From nick.ingredients at gmail.com Mon Aug 8 14:17:11 2011 From: nick.ingredients at gmail.com (Nick Lo) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:17:11 +1000 Subject: [PyHealthcare] Introduction Message-ID: Hello all, My name is Nick Lo and having read the other introductions I feel like I'm very underqualified to be part of this group. It was Frederico Caboni's presentation on the use of Python in Healthcare at Europython 2011 that brought the group to my attention. While watching that presentation I realised that not only did I find it one of the most interesting presentations of the many I watched, but also that it was one of the more relevant ones to the work that I am now involved in. For the past 4.5 years one of my main clients has been the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at CQUniversity, Australia where I've been working on various web application projects dealing with, for example, outpatient rehabilitation for diabetes, cardiovascular disease. Oddly it was watching Frederico's presentation that made me realise how familiar I have become with healthcare, not only through client work but through personal interest. As for my being underqualified I think a lot is due to my own history coming via design rather than the sciences. I've been working since 2000 in web-development using PHP and in that time co-authored "Zend Framework in Action". I started using Django and Python to speed up development of the Uni projects and now see Python as my "go to" language while still maintaining a few PHP based projects out of necessity. My interest in this group is hopefully to get a sense of what I do and don't know about the healthcare IT industry and what directions I could take the work we do in. From federico.caboni at crs4.it Mon Aug 8 14:55:13 2011 From: federico.caboni at crs4.it (Federico Caboni) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 14:55:13 +0200 Subject: [PyHealthcare] Introduction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6190537B-B71C-4DF8-AD1D-D2E5AC343975@crs4.it> Welcome, Nick, and thanks for sharing your professional story. I'm very glad you liked my presentation and found it useful, especially if it persuaded you to join the list and collaborate! -- Federico Il giorno 08/ago/2011, alle ore 14:17, Nick Lo ha scritto: > Hello all, My name is Nick Lo and having read the other introductions > I feel like I'm very underqualified to be part of this group. It was > Frederico Caboni's presentation on the use of Python in Healthcare at > Europython 2011 that brought the group to my attention. While watching > that presentation I realised that not only did I find it one of the > most interesting presentations of the many I watched, but also that it > was one of the more relevant ones to the work that I am now involved > in. > > For the past 4.5 years one of my main clients has been the Institute > for Health and Social Science Research at CQUniversity, Australia > where I've been working on various web application projects dealing > with, for example, outpatient rehabilitation for diabetes, > cardiovascular disease. Oddly it was watching Frederico's presentation > that made me realise how familiar I have become with healthcare, not > only through client work but through personal interest. > > As for my being underqualified I think a lot is due to my own history > coming via design rather than the sciences. I've been working since > 2000 in web-development using PHP and in that time co-authored "Zend > Framework in Action". I started using Django and Python to speed up > development of the Uni projects and now see Python as my "go to" > language while still maintaining a few PHP based projects out of > necessity. > > My interest in this group is hopefully to get a sense of what I do and > don't know about the healthcare IT industry and what directions I > could take the work we do in. > _______________________________________________ > Healthcare mailing list > Healthcare at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/healthcare From john at paulett.org Wed Aug 31 03:23:47 2011 From: john at paulett.org (John Paulett) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:23:47 -0500 Subject: [PyHealthcare] ANN: python-hl7 0.2.1 released Message-ID: python-hl7 v0.2.1 includes a simple MLLP client for sending HL7 messages to a MLLP server [1] There is a MLLPClient class you can use via Python. However, you can also use a command line tool (mllp_send) for uploading a HL7 file to an MLLP server. Under the hood, I am using the socket module, so python-hl7 still has no external run-time dependencies. Documentation: http://python-hl7.readthedocs.org/ Code: https://github.com/johnpaulett/python-hl7 Changelog: http://python-hl7.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html I tested the mllp_send tool against Mirth and it worked nicely. I am trying to slowly add functionally. Luke's changes (attributes via Mirth's XML definitions) are still in my queue. I will submit this package to Debian. John [1]: http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot/html/infrastructure/transport/transport-mllp.html