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Re: GNU Health

#21

Post by dismalaf »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
leakycap wrote: post #2

Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…

The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.

This isn't a problem with open source. For many of us with startups that have low stakes (worst we can do is have no users) a lack of support is fine, we can do it ourselves and save the money.

And there's plenty of consultancies which will support OSS and give you support if you need it and be your scapegoat. Red Hat, Suse, IBM come to mind and there's many others...

Re: GNU Health

#22

Post by cseleborg »

> 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 this is quite typical for open source projects. The community still hasn't really, truly adopted mobile. I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores? But if it's possible for servers, why is this so rare to have open source projects as app store vendors?

Re: GNU Health

#23

Post by jancsika »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
leakycap wrote: post #2

Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…

The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.

> Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?

You sue the Red Hat-like support company with whom you ostensibly signed a contract.

If your question is who does the Red Hat-like support company sue if they want accountability for the code they are leveraging, I guess I don't understand the question or its relevance. E.g., with regard to proprietary code, who does Microsoft microsoft when Microsoft microsofts Microsoft? (Fun to write, but I don't think that sentence really makes sense.)

Re: GNU Health

#24

Post by john61 »

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…

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

Re: GNU Health

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Post by dm319 »

einpoklum wrote: post #15

I can't quite understand what is actually part of GNU Health: > Social Medicine and Public Health > Bioinformatics and Medical Genetics Are these that a piece of software? scopes? Intents? > Hospital Management (HMIS) Ok, now this is software for sure, but what exactly does this mean? There are many things to manage within a hospital. Is this software for managing inventories? Scheduling? Personnel assignments and or…

> Laboratory Management (Occhiolino)

Laboratory Management Systems, or LMS, is laboratory software which handles laboratory orders, retrieving results from the laboratory equipment and sending back the results to the electronic patient record (EPR). It does a lot more than that of course, but basically it's a big database handling thousands of blood tests, biopsies, tissue samples, as well as worklists for staff, in order to get diagnostics results back to the clinicians.

Re: GNU Health

#26

Post by zkmon »

Nice to see support for Open source. I have seen selling of healthcare data, including medicare and medicaid data to private companies which sliced and diced it and sold to academic and drug research institutions via data marts. ETL jobs would run for months. The data included prescriptions, scans, visits, employee plans etc, for about ~200 millions of American patients. It is anonymized data, but still I always wondered why this was allowed.

Re: GNU Health

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Post by nickdothutton »

Angostura wrote: post #9
leakycap wrote: post #2

Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…

I could certainly imagine NHS England looking at this and creating something that hospitals and GPs could deploy

Sadly, very sadly, I cannot imagine it. I have seen the inside of NHS IT.

Re: GNU Health

#28

Post by smj-edison »

throw-the-towel wrote: post #10
leakycap wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise? > and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship Corpo sponsorship required for success? I gues…

Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?

OBS and Audacity (until recently) are two off the top of my head. Plus a lot of Linux components are run solely by a couple people, and those are run my millions of programmers.

Re: GNU Health

#29

Post by Ensorceled »

dmd wrote: post #17
einpoklum wrote: post #15

I can't quite understand what is actually part of GNU Health: > Social Medicine and Public Health > Bioinformatics and Medical Genetics Are these that a piece of software? scopes? Intents? > Hospital Management (HMIS) Ok, now this is software for sure, but what exactly does this mean? There are many things to manage within a hospital. Is this software for managing inventories? Scheduling? Personnel assignments and or…

I work in healthcare IT and all of these have very specific meanings, and it’s very clear to the intended audience what these all are.

The terms are also clarified later on that same home page ...

Re: GNU Health

#30

Post by unleaded »

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...

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