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Thread poster: Catherine GUILLIAUMET
Catherine GUILLIAUMET
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In memoriam
Dec 31, 2011

Hi!

According to the NEJM, licenses to computer-aided diagnostic software and other medical programs already are, and will become, an ever-growing problem.

See the NEJM article : Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1110652

Here, you'll find its French equivalent (less detaile... See more
Hi!

According to the NEJM, licenses to computer-aided diagnostic software and other medical programs already are, and will become, an ever-growing problem.

See the NEJM article : Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1110652

Here, you'll find its French equivalent (less detailed, though) on Clubic.com : Les logiciels propriétaires freineraient les avancées médicales :
http://pro.clubic.com/legislation-loi-internet/propriete-intellectuelle/logiciel-libre-open-source/actualite-467294-open-source-favoriserait-avancees-medecine.html

Enjoy the end of the year !

Catherine ▲ Collapse
 
neilmac
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Storm in a teacup Dec 31, 2011

Catherine GUILLIAUMET wrote:

Hi!

According to the NEJM, licenses to computer-aided diagnostic software and other medical programs already are, and will become, an ever-growing problem.

See the NEJM article : Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1110652

Here, you'll find its French equivalent (less detailed, though) on Clubic.com : Les logiciels propriétaires freineraient les avancées médicales :
http://pro.clubic.com/legislation-loi-internet/propriete-intellectuelle/logiciel-libre-open-source/actualite-467294-open-source-favoriserait-avancees-medecine.html

Enjoy the end of the year !

Catherine




Basic level bedside computer-assisted diagnostic aids are largely search engine and tag-cloud based, so most of the basic info is already in the public domain, and can be accessed via portals such as PubMed. As I understand it, the article refers only to one psychological test and, later, another tool, both of which were withdrawn by the (US based) authors.

While not wishing to offend anyone, I put it down to the notoriously rampant zeal for litigation in said country, and dismiss it as a storm in a teacup, until proved otherwise.
 
Michael Barnett
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This is an enormous problem. Jan 2, 2012

neilmac wrote:

Basic level bedside computer-assisted diagnostic aids are largely search engine and tag-cloud based, so most of the basic info is already in the public domain, and can be accessed via portals such as PubMed. As I understand it, the article refers only to one psychological test and, later, another tool, both of which were withdrawn by the (US based) authors.

While not wishing to offend anyone, I put it down to the notoriously rampant zeal for litigation in said country, and dismiss it as a storm in a teacup, until proved otherwise.


The article mentions the MMSE only as an example of an established diagnostic tool, utilized worldwide by clinicians, who now find themselves forced to pay an ad hoc fee each time the test is performed or become liable to penalties for copyright infringement.

The MMSE is by no means unique. See http://www.mdcalc.com/framingham-cardiac-risk-score# for a short list of diagnostic tools to which similar copyrights could be applied.

For an example of the "copyleft" mentioned in the article, see the new UK Prospective Diabetes Study calculator for coronary artery risk "conditions of use and copyright" statement: http://www.dtu.ox.ac.uk/riskengine/download.php

Michael
 


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