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IWEEE 2014: Social Medicine (English version)

31 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, GNU solidario

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free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, IWEEE2014, Las Palmas, Social Medicine, software libre

online version
IWEEE               2014 - Social Medicine - Las Palmas of Gran Canaria               (Canary Islands), May 29th-30th
Dear community:

Along with the meteoric expansion of information technologies, we have witnessed a swerve in the noble field of medicine. Patients became “clients”, clinical services are now “product lines”, and what we once knew as a social right, namely quality healthcare, is now an optional luxury. Neither a line of code, nor a viral strain may dwell oblivious to this reality.

Hence, as we gradually welcome our first lustrum with consecutive IWEEE chapters, we believe it was our duty to stress on one simple, but often forgotten concept: Social Medicine. It is our humble effort to fill the void between social analysis and everyday clinical practices with innovative projects, bold undertakings and invaluable experiences. We share the same discomfort Dr. Paul E. Farmer – known for his humanitarian work providing “first world” health care for “third world” people – suffered:

“I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that”. 

Last year, among other participants, members of Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, the Ministry of Health of El Salvador, UNESCO, and Partners for Health NGO – Tbilisi State Medical University honored us with their presence.

This 2014 edition will be held in Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands),
on May 29th-30th
. It would be our pleasure to rely on your support as well. Find out how you can be a part of IWEEE this year! 
 
Want to be a sponsor? Please contact us via: sponsors@iweee.org 
 
Want to submit a poster or paper? Please register here.

Let us provide universality and equity in healthcare; let us ensure eHealth for all!

IWEEE               2014 - Social Medicine
© www.iweee.org – info@iweee.org – www.gnusolidario.org
IWEEE 2014 - Social Medicine

GNU Health presentation at World Health Organization – WHO

25 Tuesday Mar 2014

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AIDS, Chagas, developing countries, GNU Health, GNU solidario, government, GPL, IWEEE, Jamaica, MDG6, WHO

Dear friends

I’m very proud to announce that our GNU Health presentation at WHO Second Global Forum on Medical Devices in Geneva, Switzerland, has been published at the World Health Organization site . Thank you United Nations for inviting me, it has been a fantastic experience and opportunity !
I shared with the audience the importance of Free (Freedom) Software in the Health Care sector, stressing that Health must be a public good and it can not belong to private corporations.
GNU Health is now being installed in many countries around the World, it has over 80 translation teams, and a great community that contributes that keeps growing every day.
GNU Health presentation at World Health Organization - WHO
Special thanks to the government of Jamaica, and to its Ministry of Health, who has adopted GNU Health as their eHealth system for the whole country. This is amazing ! Just some years ago, we, health care professionals and social activists, just dreamed about one day being able to provide equality in health care. Today is becoming a reality !
This April 10th I will be in Luxembourg, at Medetel , talking about the GNU Health implementation in Jamaica.
GNU Health 2.6 is coming soon, with a lot of new functionality, such as HL7 FHIR, improved ergonomics, strong auditing, and much more. We’ll be releasing the RC version soon so you can take a look of what is coming up and be able to test it.
Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for making GNU Health a GNU official package; to Free Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD; to great frameworks like Tryton; to fantastic programing languages like Python and to the most beautiful and powerful database engine PostgreSQL. They all make GNU Health possible.These are just some examples, from a much larger list, to show that GNU Health is a real community-based project.
Let me take this opportunity to invite you to the upcoming International Workshop on Emerging Economies – IWEEE “Social Medicine” , brought to you by GNU Solidario, that will take place in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this May 29-30th.  Join us and share your experience and benefits of Free Software in the Health Sector !
IWEEE 2014 - Social Medicine
Remember that health must be a non-negotiable human right, and that people always come before profit.
Looking forward to seeing you in Las Palmas !

[1] Luis Falcon. GNU Health Interfacing and Interoperability   http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/2nd-gf_posters/en/index8.html

[2] Poster : http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/H40.pdf

About GNU Health
GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality: 

  • Health Information System (Demographics, Epidemiology)
  • Hospital Information System
  • Electronic Medical Record

GNU Health won the Best Project of Social Benefit from the Free Software Foundation, among other international awards.


GNU Health is an official GNU Package , and is part of GNU Solidario, an NGO that delivers health with free software. GNU Solidario and the United Nations University, International Institute for Global Health have signed an agreement to implement and to train Health professionals GNU Health around the world.

GNU Health was presented at the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Communication Union (ITU) session “ICT for Improving Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health” at the World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS 2013 Forum in Geneva.

Main site : health.gnu.org

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FLOSS Weekly 288: GNU Health

20 Thursday Mar 2014

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ERP, floss, FLOSS Weekly, free software, Gareth Greenaway, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, GNU/Linux, HL7, HMIS, python, Randal Schwartz, tryton, TWIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qx7c1K7do

Posted by Luis Falcon | Filed under events, GNU Health

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IWEEE 2014: Social Medicine

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

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ehealth, esalud, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, HMIS, informatica medica, IWEEE2014, Las Palmas, Public Health, Salud Pública, UNESCO

http://www.iweee.org/2014-las_palmas/
As you already know, GNU Solidario organizes every year IWEEE: International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies. 
The IWEEE 2014: Social Medicine will be held on May 29-30 in Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain).
Registration is already open as well as paper and poster submission. Make sure to check deadline and guidelines for your paper presentation here.
http://www.iweee.org/2014-las_palmas/registration.htmlGNU Solidario is an Non-for-profit organization that works globally, delivering health and education with free software. Since 2005 we have been involved in humanitarian projects of different nature that had one thing in common: Free Software. 
You can help us with a donation, every little help counts.
We hope to see you in Las Palmas !!

GNU Health in Toledo for the Mozambique Mission

17 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, GNU solidario, Public Health

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ehealth, FCSAI, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, Mozambique, salud, Salud Pública, Spain, tryton

Great moments in Toledo (Spain) with the Gnu Health mission in Mozambique. (more to come…)

GNU Health Presentation at the World Health Organization has been published.

17 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, GNU solidario

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DICOM, EMR, EPI, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU Lims, GNU solidario, HL7, HMIS, Medical Devices, Occhiolino, tryton, WHO

Please find here the link to dounlowd the .pdf for the GNU Health presentation at the World Health Organization (WHO).

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