[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed remains insufficiently well-known

[Busser, Jim]

I suppose I was a bit disappointed not to see any trace of GNUmed in the 
following article:

        Open-source point-of-care electronic medical records for use in
        resource-limited settings: systematic review and questionnaire surveys

        http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/4/e000690.full

Under their section "Data sources" they wrote

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We searched Medline (1995–2010), CINAHL (1995–2010), Google Scholar (1995–2010) 
using combinations of the following search terms: Medical Records Systems, 
Computerised OR Electronic Health Records. We conducted searches both with and 
without the AND Developing Countries MESH heading. We systematically searched 
the reference lists of articles retrieved, contacted key authors directly, and 
posted enquiries to the Health IT section of Global Health Delivery Online 
(http://www.ghdonline.org/) to identify key informants for EMR systems that 
have not been subject to publications. We screened the identified studies and 
software products with the objective of finding reports on specific outpatient 
point-of-care EMRs. We contacted key informants whom we identified through 
publications (OpenMRS,16 DREAM,11 iSante5), user groups (OSCAR,17 WorldVista18) 
or personal contact (GHIS). We contacted the key informants about each product 
via email.

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Had they gone to wikipedia and searched "open source electronic medical 
records" they would have located

        
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software#Electronic_health_or_medical_record

but any any rate we see (in the BMJ article) that what people find when they 
look for EMRs remains incomplete, and maybe not very reproducible.

-- Jim