I am working in a hospital. My hospital has recently gone for a proprietary software for interfacing with laboratory equipments like autoanalysers etc. The system helps in fetching results from those equipments into a database. I seek your help in identifying any FOSS doing similar things. Alterntively, if I were to develop one on my own where are the details about the protocol?
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Announcing release of Medical 0.0.47 – Patient Hospitalization
I’m happy to announce the release of the development version 0.0.47
Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.
This version includes the basic inpatient (hospitalization) and outpatient functionality.
Share your experiences with FLOSS in health care
Are you a practice, clinic or any other health care institution that is using medical open source software in daily routine? And wasn’t it quite hard for you to find the right software, to get it up and running and to finally customize it to your needs without having any experienced users or reference sites at hand?
Even a high number of downloads or a strong ‘activity percentile’ of an open source software project doesn’t tell you anything about the suitability for your purposes and in general about the stability and efficiency that are required for successful clinical practice.
6 of the Best Free Linux Electronic Medical Records Software
In developed countries, healthcare workers represent a significant proportion of the working population. For example, in the United Kingdom, more than 1 million people work for the National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system. Medical software therefore has a huge market to tap. Whatever stage of a country’s economic development, health care is one of the most important elements in society.
Are we about to lose?
I don’t have the expertise to fully comprehend these NPRMs that were recently issued, but did spend the last few hours reading large chunks of all three. The area they cover is huge, and I fear open source and small EHRs are about to lose big, and big corporate EHRs are about to get total lock-in courtesy of our government.
PatientOS @HIMSS 10 Booth 4124
OpenEMR Project Releases version 3.2
The OpenEMR Project releases their newest version of the popular FOSS software, 3.2. There are a number of improvements of existing features with a lot of bug fixes.
This is preparation for a new GUI making OpenEMR easier to use than ever with improved practitioner work flow. The current project has 30 professional developers who have busily working on Meaningful Use certification. This next release will be 4.0 and allow physicians to have a FOSS electronic health record that will qualify them for the new federal incentives. We are about 60% throught this process and expect this major release out this summer.
The following features have been improved or added in 3.2:
The state of Dicom viewers for GNU/Linux
Dear readers,
When you search for free Dicom viewers you get a bunch of them. The categories include:
1.) Free to use but no sourcecode
2.) Free to use and sourcecode but only on MS Windows
3.) Free to use and sourcecode but only on MacOSX
4.) Sourcecode but beta at best on GNU/Linux
SCALE 8x in Los Angeles This Weekend
SCALE 8x the 2010 Southern California Linux Expo will be returning to Los Angeles for its 8th annual event this coming weekend. SCALE is a community run Linux and open-source conference which will be held February 19-21, 2010 at the LAX Westin. While the name says Linux, sessions will focus on a wide variety open-source topics intended for users, developers, and administrators of all levels (including BSD related sessions). Keynote presenters this year will be Karsten Wade of Fedora, and Tarus Balog of OpenNMS. The exhibit hall running on Saturday and Sunday will offer demos by about 80 commercial and open-source/non-profit groups such as IBM, OpenSuse, HP, Red Hat, Yahoo, SoftLayer, and more.
OpenClinica Global Conference to Bring Together Global Community for Open Source Clinical Trials Software
The event marks the increasing popularity of open source software (OSS) in clinical trial electronic data capture and clinical data management.
The worldwide community around OpenClinica, the rapidly growing open source clinical trial software, will gather on March 22nd, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) for the first ever OpenClinica Global Conference. The event will bring together users and developers from diverse backgrounds to share experiences and expertise in using the increasingly popular open source software for clinical trial electronic data capture and clinical data management. With thousands of users worldwide, OpenClinica is leading the charge on bringing professional quality open source software to the world of clinical trials.