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Re: GNU Health

#41

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> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?

It's tagged as NSFW for some reason and I can't be bothered verifying my age

just change from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com and then it doesn't ask you to sign up.

Does this work in the UK or do they still ask you to verify?

Re: GNU Health

#42
post #37

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> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?

It means you can't view people's reddit profiles in the UK. ( Yes, seriously. ) Many many profiles are tagged NSFW, its' not clear why, I can't imagine the majority of those have done so deliberately, perhaps it's automatic for anyone who's posted any NSFW posts ever. ( Which includes people doing so to be funny such as someone posting a huge loss in a sports sub as NSFW. )

As I said it on the OP's comment but I will type it here as well, sorry if it counts as spam but

just change from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com and then it doesn't ask you to sign up. (atleast this works in my country)

Does this work in the UK or do they still ask you to verify?

Re: GNU Health

#43
post #37

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> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?

It means you can't view people's reddit profiles in the UK. ( Yes, seriously. ) Many many profiles are tagged NSFW, its' not clear why, I can't imagine the majority of those have done so deliberately, perhaps it's automatic for anyone who's posted any NSFW posts ever. ( Which includes people doing so to be funny such as someone posting a huge loss in a sports sub as NSFW. )

Recently Reddit also made it possible to private your post and comment history, which I found a surprising number of people already do too (default for new accounts maybe?), so this is about to become a very worldwide experience anyhow :)

Re: GNU Health

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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

In the US, the Veteran's Administration wrote their own EHR (Vista) which was released as public domain. They've been trying (and mostly failing) to migrate to a commercial EHR for the last seven or eight years.

Re: GNU Health

#45
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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…

Seems like a wonderful win/win opportunity to have the software be FOSS but enable small businesses to provide hosting/support/customization. The biggest win of all is if we had an open/extensible/maintainable data exchange format so that we could eliminate the need for paperwork. How many times must we fill out the same information, and then require the providers to keyboard it in?

There are in fact multiple data exchange formats published by standards development organizations including HL7 (V2 Messaging, CDA, FHIR), DirectTrust, NCPDP, DICOM, and X12. Some such as HL7 and DirectTrust are very open, others may require a paid licensing agreement. Usage of some of those standards is mandated by CMS interoperability regulations and/or ASTP (ONC) Health IT Certification requirements.

Beyond the wire formats, in order to eliminate the need for paperwork provider organizations also have to participate in data exchange networks. These include TEFCA, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and some smaller regional HIEs. It all works fairly well when used correctly but many provider organizations continue to waste administrative effort and abuse their patients by failing to take advantage of the available technology. Like in many cases the necessary functionality is already built in to their EHR/PMS software but they simply don't turn it on or train their users.

Re: GNU Health

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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…

No… hospitals use EHR to maximize billing. That is the value.

Private practices are generally shrinking in number, so there IS NO EHR that is growing in the long term to serve them, so there CANNOT BE a trend where hospitals are exceptional, their IT buying trends are the NORM and their purpose is to code for billing. It is NOT about having or not having IT resources strictly speaking.

Re: GNU Health

#47

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It's tagged as NSFW for some reason and I can't be bothered verifying my age

just change from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com and then it doesn't ask you to sign up. Does this work in the UK or do they still ask you to verify?

No, but just put something like rl.bloat.cat instead of reddit.com. That'll direct to an alternative community maintained interface for Reddit that will work.

Re: GNU Health

#48

> 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…

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Re: GNU Health

#49
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> 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?

Never heard of Monero?

Keepass only allows donations, with no benefits for corporate vs. personal sponsors

GIMP is one of the most widely known & its sponsors only lists a few companies as hardware donors

VLC anyone?

Re: GNU Health

#50
post #44

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

In the US, the Veteran's Administration wrote their own EHR (Vista) which was released as public domain. They've been trying (and mostly failing) to migrate to a commercial EHR for the last seven or eight years.

VistA has some great functionality and end users generally like it, but unfortunately the underlying platform and developer tooling is hopelessly outdated. It's approaching a technical dead end and there's no practical way to keep it moving forward unless someone steps forward with the funding and resources for a major refactoring / rewrite engineering effort.

https://worldvista.org/

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