In recent news, Medsphere released an open source tool set, called OpenVistA Interface Domain (OVID) which equips developers with tools for messaging with OpenVistA (OV) data. To my surprise, it had basically achieved all that I had hoped for for my BMXNet conversion to Java. This release enables developers the ability to communicate with OpenVistA data through either Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) or directly through FileMan (FM) calls by way of constructed Java bindings. Since this piece of the puzzle has finally made its way into the open source community for medical health record software systems, developers are now relieved of many cross-cutting concerns regarding support for multi-data providers, OS platform support and web-based integrations. Members of this project team have taken it to the next level by demonstrating a web application comprised of intricate web services (built in Java). Their demo release is packaged with this Web Service Definition Lanaguage (WSDL) driven application (Patient Dashboard, a.k.a. lzDashboard) made entirely in OpenLaszlo (OLZ). OLZ is an event-driven, object-oriented programming language for creating dynamic, data-driven applications. OLZ serves as one good candidate for building formal interfaces that access real patient health record databases. Since information management is a vital essence in the distribution and viewing of patient records, seeking for these resourceful tools will hold greater value and support to the community of users.
New plan...
So rather than going with my original plan of rebuilding this exact tool layer, I've decided to consume this resource by including it in a live source code management environment. Obviously, Medsphere isn't absolutely there with providing a central repository due to strict litigation and licensing. However, their open source awareness is pretty much their lively hood. Medsphere has gone through many changes recently and some of which have had an enormous impact on myself and others. They recently updated their website which now looks very much like a Web2.0 site, and are now participants of the popular social networking service, called Twitter. As for the rest, they are still considered the high-end advocates of health and technology related informatics. So, I've decided, with granted permissions from Medsphere associates (Ben Mehling) to allow me to migrate OVID to some suggested SCM (Google Projects or Github). I'm not sure about when the planning will take place, but in the mean time I'll be trying out the OVID library classes and possibly implementing my own extensions or participate in the continuation of Medsphere's OLZ application, called lzVistA. I'll elaborate more on the Rich Internet Application (RIA), lzVistA in a later post.
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Anthony- I do not see you on medsphere.org, so I will reply here.
Your comments and thoughts are much appreciated. We do feel OVID has broad applicability in both an OpenVista and RPMS world. I do hope that you'll get involved in the OVID project and help us improve it to meet your specific needs.
Specifically, in regards to "So, I've decided, with granted permissions from Medsphere associates (Ben Mehling) to allow me to migrate OVID to some suggested SCM (Google Projects or Github).", we absolutely have plans to move OVID (among other projects) to an open repository.
Like the GT.M and lzVistA projects, we will likely use Launchpad.net and its built in Bazaar support to host the repositories. I would watch for that in the coming weeks -- the only reason it hasn't been done yet is we've been busy on the actual OVID project. :-)
Thank you!
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