[med-svn] r13160 - trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe
Andreas Tille
tille at alioth.debian.org
Sat Mar 9 07:57:35 UTC 2013
Author: tille
Date: 2013-03-09 07:57:35 +0000 (Sat, 09 Mar 2013)
New Revision: 13160
Modified:
trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/debian-med-healthcafe.pdf
trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex
Log:
Another paragraph according to proof-reading
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--- trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex 2013-03-08 11:05:57 UTC (rev 13159)
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distribution or something like that -- a Debian Pure Blend (as the term
'pure' implies) is Debian itself and if you have received Debian you
have full \DebianMed at your disposal. There are other Debian Pure
-Blends like Debian Science, Debian Edu (it creates the product
-SkoleLinux with some additions and install media delivered to schools),
-Debian GIS and others.
+Blends like Debian Science, Debian Edu, Debian GIS and others.
-The other misconception about the term `\DebianMed' comes from people
-working in health care. They tend to assume that \DebianMed is some
-dedicated software primarily targeting at managing a doctors practice.
-Sometimes the expectation goes that far that people assume the
-\DebianMed team would actually develop this software. However, the
+People working in the health care professions sometimes acquire
+another misconception about \DebianMed, namely that \DebianMed is some
+kind of software primarily dedicated to managing a doctor's practice.
+Sometimes people even assume that people assume the
+\DebianMed team actually develops this software. However, the
truth about the \DebianMed team is that we are a group of Debian
-developers working hard to include {\em existing} medical software right
-into the Debian distribution. We have no chance to include anything
-that does not yet exist and so we try to cherry-pick from the set of
-Free Software that is useful for several tasks in medical care. Because
-we do not restrict ourselves to pure practice management Debian now
-contains besides two practice management systems (GNUmed and
-FreeMedForms) way more other software useful in medical care. The main
-fields to be mentioned are bioinformatics (next generation sequencing,
-phylogeny, etc.) and medical imaging. We do also maintain a todo list
+developers hard at work incorporating {\em existing} medical software right
+into the Debian distribution. We can hardly include software
+that does not yet exist and so we try to cherry-pick the
+Free Software that is useful for medical care tasks. Because
+we do not restrict ourselves to pure practice management, Debian now
+contains not only two practice management systems (GNUmed and
+FreeMedForms), but much other software useful in medical care as well.
+Bioinformatics (next generation sequencing, phylogeny, etc.) and
+medical imaging are two such fields of particular importance.
+We do also maintain a to-do list
of software that should be included as time and manpower permits. For
-instance one of the main candidates at the horizon is VistA - an
+instance one of the main candidates on the horizon is VistA - an
integrated health information system which is successfully running in
several hospitals.
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