Opening Healthcare
Well, after 10 days of preparation and too little sleep, this week marked an important milestone for the engineering team at Medsphere. After nearly two years of effort on multiple fronts, Medsphere has open sourced two important packages (with more to come). We pushed hard to prepare these packages and a supporting website in time for a release during the big healthcare information systems conference in New Orleans.
The release was fairly well received, but inevitably there will be folks who are dissatisfied with some aspect of our release methodology, license choice, philosophy or what have you. No matter. Both the teams involved (OpenVista Server and OpenVista CIS) should be extremely proud of their accomplishments. Not only should the Medsphere teams be satisfied, but also the GTK and Mono teams should get a kick out of a full scale EMR/EHR application fronted by a cross-platform, internationalized, .NET application made possible by their projects.
Early Sunday morning (too damn early), I traveled to New Orleans to assist w/ booth duties and be available to talk technology with prospects. Due to weather patterns only a couple of us made it on Sunday, but we got the booth ready for action on Monday. Prospects tended to like the idea of the open nature of our software, and existing customers gave favorable accounts of our services. Despite very little sleep over the past 10 days, all the work, thankfully, came together in the end.
I would be remiss if I didn't also thank my own family, especially Hol, for accepting my absences and bleary-eyed attendance with a knowing smile.
Posted by ben at 08:00 PM
