Oscar 2.0 Has Open Source Drug Reference

David Chan is announcing the availability of OSCAR version 2.0 which features Drugref.org's Free and Open Source drug database, easy internationalization, a laboratory module, improved billing and more. Read more for the full text of the announcement.

We will be releasing v2.0 shortly on SourceForge. This new version incorporates all the enhancements our Brazillians friends have added - you can change to Brazillian Portugese by simply changing the browser properties! Anyone interested in putting in other languages? It's now a very simple process. Moreover, they have added support for PostgreSQL. They are in the process of translating the Help manual to Portugese. You can access the demo via: http://oscarhome.org

Other major enhancements include: (1) Thanks to the drugref.org group, the oscarRx module uses a totally Open Source drug database web-service (running PostgreSQL and Python). The database you see in the Demo site has the Canadian drug database in it. But the idea is that one can access drug info from any country. I hope more folks will join Horst and Ian with their excellent work. (2) The Lab module is now in place. It parses HL7 lab data from a lab (MDS Lab in Canada for now) and integrates the data with the patient. There is a work flow management build in for the health care providers to read and handle the lab data. (3) There is a whole new section for puttingin "measurements". Features include data reports and graphing. Data is copied to the narrative part of the eChart automatically to avoid double data-entry. It's highly flexible. (4) A few fixes: Disease Registry can use different coding system; immunization module is fixed. (5) The billing system is slightly enhanced. You can set properties at install time what billing module to take. There is now modules for Ontario and British Columbia.

New features coming soon: (1) Direct integration with PING - the Personal Health Record system from MIT/Harvard. (2) Decision Support (Diabetes, Hypertension, and hyperlipidemia) via web-services (3) oscarCitizens v1.0 is now available via our CVS on SourceForge. It is a companion system to OSCAR EMR for these functions: - making appointment - secure messaging - personal health record - access OSCAR EMR record - (soon) decision support

Enjoy!

Yours sincerely, David

David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McMaster University

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