Hi James, EMRs are "Electronic Medical Records" but this term is used to refer to the electronic systems that primary care professionals and specialists (ex. Nurse Practitioners, Family Physicians, Dermatologists, etc.) use to record your personal health information (ex. blood test results, health conditions, vaccinations, prescriptions, etc.). Dental systems are somewhat different/unique - actually a lot could be improved about both types of systems with quality intersectional work. There are many benefits to EMRs, but one is the ability to leverage digital transcription and scribes. I would love to say "gone are the olden days of illegible writing, medical errors, lack of documentation, lack of accountability, and lack of continuity of care" but it's 2024 and there are still many paper-based clinics. Hospital Information Systems (HIS) are the comprehensive systems used by hospitals, ex. Meditech, SunnyCare (https://www.canhealth.com/2018/05/01/sunnybrook-creates-its-own-advanced-ehr/). The term "EHR" also gets thrown into the mix, but is really referring to the patient record (Electronic Health Record) and not the system. HIS provide the above stated improvements over paper-based systems and allow the transmission of information between departments and external partners, as well as development and implementation of innovative standards (ex. HL7/FHIR, eCTAS). For example, a Physician might make a note about a patient in an HIS system about a food allergy, and that information would be available to a Dietician as well as food services at the hospital. The HIS also communicates with specialized systems - so in the example of a food allergy, a specialized system might be Computrition, and there would be exchange of information between the HIS and Computrition and access to each system as appropriate (based on protections like the Personal Health Information Protection Act, PHIPA, for example). Hope that helps, Katie ________________________________ From: James via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> Sent: 26 June 2024 13:40 To: Linux-Ottawa <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> Subject: Re: [linux] Re: July Meeting... Attention : courriel externe | external email What is the difference between an EMR system and a Hospital Information System? On 2024-06-26 11:50, Katherine Mcmillan via linux wrote: > Hey Michael, > > You may wish to post your fascinating talk ideas to the local BSD User > Group ("ocbug [ at ] ocbug [ dot ] ca" <ocbug [ at ] ocbug [ dot ] ca>) and/or get involved with the > OSCAR EMR user and/or development communities. A bunch of those > topics are very relevant to them 😉 > > I am not currently aware of any open source Hospital Information > Systems in Canada but.. one day. > > Cheers, > Katie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Michael Goguen via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> > *Sent:* 25 June 2024 21:06 > *To:* Katherine Mcmillan <kmcmi046 [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>; Michael Goguen > <michael [ dot ] goguen [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > *Cc:* Scott Murphy <scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com>; > caretakers [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org <caretakers [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>; > Linux-Ottawa <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> > *Subject:* Re: [linux] Re: July Meeting... > *Attention : courriel externe | external email* > > topics for a meeting some time? > > Is it hard to figure out how to make a simple online forum that is > behind a login wall on the internet, possibly on a server one has > oneself, instead of someone/ other sites server? Similarly, some of > the... alternative social media... like mastodon, diaspora... are > supposedly designed... partly open sourced... and so people can ... > host their own... kind of 'servers', that they can control... > including shared files etc, connect with their own associates with... > but also still have some accessibility to others and other of that > social media service servers that others are on and hosting... so they > can kind of communicate between... servers... does anyone know much > about this, or is willing to do some talks about this? Also, things to > do with changes in Canadian laws to do with... freedom, information... > gathering, rights, disclosure, ie anyone with a podcast now has to > register with the Canadian government, facebook not letting people > share Canadian news over their social media, stuff with Julian Assange > (it was said supposedly online that he may have gotten released to go > back to Australia or something? Can anyone confirm this?) ... anything > Mgeist Michael Geist has been writing about in articles about canadian > laws technology etc changes etc freedom... the possibly... making so > everyone's health info from ANY health provider... currently in Nova > Scotia started so all of this needs to be available to the Canadian > government, supposedly to make sure people aren't defrauding people > with their treatments etc, as well as... potentially sensitive mental > health info being... in 'supposedly secure' online databases that... > clandestine elements will definitely have and make sure to use their > unofficial access to ...as might have further implications related to > project like... well google and darpa etc behaviour etc prediction > projects (and monitoring) and via cambridge analytica etc ... > profiling people, manipulating, controlling, maybe partly mind control > but so unbelievably advance with so much processing power and data > that people will probably almost never be able to tell its happeing, > let alone... protect themselves or see it's happening and prove it or > stop it etc... for most people I would say... walmart and other > corporations literally... do some of this sort of processing for their > own financial and corporate interests... let alone... suffice it to > say this is not necessarily limited to extreme cases of national > security that are being carefully vetted by judges and or other human > beings on a case by case basis at this point, but being automated to > be distributed everywhere and only... transparent and accountable (to > the extent interest decide they prefer to do this at all) to very > select interests, possibly with a lot of national etc bias... and then > how some of this relates to... mainstreaming things like... MAID > 'Medical Assistance in Dying', the potential of climate change and > huge economic... crises... including some that may be intentionally > generated with plausible deniabiility while interfering with > reasonable actions by the public to mitigate and make changes to > reduce the harms in order to cause... crises which justify... > disenfranchising many, removing/ shifting the social net > significantly, etc (potentially) ie can't help poor or disable or old > people as much in a supposed crisis so a massive purge during crisis > with the crisis being... covertly... kept from being managed > collectively effectively by less ... centrally integrated and > finanical and power brokers in order to do things... a little bit like > how the pandemic destroyed small businesses all over the world and > allowed bigger businesses, if they decided to keep certain services or > products available, to basically buy them up excessively cheaply etc > (...'some people are in a position to massively profit from > potentially crises if they just watch this webinar and do the thing x > that serves the status quo of certain currently powerful people etc... > ' ads etc eheheh :/ ) > > I know some of this is reaching outside of technical linux focus... > freedom of communications, and maintaining secure communications over > the 'open internet' in an age of unimaginably powerful AI running > around by various interests... and maybe alternately... securing ... > not on the open internet community intranets (and keeping them 'off' > the public open internet, if people prefer'?) > > for those who might not want to buy into starlink, etc... are there > any ... retro communications that... people might still like in a > crisis or something? are there like hand held radios or devices like > phones that can run on some kind of free open source linux through > just local band radio that would be allowable, practical, cheap, > legal, effective for some communications if people wanted (or believed > they needed) to do this? Does just mentioning these where they may > be... put on the public internet and archived and available to be > harvested by the powers that be... put any... adaptive measures to... > corrupt concentration of power and destroying peoples' personal > freedoms... does it potentially... undermined the potential to do > anything about these things by talking about them this way... so > that... measure to ... countermeasures to any possible privacy or > security people might try to make are likely to be implemented etc, > and their... and peoples' potential dissent, let alone resistance... > to various... agenda of powerful, including taking away some essential > freedoms, rights and coopting / messing with legal systems and > structures meant to protect against this, etc? that peoples' intent, > whether on places like this forum, or through their own personal > digital communications, being in proximity of devices, possibly > belonging to someone else... will cause this information to be in a > 'profile' about them that will have... 'consequences' etc? > > Is it ok that I put these... questions and thoughts plaintext in this > email? > > > Blessings, thank you for allowing me to continue to be connected to > this group and explore some ideas around open source, free > accessible... technologies to empower people... especially the linux > open source operating system... > > > > Michael Goguen > > > > ps are any folks here fans of national capital freenet nonprofit > internet service provider here in Ottawa? > Do any folks from here... value the idea of partnering with the or > like collaborating etc sometimes... on various projects? > For instance, making wifi more available in some low income areas, or > like cheap devices like phones etc, or even... connecting with the > Ottawa Library and similar public resources in order to... support > various programs to ...help various public who are interested in... > certain low budget sort of 'communal' resource sharing for like > enabling... especially less affluent folks to ... help themselves and > others on a low budget/ minimal means and training etc? > > ok sorry maybe I'm rambling a bit here now. > > thanks in advance. > > Michael > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM Katherine Mcmillan via linux > <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > There is such an emphasis on bilingualism at the Government of > Canada that I am putting all of my spare time into learning French > so won't be able to attend this meeting (but have started to > attend the Linux-Meetup Aux Quebec > <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/>, which I would highly > recommend). > <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/> > > Linux-Meetup au Québec | Meetup > <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/> > Les Linux-Meetup sont des rencontres informelles où plusieurs > personnes discutent de ce qui les passionnent et font un partage > de leurs cheminements dans le monde des logiciels libres avec > GNU/Linux.Le tout se déroule dans une ambiance décontractée et > amicale. Venez rencontrer des gens passionnés ay > www.meetup.com<http://www.meetup.com> <http://www.meetup.com> > > > Sincerely, > Katie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Scott Murphy > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 25, 2024 17:00 > *To:* caretakers [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > *Subject:* July Meeting... > > We didn’t really have any discussions on topics on a July 4th meeting. > > I might have something, but nothing definite yet. I’ve been a > little busy and on training the past week and a half. > > Does anyone have a topic they would be interested in presenting? I > know that John and Tug will not be available. > > Cheers, > Scott > -- > Scott Murphy > scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org