Hi,
           More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
reporter has no clue what our movement is about)

           When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less likely
I am to be certain of the answer.

          Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have opinions
you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.



1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users?  Are
there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?



2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
available on www.data.gov?



3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of health
information? How would you like to see it evolve?



4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
www.data.gov?



--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi Fred,

I skimmed over just the healthcare related categories and groups,
haven't done the rest.  Interesting sets of data, I think anyway, some
useful data sets would be more information on healthcare spending across
many organization's, not only medicare/medicaid, though this is likely
going to be difficult of the statistics I have found they seem to vary
widely.  Granted its not something easy to track but maybe drilling down
deeper to get more specific numbers that can be measured.  Having some
sense of healthcare expenditures I think would give some direction on
which area's need to be fixed and which are important.  Right now there
seems to be a lot of educated guessing as to what to fix, not that
there's anything wrong with guessing, but there seems to be no emperical
evidence for folks to focus on.

Regards,

On 09/03/2009 02:42 PM, fred trotter wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
> When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
> likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
> Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have
> opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users? Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
> health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com <http://www.fredtrotter.com>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Fred,

This database is a goldmine for investigative journalists, activists,
research groups, grantwriters etc. I have seen it being used more and more
to provide data to these sorts of activities. For instance, a CHC might mine
the data to show thing are diverging health outcomes by race (health
disparities). This may then go into a grant application for money to improve
the health status in a particular area for a particular population and with
geospacial data, a particular location.

It will become more and more important as the data gets refined and the
investigators become more skilled.

m

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:42 PM, fred trotter <fred.trotter@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
> More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
> When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
> likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
> Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users? Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
> health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
health data there.  I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
it only came up with 61 records.  Most of these were Medicare spending
reports for various time periods.
I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
be on this site.

.Mark


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter<fred.trotter@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>          More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
>          When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
>         Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
>
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users?  Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
>
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
>
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>



--
Mark Spohr, MD

Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive "biopsychosocial" (i.e.,
biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms,
treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health
information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians, researchers
and consumers. See, for example, an outline of such an extensive data set
that we compiled 10 years ago at http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.



Steve Beller



From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:openhealth@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Spohr
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov





Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
health data there. I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
it only came up with 61 records. Most of these were Medicare spending
reports for various time periods.
I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
be on this site.

.Mark

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter<fred.trotter@...
<mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com> > wrote:
> Hi,
>          More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
>          When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
>         Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have
opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
>
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users?  Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
>
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
>
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

--
Mark Spohr, MD





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Sorry,

I didn't include this in my first email but it took some digging to find
this link again.

http://www.ahd.com/

Something like the link above I think would be more useful.

On 09/04/2009 07:13 AM, Stephen Beller wrote:
>
>
> Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive "biopsychosocial"
> (i.e.,
> biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms,
> treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health
> information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians,
> researchers
> and consumers. See, for example, an outline of such an extensive data set
> that we compiled 10 years ago at
> http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.
> <http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.>
>
> Steve Beller
>
> From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:openhealth@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of Mark Spohr
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM
> To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov
>
> Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
> health data there. I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
> it only came up with 61 records. Most of these were Medicare spending
> reports for various time periods.
> I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
> be on this site.
>
> .Mark
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter<fred.trotter@...
> <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com>
> <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Hi,
> > More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> > open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the
> questions are
> > excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other
> times the
> > reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
> >
> > When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> > giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> > what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
> likely
> > I am to be certain of the answer.
> >
> > Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> > from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> > asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> > community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have
> opinions
> > you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available
> on the
> > www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely
> users? Are
> > there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> > available on www.data.gov?
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
> health
> > information? How would you like to see it evolve?
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> > www.data.gov?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fred Trotter
> > http://www.fredtrotter.com <http://www.fredtrotter.com>
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Mark Spohr, MD
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Nominations are officially open for the 9th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom Award to be presented at the November 14th-18th AMIA Fall
conference in San Francisco, CA. Deadline for entries is September
30th, 2009. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA.
This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. Free
and open source software isn't 'magic pixie dust'. There are people
making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work
to make free software in medicine a reality. This award is intended to
honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards
the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open
source medical software. The award winner is chosen by a panel of
judges. Past recipients have been Tim Cook, K.S. Bhaskar -- Fidelity
Information Services, Inc., Thomas Beale -- Ocean Informatics, Fred
Trotter -- Synseer, MirrorMed and the FreeB project, Joseph Dalmolin
of WorldVistA/e-cology, Nancy Anthracite, WorldVistA, Will Ross of
Mendocino Informatics, Paul Biondich of the OpenMRS project, Webreach
for Mirth, WorldVistA CCHIT certification, Gerry Douglas, MD Malawi
RHIO, Steve Shreeve and Scott Shreeve.

http://linuxmednews.com/1252592682/index_html

Apologies for the cross-postings:

Asia Source 3 application period has been extended to September 21st.

http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/final_call_asiasource3



--
Alvin B. Marcelo, MD (www.alvinmarcelo.com) | Director, UP Manila - National
Telehealth Center | GPG 0x99CBC54C


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

This post came to me via the Debian Med mailing list, and I am
forwarding it because it may be of interest to the openhealth community.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Re: thanks and a question
Resent-Date:  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:29 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From:  debian-med@...
Date:  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:41:53 -0500
From:  <...snip...>
To:  <...snip...>
CC:  Debian Med Project List <debian-med@...>,
gdcm-developers <gdcm-developers@...>
References:  <g0503xpucuy4dzcuk0UYAxe124vaj_firegpg@...>
<580486.38000.qm@...>



This is a kind of hard question as you are talking about open-source
project. Anyway long story-short I have also been *very* annoyed by
quality control in DICOM implementation. I have setup a modest "DICOM
Conformance Tests" which I called gdcmConformanceTests:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#Wha\
t_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F

Those files have been validated by both GDCM and dcmtk as they are the
two major DICOM implementations I am using. If you read the README(*)
that comes with the tarball you'll see that the name of dcm4che comes
in quite often, which is not really a good sign IMHO.

The problem is not really to find out which DICOM implementation is
best, but instead:
- which one is actively maintained
- fully open source, with truly transparent bug report
- which one provide a full regression test suite

I have setup a page on the typical tools I use for QA:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmconv/QC

Cheers,
(*)
http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/GDCMDataCron/README?view=mar\
kup

[KSB] <...snip...>

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Hmm The project itself sounds like it has some value although looking at the
README it seems to be a collection of replication cases for known bugs in
given packages rather than a 'compliance' tool for which the Philips tool
leads.  BTW for the one package singled out - dcm4che (which I use a lot),
all of the referenced 'known bugs' are long fixed or otherwise resolved

Martin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:57 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <ks.bhaskar@...> wrote:

>
>
> This post came to me via the Debian Med mailing list, and I am
> forwarding it because it may be of interest to the openhealth community.
>
> Regards
> -- Bhaskar
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: thanks and a question
> Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:29 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-med@... <debian-med%40lists.debian.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:41:53 -0500
> From: <...snip...>
> To: <...snip...>
> CC: Debian Med Project List
<debian-med@...<debian-med%40lists.debian.org>>,
>
> gdcm-developers
<gdcm-developers@...<gdcm-developers%40lists.sourceforge.net>
> >
> References:
<g0503xpucuy4dzcuk0UYAxe124vaj_firegpg@...<g0503xpucuy4dzcuk0UYAxe124\
vaj_firegpg%40mail.gmail.com>>
>
>
<580486.38000.qm@...<580486.38000.qm%40web33403.mail.mud\
.yahoo.com>
> >
>
> This is a kind of hard question as you are talking about open-source
> project. Anyway long story-short I have also been *very* annoyed by
> quality control in DICOM implementation. I have setup a modest "DICOM
> Conformance Tests" which I called gdcmConformanceTests:
>
>
>
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#Wha\
t_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F
>
> Those files have been validated by both GDCM and dcmtk as they are the
> two major DICOM implementations I am using. If you read the README(*)
> that comes with the tarball you'll see that the name of dcm4che comes
> in quite often, which is not really a good sign IMHO.
>
> The problem is not really to find out which DICOM implementation is
> best, but instead:
> - which one is actively maintained
> - fully open source, with truly transparent bug report
> - which one provide a full regression test suite
>
> I have setup a page on the typical tools I use for QA:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmconv/QC
>
> Cheers,
> (*)
>
>
http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/GDCMDataCron/README?view=mar\
kup
>
> [KSB] <...snip...>
>
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[*Since I am sending out this announcement through several channels, I
apologize if you receive multiple copies*]

Friends and Colleagues,

We, the developers of the *Proteus Intelligent Processes* (*PIP*) *Project*,
* *are pleased to announce the availability of source code for tools related
to the clinical decision support guidelines model, *Proteus* under an open
source license (EPL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License>).
The open source development effort will now proceed in the PIP project.

With this announcement, we are also opening up the project for general
participation. The code and related information can be found at
http://kenai.com/projects/pip/.  The home for Proteus will remain at
http://proteme.org <http://proteme.org/blog/>. Introductory information
about the rule authoring system *GreEd* is available at
http://proteme.org/blog/greed/ <http://proteme.org/blog/2009/greed/>.

This announcement coincides with the release of the version *2.7* (*beta*).
In this version, *Protean*, the process/guideline authoring tool, has
acquired features of a modern integrated development environment (IDE). Also
*GreEd*, the rules authoring system, can now be considered a foundation for
an innovative, user-friendly business rules management system (BRMS).
Knowledge authoring remains easy and fun as in the previous version. Read
more about the new features here:
http://kenai.com/projects/pip/pages/WhatIsNew.

Take the new application for a spin by downloading it from
http://www.proteme.org/download3.html.

This is a major milestone for Proteus which was made possible by
contributions from many wonderful
people<http://kenai.com/projects/pip/pages/AboutPIPProject/#people>.
Much of the development for this version was done in the Semantic Data
Capture
Initiative<http://proteme.org/blog/2009/about/semantic-data-capture-initiative/>\
project
of Henry
Ford Health System <http://henryford.com>, my employer. Besides Henry
Ford, Lister
Hill Center <http://www.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/> of National Library of
Medicine<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/>played a critical role at the nascent
stage of Proteus. Several ideas
related to metadata usage and rule authoring were developed at City of Hope
National Medical
Center<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Hope_National_Medical_Center>
.

We will be scheduling a web conference to provide a quick introduction to
Proteus, GreEd and the PIP project. Please let me know if you are interested
in participating.

I will be at the upcoming AMIA annual symposium, in San Francisco and will
be happy to talk to you more about this effort, if you are planning to be
there.

We welcome your participation and feedback.

Regards,

Hemant (On behalf of the PIP Project Developers)

  *Hemant Shah M.D., M. Surg.*
Senior Research Informatician

*Henry Ford Health System*
<http://henryford.com/>1 Ford Place
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Ford+Place%2CDetroit%2CMI+48202%2CUnited+States\
&hl=en>Detroit,
MI 48202 United States

[image: Call me on Google Voice!] <http://proteme.org/googlevoice.html>

* LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/proteme>
**Email: proteme@...*

*Websites:
**Proteus <http://proteme.org>
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*Dear openhealth members,*

***
the 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) will include a
track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software
in Health Care (FLOSS-HC).* *If you, your company or your organisation
is active or interested in FLOSS-HC Med-e-Tel is the place to be in
2010. One of the main goals of the FLOSS track is to serve as a forum
for all people and organizations interested in FLOSS-HC, as a meeting
place for old and new FLOSS-HC enthusiasts and a place for exchanging
ideas, knowledge and experience and setting up new collaborations. Over
the years, Med-e-Tel has shown its dedication in addressing the needs of
people from all over the world, including developing countries, but also
providing industrial partners a place for networking, education and
presentation of their work to a worldwide audience.*

*Contributions are highly welcome. Participants interested in
contributing to one of the sessions are invited to submit their work in
form of a paper through the online abstract submission
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=call_for_abstracts\
>**.
Additionally there is the opportunity to present work or ideas in form
of a poster. Other options for presenting FLOSS products will be a live
demonstration session of FLOSS software applications. The last option to
present FLOSS products is in the industrial exposition.*

*For more information please visit the website
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_s\
ource_software_in_health_care>
or contact us via email at:*

*info@... <mailto:info@...>*

*tkaropka@... <mailto:tkaropka@...>*

Hope to see you at Med-e-Tel 2010.


Best regards,
Thomas Karopka
Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track program chair

Thomas,

Just submitted an abstract:

Title: Ligne de vie

Abstract:

FLOSS in health is already a strong movement in the medical domain, a
place where it competes with dominant commercial actors.

The tipping point for extensive e-health adoption is probably in a
different, citizen centered, reference frame.

We will describe the theoretical concepts underlying the shift from a
care place centered reference frame to a citizen centered reference
frame and explain the reasons why it leads to a genuine paradigm shift
in health.

This paradigm shift will be accurately described and, from a
demonstration of the Ligne de vie open source software, we will explore
original solutions in term of knowledge management and a brand new
approach of the risk dimension.

Finally we will explain why, if open source provides interesting
advantages in existing competitive markets (Red Oceans), it can become a
decisive concept to create brand new open domains (Blue Oceans).

Best,

Philippe



Thomas Karopka a écrit :
> *Dear openhealth members,*
>
> ***
> the 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) will include a
> track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software
> in Health Care (FLOSS-HC).* *If you, your company or your organisation
> is active or interested in FLOSS-HC Med-e-Tel is the place to be in
> 2010. One of the main goals of the FLOSS track is to serve as a forum
> for all people and organizations interested in FLOSS-HC, as a meeting
> place for old and new FLOSS-HC enthusiasts and a place for exchanging
> ideas, knowledge and experience and setting up new collaborations. Over
> the years, Med-e-Tel has shown its dedication in addressing the needs of
> people from all over the world, including developing countries, but also
> providing industrial partners a place for networking, education and
> presentation of their work to a worldwide audience.*
>
> *Contributions are highly welcome. Participants interested in
> contributing to one of the sessions are invited to submit their work in
> form of a paper through the online abstract submission
>
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=call_for_abstracts\
>**.
> Additionally there is the opportunity to present work or ideas in form
> of a poster. Other options for presenting FLOSS products will be a live
> demonstration session of FLOSS software applications. The last option to
> present FLOSS products is in the industrial exposition.*
>
> *For more information please visit the website
>
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_s\
ource_software_in_health_care>
> or contact us via email at:*
>
> *info@... <mailto:info@...>*
>
> *tkaropka@... <mailto:tkaropka@...>*
>
> Hope to see you at Med-e-Tel 2010.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Karopka
> Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track program chair
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi Philippe, good on you!
If I wasn't in the other side of the planet I'd have loved to participate...

--

Koray Atalag, MD, Ph.D

Clinton Bedogni Research Fellow
The University of Auckland,
Department of Computer Science,
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Tel: +64 (9) 373 7599 ext. 87199
Fax: +64 (9) 308 2377
Email: koray@...
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-----Original Message-----
From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:openhealth@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Philippe Ameline
Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 2:44 a.m.
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [openhealth] Call for papers/participation FLOSS-HC track at
Med-e-Tel 2010, 14-16 April 2010, Luxembourg

Thomas,

Just submitted an abstract:

Title: Ligne de vie

Abstract:

FLOSS in health is already a strong movement in the medical domain, a
place where it competes with dominant commercial actors.

The tipping point for extensive e-health adoption is probably in a
different, citizen centered, reference frame.

We will describe the theoretical concepts underlying the shift from a
care place centered reference frame to a citizen centered reference
frame and explain the reasons why it leads to a genuine paradigm shift
in health.

This paradigm shift will be accurately described and, from a
demonstration of the Ligne de vie open source software, we will explore
original solutions in term of knowledge management and a brand new
approach of the risk dimension.

Finally we will explain why, if open source provides interesting
advantages in existing competitive markets (Red Oceans), it can become a
decisive concept to create brand new open domains (Blue Oceans).

Best,

Philippe



Thomas Karopka a écrit :
> *Dear openhealth members,*
>
> ***
> the 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) will include a
> track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software
> in Health Care (FLOSS-HC).* *If you, your company or your organisation
> is active or interested in FLOSS-HC Med-e-Tel is the place to be in
> 2010. One of the main goals of the FLOSS track is to serve as a forum
> for all people and organizations interested in FLOSS-HC, as a meeting
> place for old and new FLOSS-HC enthusiasts and a place for exchanging
> ideas, knowledge and experience and setting up new collaborations. Over
> the years, Med-e-Tel has shown its dedication in addressing the needs of
> people from all over the world, including developing countries, but also
> providing industrial partners a place for networking, education and
> presentation of their work to a worldwide audience.*
>
> *Contributions are highly welcome. Participants interested in
> contributing to one of the sessions are invited to submit their work in
> form of a paper through the online abstract submission
>
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=call_for_abstracts\
>**.
> Additionally there is the opportunity to present work or ideas in form
> of a poster. Other options for presenting FLOSS products will be a live
> demonstration session of FLOSS software applications. The last option to
> present FLOSS products is in the industrial exposition.*
>
> *For more information please visit the website
>
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_s\
ource_software_in_health_care>
> or contact us via email at:*
>
> *info@... <mailto:info@...>*
>
> *tkaropka@... <mailto:tkaropka@...>*
>
> Hope to see you at Med-e-Tel 2010.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Karopka
> Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track program chair
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>


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Yahoo! Groups Links

Hi all.  The NHIN CONNECT project is hosting its second code-a-thon in
Portland next week Thursday and Friday.  For those not familiar with the
project, it's a BSD-licensed reference gateway for the NHIN specifications
for sharing of electronic healthcare records and data.

The announcement and registration:
http://www.connectopensource.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=24510467

The draft agenda:
http://www.connectopensource.org/display/CONNECTWIKI/Code-a-thon+Wiki+(Fall+2009\
)

The CONNECT public community is just a few months old, and we've already
seen substantive contributions to portability across new operating systems
and J2EE servers.  The code itself is in production use by a number of Fed
agencies, providers, and healthcare exchanges.

I realize this is late notice, but if any of you have an interest in this
space and can make it to Portland next Thursday and Friday, you're welcome
to attend (there is no attendance fee), as we have more room this time and
a very generous partner (Oregon State University's Open Source Lab).  Even
if you don't have depth with the existing CONNECT code base, if you are
a coder familiar with the terminology of the medical IT industry, with
J2EE apps, and with Open Source, there's lots you can do to help, whether
with the core code, or with adaptors (existing and to-be-written) to other
Health IT software.

Hope to see you there!

Hi,
          Recently i2b2 asked me to write about project governance as it
applies to healthcare projects. How should an open source healthcare project
be run?
I would love comments from the Hardhats and OpenHealth communities on my
ideas, please find them here:

http://www.fredtrotter.com/2009/11/17/on-project-governance/

-FT

--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com


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Astronaut, LLC announces the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Electronic
Health Record Beta.

Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com Announces Astronaut VistA
Shuttle™ Beta program. Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ allows health care
facilities, educators, developers, and physicians to start and manage
encrypted, cloud based instances of Astronaut VistA Electronic Health
Record (EHR) in minutes. This Beta is the first offering of a
cloud-based Veterans Affairs VistA EHR with many enhancements.
Astronaut, LLC offers both WorldVistA™ and OpenVistA™ based editions.

http://linuxmednews.com/1261108247/index_html

http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/02/16/security-reviews-in-open-source-health-sof\
tware/

--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com


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This RFI might be of interest to some of the members or our open source
groups.

Regards,


Hemant

  *Hemant Shah M.D., M. Surg.*
Senior Research Informatician

*Henry Ford Health System*
  <http://henryford.com/>1 Ford Place
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Ford+Place%2CDetroit%2CMI+48202%2CUnited+States\
&hl=en>Detroit,
MI 48202 United States

[image: Call me on Google Voice!] <http://proteme.org/googlevoice.html>


*LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/proteme>
Email: proteme@...*

*Websites:
Proteus <http://proteme.org/>
Proteus Open Source Project <http://kenai.com/projects/pip/>*


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Krauss, Gary (NIH/NCI) [C] <kraussga@...>
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Subject: Request for RFI: S10-126 caEHR
To: CABIG_ANNOUNCE@...


  Request For RFI: Developing and Implementation an effective caEHR system

SAIC-Frederick, Inc., in support of the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
(caBIG) Program, is requesting RFI market information for an EHR source for
the caEHR Reference Implementation.

In this Request for Information, the Center for Bioinformatics and
Information Technology (CBIIT) seeks information which it may use to help
select an open-source platform and/or general architecture framework for
implementation of the caEHR reference implementation.

The Request for Proposal may be downloaded from
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/FCRF/S10-126/listing.html















Gary A. Krauss C.P.M.

Subcontracts Specialist

SAIC-Frederick, Inc.

National Cancer Institute at Frederick

92 Thomas Johnson Dr. Suite 250

P.O. Box B

Frederick, MD. 21702-1201

Telephone 301-228-4400

Fax 301-228-4037

kraussga@...



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And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
account, please drop me a link.

If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are an
open source organization or person.. I want to get you more attention...

I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I cannot
help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.

-FT

--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com


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Still need booth numbers for Medsphere and DSS...

Is ClearHealth or Mirth renting space?

I wish I could just search and publish but the e-version of the exhibitor
guide blows.

-FT

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, fred trotter <fred.trotter@...> wrote:

> And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
> account, please drop me a link.
>
> If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are an
> open source organization or person.. I want to get you more attention...
>
> I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I cannot
> help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.
>
> -FT
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>



--
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http://www.fredtrotter.com


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Tell folks to come to the "interoperability showcase" in exhibit hall C, in
particular to the NHIN and Connect area, where we are presenting on Connect with
60 other partners (most non-Fed) who have piloted or set up exhanges with NHIN
standards, most of them with Connect, many of them by integrating with other
Open Source med software.

Brian

fred trotter <fred.trotter@...> wrote:

>And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
>account, please drop me a link.
>
>If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are an
>open source organization or person.. I want to get you more attention...
>
>I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I cannot
>help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.
>
>-FT
>
>--
>Fred Trotter
>http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
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>
>
>
>------------------------------------
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Bump

I can't wait to see the showcase.

On 3/1/10, Brian Behlendorf <brian@...> wrote:
> Tell folks to come to the "interoperability showcase" in exhibit hall C, in
> particular to the NHIN and Connect area, where we are presenting on Connect
> with 60 other partners (most non-Fed) who have piloted or set up exhanges
> with NHIN standards, most of them with Connect, many of them by integrating
> with other Open Source med software.
>
> Brian
>
> fred trotter <fred.trotter@...> wrote:
>
>>And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
>>account, please drop me a link.
>>
>>If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are an
>>open source organization or person.. I want to get you more attention...
>>
>>I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I cannot
>>help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.
>>
>>-FT
>>
>>--
>>Fred Trotter
>>http://www.fredtrotter.com
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------
>>
>>Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>

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Sent from my mobile device

I didn't see any other open source vendors but
PatientOS<http://www.patientos.com>has a booth 4124 - orange shirts
and cool lunch bags for you all !


[image: patientos_logo.gif] <http://www.patientos.com>



--
Gregory Caulton
Principal at PatientOS Inc.
personal email: caultonpos@...
http://www.patientos.com
corporate: (888)-NBR-1EMR || fax  857.241.3022



On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, fred trotter <fred.trotter@...>wrote:

> Still need booth numbers for Medsphere and DSS...
>
> Is ClearHealth or Mirth renting space?
>
> I wish I could just search and publish but the e-version of the exhibitor
> guide blows.
>
> -FT
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, fred trotter <fred.trotter@...>
> wrote:
>
> > And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
> > account, please drop me a link.
> >
> > If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are an
> > open source organization or person.. I want to get you more attention...
> >
> > I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I cannot
> > help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.
> >
> > -FT
> >
> > --
> > Fred Trotter
> > http://www.fredtrotter.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


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Misys Open Source Solutions is at booth 7470

we don't have lunch bags but we have some cool software you can download for
free off the OpenHealthTools site :D

Also, I will be presenting with Skip McGaughey and Gill Grosso today
4:15–5:15 p.m. in room #959.

Hope to see you there!

.a

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Greg Caulton <caultonpos@...> wrote:

>
>
> I didn't see any other open source vendors but
> PatientOS<http://www.patientos.com>has a booth 4124 - orange shirts
> and cool lunch bags for you all !
>
> [image: patientos_logo.gif] <http://www.patientos.com>
>
> --
> Gregory Caulton
> Principal at PatientOS Inc.
> personal email: caultonpos@... <caultonpos%40gmail.com>
> http://www.patientos.com
> corporate: (888)-NBR-1EMR || fax 857.241.3022
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, fred trotter
<fred.trotter@...<fred.trotter%40gmail.com>
> >wrote:
>
>
> > Still need booth numbers for Medsphere and DSS...
> >
> > Is ClearHealth or Mirth renting space?
> >
> > I wish I could just search and publish but the e-version of the exhibitor
> > guide blows.
> >
> > -FT
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, fred trotter
<fred.trotter@...<fred.trotter%40gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > And you would like for me to promote that fact on my blog or twitter
> > > account, please drop me a link.
> > >
> > > If you are speaking, or have a booth or anything like that and you are
> an
> > > open source organization or person.. I want to get you more
> attention...
> > >
> > > I am not able to make it this year, but that does not mean that I
> cannot
> > > help promote the light at the annual darkness convention.
> > >
> > > -FT
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fred Trotter
> > > http://www.fredtrotter.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fred Trotter
> > http://www.fredtrotter.com
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


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Hi,

this is meant to drop a short notice about a new listing/platform of
free/libre and open source software (FOSS) projects for the health
care domain. Furthermore if I may ask I would be very much interested
if this is of any use to you and if you have any comments or
improvement suggestions.

I maintained a static list of medical FOSS projects for more than 2
years and recently transformed it to a 'dynamic' platform that is
available at http://medfoss.apfelkraut.org. Beside browsing the actual
projects you can also find professional service providers,
publications, events (yet to be added) and submit requests for yet
nonexistent projects there - all in the context of FOSS in health care.

As I am operating this as a personal/private project in my spare time,
I am looking forward to your additions. It is intended to be an open
platform and everyone can submit new content.

Thank you & Best regards,

Holger Schmuhl
(medfoss.apfelkraut.org)


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Hi all,

it is my pleasure to announce the program of the FLOSS track at
Med-e-Tel and to invite you to participate in this event.
Please forward this information to any people that might be interested.

The 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) will include a
track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software
in Health Care (FLOSS-HC) which is organized by EFMI LIFOSS WG and IMIA
OS WG and supported by ISfTeH. The FLOSS-HC track will be split over the
three days of the Med-e-Tel conference. The program consists of over 20
paper presentations, one keynote talk, a panel discussion and several
discussion sessions. The first day (April 14th) features an introductory
presentation on "Open Source Solutions in Healthcare" as part of the
Med-e-Tel Opening Session. The second day (April 15th), features a
session on "Communities, Collaboration, Development Issues, Technology
Transfer". And the third day (April 16th) has another four thematic
sessions on "Sustainability and Community Building", "Open Source for
Mobile Home Healthcare", "Collaborative Development, Social Networking,
Services" and "Open Source in eHealth Infrastructure". For more
information visit the Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track website
<http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_s\
ource_software_in_health_care>.

Hope to meet you at Med-e-Tel.

Best regards,
Thomas Karopka
Med-e-Tel FLOSS track program chair

--
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Head of eHealth Department
Chair EFMI LIFOSS WG
Vice chair IMIA OS WG

IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH
Circus 14
D-18581 Putbus
Telefon: +49(0)38301 8829-74
Fax:  +49(0)38301 8829-59
karopka@...
www.it-science-center.de

Geschäftsführer: Ilvio Bruder
Handelsregister Amtsgericht Stralsund HRB 6227
USt-Ident-Nummer: DE 244660253

Sorry for cross posting:

Hi there, my name is Hector, im from Argentina, I want know if anyone
can send me a little list of apps of Public Health and Biosurveillance
e.g. epi-info, I need an alternative to this, to use in gnu/linux
"mandriva" or another SO likes *nix.
Let me know, thanks in advance.

--
Hector R Lopez
mail: beat006[at]gmail[dot]com
Corrientes-Argentina CP:3400
Movil: 03783 15534876
  David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University



       __________________________________________________________________
Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to
http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/

Have a look at NetEpi Collection at http://code.google.com/p/netepi/ -
production-ready, with large scale deployments, and under active, funded
development. And runs on Linux. If you need help getting it installed, just
email us on the mailing list.

Tim C

On 10 March 2010 08:54, David Chan <davidhcchan@...> wrote:

>
>
> Sorry for cross posting:
>
> Hi there, my name is Hector, im from Argentina, I want know if anyone
> can send me a little list of apps of Public Health and Biosurveillance
> e.g. epi-info, I need an alternative to this, to use in gnu/linux
> "mandriva" or another SO likes *nix.
> Let me know, thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Hector R Lopez
> mail: beat006[at]gmail[dot]com
> Corrientes-Argentina CP:3400
> Movil: 03783 15534876
> David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP
> Associate Professor
> Department of Family Medicine
> McMaster University
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to
> http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/
>
>


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http://www.trisano.org/

and just released at HIMSS

http://www.cdc.gov/BioSense/

I think Trisano has legs...

HTH,
-FT


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Tim C <tim.churches@...> wrote:

> Have a look at NetEpi Collection at http://code.google.com/p/netepi/ -
> production-ready, with large scale deployments, and under active, funded
> development. And runs on Linux. If you need help getting it installed, just
> email us on the mailing list.
>
> Tim C
>
> On 10 March 2010 08:54, David Chan <davidhcchan@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sorry for cross posting:
> >
> > Hi there, my name is Hector, im from Argentina, I want know if anyone
> > can send me a little list of apps of Public Health and Biosurveillance
> > e.g. epi-info, I need an alternative to this, to use in gnu/linux
> > "mandriva" or another SO likes *nix.
> > Let me know, thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Hector R Lopez
> > mail: beat006[at]gmail[dot]com
> > Corrientes-Argentina CP:3400
> > Movil: 03783 15534876
> > David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Family Medicine
> > McMaster University
> >
> > __________________________________________________________
> > Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to
> > http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


--
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http://www.fredtrotter.com


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