Medical Management Software

[max]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 23:42 -0400, max wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 22:44 -0400, max wrote:
>>>> Anyone running Fedora at their medical practice? What medical management 
>>>> software is available?
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>>> http://linuxmednews.com/
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>> Thanks. I had found this site and was surfing around too see what the 
>> possibilities are for this...gonna take some time to sift through it 
>> all. Do you by any chance have any advice to offer here? What you 've 
>> found that works well or what doesn't? Recommendations for particular 
>> applications? I am not a doctor and I don't play one on TV either but I 
>> do work with a medical practice from time to time. Some of their apps 
>> eat RAM for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Real hogs. Really bog down the 
>> machines. I have been kicking around the idea of asking them to try an 
>> open source solution but first I have to have one ready. So I am 
>> thinking of putting a box together with Fedora and some good medical 
>> management software for them to try. I know at least two of their 
>> programs (neither of which cause any problems) are just a client at 
>> their end connecting to a UNIX server, Medical Manager is one and the 
>> name of the other escapes me right now.  The big offender is apparently 
>> a program called , Centricity , which according to their tech support 
>> needs 1GB of RAM above the OS's needs to run well because of its slick 
>> little interface. I just want functionality, glitter is nice but it 
>> don't count for much in my book if the user is constantly dealing with a 
>> frozen application. All advice, opinions, etc are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Max
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> Max,
> 
> I could not help but tell you my story.  I try to hide the fact that I
> am a physician... it tends to close doors on these lists. 

what does your being a doctor matter to the people who read this list?

  >However, I
> have used Fedora systems as desktop units to communicate to Unix box
> that has S.M.I.L.E. (Software for Medical Applications It makes my Life
> Easy).  I originally hired a company to create a system of my design,
> and they filled for bankruptcy about half way through the project.  I
> had run out of money to hire anyone else so I collected every manual I
> could find made friends with a few of the programmers, and ended up
> finishing the project myself.  That was 20 years ago.  
> 
> Although S.M.I.L.E. was written with a 'unibasic' license by Dynamic
> Concepts everything else I have plugged into it is opensource.  I have
> had many ask me to make S.M.I.L.E. available for other office practices,
> but to date have not had the time to explore this potential.  S.M.I.L.E.
> is not opensource because of the unibasic license, but everything I have
> plugged into S.M.I.L.E. is opensource and I am indebted to this list and
> others for their assistance.
What have you plugged in? What have you found useful?

> 
> My system uses a terminal interface instead of a gui.  This has turned
> out to be a much better way to tie three offices together via the
> internet.  My system uses a very small bandwidth which means I can
> manage remote offices with a centralized server very easily by using
> konsole and ssh.  
> 
This sounds very much like what I am looking to do. If you care to let 
me in on what you've got going there I'm all ears or eyes I suppose 
would be more accurate.

> Good Luck with your search... I'll be watching the thread!!!
> 
Thanks!

Max