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  OpenEMR Support
Health-IT Successes Posted by ViSolve on Tuesday May 15, @09:51AM
from the dept.
ViSolve Healthcare IT offers OpenEMR consulting, customization, implementation, training and support. OpenEMR is one of the most popular open source EMR/EHR that is ONC-ATB Ambulatory EHR 2011-2012 certified. ViSolve Healthcare IT team has extensive experience with OpenEMR. As a prominent member of OpenEMR Board, ViSolve team has contributed significantly towards Meaningful Use Compliance and helped attain ONC Certification successfully.
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  GNU Health wins FSF's Project of Social Benefit award
LinuxMedNews Posted by Luis Falcon on Monday April 02, @02:30AM
from the dept.
(You can check the original post at http://www.meanmicio.org/2012/04/gnu-health-wins-fsf-project-of-social.html )
Just got back to Buenos Aires after a 10 days in the United States and El Salvador, and finally got some time to write about the award, what it means to GNU Solidario and to the community at large.

The FSF's ceremony took place at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMass) on Sunday March 25th, during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference. On the ceremony, there were two awards :

  • Award for the Advancement of Free Software: Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby Programming Language. Congratulations Matz !
  • Award for the Project of Social Benefit: GNU Health
As stated by the FSF, 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.

I want to thank the committee for choosing GNU Health :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 Savoyes.

We take this award with great pride, but also with great responsibility. We share this award with novel previous winners Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Internet Archives, Groklaw, Tor and Sahana Disaster Management System.

I see Free Software as social activism. GNU Health goal is to improve the lives of the underprivileged by means of Free Software. We deliver a Free Health and Hospital Information System to health centers all around the world. Because is Free (Freedom), the software belongs to them. They can modify it, improve it, and localize it to their needs ! This is the Free Software philosophy.

GNU Health provides the basis for sustainable and universal medicine, no matter the economical status of the health center or the patient. After all, Health is a non-negotiable human right and never should belong to the greedy corporations. Health is a public good, and so it should be health informatics.

I want to thank the Free Software Foundation and its creator, Richard Stallman, for creating the environment for social justice and equity.

Thank you to the Free Software community :Python, Postgresql, Tryton, GNU/Linux, GnuPG and Wikimedia foundation are just some of the building blocks for GNU Health. Without a free software community, GNU Health wouldn't exist. Thank you to the governments adopting Free Software as a Public good.

Thank you to the community, to all of you who contribute your time and talent to improve GNU Health !

Finally,I want to dedicate this award to the men and women who anonymously give their lives to help the underprivileged. You are an example for all of us !

For more information, please check the official announcement at the Free Software Foundation : http://www.fsf.org/news/2011-free-software-awards-announced

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 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 : http://health.gnu.org

Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :

  • European Commission (EU) , JoinUp
  • Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

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  Open Source Tackles Healthcare In Places Microsoft Can’t
Medical Open Source Development Posted by Ed Dodds on Wednesday March 14, @02:27PM
from the dept.
OpenMRS began as a research project spanning Indiana University and Eldoret, Kenya’s Moi University.
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  Skysoft Inc. adopts OpenEMR to move forward with development
OpenEMR Posted by Carlos Espada on Saturday March 10, @07:00PM
from the dept.
Skysoft Incorporated, and Orlando based IT Services and Software Development firm, has chosen OpenEMR as the platform to move forward with starting in 2012. Skysoft currently develops software prototypes for the United States Department of Veterans Administration. Skysoft is also developing medical prototypes in-house and will begin to integrate the OpenEMR platform with ours. About Skysoft: http://www.skysoftinc.com
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  GNUmed holds mini conference
GNUMed Posted by Sebastian Hilbert on Sunday February 26, @09:01AM
from the we like conferences too dept.
GNUmed has been around a while. Most communication happens via the mailing list. Not everyone is comfortable with mailing lists and users tend to stay away from it. That is why we are planning a get together in Leipzig, Germany.
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  MediGrail LLC Automates Siaya District Hospital in Rural Kenya with OpenEMR
OpenEMR Posted by Yudhvir Singh Sidhu on Friday February 10, @02:47AM
from the Our overall mandate of why we get up in the morning, is to double the 120K patient-encounters in a year. dept.
This is a 220-bed government facility. In December 2011/January 2012 about 9,000 feet of Ethernet and Fiber Optic cable was laid. 3 servers were delivered: OpenEMR, backups, IM, Internet access and firewall. Also installed are UPS, power conditioners, 5 switches and 20 laptops.
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  Peace Corps Selects OpenEMR
OpenEMR Posted by Jack Cahn MD on Sunday February 05, @04:29PM
from the dept.
While not exclusively a Gnu-Linux product (runs on LAMP and WAMP stacks), the selection of OpenEMR by the Peace Corps for its worldwide EMR needs, lends a powerful measure of legitimacy and value to the use of open source EMRs in general and OpenEMR specifically. . http://www.govhealthit.com/news/peace-corps-plans-ehr-system-2013 . OpenEMR continues to grow its active developer community incorporating state of the art capacity including 5010 standards, Android apps, etc. . http://www.open-emr.org/ . Jack Cahn MD OEMR.org Board
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  GNU Health 1.4.3 released
LinuxMedNews Posted by Ronald Munjoma on Monday January 30, @08:50PM
from the GNU Health 1.4.3 released dept.

GNU Solidario is happy to announce the release of Health 1.4.3. This version contains many enhancements and fixes. Check at the end of this article for some important links.
As a summary :
- Improved menus, icons and navigation
- Integrate neonatology and PSC (Pediatric Symptoms Checklist ) in a new Pediatrics menu
- Now we can refer to the patient using directly the social security number, in addition to the internal health center ID
- Add product categories for Insurance plans
- Create initial admin rights for the main modules
- Create a .mo template for each module, so we can update the transifex source language (only in the tar.gz distribution)
- Added patient lastname in the party tree view
- Include in the translation project in transifex many data files ( occupations, drugs, ICD-10, ... ) that before they were created as a separated file. Now these particular fields can be translated. Removed the old files containing language-specific terms.
- Improved patient medication history
- Add patient lastname to summary of appointment event calendar
- Updated Database demo environment (with Proteus). Fixed bugs and use the health profile module.
For more detailed information, please check the Changelog at : http://health.gnu.org/Changelog
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  Google Health Dies January 2013
Health-IT Failures Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Monday January 02, @02:03PM
from the health-IT failures. dept.
Launched with great fanfare in May of 2008, according to this announcement, Google Health will stop taking new data January 2012, continue to allow data access and then cease operations January 2013: "...Now, with a few years of experience, we’ve observed that Google Health is not having the broad impact that we hoped it would. There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and their caregivers, and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts. But we haven’t found a way to translate that limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people. That’s why we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue the Google Health service. We’ll continue to operate the Google Health site as usual through January 1, 2012, and we’ll provide an ongoing way for people to download their health data for an additional year beyond that, through January 1, 2013. Any data that remains in Google Health after that point will be permanently deleted..."
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  Free pharmaceutical drugs prescription: FreeDiams reaches 0.6.0
Debian-Med Posted by Eric Maeker, MD on Wednesday November 09, @02:26PM
from the The FreeMedForms Project dept.
The FreeMedForms team is glad to announce the release of a new stable version of the pharmaceutical drug prescriber FreeDiams.

This version comes with multiple update: drugs database updated, interaction engines and data updated. Experimental potentially inappropriate medication in the elderly drug engine based on the Beers criteria (without diagnosis or conditions).

Feel free to contact us: freemedforms@googlegroups.com

Download and information: Visite our web site
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