>You're not shopping for a damn IRC server or X
> window manager here, have enough respect for
> the organization you work for and its patients
> to swallow your pride and do a professional job
> of finding the correct system. Writing off
> commercial OS on costs before having evaluated
I think you are both wrong regarding this. The classical method of calculating the cost of ownership does not include sequelae like being sued for breach of confidentiality through an insecure system. As we all know, it is impossible to secure a closed source system. This simple fact already rules out all M$ products for medical use, as such a legal process would exceed cost of ownership of any software for centuries.
I should knnow what I am talking about, being a medical doctor running a busy practice AND a software developer for 2 decades.
As we want to go paperless we have scanned the whole market for suitable software. I went to countless conferences in many countries (and I worked in many countries before as a dcotor knowing the choices there) - we did not find anything that would even come close to suitable. In the past I have written a few hospital applications like cancer databases, management of a surgical department, and a computerized patient record system for a University hospital in Germany. Nothing I would be proud of in retrospective (though they are still using it happily), but I learned from previous errors and I know the needs better now.
That is why we started the gnumed project. In economical terms it is crazy to start a huge project like this, it will never pay off for us. But it will give us the solution we were looking for, and we are willing to pay the price.
At present 17 core developers, most of them with dual qualifications in IT and medicine, are working on the project. We are still in early design phase, the progress is slower than we would wish, but on international conferences and meetings (recently in Singapore, France and USA) we got so much input that major re-design of core components was neccessary. To get some work done, we have withdrawn us temporarily from the Internet, not updated our web page for yonks, and not published any source yet - but it is free and open source and will be published in a few months time.
A complete and internationalizable software package for all needs in paperless mnedical practice running on Linux complying with highest security standards.
Dr. Horst Herb, coordinator gnumed project
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>You're not shopping for a damn IRC server or X > window manager here, have enough respect for > the organization you work for and its patients > to swallow your pride and do a professional job > of finding the correct system. Writing off > commercial OS on costs before having evaluated I think you are both wrong regarding this. The classical method of calculating the cost of ownership does not include sequelae like being sued for breach of confidentiality through an insecure system. As we all know, it is impossible to secure a closed source system. This simple fact already rules out all M$ products for medical use, as such a legal process would exceed cost of ownership of any software for centuries. I should knnow what I am talking about, being a medical doctor running a busy practice AND a software developer for 2 decades. As we want to go paperless we have scanned the whole market for suitable software. I went to countless conferences in many countries (and I worked in many countries before as a dcotor knowing the choices there) - we did not find anything that would even come close to suitable. In the past I have written a few hospital applications like cancer databases, management of a surgical department, and a computerized patient record system for a University hospital in Germany. Nothing I would be proud of in retrospective (though they are still using it happily), but I learned from previous errors and I know the needs better now. That is why we started the gnumed project. In economical terms it is crazy to start a huge project like this, it will never pay off for us. But it will give us the solution we were looking for, and we are willing to pay the price. At present 17 core developers, most of them with dual qualifications in IT and medicine, are working on the project. We are still in early design phase, the progress is slower than we would wish, but on international conferences and meetings (recently in Singapore, France and USA) we got so much input that major re-design of core components was neccessary. To get some work done, we have withdrawn us temporarily from the Internet, not updated our web page for yonks, and not published any source yet - but it is free and open source and will be published in a few months time. A complete and internationalizable software package for all needs in paperless mnedical practice running on Linux complying with highest security standards. Dr. Horst Herb, coordinator gnumed project