10/6

As Brad has already posted, today marked the release of OpenVista CIS 0.9 by Medsphere! I’ve been working on the project since September, 2005, and this release has been a long time coming. CIS is a cross platform gtk# application (currently runs on Linux and Windows, in theory on OSX, although we’ve not tested at all) for managing patient information (an Electronic Health Record (EHR), specifically). The application is actually a rewrite of an old Delphi (and by old, I mean *old*) application, CPRS, that was developed by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Obligatory screenshot:

There’s over 100K lines of code, some of it hairy, some of it beautiful. All of it lovingly wrought with years of tears and sweat. We will continue working on the project, as well as ancillary projects to manage other parts of the whole healthcare process moving forward, all based on gtk#. We are shooting for doing beta deployment(s) of CIS sometime this year (I won’t give exact dates, as that’s completely out of my hands), which is going to be the next huge breakthrough for our project.

Huge thanks to everyone involved, including our great team here, the folks at Novell that hack on Mono and gtk#, the gtk+ authors, and everyone else that makes this sort of thing possible.

Still lots of work left to do, so I’ve got to get back to it, but I needed to post about this, before my excitement makes me explode. Go Go Gadget Open Source!

PS - We’re pretty much constantly on the lookout for folks that want to hack on gtk#/healthcare software. We’re located in sunny southern California, in Orange County. If you’re interested (or if you’ve got any questions about the project, etc), please drop me a line.