First post in this blog , i decided to create and focus on reviewing open source medical projects as discussing the problems facing developers to continue , upgrade their open source projects .
Hopefully MedSteam as well is a team up between 2 developers , one of them is an Open source geek , professional developer and the other is doctor as well .
There are thousandths of medical projects as Google Code , Sourceforge.com , and now on repositories without updates or upgrades .
Open source medical projects facing issues including :
Hopefully MedSteam as well is a team up between 2 developers , one of them is an Open source geek , professional developer and the other is doctor as well .
There are thousandths of medical projects as Google Code , Sourceforge.com , and now on repositories without updates or upgrades .
Open source medical projects facing issues including :
- Noncontinuous ( no upgrade , no backups ) except some of the lucky projects with support .
- No upgrade , backups
- No support .
Even though many projects has very amazing features , ideas but they have other many disadvantage , the developer leave the project as an orphan , go for another project , sometimes before the project even mentioned or get the proper attention .
Some developers are just students , finishing the project as a homework or to train themselves , learning new other languages .
But some others move to another project leaving either unfinished project or junk project .
There was no support for many projects . We hope there will be an organization that fund and support , maintain such projects in the future .
Yet there is few Linux medical communities for doctors . http://linuxmednews.com/ is just posting news about the same apps over and over again ( GNU MED , OpenEMR ) mostly because they have better support and more users .
Ubuntu as the most used Linux Distro yet : we don't have a Linux Community how ever there are many Medical apps listed in the repositories and maintained : Some of Ubuntu Medical Applications at Ubuntu Repositories .
Why there is no united medical developers community for Linux environment !
Linux is becoming more popular , and open sources already solved many issues for rural areas in poor countries like Argentina , Bangladesh , Egypt , and Kenya .
Currently me and my friend are getting started to start our open source medical project , but we somehow afraid our work will face the same curse others faces for years .
We created this blog to keep an eye on open source medical apps those are similar to our work and support health-care environment in rural areas .
