On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:08:38PM +0100, Eric Maeker wrote:
I've added to this post the Debian Med, OpenSuse Medical, Neuro Debian teams, MedFloss manager and the EFMI LIFOSS WG. Also created a new thread.
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But if you really want to make a difference for healthcare put effort into getting people from different distributions together to share their work. Currently we are duplicating work in Debian-med, Fedora-medical and openSUSE- medical. What a waste of human ressources.
While I agree the logical and lofty goal would be to create a "Linux Medical Taskforce" I also know that doing so will not achieve anything tangible.
If you want to make a difference for healthcare work with a group of doctors and technically help them solve local medical needs. Set them up with access to evidence based clinical resources. Maybe help vaccinate a few thousand children in a rural area.
I think your FreeDiams prescriber is a perfect example. Work on making it the best-of-breed FLOSS drug information database. *That* would make a huge difference. Everywhere. Today.
Karsten