CCTOS: Collaborative Care Team in Open Source, Future Vision and Experimental Prototypes

Version 19 Aug 2016, Etienne Saliez /

• Introduction:

  • Seeking effective healthcare solutions, would you like to receive support from Free/Libre Open Source Software communities ?
    And if yes, would you allow partners to access your own additional developments and know-how ?
  • This web site explain the Open Source approach and why it is particularly important in healthcare. The main benefits of Open Source are to share software modules, to master the transparency about what the software is really doing, to avoid dependency from any single provider, as well to limit the costs.  See also the slides or the paper paper.
    
  • The strategy, as explained below, is to make a clear distinction between at one side pure software developement issues and and at the other side support services and operational activities.
    
  • This working group is developed by members of the ISFTeH, International Society for Telemedicine, as well the LIFOSS Open Source Working Groups of the EFMI, European Federation for Medical Informatics and IMIA, international Medical Informatics Association.
    

• Main objectives

  • Support of multidisciplinary collaborations between the care provider in charge of the same patient, accross distances and organizational barriers.
  • Promotion of technical collaborations in Open Source in the scope of the International Society for Telemedicine.
      

• Issues and discussions:

  • Issues

• Model:

  • Scenarios:
    • Iterative Care Model.
      
    • Intended scenarios for patient care and education scenario.
    • ...
      
  • Overview of software components: at 4 levels:
    • ( A )  Common Generic component, as be neccesary in most patient care situations.
      
    • ( B )  Additional requirements for specialized situations, in function of specific disease and professional specialties.
    • ( C )  Cultural differences
    • ( D )  Freedom leaving space for local exceptions

• Recommended solutions:

  • Softwares:

    • Introduction:
      • Since healthcare faces too many great challenges, there is a need to split a detailed list of issues in order to work one question at a time. 
    • Review of available software components:
      • Currently available softwares in Open Source
      • MEDFLOSS, Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software, a data base of open source projects.
      • GNU Solidario ,
      • See also the approach of the NHS HACKDAYS inviting people to identify issues and and to make prototypes of solutions.
      • ...
    • Integration:
      • ...
    • Some selected projects:
      • Global Care Iterative Model:
        
      • Patient Dashboard:
      • Patient Record Availability in Developing Regopns:
      • Patient Record as a Semantic Graph:
        
      • Suppport of Care Provider Multitasking:
      • Problem Based Tele-Learning and poster
        
    • Prototypes:
      • Medical Graphs,
      • Network shema.
        
      • Experimental prototype with visual examples intended for discussions ( u= "guest", p= "guest"),:
        • First elements in construction and seeking partners, contact etienne AT saliez.be .
            
          

  • Support Services, sustainability:

    • This chapter is very important because good support is a critical condition for successful project implementations.
      
    • A large set of services, from initial installation to yearly continued maintenance.
      
    • Review of the conditions for sustainable support services?

  • Economic Strategy:

    • Sharing Open Source know-how at international level, to be supported by private foundations and public developement projects.
      
    • Traditional business of Support Services at regional level, competing for quality and prices.

• Events:

  • MEDETEL-2017, 5-7 Apr 2017, Luxembourg, Call for participations.
    
  • Previous Events

• Call for participation:

  • Questions and suggestions are very welcome in order to improve the next version of this web site, particularly about requirements and dreams which could potentially be shared with other users.
  • Donations to the ISfTeH Open Source Working Group are very welcome.
  • Contact: " etienne - AT - saliez.be "