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One of the major EHR systems used in the United States, VISTa, was developed by the Veteran's Administration and is open source. It's sufficiently successful that it's been adopted not just by other government agencies but a number of private hospitals. Most instances still seem to be based on a commercial M implementation, but some use the fully free GT.M stack It's M based and in general not on the cutting edge of…
Naming matters. I can't see this without instantly thinking it is about delicious sandwiches.
The first implementation of Bahmni took place at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), a hospital that has been instrumental in pioneering this open source work. Bahmni is named after a village 70km north of the small town of Bilaspur, India where one of three village health centers of JSS hospital is located. The work being done by JSS at Bahmni village is very inspirational to us and hence the name was chosen.
Epic and the other big medical software providers have this market on lockdown. I do not see a path to this seriously challenging the major players any time soon in the US, even though it could be done. Additionally, the software dependencies (CentOS v6.7 & Java 7) that say breakage occurs with newer versions is very sketchy IMO, ignoring the HIPPA & PCI compliance work that needs to be done (the latter costs $40k a…
One of the major EHR systems used in the United States, VISTa, was developed by the Veteran's Administration and is open source. It's sufficiently successful that it's been adopted not just by other government agencies but a number of private hospitals. Most instances still seem to be based on a commercial M implementation, but some use the fully free GT.M stack It's M based and in general not on the cutting edge of…
M / Mumps is a terrible language / datastore to deal with however.
The language comes with transaction support, though one can use mutexes instead for performance reasons.
Very proud of this product. The target is not the US domestic market, but developing areas that have no resources for electronic health records. I have seen this being implemented places where the traditional software would be cost prohibitive. Good for humanity. Please contribute patches!
Why did you rip off Epic's UI? This is only going to make them more paranoid going forward.
It would be pretty amazing if anything looks similar to Epic. Maybe the login screen? ;)
There is no way this will be successful in the US specifically because it's based in India which hospitals in the US are extremely resistant to. Also, it looks exactly like Epic and now I understand why they are so careful with their Intellectual Property.
Quite similar to OpenMRS philosophy. Fully open source. AGPL.
Naming matters. I can't see this without instantly thinking it is about delicious sandwiches.
Why the name Bahmni? The first implementation of Bahmni took place at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), a hospital that has been instrumental in pioneering this open source work. Bahmni is named after a village 70km north of the small town of Bilaspur, India where one of three village health centers of JSS hospital is located. The work being done by JSS at Bahmni village is very inspirational to us and hence the name was ch…
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Why the name Bahmni? The first implementation of Bahmni took place at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), a hospital that has been instrumental in pioneering this open source work. Bahmni is named after a village 70km north of the small town of Bilaspur, India where one of three village health centers of JSS hospital is located. The work being done by JSS at Bahmni village is very inspirational to us and hence the name was ch…
As a Medical Doc and a health tech entrepreneur current living in Bilaspur. I find this fascinating. But I think the village where JSS is located is called as Ganiyari ??