
"CHOS-WG"
Collaborations in Healthcare Open Source
Working Group
Draft version 1.1, 14 July 2010, Etienne Saliez, M.D.
- Introduction:
- Seeking effective healthcare solutions, would you like to
receive
support
from Free/Libre Open Source Software communities ?
And if yes, would you allow partners to access your own additional
developments and know-how ?
- This web site explain the Open Source approach and why
it is
particularly important in healthcare. The main benefits of Open Source
are to share software modules, to master the transparency about what
the software is really doing, to avoid dependency from any single
provider, as well to limit the costs.
- The strategy, as explained below, is to make a clear
distinction between at one side pure
software developement issues and and at the other side support services
and operational activities.
- This working group is developed by members of the ISFTeH, International Society for
Telemedicine, as well the LIFOSS Open
Source
Working Groups of the EFMI and IMIA.
- Main objectives:
- Support of multidisciplinary collaborations between the care
provider
in charge of the same patient, accross distances and organizational
barriers.
- Promotion of technical collaborations in Open Source in the
scope of the International Society for Telemedicine.
- Sofware:
- Support Services,
sustainability:
- This chapter is very important because good support is a
critical condition for successful project implementations.
- A large set of services,
from initial installation to yearly continued maintenance.
- Review of the conditions for sustainable support services?
- Economic model:
- Sharing Open Source know-how at international level, to be
supported by private foundations and public developement projects.
- Traditional business of Support Services at regional level,
competing for quality and prices.
- Related
Links:
- Contacts:
- Questions and suggestions are very welcome in order to improve
the next version of this web site, particularly
about requirements
and dreams which could potentially be shared with other users.
- etienne (AT) saliez.be