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/

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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\
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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















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Subcontracts Specialist

SAIC-Frederick, Inc.

National Cancer Institute at Frederick

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P.O. Box B

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Telephone 301-228-4400

Fax 301-228-4037

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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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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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>
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>
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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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>>
>>
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>>
>>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>>
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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>



--
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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
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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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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Chair EFMI LIFOSS WG
Vice chair IMIA OS WG

IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH
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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]
>
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>
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>
>
>
>


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would prefer these to go to FOSS community members.

http://www.oshealthcon.com/

-FT

--
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http://www.fredtrotter.com

Would you consider using an open-source electronic health-record
system in your hospital or physician office?  (appears in sidebar on
right side today, Wed 3/17)

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/HITSarchive/

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/108

This -might- be even more important than the conference that I am
putting on... which not enough of you have signed up for...

http://www.oshealthcon.com

-FT

--
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http://www.fredtrotter.com

Just to echo Fred's post - this is the first time OSCON, which has been
going for over 10 years, has had an industry-specific track.  Recently I
and others have been encouraging them in this direction, as the number of
quality open source health IT projects is reaching a critical mass and
some really good stories are waiting to be told.  My ulterior motive is to
get the geeks to stop building chat clients and farming games on Facebook
and start applying their thinking and coding skills to healthcare, where
we could use them.  The paucity of open source at HIMSS was kinda shocking
- we gotta change that, and getting other geeks at OSCON to get into
health IT would be a big step.  Who's in?

 	 Brian

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, fred trotter wrote:
> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/108
>
> This -might- be even more important than the conference that I am
> putting on... which not enough of you have signed up for...
>
> http://www.oshealthcon.com
>
> -FT
>
>

I have already put in two proposals...

I hope that everyone will put in something.

Take a look at the youtube videos of former OSCON tracks. This is an
in depth crowd, and they want the cool tech...

There are alot of projects doing amazing things that I and other
"insiders" like Brian know about.

This is your chance to get some attention...

-FT

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Brian Behlendorf <brian@...> wrote:
>
> Just to echo Fred's post - this is the first time OSCON, which has been
> going for over 10 years, has had an industry-specific track.  Recently I
> and others have been encouraging them in this direction, as the number of
> quality open source health IT projects is reaching a critical mass and
> some really good stories are waiting to be told.  My ulterior motive is to
> get the geeks to stop building chat clients and farming games on Facebook
> and start applying their thinking and coding skills to healthcare, where
> we could use them.  The paucity of open source at HIMSS was kinda shocking
> - we gotta change that, and getting other geeks at OSCON to get into
> health IT would be a big step.  Who's in?
>
>        Brian
>
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, fred trotter wrote:
>> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/108
>>
>> This -might- be even more important than the conference that I am
>> putting on... which not enough of you have signed up for...
>>
>> http://www.oshealthcon.com
>>
>> -FT
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>



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http://www.fredtrotter.com

Medical Information Integration and Dr Sam Bowen have applied to do a
joint presentation or two on OpenEMR.  MI2 is in Portland and I've
been attended this event personally for a long time.  It is an
excellent gathering.

Tony McCormick
www.mi-squared.com
503-564-4670



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Brian Behlendorf <brian@...> wrote:
>
> Just to echo Fred's post - this is the first time OSCON, which has been
> going for over 10 years, has had an industry-specific track.  Recently I
> and others have been encouraging them in this direction, as the number of
> quality open source health IT projects is reaching a critical mass and
> some really good stories are waiting to be told.  My ulterior motive is to
> get the geeks to stop building chat clients and farming games on Facebook
> and start applying their thinking and coding skills to healthcare, where
> we could use them.  The paucity of open source at HIMSS was kinda shocking
> - we gotta change that, and getting other geeks at OSCON to get into
> health IT would be a big step.  Who's in?
>
>        Brian
>
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, fred trotter wrote:
>> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/108
>>
>> This -might- be even more important than the conference that I am
>> putting on... which not enough of you have signed up for...
>>
>> http://www.oshealthcon.com
>>
>> -FT
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

I am very happy to announce that there is a yet-another-fine open
source healthcare track at another major conference this year!!
Ohio Linux Fest 2010 will have a healthcare track.

Please see the email from Philip Reiche below. You can send your
conference proposals to him.

This talk is very close to OSHealthCOn (http://oshealthcon.com)
time-wise but if you live near Ohio it will probably be easier to make
and I will try not to be too bitter.

This seems to be a growing trend and we should all be very happy about
this. Hopefully Ignacio will post something about on the venerable
LinuxMedNews.com

-FT


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Philip Reiche <philip.reiche@...>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Subject: Oho Linux Fest is also planning an Open Source Medical Track
To: fred.trotter@...


Fred,
I'm Phil Reiche, speaker co-chair for the 2010 Ohio Linux Fest. I just
stumbled across your website researching OpenVistA and Astronaut , and
was wondering if you would be interested in giving a talk at our con,
or could suggest someone who might be interested.  We are meeting in
Columbus Ohio, Sept 10 and 11, and are just putting together our
program.
Thanks,
Phil Reiche


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

Dear members of the OpenHealth list:

I am Luciana Cavalini, I am an epidemiologist from Brazil. Maybe I can
give some additional advice.
[For some unreasonable reason, I did not sign in for this mailing list
yet, that's why I'm using my husband's e-mail - my contact is below.]
If Hector wants something similar to EpiInfo, he's searching much more
for a biostatistical analysis package than anything else. In this case,
the gold standard is R (http://www.r-project.org), both for the Open
Source and proprietary world, and for any operational system. The
library Rcmdr makes it very "user-friendly" (it started as a reverse
engineering for SPSS).
The only thing that EpiInfo does and R with Rcmdr doesn't do is the
Chi-square for heterogeneity for stratified analysis. But it is
implementable by hand (if it is not available in any other R package).

Other than that, R performs any of the analysis required for
epidemiological surveillance for aggregated data, including the right
way to estimate the endemic curves, by using the Poisson rather than the
Gaussian distribution.

If you need purpose-specific decision support systems operating at the
individual level, there's nothing available yet, as far as I know, but
everybody is very welcome to contribute on our project, the
Epidemiological Surveillance Support System
(https://launchpad.net/epis3), a proud member of the Multilevel
Healthcare Information Modeling project (https://launchpad.net/mhlim).

Cheers, Luciana


Luciana Tricai Cavalini MD, MSc, PhD
Director of the Community Health Institute
Fluminense Federal university, Brazil
lutricav@...




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We are pleased to announce the following for OSCON 2010.

Tony McCormick and Dr Sam Bowen will be presenting for OpenEMR (oemr.org)

* Taking OpenEMR, a GPL EMR to ARRA Meaningful Use Certification and beyond

It has been scheduled for 16:30 on 21 Jul 2010.

OSCON 2010 -- http://oscon.com/
Portland, OR -- July 19 - July 23, 2010

Tony McCormick
www.mi-squared.com - 503-564-4670

Hi,
      Recently the United States Government released its The National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-c\
yberspace

This policy will likely provide the overarching identity policy and
direction for the coming National Health Information Network.

       This strategy is an improvement over previous identity efforts
by the US government, which have been stacked in favor of
commercial-proprietary-top-down CA systems. i.e. ICAM
http://www.idmanagement.gov/drilldown.cfm?action=icam

  ICAM essentially assumes that Identity Providers have a profit
model, and as a result, sometimes make requirements that would be
difficult for Open Source identity providers like the pgp-gpg network
or CACert.org to work with. If possible I want them to
avoid making the same mistake again. This proposal is in draft status,
and you can read the current version here:
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf

To comment on the proposal, please visit http://nstic.ideascale.com/

I have already posted a general defense of the peer-to-peer bottom up
and open source model shared by CACert.org and the pgp-gpg community.
You can find that here: http://bit.ly/bDEiBi
Please vote on my idea and I would love to have some comments from
this community. Especially if you live in the United States or have
informed opinions about US policy.

Thank you.

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



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

Hi,
          This pisses me off so much.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/03/1432250/Microsofts-Health-y-Patent-Appet\
ite
I have have had conversations about the merger of the video game
industry and the health data collection industry so many times. These
ideas are so obvious. Anyone with half a brain can see them coming.

           I am going to start brain dumping everything I can think of
to this mailing list as a source for prior art. I will include the
hashtag #priorart in the mail posts for better searching. Please
consider doing the same. The supreme court failed to protect us from
these kind of obvious patents with the recent decision, so we really
have no choice at all here.

Health data from Position aware clothing
Using smart fibers that send electrical signals regarding their
length, and/or shape, I can create clothing, like tshirts that allow
for the constant monitoring of body position. You could use the system
to monitor your own posture, or you could use the system to monitor
how long a patient had been in a position (i.e. to prevent bed sores
etc) or you could use it to find a position that was free from pain.
The system could be hooked up to the internet, or to a local computer
or phone or it could make sounds. All of these interfaces could allow
people to program the clothing to do different things, or to receive
specific feedback about how to position oneself. This feedback could
be used with real-time data to enhance workouts.

There are a thousand different network configurations that this could
use easily. Once you have the data from even a few strands of fabric,
you could use intelligent systems to "guess" other information like
whether the clothing was actually being worn. These guesses could be
easily determined using common AI techniques and no specific
configuration which a human could figure out would be particularly
innovative. Merely filming people in the clothing and matching it to
the data from the fabric would be enough to make extremely accurate
guesses about all kinds of data. With only the knowledge of protocols
like bluetooth, smart fabrics that are available now, and really small
embedded systems, I can easily code all of what I am describing here
right now.

I am not convinced that this is a good idea... only one that some
moron would think to patent it. Hell it probably already has been
patented. If I could read the patent database without being accused of
willful violation, I would go check...

-FT


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If your project is doing something amazing, please get in contact with
me so that I can promote it in my talk at OSCON!
http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/05/22/speaking-at-oscon/

I also want to note that I will be pushing my own Open Source
Healthcare conference pretty hard:
http://www.oshealthcon.com

You can still get cheap tickets... signup now

-FT


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Fred,
I have seen some clever uses of Twitter including some for healthcare.
To me it still seems that Twitter is best suited for broadcasts. If you
do not gain any benefit by broadcasting, other means of transmitting
your messages might be more appropriate, which may not constrain your
messages to be ultra-short, in some cryptic syntax.

The approach you propose might be more useful for SMS based systems
instead. I wonder if there are any examples of Message Oriented
Middleware (MOM) based systems using SMS to facilitate interoperability.

The Gates Foundation Challenge: Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications
for Priority Global Health Conditions
<http://www.grandchallenges.org/MeasureHealthStatus/Topics/CellPhoneApps/Pages/R\
ound6.aspx>
seems like an interesting opportunity for such an approach.

Regards,


Hemant

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On 8/19/2010 11:01 AM, fred trotter wrote:
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Hi,

One of the experiences that I have had, time and time again is that when I
talk to doctors about Health IT, they have some basic Information Technology
gaps in their education. They simply do not understand some of the
fundamentals of Information Technology and have trouble even understanding
what I am talking about when I talk about things like "structured data".

Alternatively, "normal" IT people do not get some of the fundamental
complexities of the healthcare delivery process that prevents them from
understanding certain Health IT concepts.

The kind of thing I find myself repeatedly explaining to doctors include
"Why you need to include prescription data in a normalized way in the
patient chart, rather than just writing in plaintext in a note"

The kind of thing I find myself repeatedly explaining to IT people include
"Why billing data cannot be relied upon for clinically accurate data mining"

In your experience, what other things do you as Health IT people have to
consistently explain to doctors and/or IT people about Health IT. I am
looking for the kinds of things that you have explained at least three or
four times. Perhaps you have explained them enough times that you have an
impatient lecture that you have to give on the topic?

Another way to ask the question is "If there were a FAQ for Health IT, what
should go on it?"

Thanks,
-FT

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I think the examples you cite are typical.

It would be great to have such an FAQ.......perhaps in wiki
style/functionality that we could all contribute to.

Anyone care to set that up?

Cheers

Jel Coward
Sent from a super-snazzy open-source Android phone. Making the iPhone look
so '20th century' :-)

On Aug 30, 2010 9:31 AM, "fred trotter" <fred.trotter@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the experiences that I have had, time and time again is that when I
> talk to doctors about Health IT, they have some basic Information
Technology
> gaps in their education. They simply do not understand some of the
> fundamentals of Information Technology and have trouble even understanding
> what I am talking about when I talk about things like "structured data".
>
> Alternatively, "normal" IT people do not get some of the fundamental
> complexities of the healthcare delivery process that prevents them from
> understanding certain Health IT concepts.
>
> The kind of thing I find myself repeatedly explaining to doctors include
> "Why you need to include prescription data in a normalized way in the
> patient chart, rather than just writing in plaintext in a note"
>
> The kind of thing I find myself repeatedly explaining to IT people include
> "Why billing data cannot be relied upon for clinically accurate data
mining"
>
> In your experience, what other things do you as Health IT people have to
> consistently explain to doctors and/or IT people about Health IT. I am
> looking for the kinds of things that you have explained at least three or
> four times. Perhaps you have explained them enough times that you have an
> impatient lecture that you have to give on the topic?
>
> Another way to ask the question is "If there were a FAQ for Health IT,
what
> should go on it?"
>
> Thanks,
> -FT
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
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