Roadmap of the project IMMM

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• Collaborations in a community:
  
  • Medical collaboration:
    • Call for medical partners willing to try to use the project and to provide advices about further developements.
    • Medical challenges in the ISfTeH, International Society for Telemedicine, medical student associations, teachers in the healthcare domain, etc..., in contexts as training of junior doctor and nurses, in different types of organizations as general practice, emergency entrance, oncology, in different cultural environments, ...
  • Technical collaborations:
    • Call for technical partners sharing distributed developements on https://github.com/saliez/IMMM . An Open Source strategy, sharing technical know-how with partners in the public domain.
    • Technical challenge in informatics about complex information management, here in the medical domain, but probably also useful in other domains.
  • Potential subjects for multidisciplinary thesis. This very large project must be divided in work packages.
• Funding:
  • First an experimental prototype is essential:
    • A prototype on Internet. As proof of concept, a mandatory condition before useful contacts will become possible at the medical side.
    • Very useful to discover the practical modalities of the current provisional perspectives.
    • At the initial stage the most critical resource is the programming of a minimum of demo.
    • See the preliminary elements of prototypes.
  • A credible prototype and an international community of interested users makes possible to contact potential sponsors.
    • Public authorities as European Commission, development programs, health Ministries, NHS, Walloon Region, etc....
    • Welfare foundations.
    • Maybe a call for crowd funding.
  • Support services can be charged to users.
• More professional versions:
  • Many improvement where man-machine interfaces are at the foreground.
  • Implementation of security.
  • Versioning since delete are not allowed in multidisciplinary multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Modular architecture including synchronization compatible with unreliable Internet in developing countries.
  • Packaged versions.
  • Quality certifications.
  • Legal issues and responsibilities ?
• Organization of support services:
  • Support services are critical for the acceptance by medical organizations.
  • Users must take care of installation and maintenance costs related to their installation.
  • Professional users with real patients will have no license costs for Open Source software available in the public domain. However they may provide donations in order to accelerate the development of specific extensions according to their own local requirements, but which will remain in the public domain.