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Collaborative Care Team in Open Source
Current projects
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Version 2017-08-17, Etienne Saliez /.
- Introduction:
- The working group projects are addressing different aspects of the
Mission Statement : daily telemedicine services in the field in
developing countries, improvement of medical information sharing, Open
Source management and education.
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- Telemedicine platform providing every day healthcare support and
education in developing countries since 2002.
- Isolated hospitals, having a microscope, can send images and get
second opinions from experts across the Internet. The main activities
are in the domain of pathology. see the
presentation slides.
- Call for contributors as a medical experts in pathology, as an
informaticians to maintain the software, or as secretarial helpdesk.
Contact: Monika Hubler. Main Ipath server in
Basel
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- Today basic telecommunication technologies are widely available, like
to send traditional text documents, as more or less structured
fragments of reports.
- The challenge is to take advantage of modern informatics in order to
provide better support the care process by team of healthcare
professionals across Internet
- Experimental project intended to facilitate the understanding between
the care providers in charge of a common patient. The idea is to use
interactive visual graphs instead of long texts. Focus on the relations
as well between medical concepts inside the patient record, as well as
relations to medical knowledge. This using Open Source technologies and
easily shared anywhere.
- Graphs are a very natural human way of thinking which can help to
understand each other across Internet. Graph can easily represent a
PORM, "Problem Oriented Medical Record".
- This between the first level local care providers who can better
manage their understanding of the current situation and share it with
an international expert who can review the case and provide advices,
more efficiently.
- Call for medical and informatics partners interested in knowledge
management and semantic web challenges. Contact: Etienne Saliez.
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- Healtcare requirements are similar all over the world. Many softwares
packages are already freely available as Open Source and presented in
the MEDFLOSS database.
Unfortunately many of these packages provide similar functionalities,
but just in a little different and incompatible ways.
- The next challenge is to promote more reuse of Open Source software.
While trying to install large software "packages" in any new site
remains difficult, the approach is here to share at least a selection
of smaller "software components" when useful between some home made
specific components. Review of integration architecture available in
the public domain and exploration of the potential advantages of new
technologies, as event based programming.
- The main benefits of the Open Source approach are to share know-how
and efforts at an international level, a more efficient use of
available common resources.
- Call for partners contributing to the maintenance of MEDFLOSS and and
seeking solutions howto integrate medical software components. Contact:
Thomas Karopka and Etienne Saliez.
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- A very large set of medical knowledge is already available everywhere
on Internet as "Open Data", similar to traditional "lectures" listened
in a passive way.
- Having access to the facts, the next level of education is training.
Tele-training is important in order to provide training in remote areas
for junior doctors, medical students, nurses, etc... who could not
afford to go abroad.
- The main question is here the training in "medical methodology", i.e.
how to handle medical information. The typical issue is " Given all
what is known up to now about a patient, what to do next ? " The use of
the above "Interactive Medical Mind Maps" could become very useful.
- Call for medical coaches willing to help groups of junior healthcare
professionals training on virtual cases across Internet.
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- To be useful in practice and sustainable, Open Source software
necessitate a minimum of support services. Indeed healthcare
professionals have already a lot of things to follow in order to remain
up-to-date. They may need help for the software installation, the
training of the users, the maintenance, and at any time access to a
helpdesk in case of occasional technical problems.
- While Open Source software is shared at international level free of
charges on Internet , the costs of support services need to be covered
by the local users.
- Call for regional companies or not for profit organisations willing
to provide support services as a sustainable traditional business.
Other Open Source telemedicine projects are invited to join