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The Academic Hospital Paramaribo chooses Medical

08 Wednesday Dec 2010

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The Academic Hospital Paramaribo (AZP) is the largest and most modern hospital in Suriname.

The AZP was founded march 9, 1966 as a central hospital and was changed into the Academic Hospital Paramaribo in 1969 gaining its university status. The current staff consists of about 1700 co-workers. The AZP Hospital has a 470 bed capacity.

On a yearly basis 20.000 patients are hospitalized, while about 176.0000 out-patients visit the hospital.

We greatly appreciate AZP commitment to Medical and support to our organization, GNU Solidario. We are working with AZP to initially provide specific functionality in pediatric care and cardiology. This is a clear example on how large hospitals can collaborate to Free software, where the rest of the world will also benefit.

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :
  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System
Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.


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Hospitales en Indonesia están utilizando Medical

08 Wednesday Dec 2010

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El Hospital R.S. Griya Husada Madiun Hospital, en Madiun City (En la Provincia East Java Indonesia) es el ultimo hospital en Indonesia que ha empezado a utilizar Medical .

Es el tercer hospital en Indonesia que instala Medical este año.

Nos alegra mucho ver como varios centros de salud alrededor del mundo están utilizando el Software Libre para el beneficio de sus habitantes.

Queremos agradecerle a Riza Kurniawan, que es parte del equipo de Medical en Indonesia. Se ha encargado de la implementación en este hospital y ha realizado la traducción al Bahasa Indonesia.

Para mas información: http://medical.sf.net/community.html

Acerca de Medical

Medical es un sistema Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de salud libre que ofrece las siguientes funciones :

  • Expediente Médico Electrónico (EMR)
  • Sistema de Gestión Hospitalaria (HIS)
  • Sistema de Información de Salud

Medical es parte de GNU Solidario, una ONG que implementa soluciones de Salud y Educación mediante software libre.

Gobiernos con Medical en sus Portales

Para más información visite : http://medical.sf.net/es

Interview in 2010 to Luis Falcon as top OpenERP contributor

01 Wednesday Dec 2010

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The following is the complete / uncut transcript of the interview I got from Nicoleta Gherlea in 2010  when I was named top OpenERP contributor.

Interview with Luis Falcon Wed, 12/01/2010 – 15:42 _ admin

*Age:* 40

*Located in:* Argentina and Spain

*Occupation:* Founder of Thymbra and GNU Solidario

*Blog:* http://meanmicio.blogspot.com

*Tweett: *@meanmicio

Tell us about about yourself :

How would you describe yourself:

Social activist. I love working on the field, learning from people in
hospitals and rural areas, combining medicine and computer science (in that
order).

I like simplicity and try to stay away from any kind of _sophistication_
(food, clothes, programs, people,….).
 
Who or what in your life would you say influenced you most?

My parents.

What is the best birthday present you could receive?

Hope and dignity for the children in developing countries.

What do you do in your spare time?

Enjoy family.

What is your favourite place in the world?

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Tell us about about You and OpenERP

When did you start working on OpenERP?

Long time ago. In 2005 (TinyERP at that time).

What got you excited about OpenERP?

Free Software. Versatile. Small 

Can you tell us more about your key contributions?

   –

   Medical : The Free Health and Hospital Information System. Large project
   running today on different health centres around the world (
   http://medical.sf.net)
   –

   Started the Argentinian and Spanish localization, including electronic
   invoicing
   –

   Created in 2007 the OpenERP Academy in LatinAmerica, bringing OpenERP to
   the Spanish speaking community.

What attracts you to Open Source?

I like more the Free Software concept.

Free software is about sharing and building communities. It a great tool for
the development of societies.

Wrote my first GPL program in 1995 (netload). It’s still being shipped on
most GNU/Linux distros.
 
What is your most embarrassing OpenERP moment?

I will tell you as soon as it happens 😉

Any personal message to other members of the community ?

I’m worried about how _the industry_ is getting into the Free Software. At
the end of the day, is your actions what count, not the tools you use.

If OpenERP was …what would it be :
An animal : A goat. Cabra loca 🙂 A colour : Blue

A famous character : Monty Python rabbit.

A Dish : Potaje de lentejas

A Song : Libertango

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Update: The interview was removed from the site when I started to criticize the lack of freedom and democracy on the OpenERP (Odoo) project.
The OpenERP project was rebranded as Odoo
The Medical project was continued as GNU Health
(The original link of this interview was http://www.openerp.com/node/549 )

Hospitals in Indonesia are using Medical, the Free Health and Hospital Information System

10 Wednesday Nov 2010

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R.S. Griya Husada Madiun Hospital, in Madiun City (Province East Java Indonesia) is the latest hospital in Indonesia that have adopted Medical , the Free Health and Hospital Information System.

This is the third hospital in Indonesia in this year that installs Medical.

It’s very rewarding to know that many health centers around the globe are using Free Software for the sake of their habitants.

Thanks to Riza Kurniawan, part of the team of Medical in Indonesia, who has implemented in this hospital, and just translated the homepage to Bahasa Indonesia.

You can see this and other implementations on http://medical.sf.net/community.html

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System
Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.


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Medical 1.0 RC1 Released

08 Monday Nov 2010

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Medical 1.0 RC1 released !

I’m happy to announce the first Release Candidate version Medical. This version is the result of over 2 years of hard work, and I see it as the starting point for a modern, scalable Free Health and Hospital Information System.






 The highlights are :

  • Covers most important functionality of Preventive and Family Medicine
  • Fully Integrated to OpenERP 6.0 
  • Health Center administration (human resources, financial , stock, billing, … )
  • Socioeconomics : Living conditions, sewers, drinking water, economic income, family members,electricity …
  • Lifestyle : Exercise, hours of work, diet, sleep hours, smoking…. 
  • Sexual education and habits
  • Social exclusion and drug abuse indicators : Working children, sexual abuse, prostitution, teenage pregnancy, school withdrawal, …
  • Includes commonly used illegal drugs, by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and their rating, addiction and tolerance, toxicity, etc…
  • Laboratory Administration
  • Prescription writing
  • Patient appointment Administration (both ambulatory and inpatient)
  • Inpatient (Hospitalization) Management
  • Vademecum : Includes the World Health Organization (WHO) essential list of medicines.
  • Genetic and Hereditary diseases. ( Over 4200 NCBI and Diseases genes )
  • Includes International Classification of Diseases, version 10, as well as the ICD-10-PCS ( Procedure Coding System )
  • Demographics, epidemiology and other statistical reports

The 1.0 release should be out in December, and in between we will have at least 2 more Release Canditates (RC2 and RC3).

The Release Candidate period is for :
– Test the system and fix critical bugs
– Fully document the current functionality and 
– Complete the translation to the many languages that Medical supports.
– Add more demo data to ease the learning curve

Many thanks to all the Medical community that have contributed to the creation of the universal free Health Information System !


Luis Falcón


About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System
Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.


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Programa IWEEE 2010 Brasil

06 Saturday Nov 2010

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10:00-10:30 Corinto Meffe
Cesar Brod		 República Federativa do Brasil Brasil Apertura del evento
10:30-11:00 Tataiana Al-Chueyr Globo Brasil InVesalius -Por dentro do software de imagens médicas
11:00-11:30 Luis Falcón GNU Solidario España Medical 1.0 y su rol en salud pública
11:30-12:00 Victor Aravena CEISUFRO Chile Historial Clínico Electrónico Ciudadano
12:00-12:30 Luis Simes Facultad de Medicina H.A. Barceló Argentina Uso de Medical en estudios de prevalencia de Metabolopatías, Dengue y Chagas en Argentina
12:30-13:00 Giuliana Garcete Décima Región Sanitaria Paraguay Utilización de tecnologías en el acceso a la información, comunicación y protocolo en la salud de la triple frontera
13:00-13:30 Raphael Ademoyegun Ondo State Health Management Nigeria Challenges and Prospects in Nigeria
13:30-14:00 Luciana Tricalli Universidade Federal Flumiense Brasil Healthcare Knowledge Modelling Projects for Multilevel-Based Information Systems
14:00-14:30 Tim Cook Universidade Federal Flumiense Brasil Current applications at the MLHIM Laboratory
14:30-16:00 Round Table Hypes and Hopes : Encontrando el equilibrio. Estado actual de eHealth en economías emergentes

IWEEE 2010 Brazil: e-Health For All

29 Friday Oct 2010

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Posted below is the preliminary list of confirmed speakers for IWEEE 2010 Brazil: e-Health For All. In a few days we’ll post the talks titles and schedule times.

Corinto Meffe y Cesar Brod
Latinoware
Republica Federativa do Brasil – Brasil –

Luis Falcon
GNU Solidario – España –

Victor Aravena
CEISUFRO – Chile –

Luis Simes
Facultad de Medicina H.A. Barceló – Argentina –

Giuliana Garcete
Décima Región Sanitaria – Paraguay –

Raphael Ademoyegun
Ondo State Health Management Nigeria – Africa –

Luciana Tricalli
Universidade Federal Flumiense – Brasil –

Tataiana Al-Chueyr
Globo.com – Brasil –

Tim Cook
Universidade Federal Flumiense – Brasil –

Round Table: Hypes and Hopes: Finding the balance. Current status of e-Health in Emerging Economies.

Please check our site for more info: www.iweee.org.

Regards,
Selene Cordara

IWEEE 2010 Brasil: e-Health Para Todos

29 Friday Oct 2010

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Hola a todos:
Adjunto una lista preliminar de los ponentes que asistirán a IWEEE 2010 Brasil: e-Health Para Todos – En unos días tendré los titulos y horarios de las charlas, no dejen de chequear nuesto sito para mas información: www.iweee.org

Corinto Meffe y Cesar Brod
Latinoware
Republica Federativa do Brasil – Brasil –

Luis Falcon
GNU Solidario – España –

Victor Aravena
CEISUFRO – Chile –

Luis Simes
Facultad de Medicina H.A. Barceló – Argentina –

Giuliana Garcete
Décima Región Sanitaria – Paraguay –

Raphael Ademoyegun
Ondo State Health Management Nigeria – Africa –

Luciana Tricalli
Universidade Federal Flumiense – Brasil –

Tataiana Al-Chueyr
Globo.com – Brasil –

Tim Cook
Universidade Federal Flumiense – Brasil –

Mesa redonda: Hypes and Hopes: Encontrando el equilibrio. Estado actual de eHealth en economias emergentes.

GNU Solidario, Medical and Debian GNU/Linux

25 Monday Oct 2010

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Before the end of the year we will witness three major milestones : 

  • Medical 1.0
  • OpenERP 6.0
  • Debian GNU/Linux 6.0

In this blog I write about the importance of Debian in our organization, GNU Solidario.

We, GNU Solidario, have been using Debian GNU/Linux for many years, not only in our installations, but in our implementations, as well as mirroring the repositories for Argentina.

Medical in Debian GNU/Linux 6 (Squeeze)
Primary school children installing Debian in rural school

This entry is a tribute to the Debian community, which has been always at the heart of Free Software, and today is the source for many linux distributions (including Ubuntu).
Here are some pictures when we installed some years ago Debian GNU/Linux in two rural schools in Santiago del Estero.

Thanks to Debian for all these years of contribution to the community, as a truly Free Operating System.
If you are about to get into GNU/Linux, try Debian, it’s very stable; has a great community and it’s truly free ! Visit http://www.debian.org

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System

Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Main site : http://medical.sf.net

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Doctor Oñativia’s Health Center installs Medical

14 Thursday Oct 2010

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Medical, the free Hospital and Health Information System was installed in Dr. Oñativias primary care health center.

Doctor Oñativia’s Health Regional Center

The health center, located in the community of Corrales, Paraná, in Entre Rios, Argentina, provides primary and emergency care to a population over 20000 habitants.

The health center has an ER and a 24-hour ambulance service. It provides care in clinical medicine, cardiology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, kinesiology, dentistry and ophthalmology. It also has a pharmacy, a lab, ultrasound specialists and nutritionists. There is also a Social Area with psychologists, educational psychologists and social workers.

The Center also conducts other activities, such as periodic surveillance to low income areas, in order to help families and their children in sanitary risk. The Health Center has a group of more than 90 professionals.

The Medical Implementation Project

The project consists of the following stages :

* The installation of Health Center Information System
* Training of the health center staff,
* Design and implementation of the hardware and network infrastructure

For the first installation of Medical, the center hired a software development provider, which proposed the health management software MEDICAL. The system (Medical) is free software, so the Health Center doesn’t have any costs for patents or licenses .

The solution created for the Center manages :

* Adults and pediatric patients database (Plan Nacer, Nation Ministry of Health)
* Outpatient medical appointments and other Center’s professional services ,
* Patient’s social environment, health care, personal data,
* Patient’s clinical record, based on evaluations and diagnoses,
* Epidemiology reports.

Congratulations to Mario Puntin and to the Dr. Oñativia’s Center team, who work daily to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants !

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System

Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Main site : http://medical.sf.net

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