Free Healthcare Information System released

PatientOS is a free healthcare information system released under GPL 3.0. This enterprise wide software is designed for healthcare facility physician, nurses, pharmacy, laboratory and other clinicians and departments.

This release, version 0.1 is a proof of concept of several clinical applications built upon an extensive technical architecture.

For screenshots, video demos and to download the application see http://wwww.patientos.org.

SCALE 6x Issues Call For Papers

The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008
The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008

The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008. As with SCALE 5x, S6x will be held at the Westin Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport.

If you’re interested in speaking at SCALE, don’t wait to submit your proposal. Over their last couple of events, the Linux Expo has had many more applications than they have had speaker slots available. See the CFP for details on how to apply for a speaking opportunity at SCALE

Misys Moves to Open Source

“British software group Misys is expected to announce a major strategic gamble this week – giving its products away for free.”

“Under new American management, the company is planning to embrace the ‘open source’ movement, releasing a software code that can be copied or modified by other programmers.”

“Two new products are planned in healthcare and financial markets that Misys hopes will become industry standards: one offering a platform for trading carbon credits and the other aimed at harmonising medical records.”

Ace Reporter Shirley Returns

Ace reporter Shirley, my Dachsund, recently returned from a vacation in England with many things to report. She unloaded her bags, took off her sunglasses and settled in on the comfortable couch. “There rumors are that ‘the majors’ are talking about FOSS’ing their code.” she said with her slight German accent.

The ‘majors’ as she said it are the larger proprietary electronic medical record companies. Only none of them are really major since there are hundreds of competitors that are stuck at approximately 20-30% market share. “Tell me more” I replied.

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IMIA OSWG meeting at medinfo2007

The 2007 business meeting of the IMIA Open Source Working Group will take place as follows:

Sunday, 19 August 2007, from 5:30 – 7:30pm
Venue: Room P3, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia (in conjunction with medinfo2007)

Agenda to be advised later.

Apologies to colleagues who won’t be at medinfo2007.

All queries to imia.oswg[at]gmail.com

Updates and agenda will be posted on the IMIA OSWG website at www.chirad.info/imiaoswg

Nominations Open for 2007 Linux Medical News Freedom Award

Nominations are officially open for the 7th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 10th-14th AMIA Fall conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Deadline for entries is August 24th, 2007. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA. This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. Free and open source software isn’t ‘magic pixie dust’. There are people making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work to make medicine’s free software future a reality. This award is intended to honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software. The award winner is chosen by a panel of judges. Past recipients have been Tim Cook, K.S. Bhaskar — Fidelity Information Services, Inc., Thomas Beale — Ocean Informatics, Fred Trotter — Synseer, MirrorMed and the FreeB project, Joseph Dalmolin of WorldVistA/e-cology and Will Ross of Mendocino Informatics.

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Akaza Research Awarded NIH Grant for Open Source Clinical Trials Platform

Akaza Research has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health for the OpenClinica open Source clinical trials platform. Read on for the full announcement.

(Cambridge, MA) July 23, 2007 � Akaza Research, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue development of the open source clinical trials data capture system, OpenClinica.

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Index of open source clinic management systems ?

Just bumped into this question which asked “Which open source clinic management system you will recommend which has Patient ,Drug Management and also synchronization with clinic inventory?”.
The best answer I think I can give is probably to point to an index of open source clinic management systems which has links and descriptions with pros and cons of each software.
Do you know of anyone maintaining such an index?

GNUmed 0.2.6.3 released

The new version sports few new features but rather quite a few changes under the hood. Software errors are handled much better in a way that they can be easily reported to the developers.

The so called slave mode has proven to be stable on MS Windows and is in use now daily. It is used to connect a legacy app called Turbomed. That way a document archive has been established. Along with a fast image scanner it has proven to be efficient enough for use during patient consultations.

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