[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] Any more information?

[Morgan Price <nospam@xxxxxxxx>]

It was interesting to come across the proposal for OHF on eclipse.org
(http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ohf/).  I was wondering if you 
had more information about the project to share with our team.

We have a small team located mostly up in Vancouver, BC that is working 
on two OSS projects for healthcare.  I am not a programmer, but rather 
the clinical lead on the projects.  Although applications sit above your 
framework, there may be some interesting intersections.  Our two 
projects are:

EGADSS (www.egadss.org) a decision support module that is designed to be 
able to interface to multiple EMRs (and could, potentially, be useful to 
OHF as it develops).  It interfaces with the clinical information system 
through a HL7 CDA document based patient summary.

TAPAS (www.opentapas.org) is a targeted clinical information system that 
will help family physicians share patient summaries while on call.  It 
is based on the electronic medical summary standard here in BC - 
www.e-ms.ca.  We are building a locally installable (although internet 
accessible) server that is designed to hold patient summaries for the 
call group and share them both through a desktop client and through a 
syncable PDA viewer so that physicians will have them while on call.

Both projects rely on the CDA standard and, therefore, the RIM.  EGADSS 
is also using Arden Syntax for the guideline model.

For TAPAS we have looked at the Eclipse plug-in architecture and have 
been planning to move, through our iterative development process, 
towards that over time to allow for from interesting growth in features. 
 Using / supporting a more health specific framework would definitely 
be a good thing as well.

If you have any information, or a place where I and other members of the 
team may get involved in some discussion (apart from this newsgroup), 
that would be great.

Thank you

Morgan


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Morgan Price, MD, CCFP
University of British Columbia
Department of Family Practice
Lead Faculty for Informatics
www.egadss.org
www.opentapas.org