Hi All,
My first post as a new member of this group. Glad to be here. I work as an all-purpose IT person at our local health region in Newfoundland, Canada. I'm now in the process of developing tools that help people across the region, and across the country have discussions and collaborate on policy.
As Open Atrium gets unveiled this week, it might not be a bad time to start a conversation about possibilities for the healthcare industry. I posted a question on the Post Install forum earlier today, but I thought that it might fit better here where like-minds can have a broader discussion about it.
My goal, as alluded to in the post, is getting people together around a Drupal site and hashing out broad policy issues in healthcare. Share your thoughts if you have any.
Thanks for having me,
Terry
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Intranet exposure
I suspect there will be many 'hidden' intranet health care Drupal sites in the future. The trick is to get the designs and benefits out into the open for informing potential end users. Health care IT shops can be very cloistered, partly because they deal with sensitive information. (eg HIPAA in the US) and partly because they use highly specialized software. (eg Laboratory Information Systems, Medical Records, and Admissions)
I suspect you're quite
I suspect you're quite right. It would be neat to see some integration with Drupal and other med IT systems - medical records, lab systems, etc.....Or, if indeed there's any integration at all.
Dev Seed's upcoming feature server holds all sorts of potential in this realm. If we could build features using modules like Flatstore and Flot and things, we could share them around for others to avail of. Giving back means getting back, after all.
In any case, I've committed the next few weeks to develop a usable intranet with Open Atrium - focused on policy creation, and communication with working groups and committees that we have established. I'll post back with any findings or observations.