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Re: Healthcare Desktop Project Announced
by Max (from Canada) on Monday December 22, @04:57AM

Karlis, I AGREE 100% with the poster! There are already about 5 or 6 well-known Open Source Health Care projects (applications) on the market or in the works. Yes, OpenVista is yet another project! Please check out these projects that are similar to yours:

TORCH: http://www.openparadigms.com/torch_demo "TORCH is a web enabled electronic health record (EHR) application. Lead development is being provided by Open Paradigms,LLC TORCH is scalable up to multi-site practices."
McMaster University (Canada) Health Sciences' OSCAR: http://67.69.12.117/ "OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Application Resource) is an open source web-based electronic patient record system for delivery of evidence resources at the point of care."
Res Medicinae:http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net "Res Medicinae is the attempt to overcome high pricing in the realm of Medical Information Systems and to provide users with a free, stable, secure, platform-independent, extensive system."
GNU-Med: http://www.gnumed.org/ "The Gnumed group supports Open Source Software and its application to medical uses.
OpenEMR: http://www.synitech.com/ "OpenEMR is now the most widely-distributed EMR System in the world. OpenEMR is a modular, HIPAA compliant, Open Source, cross-platform Electronic Medical Records system (EMRS). It facilitates efficient office management through automated patient record journaling and billing integration, and has been successfully integrated with third-party technologies including speech recognition, secure wireless access, touch screen portables, and biometric authentication. Interface screens are customizable and optimized for consistency, simplicity, speed of access to patient information, and minimum eye strain." **

Oh well, I hope we can all learn NOT to reinvent the wheel. This is the biggest challenge in the Open Source Software movement.

By the way, I would suggest the Python language for creating desktops apps. It's the quickest to learn, and one of the most powerful languages that can be used for everything (video games, web apps, desktop apps, and so much more). It also interfaces nicely with Java via Jython! I'm only saying this because your page indicates that you're a Java/C coder. You'll find tons of info here: http://Python.org.

Good luck in your endeavours! :-)

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