don't know, your guess is as good as mine. But one success we had already: The German Smart Health card is already faltering because a 'stupid' smart card holds only keys and not data or applications. So, if your refer, like the governments guys did, that the data is with the hospitals and doctors, they were suprised when in tests they found out what you have asked me all about: How does a system cope with thousands of non-compatible software programs. We hope and think we have the very simple but very effective answer.
Yours
Gil
I'm a medical doctor and just knew about this field about 4 months ago. I still have some difficulties in my effort to learn and understand health informatics, my interest is in EMR/EHR.
Could you give me some advice how to learn about EMR in a simple way, where do I have to start and maybe you could suggest me some books about EMR.
Thank you.
Interestingly, there is a move afoot in Ontario to inventory all the IT in acute care hospitals. It would be fascinating to know how much of that is Open Source. It suspect (again speculation) very little, but what a fascinating question to ask.
your simple questoin about how doctors react opens a compendium. Let us scale it down to three subjects that each has its own life:
1) There is a shift to so-called 'social computing'. Patients are citizen and citzen are user, so it concerns all. User therefore are not satisfied any more with data-storage (the latest offer of Google) or with 'permission to see' their data that is legally theirs anyhow. They wish more, individualized service that tells ME from readiny MY data what can be done to improve health, and further on lifestyle, preventive behavior, etc.
2) The IT-Industry has reached its ultimate capacity. They cannot offer any new approach unless new technologies will allow new ways of data management. Eventually, we will have a chip implanted upon birth that will give permanent information about the relation between my age, sex, blood-pressure, Puls, weight, BMI, and so on. Why did IT fail in medical iformatics? Because they are reveue focused and not service focused. go to a VC or Bank. If you tell them that the payee is the patient they turn you down; if you tell them that the payee is a bankrupt hospital they finance you. Why? Because Health Care, as inefficient as it may be (an is) was always a 'holy cow' and was bailed out.
3) so it comes down not to the question what doctors say, since they are the least to have any decision making power of or for anything. They react to the type of service you offer them. All are exited about the new USB Med-O-Card solution: All patient data are there and they do not have to search for it! all data are coded, so the card's own data analysis givers them clinical and pharmacological answers, instantly and without having asked for it. And finally: The doctors become independent from their 'guiding force' that is an hospital administration, a health fund or a governmental plan. Its only patient and doctor. it is what the US heads of HMOs stated and have asked for: Back to the basics (roots) - we wantthat the patient has all his data and we do not wish to wait another 35 years for the health care industry to provide meaningful EHR. The industry and the organizatioins have to comply to state regulations, HIM, HIPPA, etc. etc. But not the patient - he is free, and through him his doctor. Freedom does not mean less security, etc. It just means a new decision making pair where the patient takes the lead.
Gunter