Showing posts with label GNU Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GNU Health. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

GNU Health 1.6 Released!

From Luis Falcon`s blog:

I’m proud to announce GNU Health 1.6 series !This series brings a lot of exciting features, both from the technical and functional point of views.
On the technical side, the most important one is the compatibility with Tryton 2.4, and the demo database, so you can test it with data.

On the functional side, improvements in the gynecology module, especially in terms of screening (mammography, PAP tests, colposcopies… ) and history taking.

There has been major changes in the services and billing functionality, making easy the tracking of all the services done to a patient, and what would be subject to invoicing.

Evaluations per doctor chart in GNU Health

Some of the features in the 1.6 series, in brief :
  • Compatible with Tryton 2.4
  • Full Patient clinical history reporting in LibreOffice
  • Included demo database with over 500 patients
  • Realtime charts and statistics graphics
  • Automatic  doctor assignment in patient evaluations
  • Add Gynecological Screening History – Mammography, PAP and colposcopy
  • Improve patient evaluation , differential diagnosis and secondary conditions
  • Add disease groups, very useful for epidemiology
  • Better patient and contact tracking
  • Initial Tuberculosis lab tests, included in the MDG (Millennium Development Goal # 6 ) module.
We have also included the Health services module,
Health Services form in GNU Healt

This new module allows to group all the services done to a patient, in either ambulatory or inpatient settings. The module will give the health center the possibility to also invoice selected services to a specific party (patient, insurance company .. ). Since the services are linked to products, the health center will keep a detailed record of the drugs and consumables used. They will also be able to relate the lab orders.Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this new version of GNU Health. Thanks to the Tryton community for the great Tryton 2.4; to my colleagues from Thymbra for developing the graphics / reporting module (Sebastián), working on the documenation and testing (Cristina and Selene) and, of course, to all the GNU Health and GNU community for adopting and hosting our project !
About GNU Health :GNU Health is a free Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality :
  •     Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  •     Hospital Information System (HIS)
  •     Health Information System
GNU Health has been awarded the Best Project of Social Benefit from the Free Software Foundation in 2012.
GNU Health is an official GNU Package , chosen by Richard Stallman, and is part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.GNU Health is the Hospital Information System chosen by the United Nations International Institute of Global Health.
Main site : health.gnu.org
Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :
European Commission (EU) , JoinUp
Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

2011 Free Software Awards announced, GNU Health wins the award

by Matt Lee — Published on Mar 26, 2012 12:41 PM 
 
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, March 26th, 2012 — 
Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual free software awards at a ceremony on Sunday, March 25th, held during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. 
The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.
Yukihiro Matsumoto and Richard Stallman.
This year, it was given to Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz), the creator of the Ruby programming language. Matz has worked on GNU, Ruby, and other free software for over 20 years. He accepted the award in person and spoke at the conference on his early experiences with free software, especially the influence of GNU Emacs on Ruby.
Yukihiro Matsumoto joins a distinguished list of previous winners:
  • 2010 Rob Savoye
  • 2009 John Gilmore
  • 2008 Wietse Venema
  • 2007 Harald Welte
  • 2006 Ted Ts'o
  • 2005 Andrew Tridgell
  • 2004 Theo de Raadt
  • 2003 Alan Cox
  • 2002 Lawrence Lessig
  • 2001 Guido van Rossum
  • 2000 Brian Paul
  • 1999 Miguel de Icaza
  • 1998 Larry Wall
The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity.
Luis Falcon and Richard Stallman.
This year, the award went to GNU Health, a free software project that works with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged. GNU Health has been adopted as the Health and Hospital Information System of choice by the United Nations University. Luis Falcon, the president of GNU Solidario (the organization behind GNU Health), was present to accept the award on behalf of the project.
GNU Health joins an impressive list of previous winners:
  • 2010 Tor
  • 2009 Internet Archive
  • 2008 Creative Commons
  • 2007 Groklaw
  • 2006 Sahana Disaster Management System
  • 2005 Wikipedia
This year's award committee was: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden, Harald Welte, and Rob Savoye.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

SerpentCS is now in a patnership with Thymbra, GNU Health

Serpent Consulting Services feels immense pleasure to say that we have been in partnership with Thymbra and supporting GNU Health.

GNU Health is based on Tryton and is a free Health and Hospital Information System with the following functionality :
  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System
GNU Health is developed by Thymbra since 2008. Thymbra is an IT company specialised in ERP and medical informatics, active in Europe and Americas with offices in Spain and Argentina.

GNU Health is an official GNU Package, and the Hospital Information System adopted by the United Nations University,
International Institute for Global Health, for the implementations and trainings.

OpenERP - Thymbra“Working with the medical community
around the world to improve the quality of life
of people living in emerging economies.”
http://health.gnu.org

In 2008 Thymbra created a division dedicated to GNU Health. We count with the support of medical specialists that put their experience in the design and implementation of our solutions

GNU Health – The Free Health and Hospital Information System.
GNU Health is a multi-user, highly scalable, centralized Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Hospital Information System (HIS) for Tryton. Provide an universal Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Hospital Information System (HIS), so doctors and institutions all over the world, independently of their economic status, will benefit from a centralized, high quality, secure and scalable system.

Our goal is to provide a free, universal EMR / HIS, where developing countries can also benefit.

GNU Health - Thymbra
GNU Health at Glance
• Strong focus in family medicine and Primary Health Care
• Major interest in Socio-economics (housing conditions, substance abuse, education…)
• Diseases and Medical procedures standards (ICD-10 / ICD-10-PCS)
• Prescription writing
• Billing
• Patient Genetic and Hereditary risks : Over 4200 genes related to diseases (NCBI / Genecards)
• Epidemiological and other statistical reports
• 100% paperless patient examination and history taking
• Patient Administration (creation, evaluations / consultations, history … )
• Doctor Administration
• Lab Administration
• Medicine / Drugs information (vademécum)
• Medical stock and supply chain management
• Hospital Financial Administration
• Designed with industry standards in mind
• Free Software : Licensed under GPL v3
The data model is designed in such a way that centralizes the information, so no duplication occurs.
On the other hand, GNU Health optimizes collaboration and communication between health professionals. For example, a doctor may request an specific lab test for a patient, this is processed by the pathologist which diagnoses it and inputs the result on the system. The doctor now has all the analysis information linked to the patient chart.
GNU Health allows to attach documents (X-rays, Biopsy results, … ) to the Patient chart.
Standards
The information generated and gathered in GNU Health should be standard. We use ICD-10 for pathologies / diseases diagnoses. For example, instead of typing an arbitrary name for the condition, the doctor will be able to choose from over 14000 mutually exclusive classified diseases. This is very important for epidemiological and other statistical studies.
GNU Health uses the information on genetics from the National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI and Genecards to link genes disorders to diseases. This information is important to evaluate risks of the patient to contract an specific disease and the probability of transmitting it to next generations. GNU Health also registers all the relevant family history information of the patient.
Similarly, the patient history will be in a format that medical centers all over the world would be able to process. Effective, paperless and fast way of practising medicine.
Security
It follows the access control and security model of Tryton.
Localization
The main language will be English, but it can be easily translated to any other language using Tryton module translation. We are using Transifex as the translation Portal Today, GNU Health is being translated into Hindi India, Italian, German, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesian, Vietnamese, French, Dutch and Portuguese, among others.
Professional Services
Please contact us if you want the best Training, Implementation of Maintainance services from the source !
You can send us an email to contact@serpentcs.com and we’ll get in contact with you. You can also check the page at health.gnu.org
License
GNU Health is open source (GPL – GNU General Public License v3).