Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

  • I Cast Fist
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    212 days ago

    Most anything related to healthcare:

    • System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
    • System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
    • drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment
    • Pup Biru
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      102 days ago

      there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”

      • I Cast Fist
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        22 days ago

        Gonna take a look at that one. Data migration from a 10+ years program would definitely be the second biggest pain, number one would be training staff to use it, but i do think it’d be worth it

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          Main problem with it is lack of certification, which prevents it’s use ironically in Germany, the country of origin. I would have loved to use it. If you live in a less–regulated health system, I wish you success!

          Data migration will be a huge problem – medical management system companies tend to lock their customers into their system by preventing data migration.

          I just didn’t bother with migration. I used an autohotkey script to print all patient charts of the old system into pdf files – unconvenient but failsave – and built the new data base from scratch.

          • I Cast Fist
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            13 hours ago

            In my case, it’d be an actual epic job, since I work for govt and we use an old version of TrakCare, which has been the source of a number of headaches for at least 7 years now

            I’m curious, which certifications does it lack such that Germany can’t use GNUMed?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      52 days ago

      Healthcare normally have tight varying legal requirements that software must adhere to, so I would say there couldn’t be a single solution for multiple countries.