Re: [SLUG] Re: Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

[David Guest <dguest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Armin Marth wrote:
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: richard terry <rterry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Australian development of Open Source
> > Practice Management Software
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> >  I think there have been some attempts to produce something 
> > australia, either
> >  desktop/web based, with little success that I know of, time often 
> > being the
> >  problem along with lack of basic team structure. Ian Hayood on the 
> > gpcg list
> >  could enlighten you on that.
> <snip>
> With the 'net the job is now more of integration of webserved 
> applications than
> building the functionality into a standalone system.
Armin / Marghanita

You may be interested in a project called wedgetail, with which I have 
an association. It's an application that my colleagues Ian Haywood (as 
above) and Tony Lembke are writing using the Rails framework.

As Richard Terry mentions, writing a complete EMR (electronic medical 
record) from scratch is a daunting task these days, (it was easier ten 
years ago), and so the focus of wedgetail is on the integration of 
information from various health providers and and their assorted health 
record systems into a web accessible repository. Its target group are 
patients with chronic, complex, often end stage, medical problems, where 
strict privacy is no longer an issue. It is conceivable that other 
functionality might be added to it in the future to give it more EMR 
like facilities. There is no intention by the current developers to add 
a financial component.

HTH.

David