Fwd: [openhealth] OpenGALEN and OpenEHR
Does anyone knows about projects related to ontologies ? Here is the
original email (*).
Thanks
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From: fred trotter <fred.trotter@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Subject: [openhealth] OpenGALEN and OpenEHR
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi,
This list (openhealth) has been really silent for a long time. We
need a place where everyone who is interested in Open Source in healthcare
can continue to engage and talk. OSCON is having a healthcare track next
month, and the NWHIN has been huge for Open Source in healthcare. If you
want to go, I have a discount code 'os11fos' that will make it a little more
bearable.
Lots going on, but we, as a pan-project community are pretty silent about
things.
I am writing a book (with David Uhlman) about Health IT for
O'Reilly. I would love comments from this community.
http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449305024/
I need to get some updates on some projects related to ontologies and I was
hoping this group could help me.
This first is OpenGALEN http://www.opengalen.org
That project looks really interesting and have been doing releases for quite
some time, but I have some questions about the license and there is
apparently -no- way to engage with them. No email, only snail mail.
Despite regular releases, that makes me suspect that this is not a
legitimate open source project that has mechanisms in place for community
engagement. If you know anyone on that project give them a ring but at this
stage I am probably going to exclude covering their project, despite it
being pretty interesting subject matter and approach.
Also I would like to reach out to the OpenEHR folks. Lots of people I
respect have told me for quite some time that the whole archetype things is
really important. I have watched videos from the OpenEHR.org site and I
basically get what they are trying to do.
But from what I can tell, there is little benefit to OpenEHR over something
like SNOMED+UMLS+CDA.
I would love to be proven wrong here, but I need some concrete examples of
how the archetype approach lets you do things you cannot do with
SNOMED+UMLS+CDA alone. Unless someone can point me to something like this or
write something cohesive in an email response, I am going to exclude OpenEHR
from my ontology chapter as well.
These are the only Open Source ontology efforts that I am aware of. Can
anyone point me to other instances of healthcare ontologies (clinical not
genomic) that have the ontologie released in under an Open Source license?
Perhaps some project that is actually alive and relevant?
Do let me know...
And lets see some more chatter people....
-FT
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Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com
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