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Healthcare Desktop Project Announced

Posted by Karlis Zigurs on Tuesday December 16, 2003 @ 08:16 AM
from the Medical Open Source Development dept.
Hello, I would like to notify everyone interested in Open Source healthcare software about a new Open Source project - Healthcare Desktop. In short our project goal is to create an open source (snip.) software package that covers all aspects of work in modern hospital. Digg this article

Due to our developement strategy we are currently looking for help from healthcare field professionals who could assist us in initial requirements and specifications phase, so, if you have a good experience in field and would be willing to assist our developement, please visit our site and consider joining our project.

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Re: Healthcare Desktop Project Announced
by Elpidio Latorilla on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @ 04:27 PM

Congratulations for initiating the project. Your courage to embark on such complex endeavour is very impressive. We at care2x.org are very interested in doing mutually beneficial cooperation with your organization. We have the same objectives, so we might as well help each other.

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Re: Healthcare Desktop Project Announced
by Medical Info on Sunday December 21, 2003 @ 08:54 PM

You have an admirable goal but I do want to ask why you would want to go and re-invent the wheel? It will take thousands of hours and much more money to duplicate what is already freely available. Why not spend your time and effort adapting software that already exists to your uses and share your improvements with the community? Check out: care2x.org But I would really reccomend looking at Hui OpenVistA. VistA supports over 400 health care facilities, with a network of 250,000 users processing the medical and administrative information for 1,000,000 in-patient and 20,000,000 out-patient visits each year. Hard to top that. And that is from a program that is freely available and already exists. It can be downloaded from: http://www.pacifichui.org/OpenVista/ A VistA manual is at: http://www.va.gov/vdl/ Examples of adopters are at: http://www.hardhats.org/adopters/vista_adopters.html

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Re: Healthcare Desktop Project Announced
by Max (from Canada) on Sunday December 21, 2003 @ 10:57 PM

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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Re: Healthcare Desktop Project Announced
by John Talker on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @ 04:24 AM

"It can be downloaded from: http://www.pacifichui.org/OpenVista/ A VistA manual is at: http://www.va.gov/vdl/ Examples of adopters are at: http://www.hardhats.org/adopters/vista_adopters.htm" - Bad link.

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