Open Source HIS/EMR PatientOS Version 0.14 released "HL7 Interfaces"

[caultonpos]

PatientOS is an open source healthcare information system for physicians, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory and ultimately all departments in a hospital, physician or practice, or any other healthcare facility. Version 0.14 of PatientOS integrates the Open Source Mirth HL7 Engine with PatientOS. Registering or updating patient information in the demo demonstrates the creation of an outbound HL7 ADT message.

Watch the video at http://www.patientos.org/software/video.html

Patient search has been enhanced to show user specific UI preferences for the patient search controls and personalized display columns for patient or visit search results.

Lab orders has been updated - log in as a clinician and place lab or medication orders.

Version 1.0 is on target for October 31st, 2008!

[techguy]

How many people do you have using this software?

[caultonpos]

Originally Posted by techguy

How many people do you have using this software?

0.14 is Alpha and not fit for production use. I am taking some advice and will focus on a physicians practice or an ambulatory clinic as the first step.

Judging by the remaining functionality I am targetting March '08 to have a Beta version ready for testing in a Physician Office setting.

At this time I am looking for help identifying the minimum set of functionality a GP or familly doctor needs to test drive an EMR.

[techguy]

So I guess my real question is how you expect to compete with the 1000s of EMR companies that are already out there and have a huge head start on what you're trying to accomplish?

I believe that it will be pretty hard for someone to create a compelling EMR product that can compete with the already saturated market.

[caultonpos]

Originally Posted by techguy

So I guess my real question is how you expect to compete with the 1000s of EMR companies that are already out there and have a huge head start on what you're trying to accomplish?

There may be many products developed but adoption is still very low, even lower outside the US. This suggests the existing products are not meeting the needs of the users - whether it is functionality, price or other reasons.

To that point I plan to develop a system scalable from a physicians practice to a multi-facility HIS which has

a) A rich, consistent, pleasing UI.
b) Flexibility to customize every form, view, report, menu, toolbar and more.
c) Design control process tracing every source file to design or requirement.
d) Simple to install, deploy and maintain.
e) Complete transparency of all software code.
f) Localization and translation to any language.
g) Stable and scalable (horizontally).

I believe there is a generation of physicians who are tech savvy and that Open Source has an appeal that goes beyond the fact the product will be free. The ability to contribute to a system and see the results of your contribution benefiting the many can be quite contagious.

Originally Posted by Tec guy

I believe that it will be pretty hard for someone to create a compelling EMR product that can compete with the already saturated market.

I do not plan on doing it alone :-)

And I am certainly not pretending it is easy, quite the contrary I have been in the industry long enough and worked with or for the top vendors and some of the top hospitals in North America - I understand the complexities - but I also have faith that I can build a community willing to take the leap and make it happen.

I will continue to build and promote and at some point I will have enough features and functionality that doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab techs, ISD(IT) will take note and help in whatever way they can (need not be writing code).

How long that will take is tough to say - ask me again in March and I can give you a better answer.

Thanks for your question, I like your website!

[ftrotter]

Despite the enthusiasm of the poster for Open Source, PatientOS is largely a distraction to the larger Free and Open Source Healthcare Software community. PatientOs is alpha code, running live nowhere. There are several applications that are better funded, have more features and have larger communities. The problem with PatientOS is fully documented here. http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/11/2...ion-of-effort/

By starting a new project, PatientOS robs resources from legitimate projects. Someday, the PatientOS project might catchup and be a viable project. For the time being they are irrelevant but noisy.
-FT

[caultonpos]

Originally Posted by ftrotter

PatientOs is alpha code, running live nowhere.

Not true, the first clinic has been running for about a month now.

Originally Posted by ftrotter

http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/11/2... n-of-effort/

Many people have already responded that they believe you are full of BS and especially from real doctors who care for software not open source software. When I first posted about PatientOS you said great license - GPL
v3.0 - let me interview. You were even pleasant.

But then your next email directly to me personally was a threat that you would 'undress' me in public if I kept posting about PatientOS - which is growing faster than MirrorMed could ever dream of.

Fred I do not take kindly to bullies and that is what you are, a bully trying to push his ignorant point of view. The positive in all of this, is that the more you post about PatientOS, the more emails I get supporting my efforts. Your tactics are working against you, but carry on. PatientOS will prevail.

Greg

http://www.patientos.org