Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

[Jefferson Kirkland]

Greg:

Funny you should pose this.  I am a member of a Python group on Facebook
and one of the members of that group is a Doctor who has taken it upon
himself to write an Open Source health records software.  I was showing it
to my wife last night, as she works in the medical field, and while she
says it needs some work (its still in Beta), its not a bad start.  I think
one of the nice things about it is, being open source and in Python, its
extendable by modification and writing your own modules to suit your needs.

The project is located here:  http://dreaswar.github.com/AuShadha/

The current demo that the guy put up is here:
http://powerful-earth-4121.herokuapp.com/AuShadha/alternate_layout/

Login as below:

username : demo_user
password : demopassword


If your interested in it, the group on Facebook is:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/183239481757120/

and the developer who posted it is Easwar Tr<https://www.facebook.com/easwar.tr>
.

Hopefully it has some of what your looking for or can be extended to do so.

Regards,

Jeff




On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> I want to track my health.  Having recently buried my mother I've come to
> experience how broken our medical records system is.
>
> I reviewed a list of open source healthcare software at wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software#Electronic_health_or_medical_record> and
> Andy Oram's June 2011 article on Open source personal health record<http://strata.oreilly.com/2011/06/open-source-personal-health-re.html> systems
> trying to find a PHR that I can run on my desktop.  Unfortunately there
> doesn't seem to be such an option.  The systems such as GNU Health are
> "intended to run in Health Centers, to take care of the daily clinical
> practice as well as to manage the health center resources."
>
> There are some online systems.  Microsoft's Health Vault,
> Google's (defunct) Google Health, and *Dossia*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dossia> which
> is a consortium of large employers.  Of note, Dossia is based on Open
> source software<http://docs.dossia.org/images/5/5a/Dossia_Technical_Overview.pdf> and
> they released their API <http://docs.dossia.org/index.php/Main_Page> in
> 2009, so it's not a traditional tethered PHR service.  Unfortunately, the
> system is only accessible to individuals who work for an employer who
> participates in the program.  Their FAQ addresses the need for such a
> system <http://www.dossia.org/for-employers/employer-q-and-a#q3>.
>
> Andy points to *Indivo <http://indivohealth.org/>* as a possibility.
>  It's run by the (Boston) Children's Hospital Informatics Program.  There
> are heavy-duty requirements (for an average user) to installing<http://wiki.chip.org/indivo/index.php/HOWTO:_install_Indivo_X> and
> running an instance of the server and client programs.  I have not gotten
> around to that yet.  They have been sponsoring "app" development, so it
> needs to be seen how much functionality you might be able to get if you
> were to maintain a server, plus a client, plus any freely-licensed apps.
>
> Others I quickly surveyed include Tolven <http://home.tolvenhealth.com/>
>  and OpenMRS <http://openmrs.org/>
>
> But I haven't found (I guess they don't exist yet) any personal health log
> software.  I've come to find out that even the "coding" of medical
> procedures is not standardarized (The AMA code set is the most used in the
> US - but that's the _American_ Medical Association) and not free - meaning
> that they're proprietary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Procedural_Terminology>and dependent on the system used.
>
> Any suggestions on solutions?  What do you do?  I simply want to log and
> record everything about my health in a way that I have access to it; I
> might be able to share it; and I might be able to import data from other
> systems.
>
> Greg Rundlett
>
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