[OLPC library] Fwd: [Re] 'OLPC-Health' takes off !!

[drew einhorn]

The VistA is back end is written in MUMPS.

There used to be several versions of MUMPS.  With all of the changes
of ownership,
etc.  2 remain, plus 1 relative newcomer.

    GT.M, recently renamed FIS GT.M, has been released as open source
    under the GPL.  It is available at:

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm

    Cache is a proprietary closed source version of MUMPS.

    M21 is a newer proprietary closed source version.

VistA runs under GT.M and Cache.  And I assume it runs under M21.

The VistA source code hase been released by the US Government in
response to a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request.  It is
public domain.

There are several problems with the FOIA release.  It depends on the
specifics of the development environment in place at the VA.  There
are missing pieces of the puzzle, where the VA used components from
commercial proprietary software.

The WorldVistA organization has taken the FOIA release and modified
it for a standard development environment, replacing the missing pieces,
or negotiating solutions to the licensing issues (for example, AMA CPT
Medical Procedure Codes).  The WorldVistA modifications are GPL.

The essential clients are written in Borland Delphi and are the topic of
another message in this thread earlier today.


On Feb 6, 2008 1:19 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com> wrote:
> Is it MUMPS that is closed source, or it's commercial fork?
>
> "OpenVistA is written in the GtM version of MUMPS, from Sanchez, which makes
> high-reliability financial applications that power about 60% of the world's
> major money market transfers. (Sanchez is now owned by the Fidelity life
> insurance company.) It runs on Linux. MUMPS has only about 28 or 29
> commands, is extremely fast, powerful and reliable, and has been taken
> proprietary ('forked') by Intersystems under the name Cache', which has over
> 100,000 users for hundreds of applications outside health care. MUMPS is an
> acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming
> System."
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:04 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> >
> > > MUMPS underlies the commercial closed source software which has been in
> use
> > > in a grprportion of UK general medical practices over the last 20 years
> or
> > > so.
> >
> > What about
> >
> >     http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm
> >
> > formerly known as GT.M
> >
> >
> http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustries/Healthcare/
> > GTM/
> >
> > > It, EMIS, now holds the general medical practice records, whcih is to
> say
> > > essentially all orgnaised primary care records, for around 40% of the UK
> > > population.
> > >
> > > We are not short of M expertise in the UK.
> >
> > Great.  Do you have any idea what might be the straightforeward way to
> > build Debian packages from it.  While I think we might be perfectly able
> > to follow the install instructions to assemble files in the right place
> > but some basic testing should be done as well and I have no idea what to
> > do regarding this aspect.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >          Andreas.
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
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