Re: [Gnumed-devel] Another US open source EMR nearly ready.

[Syan Tan]

Looking at this app, it appears to be based on some in house
application web framework called Cellini. It tends to be like
a lot of the other US EMRs where the focus is on selling the EMR
rather than using the EMR. Most of the commercial stuff seems
quite well though out, e.g. scheduling, billing ; 
the concept of Encounter seems to be mainly a billing episode,
and something to associate a single notes field, document files, 
and forms with.
i.e.
EMR = calendar + scheduling + billing + form editor + enumeration editor
(an enumeration seems to be a list of named, numbered and possibily coded
items, so it could go into one table , if the enumeration name was also a key).
Still, I did like the appointments name searching widget , it seems to
do that stuff with monitoring user input and dispatching and receiving 
dynamic updates asynchronously in a web app ( what's the jargon, 
uses javascript and DOM , AXIS, I think ).
 


On Fri May 20  5:16 , Tim Churches  sent:

>See http://www.linuxmednews.com/1116507509/index_html for press release
>and links.
>
>It ss Web-based, runs on Linux servers, can use any client (Windows,
>Linux, Mac) with a modern Web browser, integrates scheduling, billing
>and other government claims. Of note is the fact that the medical record
>component can be extended by the clinician by the creation of additional
>forms, without the need for programming.
>
>The billing and claims stuff would probably need too much modification
>to make them useful here in Australia, but the basic demographics,
>scheduling and medical record components should work here with a bit of
>tweaking. Support for prescribing is unknown and likely to be the
>biggest hurdle to any Oz deployment. But hey, the source code is all
>there, available for download by enterprising persons.
>
>I think that now brings to three of four the number of US-originated
>open source, Web-based family physician systems which are ready for
>prime time or just about so, and which could form the basis of an open
>source GP system for Oz.
>
>Of course the GNUmed project keeps plugging on, making lots of progress,
>although to an observer like me it feels like the distance to the point
>at which GNUmed is functional is being halved every three months...
>
>Tim C
>
>
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