[FOSS_health] Re: [participants] OSHCA inter-operability list

[Molly Cheah]

Nandalal,

I have forwarded your email to the FOSS_health at oshca.org list. Please 
continue discussions on interoperability on that list. Appreciate your 
co-operation on this so that it will be easier for OSHCA to monitor and 
report on these activities later.

I would like to request those who wanted to participate in the 
interoperability test beds to subscribe to the FOSS_health at oshca.org 
list asap.

I will be re-submitting OSHCA's proposal for the Collaborative Grant to 
IOSN+3 next week and I will rely on the discussions on that list to add 
content and names of interested parties as partners to that grant 
proposal. I will also outline what are needed in the grant proposal 
particularly related to deliverables for the grant proposal. In other 
words, FOSS_health at oshca.org will be our working environment for that 
grant proposal with inputs from those who want to be part of that proposal.

Thank you.

Rgds,
Molly
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:

>Since Sahana is going to get integrated into all of
>these areas of healthcare, it is a case for
>pre-deployment of Sahana in hospitals. Your third
>scenario maybe the reason. If Sahana is used by
>hospitals to keep stock items/employees and contact
>details/expertise/bed strength/service areas it could
>be valuable in case of a disaster.
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>There will also be people who are familiar with
>Sahana, which is a bonus.
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>Nanda
>--- Ravindra De Silva <ravindra at opensource.lk> wrote:
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>>>Yes, Ravi. We've already thought of a scenario
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>>where MrA was washed up 
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>>>(alive) during a tsunami and sent to a clinic
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>>using PrimaCare, where he 
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>>>was found to have developed complications and he
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>>had to be referred to 
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>>>the hospital using
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>>?Hospital-OS/VistAOutreach/MyVistA/VistA VOE for 
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>>>investigation and further treatment. Naturally,
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>>the Health Dept using 
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>>>CHITS was also interested in him because he's a TB
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>>patient absconded 
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>>>from treatment and he's still in an infectious
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>>state. In the meantime, 
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>>>his wife couldn't find him and went to an NGO
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>>using SAHANA... to ask for 
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>>>help as their house was washed away too.
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>>excellent scenario! 
>>very well highlights how several systems maintain
>>their own records of
>>the same person. the challenge is provide one portal
>>with info from all
>>these records, so one can find TB data, victim data,
>>patient record,ect
>>with in a single click.
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>>>Hmmm... can we have more scenarios for our
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>>write-up for funding?
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>>yes ,lets brainstorm , here are three potential
>>scenarios from me,
>>though not as good as the one you mentioned.
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>>1. The hospital already has records of the patients
>>through
>>VISTA/OSCAR/OpenMRS/CHITS/HospitalOS,ect with their
>>location info. Once
>>the disaster occurs happen in location A, SAHANA can
>>be fed with these
>>data as potential missing persons. For an
>>organization who makes
>>sure ,every missing person is accounted for , this
>>gives them a list to
>>start with.
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>>2. when ever a person record is entered into the
>>health care
>>application , we can assume that the patient is now
>>in the hospital. now
>>if this health care application provides some thing
>>like an RSS feed,
>>SAHANA installation can subscribe to that , and
>>update the relevant
>>missing persons as found in the hospital(by
>>comparing name,id no,ect).
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>>3. SAHANA has a request management system and tons
>>of medicines pour in
>>at the event of a disaster to match the overwhelming
>>need. since these
>>data is already captured in SAHANA, may be the
>>health care application
>>can use it get an idea of the resources and demand
>>the health care
>>workers needs to cater.
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>>and of course there is a lot of scope for pandemic
>>integration for
>>SAHANA, for which i hope to collaborate with
>>NetEpi,ect.
>>
>>cheers
>>ravindra
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