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"OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application"

simonebrunozzi 6y ago
Thanks. It took me several seconds to realize what this was about. My AWS-bias made me initially think of an open version of EMR (Elastic Map Reduce).
- n_f 6y ago
  Same lol, especially cuz it's on hacker news
- tprynn 6y ago
  EMR is just an automated way of deploying open source components (Hadoop and co.) - there's some glue code there but the equivalent "open" version is probably the Hortonworks stuff (now owned by Cloudera): https://github.com/hortonworks https://github.com/hortonworks
  - thinkmassive 6y ago
    As someone who worked at Hortonworks back in the day, this is why I clicked through to find out what is OpenEMR, haha
  - oogetyboogety 6y ago
    This was pretty cool from Cloudera https://dzone.com/articles/large-scale-health-data-analytics-with-ohdsi https://dzone.com/articles/large-scale-health-data-analytics...
- Bqhatevwr 6y ago
  Ditto. I'm relatively new to HN and I am consistently frustrated by the "completely uninformative title" fetish link submitters seem to have. I also wish that when people submit what is clearly a "new version of software/thing X" they would submit a title like: "Salami 2.0 released, this popular meat product now has substantially more zest." Instead people just submit: "Salami 2.0" That's no better than Freshmeat.
  - cambalache 6y ago
    Because it is fear of losing face/status. You are just a worm if you dont recognize immediately that for example, SoC means "system on a chip"
  - Defenestresque 6y ago
    It's not really up to the submitters. One of the core guidelines of HN is to use the articles title and not to editorialize [0] >[otherwise] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Obviously there are upsides and downsides to this, but IMO it significantly cuts down on clickbaity titles at the expense of some readability when the site being linked to chooses a less-than-descriptive title.
ptx 6y ago
I clicked on "features", trying to find out what EMR means, and was greeted by a banner that really clarified things: "ONC Certified HIT! 2014 Complete Edition EHR!"

Thanks. It took me several seconds to realize what this was about. My AWS-bias made me initially think of an open version of EMR (Elastic Map Reduce).

n_f 6y ago
Same lol, especially cuz it's on hacker news
tprynn 6y ago
EMR is just an automated way of deploying open source components (Hadoop and co.) - there's some glue code there but the equivalent "open" version is probably the Hortonworks stuff (now owned by Cloudera): https://github.com/hortonworks https://github.com/hortonworks
- thinkmassive 6y ago
  As someone who worked at Hortonworks back in the day, this is why I clicked through to find out what is OpenEMR, haha
- oogetyboogety 6y ago
  This was pretty cool from Cloudera https://dzone.com/articles/large-scale-health-data-analytics-with-ohdsi https://dzone.com/articles/large-scale-health-data-analytics...
Bqhatevwr 6y ago
Ditto. I'm relatively new to HN and I am consistently frustrated by the "completely uninformative title" fetish link submitters seem to have. I also wish that when people submit what is clearly a "new version of software/thing X" they would submit a title like: "Salami 2.0 released, this popular meat product now has substantially more zest." Instead people just submit: "Salami 2.0" That's no better than Freshmeat.
- cambalache 6y ago
  Because it is fear of losing face/status. You are just a worm if you dont recognize immediately that for example, SoC means "system on a chip"
- Defenestresque 6y ago
  It's not really up to the submitters. One of the core guidelines of HN is to use the articles title and not to editorialize [0] >[otherwise] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Obviously there are upsides and downsides to this, but IMO it significantly cuts down on clickbaity titles at the expense of some readability when the site being linked to chooses a less-than-descriptive title.

ptx 6y ago

I clicked on "features", trying to find out what EMR means, and was greeted by a banner that really clarified things: "ONC Certified HIT! 2014 Complete Edition EHR!"