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  Free medical tool tackles disease
Medical Open Source Development Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 02:08 PM
from the OpenMRS dept.
BBC news has an article on the use of OpenMRS in Africa. 'A free and simple piece of open source software is helping manage the spread of disease in developing countries. The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system...' The project leader Dr. Paul Biondich was awarded the 2007 Linux Medical Freedom Award Digg this article



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    Re: Free medical tool tackles disease
    by Anonymous on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @ 09:38 AM
    Here's the audio show. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/digitalp_20080623-1726.mp3 At the ~7 minute mark.
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