This document summarizes the 8th Medical Open Source Software seminar. It provides a brief history of past MOSS seminars. It discusses concerns around open source software use, including what people need and how it can be realized. The document outlines benefits of open source including low costs, technical standards, and wide markets. It introduces the openEHR project and its goals of interoperability. Finally, it lists the agenda for the current MOSS8 seminar, covering topics like the Ubuntu Japanese team, openEHR implementations, and data conversion using open source software.

1. MOSS8
Medical Open Source Software seminar 8

2. Brief history of MOSS
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MOSS1 Kokura, April 2003
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MOSS2 Tokyo, Fall 2003
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MOSS3 Kobe, Spring 2004
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MOSS4 Tokyo, Fall 2004
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MOSS5 Fukuoka, Spring 2005
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MOSS6 Tokyo, Fall 2005
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MOSS7 Nagoya, Fall 2006
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MOSS8 Tokyo, Fall 2009

3. Our concern
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What are you doing?
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Not what you did
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What are you need?
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Why do you want to implement?
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How can it be realized?
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Technology, TIPs, codes.
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Can we share your experience?
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Effort,

4. What can I do for you?

5. Open Source Software
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Free distribution
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Community based development
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Personal use
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Nation wide
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Worldwide, international
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Experimental field
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New idea and development
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Curiosity for technology drives!

6. Medical open source software
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Proprietary
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High cost
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Oligopoly
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Only paper standard
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No evaluation
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Small market
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OSS
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Low cost
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Bazaar
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Technical standard
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Source code review
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Wide market

7. Diversity is power

8. The openEHR project
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History
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1990 GEHR project (UCL and EC)
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1999 The openEHR foundation
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Activity
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Standardised model for healthcare
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ISO/CEN 13606
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CRB; Clinical Review Board
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ARB; Architectural Review Board

9. Electronic Health Record
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Interoperability
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Re-use of data
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Universal format/granularity of data
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Internationality of data
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Quality of care
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Evaluation of data
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Future proof
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Robustness of data

10. I18N
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M18N
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Language translation
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Culture, habit, nature
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Currency, number
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Localization
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Multiple localization = I18N?
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How to maintain local activity

11. Ubuntu Japanese Team
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Japalization of Ubuntu(*.jp work)
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Translation of packages
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Japanese environments
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Font, IM, Mailer, Browser
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Promotion
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CD/DVD release
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Book, magazine

12. Data conversion
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EMR data
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Unformatted
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Not well documented
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Not reusable
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Vender-lock in
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Data lock-in
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Salvage of the data

13. Agenda
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Opening speech
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Ubuntu Japanese Team
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The openEHR project
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An implementation exercise of EMR by RoR
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Application of openEHR system to Tuberculosis program in
Cambodian public health sector
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openEHR as a new approach to electronic health record
system in Cambodia maternity care program
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Ruby implementation of ADL parser
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Data conversion of EMR using open source software