I wonder if a hospital can really use an open source hospital information system for several years without the need to change much of the workflow to the point where modifying it will make it impossible to update from the its original source.
Bahmni – Open-source Electronic Medical Records and Hospital System
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#22How does this compare with HospitalRun (http://hospitalrun.io), which also targets the developing world/resource-constrained market?
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#23One 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 technology, but it's long service life has shown that it fits the need. I've worked with it once at the Indian Health Service and while not exactly Web 2.0 it is quite powerful and familiar to the staff there.
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#24There 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.
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#25Epic 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…
PCI compliance isn't relevant unless the software is processing card payments for patients.
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#26There 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.
Thanks for that bit. We are working on an integration project with Epic, but I've never really even seen it.
(Epic throws some SOAP data at us, then we pop up a sub-view of a web app with a form to complete which Epic puts in a frame or something like a frame)
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#27Naming matters. I can't see this without instantly thinking it is about delicious sandwiches.
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#28Very 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!
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#29Very 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.
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#30One 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…
Just to provide an additional data point, a family member who is a physician and previously used this system before his workplace switched to one of the proprietary private alternatives still occasionally laments on how good it was in comparison.