Collaborative Software Initiative
The link above is a project that might be interesting to those of you working in “Lean Software”… or those who afraid of problems in our collective ability to track the spread of infectious diseases.
From their press release:
Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), the company that brings like-minded organizations together to work on collaborative software at a fraction of the cost, today announced the release of the first open source, web-based infectious disease reporting and management system.
The system is being built with Lean methods:
When deployed, UT-NEDSS project will directly contribute to the prevention of sickness and death by effectively collecting, identifying, tracking and trending information gathered about infectious diseases and bioterrorism attacks. Additionally, this unique partnership is providing lessons for public health informatics on:
- Open source software best practices
- Lean Software Development practices
- Building an open source community for a public health product
- Contractual relations between public health entities and a commercial open source software company that support long-term product sustainability
“We are excited by the promise that this collaborative approach offers to our state,” said Dr. Robert Rolfs, MD, State Epidemiologist, State of Utah Department of Health. “This system meets our needs by making it easy for our doctors and nurses across a variety of counties to better protect people's health by detecting and preventing disease.”
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Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
I like the idea of building an “open source community” when it comes to public health. It makes sense to have collaboration for public health systems in order to allow multiple voices.