colpa wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005:
American Medical News just posted a story about open source EMR in which OpenEMR is prominent. Being familiar with OpenEMR, what you think of this report?
This thread could be an ongoing discussion of OpenEMR in the news.
(I’m a developer starting to evaluate open source EMR options for possible use by a doctor in Ashland, OR).
drroller wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005:
I am confused…If Dr. Rowley wanted to add one thing, why didn’t he just do it, rather then go work on a completely different system?
I fail to see the logic.
I guess I could understand if he doesn’t like the php/mysql development environment, but if he already has all of his clinic data, it seems it would be better to just get the changes he wanted done.
Php/mysql programmers are not hard to find are they?
andres_paglayan wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005:
I read once that he prefers the directory based approach tha t zope-plone offers.
some time ago when I was researching about open source EMR systems I installed TORCH but it plugs many different things to run, and the developer community to my opinion is smaller and ‘more closed’ it looks more like someone’s project rather than a group interaction result.
drbowen wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005:
TORCH was written by Tim Cook. He started out writing FreePM. After working on FreePM for a while he decided that trying to tack an EMR onto the practice mangement of FreePM wasn’t going to work. He really needed the Clinical EMR portion first and that the practice management would flow more logically after the EMR was written.
The best parts of TORCH are its enhanced security and fine grained control of permissions. This is because it is a Zope project and takes advantage of Zope’s extensive control over permissions. Zope is an object oriented database, is seemingly infinitely configurable, and actually fits the organization of a doctors office better than an SQL type database. Tim Cook had already incorporated SQL-Ledger into TORCH around October, 2003.
Tim Cook had already incorporated the prescription writing into the medication list and his software would compare the new prescription against a list of 1500 well known drug-drug interactions.
I started posting to the TORCH mailing list around January of 2003 and participated in the TORCH project for quite a while. I got to the point where I really liked Python for its clean syntax and easy maintainability. I learned Zope and its DMTL to the point that I could program my own web pages.
"I am confused…If Dr. Rowley wanted to add one thing, why didn’t he just do it, rather then go work on a completely different system? "
Dr. Rowley, I believe, was participating in the TORCH project well before he ever started using OpenEMR. He was deep enough into the development of TORCH that he was the logical choice for Tim Cook to "hand over the baton". Tim Cook moved to Canada. He has continued to post the TORCH list and assist Dr. Rowley in the development of TORCH.
Tim never completely explained why he dropped out of the development of TORCH but I suspect his "real job" and the need to make an income got in the way.
Neither did Dr. Rowley explain why the main developer of TORCH actually installed and is using OpenEMR in his clinic.
About the time Tim Cook started working on TORCH 2.0 he did a major rewrite of the infrastructure od TORCH and it just took too long for the project to move from 1.3.0 to 2.0. The forum activity just died while everybody kept waiting for the major rewrite.
I know for my part, TORCH has a lot of neat features that are already working and in a lot of ways is more advanced than OpenEMR. On the down side, my staff picked OpenEMR over TORCH (12-0). Demographics import takes a long time. SQL data may not import at all.
sanjeevyadav wrote on Wednesday, December 02, 2009:
American Medical News just posted a story about open source EMR in which OpenEMR is prominent. Being familiar with OpenEMR, what you think of this report?
This thread could be an ongoing discussion of OpenEMR in the news.
(I’m a developer starting to evaluate open source EMR options for possible use by a doctor in USA)
aperezcrespo wrote on Wednesday, December 02, 2009:
Hi
Take a peek at this one.
http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2009/11/25/openemr-success-story/
Thanks