Am Montag 15 März 2010 18:23:46 schrieb special visitor:
Some more feedback on OSCAR (*O*pen *S*ource *C*linical
*A*pplication
*R*esource)
from what I found out after a bit of web navigation:
It is indeed a web-based application and it is accessed and managed through
a web browser window. It is downloadable from *Sourceforge* (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscarmcmaster/files/ ) as *tar.gz files*.
It is described in Sourceforge pages as: "...from McMaster University is a
web-based EMR (electronic medical record) system developed for academic
primary care clinics yet suitable in specialty and non-teaching
practices." It has apparently some following in the Spanish speaking world
as well. There is a proper blog from the Argentinian (!) followers
("....OSCAR funciona básicamente como un servidor web, el cual debe ser
instalado en una máquina con Linux...."
http://oscarcanadaes.blogspot.com/
).
Well, Oscar was developed at McMaster University. It dates back to a time when
Turbogears and Django did not exist the way they do today. THe code is a mix
of static and dynamic html. There is some php mixed with JAVA. Basically it
was hacked together by a number of programmers but it works :-)
Sure there will be bugs. And those bugs will be harder to fix. But despite
that code wise it does not meet current standards there is hardly any other
program that does. One alternative could be openEMR but their codebase is
dated as well. A rewrite in Ruby was planned but never surfaced.
GNUmed has recently demonstrated in a prototype that its design allows for a
wxpython interface and a webinterface. So that may be a candidate for a newish
web framework.
Sebastian Hilbert