Hello,
I downloaded PatientOS just to check what's that. Well, I didn't install it but I checked their page http://www.patientos.org/ and the screenshots. I found out that they have pets as patients. So I guess it can be used both for humans and animals.
I checked the licence and it says GNU GPL.
Does anybody knows what's that? Regards, Stathis
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:04 +0200, Stathis wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded PatientOS just to check what's that. Well, I didn't install it but I checked their page http://www.patientos.org/ and the screenshots. I found out that they have pets as patients. So I guess it can be used both for humans and animals.
I'll check this one out too.
I checked the licence and it says GNU GPL.
dunno
Does anybody knows what's that? Regards, Stathis
Hello everyone, I entered the above mentioned site and I took the demo (flash-based0 tour of the Patient-OS. From what I saw, it is referring to human patients (and not to animals) and it apparently gives some particular importance to the needs of chronic patients (i.e. which is to say, people that need to be seen repeatedly, for years, for the same underlying problem). I also discovered recently another Web page http://oscarcanada.org/about-oscar which demonstrates another Open Source EMR software, coming from Canada. It seems that it is "loaded" with many prizes so far. Does anyone know anything about this?
Constantine
2010/3/15 Simon Slater pyevet@iinet.net.au
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:04 +0200, Stathis wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded PatientOS just to check what's that. Well, I didn't install it but I checked their page http://www.patientos.org/ and the screenshots. I found out that they have pets as patients. So I guess it can be used both for humans and animals.
I'll check this one out too.
I checked the licence and it says GNU GPL.
dunno
Does anybody knows what's that? Regards, Stathis
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Am Montag 15 März 2010 07:12:29 schrieb special visitor:
Hello everyone, I entered the above mentioned site and I took the demo (flash-based0 tour of the Patient-OS. From what I saw, it is referring to human patients (and not to animals) and it apparently gives some particular importance to the needs of chronic patients (i.e. which is to say, people that need to be seen repeatedly, for years, for the same underlying problem). I also discovered recently another Web page http://oscarcanada.org/about-oscar which demonstrates another Open Source EMR software, coming from Canada. It seems that it is "loaded" with many prizes so far. Does anyone know anything about this?
I don't know PatientOS but I have done some research on Oscar. It is in use in Canada and some other countries. It is developed and targeted at one or two provinces of Canada. It is actively developed as far as I know.
The code is a mix of various languages, databases and other projects. It seems to be done in a works now approach. It it webbased (tomcat war file).
Featurewise it seems to offer what a Canadian doctor needs. I am not sure the interface is available in different languages but I could be wrong on this.
It has not made into Debian yet as it is not easily packaged. However it is worth packaging as it is one of the few EMR that is there, now.
There seems to be a vmware image availalble to download and try.
Sebastian
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/ ). However, if one takes a look at peoples opinions in Sourceforge:
Ratings and Reviews
- Thumbs up: *5* - *Thumbs down: **2*
*71%* of 7 http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscarmcmaster/reviews users recommend this project
- * Thumbs down * Extremely convoluted codebase, slow updates, lack of distinct bug tracking or bug reporting capability, old-world web application design, excessive system requirements, and suffers from browser-specific bugs. Firefox printing issues, Safari form (morehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/oscarmcmaster/# …) posted by anonymous 59 days ago If you'd like to rate this review, please log inhttps://sourceforge.net/account/login.php?return_to=/projects/oscarmcmaster/.
- * Thumbs down *
very poorly documented, too many bugs, posted by anonymous 28 days ago If you'd like to rate this review, please log inhttps://sourceforge.net/account/login.php?return_to=/projects/oscarmcmaster/.
- * Thumbs up *
Great program posted by anonymous 117 days ago If you'd like to rate this review, please log inhttps://sourceforge.net/account/login.php?return_to=/projects/oscarmcmaster/.
Maybe, I'll give it a try and see what it's all about...After all, the worse that may happen is that it does not meet my exact needs.... [?]
I don't know PatientOS but I have done some research on Oscar. It is in use in Canada and some other countries. It is developed and targeted at one or two provinces of Canada. It is actively developed as far as I know.
The code is a mix of various languages, databases and other projects. It seems to be done in a works now approach. It it webbased (tomcat war file).
Featurewise it seems to offer what a Canadian doctor needs. I am not sure the interface is available in different languages but I could be wrong on this.
It has not made into Debian yet as it is not easily packaged. However it is worth packaging as it is one of the few EMR that is there, now.
There seems to be a vmware image availalble to download and try.
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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
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