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  1. To add some meat or beef or whatever... by davidsyes · · Score: 4, Informative · on Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records

    Here are a few more links...

    List of open source healthcare software:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software

    Welcome to openEHR:
    http://www.openehr.org/home.html

    "openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem in health is the lack of shareable and computable information.

    The principal challenge for health ICT is to represent the semantics of the sector, which are far more complex than in other industries. Doing this requires a knowledge-oriented computing framework that includes ontologies, terminology and a semantically enabled health computing platform in which complex meaning can be represented and shared. At the same time it must support the economically viable construction of maintainable and adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records (EHRs).

    The openEHR endeavour is about creating specifications, open source software and tools in the technical space for such a platform. In the clinical space, it is about creating high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process - known as archetypes - along with formal interfaces to terminology."

    If the US has idiots in onbstructionist ways working in positions of power, then maybe, if other countries are technologically superior in such areas, offer help to them so they can grow and come back to haunt and compel the USA to "get with it, already!".

  2. Healtcare Example was:Reference Apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RTF Vs. OOXML

    Very true. That's why with openEHR http://www.openehr.org/ every change was modeled in real software.

  3. This "openEHR" thing is a meta-standard by m0llusk · · Score: 1 · on Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records

    Whether successful or not, the openEHR standard discussed in the article attempts to solve this problem by creating a kind of meta-standard where descriptions of data and documents are used in a flexible way. This manner of organizing storage is extremely open ended. There is a graphic overview covering this that can be downloaded from the "Quick links for ... IT professionals" link on the right side of the main page (PDF HTML. The design is object oriented and general such that it could be applied to other contexts as well, especially repair and upkeep of buildings and equipment. This level of generality bears a significant cost in complexity, yet the standard itself is extremely simple relative to monsters like DICOM and is not constrained to any particular document representation or database.

  4. This "openEHR" thing is a meta-standard by m0llusk · · Score: 1 · on Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records

    Whether successful or not, the openEHR standard discussed in the article attempts to solve this problem by creating a kind of meta-standard where descriptions of data and documents are used in a flexible way. This manner of organizing storage is extremely open ended. There is a graphic overview covering this that can be downloaded from the "Quick links for ... IT professionals" link on the right side of the main page (PDF HTML. The design is object oriented and general such that it could be applied to other contexts as well, especially repair and upkeep of buildings and equipment. This level of generality bears a significant cost in complexity, yet the standard itself is extremely simple relative to monsters like DICOM and is not constrained to any particular document representation or database.

  5. This "openEHR" thing is a meta-standard by m0llusk · · Score: 1 · on Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records

    Whether successful or not, the openEHR standard discussed in the article attempts to solve this problem by creating a kind of meta-standard where descriptions of data and documents are used in a flexible way. This manner of organizing storage is extremely open ended. There is a graphic overview covering this that can be downloaded from the "Quick links for ... IT professionals" link on the right side of the main page (PDF HTML. The design is object oriented and general such that it could be applied to other contexts as well, especially repair and upkeep of buildings and equipment. This level of generality bears a significant cost in complexity, yet the standard itself is extremely simple relative to monsters like DICOM and is not constrained to any particular document representation or database.

  6. OpenEHR are about to release a Java Prototype by Forget4it · · Score: 1 · on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE?
    THE UCL team working on the worldwide OpenElectronicHealthRecords initiative are about to release an Java EHR server. But information is scarse

    OpenEHR uses open-standards based archetypes as "flexible easily understood templates" for specifying complex systems that are inevitably going to evolve overt time - as health systems always do.

    Thomas Beale is lead on the archetype work,

  7. OpenEHR are about to release a Java Prototype by Forget4it · · Score: 1 · on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE?
    THE UCL team working on the worldwide OpenElectronicHealthRecords initiative are about to release an Java EHR server. But information is scarse

    OpenEHR uses open-standards based archetypes as "flexible easily understood templates" for specifying complex systems that are inevitably going to evolve overt time - as health systems always do.

    Thomas Beale is lead on the archetype work,