HL7 and FreeMED

[Pedro Ambrósio]

Dear all,

Could you please, tell me if it's possible integrate the FreeMED with
the HL7 or ASTM CCR standard?
If so, can it be possible using web-services?

Best regards,

[Jeff]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Pedro Ambrósio
<pedro.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please, tell me if it's possible integrate the FreeMED with
> the HL7 or ASTM CCR standard?

The short answer is "yes". Longer answer is that certain HL7 messages
are implemented as of the current trunk / 0.9.x series. More are
easily implemented, we just haven't had anyone clamoring for them to
be done. ;)

> If so, can it be possible using web-services?

I would suggest using Mirth as a bridge to do this, as it allows a
SOAP service to be exposed to pipe HL7 data into the system. It's
pretty trivial to set this sort of thing up, depending on the type of
HL7 message you're talking about producing / comsuming.

--
Thanks,
Jeff
(je...@freemedsoftware.org)
FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc
http://freemedsoftware.org/

[Jeff]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Pedro Ambrósio
<pedro.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
>
> I download the remitt and the freemed from the trunk version.
> Following the Ubuntu 10.10 tutorial, currently I can't install the
> remitt service.
> The remitt trunk version don't have the init.d and I can't create the link:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/remitt/debian/init.d remitt
>
> Is this a svn trunk problem?

No. REMITT is now a J2EE application. It runs inside Tomcat 6 instead
of being its own service. A quick install walkthrough would be:

1) Make sure you have openjdk 6 installed, then install the maven2 package
2) Run the ./install-deps.sh script to install Maven dependencies
3) Run "mvn package" to build the remitt.war file

Alternately, you can download the REMITT 0.5.0 binary release from
sourceforge here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemed/files/remitt/0.5.0/

You would then install it in the webapps directory of your tomcat
install. Create a mysql database called remitt, with u and p set to
'remitt'', then import the ddl.sql script which comes with the
distribution, which will create the REMITT mysql database. The default
configuration should work for you. Default username and password are
"Administrator" and "password".

You should be able to go to http://localhost:8080/remitt/ once you've
restarted Tomcat6 and get into the web admin interface for REMITT that
way.

[Jeff]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Pedro Ambrósio
<pedro.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what is the main goal of the FreeMED project, be a EMR or a EHR.

I would love to have both working. We were pushing for it to be used
as an EMR/PM system, but there's no reason that it can't be used as an
EHR system.

> But, currently I see FreeMED as a good/excellent base to implement a
> EHR, using as base a standard such as HL7 version 3 and the CCR ASTM.

I've been trying to base the data structures off of HL7-compliant
structures so that it should be pretty easy to do most of this.