It appears that Xampp is merging with bitnami which it seems would make it possible to aim future openemr releases to be one step, more secured setups under windows, linux, virtual appliances or cloud servers. It could have one click setup of wordpress for the proposed portal system. It seems like a bitnami add on style distribution could also contribute to developing a more standardized backup solution as well as making security updates easier. The Xampp version for Linux even includes a utility to help you make it more secure, and provides a solution to make a compressed backup file of your database and htdoc files. Bitnami stacks like LAMP seem to put all the files used in one folder in linux like xampp does in windows, and it seems, at least under Linux Mint, that folder can be easily placed in an encrypted partition. Backup could be handled with duplicity/duplicati also fairly easily since the files aren’t spread out all over the place. As far as I can tell this would remain all open source with only payment for cloud hosting if selected.
Just some thoughts I had while trying to figure out how to go from local office use under xampp for windows to eventually all the web server things needed under MU2. I am not sure how those add ons are constructed exactly, but it seems it would be easier than all the various setups that have been made for the current version.
It seems like a concept to discuss. If, as they claim, they have a million bitnami stacks deployed every month and they partner with amazon, google and microsoft, then it could really increase exposure. For me, I just want to maintain the ability to continue to run my office myself without outside influence or control, as we have moved from paper to electronics. I also want to maintain control of my data and continue to have an office where nothing gets done that I can’t do myself. I think Openemr has helped me in reaching that goal so far, but frankly the learning curve is pretty high still to go mainstream. And going forward that curve seems to be getting steeper as a relevant package will have to attract the attention of a lot of big players to integrate with such as labs, electronic prescribing, hospitals, insurers, disease registries etc. For developers I would think that the larger the market is, the more opportunity there is.
I talked to Bitnami at OSCON and it would be interesting. But some one
would have to fund the creation of the package.
Tony McCormick
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