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Re: GNU Health

#101

Post by [deleted] »

leakycap wrote: post #86
epcoa wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno, QuadraMed that was used by at least NYC H&H for years before their imperiled transition to Epic prominently displayed “Revenue Cycle Management” on the splash screen of its decrepit provider facing frontend. Both of you are overstating your cases. That said, it’s hard to overstate how heavily charge capture and billing are prioritized to the detriment of other aspects. > I can think of zero instances where a…

> There were major EHR deployments in the 80s through early 00s, before most government mandates. Examples?

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Re: GNU Health

#102

Post by epcoa »

leakycap wrote: post #86
epcoa wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno, QuadraMed that was used by at least NYC H&H for years before their imperiled transition to Epic prominently displayed “Revenue Cycle Management” on the splash screen of its decrepit provider facing frontend. Both of you are overstating your cases. That said, it’s hard to overstate how heavily charge capture and billing are prioritized to the detriment of other aspects. > I can think of zero instances where a…

> There were major EHR deployments in the 80s through early 00s, before most government mandates. Examples?

One example was already given. Epic dates back to 1979, certainly they were doing something prior to 2009 (as was Cerner and Meditech). Other than HITECH, what other major regulation in the US are you referring to?

https://international.kaiserpermanente.org/wp-content/upload...

Both UPMC and Cleveland Clinic were early adopters around 2001. Meditech has been partnered with HCA since 1994.

Re: GNU Health

#103

Post by chanux »

rancar2 wrote: post #66
unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

That’s from the founder of Clear.dental, Dr. Tej Shah: https://clear.dental/ https://gitlab.com/cleardental https://www.linkedin.com/in/tej-shah-17829195

Amazing to see this project!

I have had a brief touch with healthcare related software industry. The barrier to entry for any service provider seems very high (for very good reasons, I'm sure) I was wondering how a project like GNU Health could ever be used in such an environment.

Re: GNU Health

#106

Post by mirawelner »

I work in a lab which researches regenerative medicine and people often talk about how we are saving lives.

But at the end of the day, it’s not what we are doing that is pushing the needle, its projects like this make existing healthcare accessible for everybody. I want to get a PhD in something related to this at some point. You guys are so insanely cool.

Re: GNU Health

#107

Post by gaws »

unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

> Can't view his reddit history

His user page[1] doesn't work for you?

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/user/DesiOtaku

Re: GNU Health

#108

Post by john61 »

nradov wrote: post #55
john61 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.

You seem to be living in the past. While EHRs are still primarily used from desktop PCs, all of the major ones have native mobile apps now. Clinicians appreciate being able to review patient charts and action alerts while away from a PC cart.

I am happy to live in a country that values data safety for critical patient data.

Re: GNU Health

#109

Post by EasyMark »

cseleborg wrote: post #22

> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth. I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices. If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist. I find thi…

why would you run a set of software meant for medical providers (hospitals, clinics, etc) on your phone?

Re: GNU Health

#110

Post by IshKebab »

righthand wrote: post #91
IshKebab wrote: post #84

No offence but GNU is not an organisation I would associate with health, usability and practical software. Noble effort no doubt. Misguided perhaps.

No offence but IshKebab is not a person I would associate with someone who knows anything about health, useable and practical software. No matter how noble their intentions are about criticizing software they’ve never used nor never attempt to use because of unfounded stigmas. Misguided indeed. Automake, bash, emacs, gnucash, gnuhealth, coreutils, gnupg, gimp, grep, make, etc. are all great pieces of GNU software. Do…

> Automake, bash, emacs, gnucash, gnuhealth, coreutils, gnupg, gimp, grep, make, etc. are all great pieces of GNU software.

Come on now. Gnucash is actually decent and I guess I can't complain about grep or coreutils but are you seriously claiming automake is great? The biggest mess I've even seen.

Make fundamentally can't handle spaces in paths, nor is there a sane way to split a project into multiple Makefiles.

GIMP... where to begin. Probably the name. Fortunately we have Krita now which is far superior.

Bash, wow. This is basically a list of software we've been stuck with for decades and are finally moving to good alternatives.

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