Wilderness and Broadband

[lemoene]

A double edged sword...

I reviewed Bika Health for tomorrow's OpenMRS hackathon
<http://www.bikalabs.com/article/newsevents/openmrslimshackathon> in
Monkey valley - i should've known - with Campbell down the coast here
this afternoon when I received a call that baboons are in my house, I
did see Nick and his and troop lingering with intent when I left...

They cleaned me out. Lets not get into details but simple forensics
point to bags of sugar, litres of juice, been swung around or being
fought over, and a low calorie grass and seeds diet earlier today that
got hastily replaced with more protein rich fodder from my now empty fridge

On the broadband side however, Bika Health speaks to OpenMRS very well
already and tomorrow we should be able to fine tune it with all the help
around. Which other LIMS/LISs are taking part? I suppose some form of
generic but open format will shape out of it. We have a much better clue
ourselves now

I also begged a another formal letter of confirmation of our grant from
DTI and it is in the post - we'll have enough to show

Now if i only can get that fermented lucerne smell out of my clothes
Bests l

[lemoene]

> I reviewed Bika Health for tomorrow's OpenMRS hackathon
>

We're heading back tomorrow for more hacking towards having a prove of
concept Analysis Request and Results publication exchange between
OpenMRS and Bika Health ready for next week's meeting, HL7 and all
nogal. Very do-able after today

HL7 is in demand and doing that first will put everything in place for
Bluebird too

Is going to be very simple at first, Sample ID, Sample type, Analyses
and results only, and once up we could look at next steps for fleshing
it out. Unbelievably I got the impression that of all 30 systems people
there, I was the only one with lab experience - could've told them
anything. I did

Not completely convinced yet that OpenMRS' otherwise very flexible
database design will assimilate all lab info smoothly but it is early
days still

Bests
l

[lemoene]

Hi All

Campbell pulled off a Bika Health / OpenMRS HL7 interface and we demoed it yesterday morning

... repeating that we had to learn OpenMRS, HL7, and Java + had a computer bust up

I think it safe to say that it paid off and that with the help of the OpenMRS contacts made the lab interface will be prettied up and made available in a general format

We did not get round to the screen casts of Bika Health functionality but will upload these when annotated

We'll be starting to document functionality shortly and asking for input - more interesting requirements came from our sessions and private discussions at the workshop and hackathon

'Connectathon 2010' - I like. Bill is putting an in initiative forward to have a stall at www.medinfo2010.org, 12 - 15 of September 2010 where all interconnected medical software will have booths and visitors can tour with their data between nodes. In Bika Health's case from clinic to lab - will  be great if we can also interface a small instrument - and then back to the clinic

If anybody else on the list wants to get interfaced, let us know? But Java, no más!

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Thanks Chris, Carl for the invitation and everybody from the OpenMRS community for helping us around

Bests
lemoene

and Nick's scouts are about again ....