After no success in the Piramal Prize contest we discuss more deeply around the main Idea of OpenUMR project.
First, we are still without formal economic support. That´s mean that our work has only our spare time to support it. We are still looking for external funding, but so far it does not exists.
Going back to our project, we are still studing the technologies which makes OpenUMR more easy to implement.
We have been focused in 2 different areas:
Infrastructure ---> Databases
Communications ----> Protocols Standards
Regarding DB, I will say there are lot of information about the kind of Databases needed for Open UMR
Hadoop is just one example, but probably is not the best one because AFAIK lack of the needed security that OpenUMR requires.
But High Scalable Databases are growing legs and I believe will stay with us for very long time.
Even if this new generation of light structured info
rmation stores are just beginning, there are enough examples to keep us busy for couple of months.
In short, without the required budget, and no venture capitals betting on OpenUMR, we will have to keep working on our owns.
I will classify the Massive Structure Information Store Available today:
Non suitable for OpenUMR:
- Hadoop
Probably a better fit for OpenUMR:
- BigTable
Regarding the second main area, communications we ae deeply analyzing the Connecting for Health Information. Finally there is an organization working towards a Common Framework to share Health information between all the Health Community, starting with you as a user and including healthcare providers and any other health related institutions.
If you are interested in this particular subject, please, take a look at this 2 flash presentations:
While we keep working on OpenUMR, the 2 giants.... keeps trying to make Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault... success but parnering with companies will forgot to make meaning by engaging the most important part of this kind of projects, the PEOPLE
