The Medical project will be presented in IST-Africa 2009 (www.ist-africa.org).
The workshop will discuss the implementation of an Open Source Hospital Information System in rural Argentina.
Medical is a multi-user, highly scalable, centralized Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Hospital Information System (HIS) for openERP.
Our goal is to provide a free, universal EMR / HIS, where developing countries can also benefit.
Project Homepage : http://medical.sourceforge.net
The recent release of Debian 5.0 (Lenny) contains a lot of medical software which is interesting for several tasks in medical work. The strongest part remains the support of microbiological applications but also medical imaging and the practice management GNUmed are included now.
Perhaps an article on The Register might be interesting as well.
What is new for Debian Med in Lenny?
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Get your work in front of hundreds of Linux and middleware users, business owners, and industry veterans by becoming a session speaker at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both events are co-located this year at the Hilton Chicago, and will take place Sept. 1-4, 2009.
This event is for users, developers, and other interested parties to share information about the OpenClinica open source electronic data capture platform. Early bird registration deadline is January 30th.
(Brussels, Belgium) Akaza Research announces the first annual OpenClinica European Summit. The event will be held on April 14, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium and bring together users, developers, and leading service providers of the OpenClinica open source electronic data capture (EDC) software.
The Houston crew (including the editor of this site) are joining together to host an entire conference devoted to FOSS in Healthcare in Houston, TX Summer of 09 (July 31st – Aug 2nd)
We have invited several of the top FOSS projects, including Misys, ClearHealth, WorldVistA, OpenMRS, Tolven, DSS, Medsphere, and Mirth, just to mention a few! We have confirmed speakers from some of the most engaging and intelligent figures in the FOSS Healthcare movement.
SCaLE 7x has announced the conference line up for their February 20-22, 2009 event in Los Angeles. The keynote speakers will include, Joe ‘Zonker’ Borckmeier and Bradley Kuhn. A full list of speakers and exhibitors is now available online. In addition to the 45+ speakers at SCaLE, there will be a number of presentations on niche topics at the SCaLE mini-confereinces including: SVN Community Day, Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions, Women in Open Source, Zenoss Community Day, and more. Early bird registration for SCaLE 7x, the 2009 Southern California Linux Expo will end this Monday January 19th. Register at the reduced rate while you still can!
Preferred Family Healthcare has received a three year grant to help with adolescent counseling services. They will be using the open source virtual world sever OpenSim, which works with the Second Life viewer, as well as the Hippo Open Source Viewer.
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A new GNUmed live CD is out. With the help of this CD one can testdrive GNUmed without altering the currently running environment such as operating system. No installation neccessary.
Just download the CD image (http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/) and either burn it to a CD or set up VirtualBox, Vmware/Vmplayer, QEmu or the likes to accept the CD image as a virtual CD drive.
Health care is a top priority for President-elect Obama, and he wants your help in reforming the system to provide quality, affordable health care for all Americans. That’s why this holiday season, we’re asking you to give us the gift of your ideas and input. Sign up to host a Health Care Community Discussion anytime from December 15th to 31st. We’ll provide all our hosts with special moderator kits that will give you everything you need to get the discussion going. And Senator Tom Daschle, the leader of the Transition’s Health Policy Team, will even choose one discussion to attend in person. http://change.gov/page/s/hcdiscussion