Paper Info
Title
Developing Online Communities with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - the IMIA OSNI and CHIRAD Experiences.
Abstract
Many health informatics organisations do not seem to use, on a practical basis, Jar the benefit of their activities and interaction with their members, the very technologies that they often promote for use within healthcare environments. In particular, many organisations seem to be slow to take tip the benefits of interactive web technologies. This paper presents an introduction to some of the many free/libre and open source (FLOSS) applications currently available and using the LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP architecture - as a way of cheaply deploying reliable, scalable, and secure web applications. The experience of moving to applications using LAMP architecture, in particular that of the Open Source Nursing Informatics (OSNI) Working Group of the Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA-NI), in using PostNuke, a FLOSS Content Management System (CMS) illustrates many of the benefits of such applications. The experiences of the authors in installing and maintaining a large number of websites using FLOSS CMS to develop dynamic, interactive websites that facilitate real engagement with the members of IMIA-NI OSNI, the IMIA Open Source Working Group, and the Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development (CHIRAD), as well as other organisations, is used as the basis for discussing the potential benefits that could be realised by others within the health informatics community.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Nursing informatics,Database management systems,Software design
Field
DocType
Volume
Health care,Architecture,World Wide Web,Computer science,Knowledge management,Installation,Web application,Health informatics,Content management system,Scalability,Special Interest Group
Conference
116
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter J Murray101.01
Karl Oyri200.34