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  AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
IMIA/AMIA Posted by Fred Trotter on Wednesday February 22, 2006 @ 07:46 PM
from the IMIA/AMIA dept.
The American Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working Group is presenting Review of Open Source Electronic Health Records (EHR). This review will cover the top Open Source projects that posses Medical Practice Management, Medical Billing Software, and Electronic Health Records. To start with, three systems will be evaluated; MirrorMed/ClearHealth, FreeMED and OpenEMR. The systems will be reviewed wiki-style by Fred Trotter and several different reviewers from the OSWG. The results will be presented at the 2006 AMIA Spring Congress Digg this article

So far the installation routines have been reviewed. The OSWG will be reviewing the three projects from the following using a simple criteria. Over the course of the review, the software authors will also be allowed to update the review. In this fashion, it will be possible to incorporate not only the reviewers impression, but the authors intention in the reviews.


If you are interested in helping with or commenting on the review process, please contact Fred Trotter.

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    Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
    by Julia Weatherby on Thursday February 23, 2006 @ 11:54 AM
    What a great resource for the medical open source community!! I am really looking forward to contributing to this effort. Julia PS - The criteria link above didn't work for me.
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    Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
    by Tim Cook on Friday February 24, 2006 @ 10:48 PM
    The headline says that this is the work of the AMIA OSWG. However, I noted that the link above goes to the IMIA OSWG Wiki and that the AMIA OSWG site has no new information about this project.

    Why is that? Is it really an IMIA effort or an AMIA effort?

    Thanks for clarification.
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    • Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
      by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday February 25, 2006 @ 07:30 AM
      Hi Tim, the AMIA/IMIA subject heading on LMN uses the IMIA OS working group logo. The link you are referring too goes to Fred Trotters GPL Medicine website and apparently he is using the same logo. It is not an IMIA effort. We should probably change logos. -- IV
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      • Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
        by Peter Murray on Friday March 24, 2006 @ 03:55 AM
        Congratulations to the AMIA OSWG on developing this initiative. The IMIA OSWG will be happy to support it - I will put a news item on our website and encourage any of our members who are not also AMIA members to also provide such input as they can.

        I think we do need a generic logo to cover activities that could cover several of the groups - is that the intent of the lighthouse logo?

        Peter Murray
        Chair, IMIA OSWG
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    Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
    by techguy on Monday February 27, 2006 @ 10:48 PM
    The review looks like it will produce some really good information. This should be something worth watching. My only question was the list of reviewers. I'd be interested in an outside source(doctor not currently using the product) and possibly an IT person who didn't help write the code for the program to be apart of the review process. A review by people who have had no previous information on the product would be very valuable I think. Maybe that I'm misunderstanding the goal of this review.
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    • Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
      by Fred Trotter on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @ 06:31 AM
      We would like to have both of these roles in the final review process. Currently, at least one of these is already filled...
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    Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
    by YetAnotherTechie on Tuesday February 28, 2006 @ 05:30 PM
    How good a review can be when one is judge and part?
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    • Re: AMIA oswg releases Open Source EHR Review
      by Fred Trotter on Wednesday March 01, 2006 @ 07:10 AM
      That is an open question. It is interesting that people never ask "how good can a review be, without the original authors". This review will include input from developers on each project reviewed. Since it is a wiki, they will both be able to change the content at will, and also have accurate logs as to the nature and reasons for the changed. Eventually numerous editors will collaborate to examine the biases of all of the authors. Essentially the methodology is to disclose bias rather than hide it, and to avoid biased results by constant reviews. This approach might be largely invalid in a proprietary environment, but since the development on all of these projects is publically accessible it is possible to examine the projects completely. Basically we are using a review process that parallels the development process.
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