GNU Health
From Clinfowiki
GNU Health is an open source electronic medical record (EMR) and Hospital Information System developed by Luis Falcon in 2008 with funding from GNU Solidario. It is currently in use in clinics in Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia and Argentina. Its primary mission is to "contribute with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged, providing a free system that optimizes health promotion and disease prevention" [1].
Contents
Features
GNU Health's features are the following (taken from GNU Health website):
- 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
History
GNU is funded by Luis Falcón, it’s initial name is Medical. Following is main Development events. (From wiki)
- October 12, 2008: Medical project registered at Sourceforge
- November 2, 2008: Medical Version 0.0.2 is released at SourceForge
- April 15, 2010: Medical is registered at Brazilan government Portal do Software Público Brasiliero (SPB)
- July 31, 2010: The Project is registered at the European Community Open Source Observatory and Repository
- April 16, 2011: Thymbra transfers GNU Health to the NGO GNU Solidario
- April 18, 2011: Medical switches the development environment from OpenERP to the Tryton framework.[1]
- June 12, 2011: The project is renamed from Medical to GNU Health.
- August 16, 2011: version 1.3.0 is released, supporting Tryton and PostgreSQL.
- August 26, 2011: Richard Stallman declares GNU Health an official GNU Package. At this point, the development portal is moved from SourceForge to GNU Savannah.
- October 29, 2011: Release of GNU Health v 1.4.1 . This version is also included at the The Python Package Index - PyPI as a set of Python modules.
- June 25, 2012: Creation of a public Internet GNU Health database test server in Amsterdam.
- February 9, 2013: Release of version 1.8.0, compatible with Tryton 2.6 and Android client
- March 18, 2013: Release of version 1.8.1, with Intensive Care Unit functionality
- July 7, 2013 : Release of version 2.0.0 . Compatible with Tryton 2.8, New modules for Neglected tropical diseases, starting with Chagas disease. New Demographics section and Domiciliary Units management; new
server installer; improvements to the surgery module (ASA physical status classification system and Revised Cardiac Risk Index
External Links
GNU Health GNU History[1] GNU group [2]
