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 Posted by Luis Falcon on Friday September 04, 2009 @ 12:58 PM
from the dept.
Medical, the Open Source Health and Hospital Information System, has been the winner in SourceForge project of the month.
In the latest release, Medical includes a new section on genetics (NCBI / genecards) and family history. It also contains perinatal and puerperium information.
Medical is part of the GNU solidario project, a non-profit effort to provide Health and Education to emerging economies with free software.
Thank you to all of you who collaborate in the project and, if you want to contribute (documentation, translations, testing... ), please contact us.
Thanks,
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Tim Cook on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @ 01:06 AM
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Congratulations!!! Great award. After reviewing the website....
I wonder....does this mean that your DATA model is better (on some scale) than that of OpenEMR, OpenMRS, GNUMed, PatientOS, FreeMed, TORCH, et.al?????
If so then this is maybe THE data model that the OpenEMR folks have been calling for (see previous LMN posts)?
I look forward to your replies.
--Tim
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Luis Falcon on Friday September 11, 2009 @ 01:44 AM
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Thank you Tim for your comments.
I'm very happy on the momentum that Medical is getting from the community.It's hard work but pays off.
I'm quite content with the data model, where data uniqness is key. Some objects (Patients, medications, etc. ) are linked to OpenERP business processes, which takes care of the ERP and CRM aspects, very important for hospital administration and public health programs (finances, stock, BI, purchases, supply chain management, ... ).
As far as the other projects, they deserve all my respect and I wish them all the success. Any open source health sciences project is a great thing, and they all contribute to a great cause. Then projects will suit some areas better than others (public health, EMR, single office, hospitals,... ). We all learn from each other and diversity is key.
All the best,
Luis Falcon
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Robert Waters on Friday September 11, 2009 @ 03:53 PM
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Luis,
What significant advantages has basing your application on OpenERP/python provided for you, as opposed to writing your own app using mono/C# or GTK/c?
Have you found that OpenERP is robust enough for an enterprise many-user application?
Finally, do you think that OpenERP will be a viable platform moving forward, i.e. are you confident that your application, being based on a 3rd-party product, will remain updateable and relevant for many years to come?
Any other thoughts?
Thank you!
Robert Waters
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Luis Falcon on Friday September 11, 2009 @ 05:16 PM
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Hello Robert
Thank you for your message.
I think that writing from scratch all the ERP kernel would be a killer, re-inventing the wheel and it would divert the focus, which is to implement a EMR / Hospital and Health Information System. IMHO, this is the way of working in Open Source, integration.
OpenERP / Python / Postgresql provide me and the Medical development team, the modularity, scalability, portability and localization tools required to deliver a solid HIS.
The Medical Module and logic could be ported to other system easily. That being said, I have all the confidence in OpenERP (GPL), Python and Postgres. They all have a big community and they are getting more and more popular everyday.
As far as scalability, the initial load of all Medical Procedure Codes (ICD-10-PCS, > 79,000 ), ICD-10 ( > 17,000 ), genetic markers ( > 4,200 ) took less than 3 minutes and consumed less than 300 MB of RAM.
All the best
Luis
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Robert Waters on Friday September 11, 2009 @ 06:08 PM
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Thank you Luis for your detailed response.
I am considering porting the GUI of a custom Windows app (written in a large Microsoft Access system w/ a mysql backend) to Linux, one which is used in a law firm that specializes in medical-related litigation; it shares many the entities with Medical (med. records, imaging etc.). I had not previously investigated OpenERP as a platform, since ERP by definition did not seem to fit with the goal of managing a litigation. However, upon reviewing your app's python + xml source, as well as the features of OpenERP, it seems to me to be a great environment for rapid application development; python class definitions + xml gui definitions as a module for OpenERP == fully functional application with GTK *and* web interfaces.
Good luck with your future,
Robert Waters
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Re: Medical : Sourceforge Project of the Month
by Jude Alexis on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @ 02:33 AM
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How is Billing handled? How are X12 files generated? I have installed and played with Medical, but I am not sure about how to do billing. Also, how would one create a SOAP form or any forms for that matter?
I like what I am seeing so far. I have used and installed both OpenEMR and Clearhealth in production.
Any info you provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for such a great product.
Jude
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