Educational Services and Seminars
The Openhealth[tm] Open Source Briefing Seminar
The Openhealth[tm] Open Source Briefing Seminar is a 1/2 day introduction for executives and senior management on the strategic value of the open source business model and software applications.
This seminar provides background information on open source in health care and presents a vision of how open source will transform the marketplace for health care software. Your organization will receive recommendations for practical steps to seize the opportunities that this powerful paradigm provides.
The cost of the seminar is 1 000 Euro plus travel expenses to your location. Seminars are available in English or French.
Who should attend?
* National health care informatics policy organizations
* Regional health care management
* Hospital administration
* Vendors of health care systems
* Laboratories
* Pharmaceutical manufacturers
* Primary care providers
* Long term and home care providers
Clients who have benefited from this seminar include:
* the National Health Service (NHS) Information Authority Executive of the United Kingdom.
* the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency Joing Programme
* Health Canada, Office of the Health Information Highway
* MDS Labs
A Special Offer for Clients in the European Union
If you are located in the European Union and are involved in national policy for health care informatics, you may qualify for partial funding by the European Commission to cover the costs of the seminar. Contact us for more information.
Health care applications
Openhealth DocScope
Openhealth DocScope will be a free medical information tool that is as natural and easy for physicians to use as the spreadsheet is for accountants.
The tool will enable physicians to:
* view standard medical records
* create custom views of the information to match personal needs
* structure and organize this information
* include rich text and multimedia components into the medical record
* create personal forms, templates, and boilerplate text for data entry
* sequence data entry, analysis, and viewing actions
* add customized behaviour through high-level scripts
* extend the classes of information stored
* integrate the record with data sources and software agents
* securely access the information anywhere, anytime, including mobile devices
This is a new project seeking development partners and support.
Openhealth Circare
Openhealth Circare is a client and provider index that ties together the information about a single patient and makes it available securely to care providers in a distributed network.
The goal of this project is to be the “home page” for finding patient information distributed in numerous locations around a regional network.
Openhealth Circare includes independently reusable components as part of its distribution:
* Web Corbascript.
* A non-validating XML processor in C++.
* An XML style sheet processor of a subset of XSL.
* A CorbaMed PIDS server.
* An authentication service for time based web logins.
This is a partially completed project seeking new partners to complete its development.
Openhealth SmartenRx
Openhealth SmartenRx is a pharmacy communication system. It sends messages between pharmacists and physicians containing medication profiles, recommendations, and new prescriptions. The system also supports research use of historical data to measure effectiveness. The system was developed as part of a research project evaluating the effectiveness of changing care provider roles based on new possibilities enabled by regional health networks.
Technical components
BW (Basic Windows)
BW (Basic Windows) is an application framework used by many of the other programs hosted here. BW defines the virtual world that the Minoru application code executes in. The framework provides an interface to the operating system platform and is small enough to ease porting efforts to new platforms in the future.
Docgen
Docgen is a utility that extracts specially formatted comments from source code to make html documentation files. It uses the BW framework.
SQL/CLI kit
SQL/CLI (Structured Query Language / Call Level Interface) is an ISO and IEC standard for database access. The most widely known implementation of SQL/CLI is Microsoft’s ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) product. This package is an aggregation of other open source projects into a single kit with a driver manager and two drivers for the PostgresQL database.
This kit has been superceded by the UnixODBC package now widely available. Other Minoru packages that depended on this kit have been upgraded to work with UnixODBC.
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