Version 0.2.1 of STEM is now available! To get the latest version, please see the OHF Downloads page. Builds are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.New for version 0.2.1 are over 100 bug fixes, additional features and additional built-in Scenarios. The new features include new "Time Series" and "Phase Space" views. The first view plots graphs of the values of disease variables over Matt Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00454758764053983536noreply@blogger.com13

In the lines of the last post, we would like to get some community feedback in order to help us better decide on our future plans. We will start to post some polls and post them in the OHF site. We'll publish a note about new polls in the OHF newsgroup, so please pay attention if you wish to influence.The first poll will be about the ultimate question:To be or not to be? That is XDS.b ...Eishay Smithnoreply@blogger.com2

As we are starting to rump up towards the 2008 IHE Connectathon we recognize we're going to have a better manage user community scalability issues.Last year we had a nice small user community with about fifteen ISVs going with us to the Connectathon and few more how used OHF in the NHIN prototypes and other projects.Those where fun days! We gave our emails to everyone and had an open Skype Eishay Smithnoreply@blogger.com1

A team lead by Senthil Nachimuthu (MD, University of Utah) will conduct an Open Source Workshop at AMIA 2007 in Chicago (Nov, 2007). Contributed to the workshop paper where Thomas Jones, Jon Teichrow, Paul Biondich, Cal Collins, Will Ross, and myself.The workshop will include representatives from the open source projects:* Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework* Machine Learning Tools* Mirth* Tolven* Eishay Smithnoreply@blogger.com1

The recent announcement of the of STEM triggered tons of press and blogs articles about STEM and OHF which was great. It lead a significant increase in the web and mailing list traffic.In the IHE front, our user community is helping us a lot to push the word out. I was told by few attendees of the IHE Workshop occurred last week that Jyran Glucky of BlueWare did a lot of OHF promotion.At about Eishay Smithnoreply@blogger.com0

Today IBM officially announced the contribution of the source code and resources for the Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) to the Eclipse OHF Project. In conjunction with this announcement, OHF is also pleased to announce that STEM version 0.2.0 Milestone 1 is available for download. Packaged versions of STEM are available for Windows and Linux. For help using STEM, please see the Matt Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00454758764053983536noreply@blogger.com2