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

[Morgan Price <nospam@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Brian,

I'll make sure I check back.

Morgan

Brian Barry wrote:

> I expect to see a revised proposal posted this week..it will have a lot more
> specific information about what OHF is trying to do, a swag at development
> schedules, what's in/out of scope, etc.  Given your interests I think this
> is actually the newsgroup to be on. Although like most projects early
> discussions happened in other media, we are trying to move them all to this
> newsgroup.
>
> In particular we would appreciate your feedback on the new proposal.  I'll
> put a post up here when it's done..but this week for sure. If you decide
> you'd like to participate by all means let us know.
>
> "Morgan Price" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:d81nmo$r9e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> > _______________________________
> > Morgan Price, MD, CCFP
> > University of British Columbia
> > Department of Family Practice
> > Lead Faculty for Informatics
> > www.egadss.org
> > www.opentapas.org