[Debian-med-packaging] Looking for a Debian packager for FIS-GT.M : Change the History of Healthcare !!

[Luis Ibanez]

Dear Debian packagers:


                   We are looking for one of you to help
                   us change the history of Healthcare


We are working at OSEHRA (http://www.osehra.org/) on building an
Open Source environment for VistA, the Electronic Health Records
system of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

VistA is the best proven EHR, and it has been used for the last 30 years
at the VA. It currently runs about 170 VA hospitals and about 1,000
ambulatory facilities.

                        http://www.va.gov/vista_monograph/

This is the largest deployment of a single EHR in the entire
United States.

(See here a history of VistA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyci4cTTfwY)
as presented at OSCON 2010)


 VistA is built on M/MUMPS, which is a language that
 manages a NoSQL database.

The Open Source implementation of M/MUMPS that can
be used in Linux is FIS-GT.M:

                      http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/

but it currently doesn't have a Debian package for it...


Please note that the "gtm" package in Debian now,

              http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gtm

is not related to FIS-GT.M but instead, it is the
"Multiple files transfer manager".


Making a Debian package for FIS-GT.M will greatly
facilitate its adoption by a larger community of developers.


We are in a mission to rebuild a community of about 3,000 developers
to maintain and further develop VistA. This is probably a larger project
than the Linux Kernel: see here: https://github.com/OSEHRA/VistA-FOIA.
with 26,000 routine files and 2.5 million lines of M code, than are probably
equivalent to 10 million lines of C code.



           Would any one of you be willing
           to become a packager for FIS-GT.M ?


          and by doing so, make a dramatic contribution to
          change the future of Healthcare in the US and abroad...



        Please help us build an Open Source environment for VistA !


          Thanks


                Luis
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