From agold at healthyhumans.net Thu Dec 3 10:43:08 2009 From: agold at healthyhumans.net (Anthony Gold) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:43:08 -0700 Subject: [healthcare-wg] Today's Working Group Call @ 1 pm Message-ID: <8D07161E5B671141806AAC09B71F13323C3D470C66@P3PW5EX1MB02.EX1.SECURESERVER.NET> All, just a reminder for today's OSfA heathcare working group call at 1 pm. Bridge: 616-597-8000 Access Code: 817841# -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chris.Hankin at Sun.COM Tue Dec 8 14:55:52 2009 From: Chris.Hankin at Sun.COM (Chris Hankin) Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:55:52 -0800 Subject: [healthcare-wg] [Fwd: HIT Policy Committee NHIN Workgroup - Public Hearing 12/16/2009] Message-ID: <4B1EBD58.5050509@Sun.COM> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agold at healthyhumans.net Wed Dec 16 17:12:29 2009 From: agold at healthyhumans.net (Anthony Gold) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:12:29 -0700 Subject: [healthcare-wg] OSfA Healthcare Working Group - Next meeting (Thurs 12/17) plus prior minutes Message-ID: <8D07161E5B671141806AAC09B71F13323C6005D6F3@P3PW5EX1MB02.EX1.SECURESERVER.NET> Next meeting (call) Thursday (12/17) at 1 pm eastern: Bridge: 616-597-8000; Access Code: 817841# Minutes from 12/3/09 call Attendees: Ben Mehling - Medsphere Andy Oram - O'Reilly Dr. Sylver Quevedo - Healthy Humans Anthony Gold - Healthy Humans Healthcare working group focus areas: Agreement with the idea of a directory (with case studies) of open source software/solutions in healthcare: * Easily consumable by government personnel * Exemplify where it's been successfully "operationalized": risk management, procurement, deployment, contribution and support, etc. * Supported by collection of whitepapers (thanks to Fred Trotter for offering to help) Thanks to Chris Hankin (Sun) for pointing out some of the existing work: * http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/case-studies/ * In case you haven't seen it, the NHIN Connect website is http://www.connectopensource.org/display/Gateway/CONNECT+Community+Portal * Also, blogs posted this morning by Aneesh Chopra, Clay Shirky and Charles Jaffe on HIT are at http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca/index.php/2009/11/19/aneesh-chopra-reflects-on-progress-to-date-what-is-to-come/ Thanks to Ed Dodds (Conmergence.com) for directing us to the LinkedIn group on Open Healthcare: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=3102&sharedKey=63B2164D6495 Also agreement for this working group to identify government regulatory problems (encumbrances) that we're running into in order to bring some visibility and perhaps resolution. Suggestion made to identify within government agencies who are our allies so that we can develop a plan to best leverage those proponents. Some groups identified such as: National Cancer Institute (RE: national case registry system), HHS, DoD, VA, etc. Finally, a call to action to ALL healthcare working group participants: please put your bio (including photo) on our Wiki (and via this email distribution list) so that we can get to know one another. Since all of us are so busy and attending the bi-weekly meeting doesn't fit into many of your open slots, we'll need to use our Wiki and this mailing group to collaborate. So, we greatly appreciate any feedback as we drive this group forward. Best, Anthony -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew at olliancegroup.com Wed Dec 16 15:53:23 2009 From: andrew at olliancegroup.com (Andrew Aitken) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:53:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: [healthcare-wg] OSfA Healthcare Working Group - Next meeting (Thurs 12/17) plus prior minutes In-Reply-To: <8D07161E5B671141806AAC09B71F13323C6005D6F3@P3PW5EX1MB02.EX1.SECURESERVER.NET> Message-ID: <23680874.50621261000403598.JavaMail.root@intranet3.olliancegroup.com> Just in case the group wasn't aware, Wikipedia actually has a listing of hundreds of open source health care applications in a very nice taxonomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software Regards, Andrew Aitken, Managing Partner Olliance Group? www.olliancegroup.com cell - 650-704-6321 office - 650-493-3800 x301 Get more insights from Olliance Group at: http://blogs.olliancegroup.com The Global Leader in Open Source Strategy ------------------------- Original Message: From: Anthony Gold To: healthcare-wg at opensourceforamerica.org Cc: Date: Wednesday, December 16 2009 4:41 PM Subject: [healthcare-wg] OSfA Healthcare Working Group - Next meeting (Thurs 12/17) plus prior minutes Next meeting (call) Thursday (12/17) at 1 pm eastern: Bridge: 616-597-8000; Access Code: 817841# Minutes from 12/3/09 call Attendees: Ben Mehling ? Medsphere Andy Oram ? O?Reilly Dr. Sylver Quevedo ? Healthy Humans Anthony Gold ? Healthy Humans Healthcare working group focus areas: Agreement with the idea of a directory (with case studies) of open source software/solutions in healthcare: ? Easily consumable by government personnel ? Exemplify where it?s been successfully ?operationalized?: risk management, procurement, deployment, contribution and support, etc. ? Supported by collection of whitepapers (thanks to Fred Trotter for offering to help) Thanks to Chris Hankin (Sun) for pointing out some of the existing work: ? http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/case-studies/ ? In case you haven't seen it, the NHIN Connect website is http://www.connectopensource.org/display/Gateway/CONNECT+Community+Portal ? Also, blogs posted this morning by Aneesh Chopra, Clay Shirky and Charles Jaffe on HIT are at http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca/index.php/2009/11/19/aneesh-chopra-reflects-on-progress-to-date-what-is-to-come/ Thanks to Ed Dodds (Conmergence.com) for directing us to the LinkedIn group on Open Healthcare: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=3102&sharedKey=63B2164D6495 Also agreement for this working group to identify government regulatory problems (encumbrances) that we?re running into in order to bring some visibility and perhaps resolution. Suggestion made to identify within government agencies who are our allies so that we can develop a plan to best leverage those proponents. Some groups identified such as: National Cancer Institute (RE: national case registry system), HHS, DoD, VA, etc. Finally, a call to action to ALL healthcare working group participants: please put your bio (including photo) on our Wiki (and via this email distribution list) so that we can get to know one another. Since all of us are so busy and attending the bi-weekly meeting doesn?t fit into many of your open slots, we?ll need to use our Wiki and this mailing group to collaborate. So, we greatly appreciate any feedback as we drive this group forward. Best, Anthony _______________________________________________ healthcare-wg mailing list healthcare-wg at opensourceforamerica.org http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/healthcare-wg From dodds at conmergence.com Tue Dec 22 15:29:02 2009 From: dodds at conmergence.com (Ed Dodds) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:29:02 -0600 Subject: [healthcare-wg] International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) Open Sources Health Terminology Workbench Message-ID: Original PDF at http://www.ihtsdo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Docs_01/Press_Releases/Workbench _Open_Sourcing_Press_Release_December_2009_final.pdf Accelerates Global Collaboration to Develop and Use Shared Toolset Copenhagen, Denmark: December 17, 2009 - The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation announced today that it is making source code for the IHTSDO Workbench, including tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT, freely available under an Apache2 open source agreement. IHTSDO will also make a number of seats on the collaborative web-based environment used to host the Workbench available free of charge to open source developers. "Open sourcing the IHTSDO Workbench will make it easier for developers from around the world to work together to further develop these tools," said John Gutai, IHTSDO's chief technical architect. "It also means that organizations and standards bodies from around the world can use the same tools to maintain their own terminologies and coding systems, leveraging the investment that IHTSDO and its Members have made." IHTSDO Workbench Includes Terminology Editing, Browsing, and Other Applications The IHTSDO Workbench source code includes a set of tools that allow users to author terminology, map terminology to other code sets, undertake workflow and process automation, search/browse terminology, and classify terminology (enabling reasoning over the SNOMED CT terminology). Workbench users can work independently or can collaborate on terminology editing, management, or other tasks. In addition, IHTSDO is making non-clinical meta-data describing the structure of SNOMED CT available under an Apache2 agreement. IHTSDO intends to add additional modules to the Workbench over time and to encourage partners to build and share complementary tools. Developers will be able to contribute to the progress of the Workbench itself and collaboration facilities will be made available to open source contributors who wish to assist with maintenance and enhancements to the source code. "Already IHTSDO and a number of its Members are using the Workbench to develop, maintain, and produce terminology resources," Ted Cizadlo, Chair of the IHTSDO Technical Committee. "Standardized clinical terminology is a key building block for the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health information, and open sourcing the IHTSDO Workbench means that even more experts from around the world can join this collaborative effort." The IHTSDO Workbench is part of IHTSDO's on-going efforts to enable broader access to, and use of, standardized clinical terminologies worldwide. Already, fourteen countries have joined together to support the on-going development and maintenance of SNOMED CT and related standards, sharing the costs on a sliding scale based on national income and making the standards freely available in their jurisdictions. IHTSDO also offers free access to SNOMED CT in countries that are not yet members for qualifying research projects and on humanitarian or charitable grounds, as well as in countries with low income economies. About International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) The IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation) and its Members seek to improve the health of humankind by fostering the development and use of suitable standardized clinical terminologies, notably SNOMED CT, in order to support the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health information. The IHTSDO is an international organisation, established as a Danish not-for-profit association. The IHTSDO Workbench source code is available through the following URL: http://csfe.aceworkspace.net/sf/projects/ihtsdo_workbench. For more information about how to access this site, please email Berit Jensen at bje (at) ihtsdo.org, providing the following contact information: name, organization, country, and email address. To ensure a quick reply, please use "a request for access to the IHTSDO Workbench source code" as the subject line of your email. Thank you. About SNOMED CT SNOMED Clinical TermsT (SNOMED CTT) is a standardized terminology that can be used as the foundation for electronic health records and other applications. For example, different clinicians often use different terms to describe the same concept. SNOMED CT contains more than 310,000 unique concepts and more than 1.3 million links or relationships between them that ensure that this information is captured consistently, accurately, and reliably across the health system. The terminology is used in more than forty countries around the world. SNOMED CT was originally created by the College of American Pathologists by combining SNOMED RT and a computer-based nomenclature and classification known as Clinical Terms Version 3, formerly known as Read Codes Version 3, which was created on behalf of the UK Department of Health and is Crown copyright. Media Contacts: Jennifer Zelmer IHTSDO media at ihtsdo.org +45 3644 8736 SNOMED, SNOMED CT, and IHTSDO are trademarks of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. All other trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective owners. Ed Dodds Communication Strategist, Web Developer, Writer dodds at conmergence.com (615) 657-9359 collaboration, communication, convergence Conmergence.com http://conmergence.com/blog http://twitter.com/ed_dodds http://www.linkedin.com/in/eddodds http://tinyurl.com/ed-dodds-resume Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. 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In fact, I think OSA should collaborate on submitting a paper and choose someone to present it: http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ Andy From andyo at oreilly.com Tue Dec 29 21:39:02 2009 From: andyo at oreilly.com (Andy Oram) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:39:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [healthcare-wg] Preparations for conference presentation and other OSA work Message-ID: <6130640.111821262144342573.JavaMail.root@ball.east.ora.com> After participating for a few weeks on several OSA lists, I felt that the volunteers on these lists needed some guidelines for moving forward. I'd like to ask for all your help in making some basic definitions and plans. I'm posting this message during a holiday period (a bad time to ask for help from some people, but an especially good time for others) because I want to put together a proposal to present a session about OSA's work at an upcoming conference (which I already posted to this list: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 6-7, http://www.umass.edu/jitp/) and the deadline for submissions is January 10. I think some definitions around which we need clarity include: * What is an open standard? To illustrate the importance of this question, just look at the confusion around OOXML, which I trust would not be considered an open standard or even a viable standard by the members of this list. * How do government agencies evaluate free software for adoption? There are certainly precedents in both government and business. * Is it useful to acquire free software in a context that imposes restrictions, such as Red Hat's contracts (which restrict changes and installations of new software), mobile devices that are locked down (remember that mobile devices are growing in importance in many organizations), or trusted computer systems (also likely to become mainstream)? * Given that conventional TCO and ROI calculations don't account for many of the potential benefits and costs of migration to free software, what financial and qualitative guidelines can we offer for making the decision? I now have some questions for organizers who are close to the OSA center: * Have the questions I've asked been answered already? * Are there people on these mailing lists who work in government and deal directly with the issues I've talked about, such as acquisition? Are there advisors or lobbyists on these lists who interact closely with such government staff? * Are there people in OSA officially tasked with making presentations such as the one I mentioned ? Regarding recent documents circulated on these lists about transparency in government: I think these are fine, and I don't want anyone to doubt that I see the value of transparency. In fact, I can show my commitment to it through a series I wrote on that topic last summer: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-ramp-.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-ramp--1.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-ramp--2.html I just think we can be most helpful by starting at square one with background on open source, such as the questions I listed at the start of this email. I ask you all to help with that, and I ask the organizers of OSA to enhance the organization's transparency by answering the questions I asked concerning the organization. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: andyo at oreilly.com Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175, USA fax: 617-661-1116 identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From agold at healthyhumans.net Thu Dec 31 09:26:57 2009 From: agold at healthyhumans.net (Anthony Gold) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:26:57 -0700 Subject: [healthcare-wg] Thursday, 12/31/09 No Call Today Message-ID: <8D07161E5B671141806AAC09B71F13323C60100FEC@P3PW5EX1MB02.EX1.SECURESERVER.NET> Wishing everyone a wonderful New Year's Eve, and look forward to our next team call on 1/14/10. 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