If you say so.
"UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing " may not be the most general of cases.
I suppose a statement (by you) that "in the US federal la requires the possibility of..." would be very hard to argue with, as well as entirely informative.
BUt what you said was that it is done fairly often. As I mentioned, I have read of it occurring in an Australian State, can you point to the laws you refer to being invoked or used in some specific case in the US?
I do not think that these laws exist in the UK (where, BTW, I live) and am pleased to help anyone else avoid confusion on this.
I've seen one report of that occurring in an Australian state, none in the UK. Could you point to some of the "fairly often" cases you are citing, please?
An empirical experiment to determine the cause? Seems scientific to me. Viruses and bacteria - what we understnad about them, and about the usefulness of antibiotics and the very few antiviral drugs we have is not based on rumour and folklore, it is based on science.
Using what we know has elements of art and the softer sciences, psychology and sociology, but it is firmly based on a scientific background.
BTW, there are not a host of bacteria to confuse with URTIs, they are viral infections, occasionally followed by bacterial superinfection, and phelgm comes from the lungs, the body fluid you should have in mind is what we doctors mostly call snot.
We have avoided MS Office for some time although it is used extensively in the NHS. We get on OK. In fact most of our letters are done using a small custom program I called "Letters Outward" when I wrote it last century. We depend on one DOS application which I've not been able to run in emulation[1], so we require a session on a Windows box for each copy of that.
[1] unlike the police department in Kiev - I think their Clipper ap was rather smaller.
The price of electricity by burning fossil fuels is rising and will rise faster. The price for nuclear power is less clear, in a breeder economy it should be stable. The price for solar power doesn't rise.
Whether we have anything quite like US Republicans here, I'm not sure, mind you, when I go to the USA I never seem to meet anyone who says he is a Republican. Republicans OTOH, who would like the UK to become the UR, we have a fair few of those. They used to be met with retorts of "President Thatcher".
There is a trail of costs attached, not just the cervical cytology (we have moved on from the Papanicolou technique to a more reliable - therefore cheaper because of fewer failures and repeats - liquid-based cytology.
The population is all women, not low-risk women.
With UK costs not usually lower than US ones for clinical and laboratory procedures, $20 is surprisingly cheap - several years ago the lab fee alone in London was £13-70p.
Cold sores are caused by one or other of the herpes group. Basic skin infections suggest bacteria - Staph Aureus and some Streptococci - to me rather than viruses. But yes, of the conditions caused by various HPVs, this immunisation only offers to stop those caused by the strains of HPV it lists, which lead to most cervical cancer. It seems worthwhile, and arguments against it on cost remind me of the trouble that Ford got into with the fuel tank on one of their cars a few years back.
HL7 as is said nearby is not really for that, it is for passing laboriously specified messages about specific things, most usefully laboratory results. It also has rather a lot of exceptions, and a model of licensing and publishing which I personally think adds a great deal to its difficulties in becoming a spreading general standard.
OpenEHR produces the archetypes, a way of describing anything required for medicine and healthcare, and of providing inheritance and subclassing. This project which is hopeful-looking and based in Australia nowadays seems like a good approach to describing the information in ways that make it movable and computable.
I tend to favour a model where medical notes stay where they were made, and other nodes on the network ask questions about them, thus disclosing what information they are accessing, outside their own organisation. I also suspect that FLOSS (Free (Libre) or Open Source Software) implementation is a necessary but not of itself sufficient condition for any medium-scale success.
OSHCA, the Open Source Healthcare Alliance, meets in Kuala Lumpur in May this year, 8th to 11th. Several projects, and some consideration of how to get "there" from here will be reporting and discussed. The programme will be developed on http://www.oshca.org/ but give us time please, although the organisation's first meeting was 2000 we have had a fallow period and are getting back under way.
(I'm a member of the organising ctee for the meeting.
Not impressed doctors, either in general practice or in hospitals. This suggests to us that Crash & Burn is designed for things other than getting the right patient to the right doctor or clinic at the right time. Version 3 may be an improvement, but the attempt was to introduce version 1 rapidly.
OSCAR McMaster is in service, for a different variety of health service, in Canada.
GNUmed is not ready yet, but shows plausible promise. It needs a lot of work, but the team have committed themselves to doing it right rather than soon.
The US Veterans Administration system, which has been called VISTA for 10-30 years and is a distributed hospital information system is mostly (except for some imaging applications (PACS for radiology) public domain software, WorldVista's version is GPL'd and being developed, and runs on the GPL'd version of M, which is also being developed and has big brothers on big computers in banking.
KP's system is probably better than paper (I've not seen it), but the outages are more visible than the low level failures to have notes for patients who are involved with two doctors.
Prescribing is actually the larger benefit than notes, for the patient. Hand-written prescriptions are a bad idea, I'm trying to write no more than one a month now.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah yes. I had forgotten for a moment that this was Slashdot.
If you say so. "UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing " may not be the most general of cases. I suppose a statement (by you) that "in the US federal la requires the possibility of..." would be very hard to argue with, as well as entirely informative. BUt what you said was that it is done fairly often. As I mentioned, I have read of it occurring in an Australian State, can you point to the laws you refer to being invoked or used in some specific case in the US? I do not think that these laws exist in the UK (where, BTW, I live) and am pleased to help anyone else avoid confusion on this.
I've seen one report of that occurring in an Australian state, none in the UK. Could you point to some of the "fairly often" cases you are citing, please?
"Non-vaccinated people are a danger to no one but themselves."
Not so. Like Windows-users, their vulnerability troubles others.
A good novel. Covers some of this. It starts with a bank raid by a group of orcs with a dragon for fire support...
An empirical experiment to determine the cause? Seems scientific to me. Viruses and bacteria - what we understnad about them, and about the usefulness of antibiotics and the very few antiviral drugs we have is not based on rumour and folklore, it is based on science.
Using what we know has elements of art and the softer sciences, psychology and sociology, but it is firmly based on a scientific background.
BTW, there are not a host of bacteria to confuse with URTIs, they are viral infections, occasionally followed by bacterial superinfection, and phelgm comes from the lungs, the body fluid you should have in mind is what we doctors mostly call snot.
Eat anything you like, provided you do it while walking to the south pole, towing all your food for the journey behind you on a sledge.
Expect to lose weight.
you have indeed not met me.
The BIOS could become a built-in operating system, as in Snowcrash.
SOme of the Unix connectivity stuff, isn't it?
We have avoided MS Office for some time although it is used extensively in the NHS. We get on OK. In fact most of our letters are done using a small custom program I called "Letters Outward" when I wrote it last century. We depend on one DOS application which I've not been able to run in emulation[1], so we require a session on a Windows box for each copy of that.
[1] unlike the police department in Kiev - I think their Clipper ap was rather smaller.
The price of electricity by burning fossil fuels is rising and will rise faster. The price for nuclear power is less clear, in a breeder economy it should be stable. The price for solar power doesn't rise.
At least not in the UK.
Whether we have anything quite like US Republicans here, I'm not sure, mind you, when I go to the USA I never seem to meet anyone who says he is a Republican. Republicans OTOH, who would like the UK to become the UR, we have a fair few of those. They used to be met with retorts of "President Thatcher".
"Open Source means you get the code and nothing more. No guarantee that you can redistribute,"
"Introduction
Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"
http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Mod parent way down.
and give an account which someone reading the precis above might be surprised by.
Good grief.
And I don't think the US was either.
There is a trail of costs attached, not just the cervical cytology (we have moved on from the Papanicolou technique to a more reliable - therefore cheaper because of fewer failures and repeats - liquid-based cytology.
The population is all women, not low-risk women.
With UK costs not usually lower than US ones for clinical and laboratory procedures, $20 is surprisingly cheap - several years ago the lab fee alone in London was £13-70p.
Cold sores are caused by one or other of the herpes group. Basic skin infections suggest bacteria - Staph Aureus and some Streptococci - to me rather than viruses. But yes, of the conditions caused by various HPVs, this immunisation only offers to stop those caused by the strains of HPV it lists, which lead to most cervical cancer. It seems worthwhile, and arguments against it on cost remind me of the trouble that Ford got into with the fuel tank on one of their cars a few years back.
I'd want to see figures on that.
HL7 as is said nearby is not really for that, it is for passing laboriously specified messages about specific things, most usefully laboratory results. It also has rather a lot of exceptions, and a model of licensing and publishing which I personally think adds a great deal to its difficulties in becoming a spreading general standard.
OpenEHR produces the archetypes, a way of describing anything required for medicine and healthcare, and of providing inheritance and subclassing. This project which is hopeful-looking and based in Australia nowadays seems like a good approach to describing the information in ways that make it movable and computable.
I tend to favour a model where medical notes stay where they were made, and other nodes on the network ask questions about them, thus disclosing what information they are accessing, outside their own organisation. I also suspect that FLOSS (Free (Libre) or Open Source Software) implementation is a necessary but not of itself sufficient condition for any medium-scale success.
OSHCA, the Open Source Healthcare Alliance, meets in Kuala Lumpur in May this year, 8th to 11th. Several projects, and some consideration of how to get "there" from here will be reporting and discussed. The programme will be developed on http://www.oshca.org/ but give us time please, although the organisation's first meeting was 2000 we have had a fallow period and are getting back under way.
(I'm a member of the organising ctee for the meeting.
get together some of your fellow citizens, and sue for the damage they feel has been done to all of you.
Not impressed doctors, either in general practice or in hospitals. This suggests to us that Crash & Burn is designed for things other than getting the right patient to the right doctor or clinic at the right time. Version 3 may be an improvement, but the attempt was to introduce version 1 rapidly.
UK population.
We cover them all.
It seems a socially useful activity.
www.worldvista.org
OSCAR McMaster is in service, for a different variety of health service, in Canada.
GNUmed is not ready yet, but shows plausible promise. It needs a lot of work, but the team have committed themselves to doing it right rather than soon.
The US Veterans Administration system, which has been called VISTA for 10-30 years and is a distributed hospital information system is mostly (except for some imaging applications (PACS for radiology) public domain software, WorldVista's version is GPL'd and being developed, and runs on the GPL'd version of M, which is also being developed and has big brothers on big computers in banking.
KP's system is probably better than paper (I've not seen it), but the outages are more visible than the low level failures to have notes for patients who are involved with two doctors.
Prescribing is actually the larger benefit than notes, for the patient. Hand-written prescriptions are a bad idea, I'm trying to write no more than one a month now.