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Hospital de Salud Mental referente en Argentina elige GNU Health

18 Saturday Mar 2023

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, HMIS

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argentina, gestión hospitalaria, GNU Health, medicina social, salud mental, Salud Pública

La Organización Mundial de la Salud define salud como un estado de completo bienestar físico, mental y social, y no solamente la ausencia de afecciones o enfermedades.

Desafortunadamente, esta definición está lejos de cumplirse en nuestra sociedad. En vez de abrazar la salud, estamos inmersos en el sistema de enfermedad, gobernado por un modelo de gestión reactivo, reduccionista e insostenible. El noble arte y ciencia de la medicina está enfermo. Instituciones financieras y gigantes corporaciones tecnológicas están destruyendo el factor humano de la práctica médica, transformando las personas y pacientes en clientes. Están reduciendo el derecho humano no-negociable de la salud a un privilegio al alcance de unos pocos.

Volviendo a la definición formal de la salud, en el actual sistema de enfermedad, poco o nada se tiene en cuenta el bienestar social y mental. Al día de hoy, muchas personas con condiciones de salud mental no sólo tienen que lidiar con los aspectos fisiopatológicos de la enfermedad, sino que deben enfrentarse a la exclusión social y el estigma impuestos por una sociedad enferma de individualismo y carente de empatía.

En cualquier caso, soy optimista. Hay esperanza. La medicina es una ciencia social y GNUHealth es un proyecto social con algo de tecnología. Este sentimiento de optimismo se ha visto reforzado la semana pasada en mi viaje a Argentina y por el equipo humano. Al final del día, la medicina son personas interactuando y ayudando a personas. Esto lo conozco bien, porque hice la carrera de medicina en Argentina, donde los profesores y profesionales de salud anteponían la persona antes que el paciente. Ese profundo respeto hacia la persona que padece lo pude observar en muchos de los centros de salud en los que roté. En Buenos Aires lo vi en la guardia del Rivadavia; en cirugía y en los servicios cuidados paliativos del Tornú; en el neuropsiquiátrico del htal Moyano, por nombrar algunos. El humanismo médico brota por los poros de las mujeres y hombres profesionales de salud en cada salita y centro de atención primara que he visitado a lo largo de estos años en Entre Ríos, como el centro comunitario D’Angelo, situado en el barrio Anacleto Medina, uno de los más carenciados de Paraná. Tuve el honor de entregar en persona el premio GNU Health de Medicina Social en 2022 a su directora, Teresita Calzia.

El centro de Salud Humberto D’Angelo lleva 10 años utilizando GNU Health para una gestión integral de la salud comunitaria. En el cuadrante superior izquierdo, Carli Scotta y Fernando Sassetti junto al panel de situación. Debajo foto de grupo. A derecha su directora, Teresita Calzia, junto a Ana María Dominguez, enfermera quien sostiene el premio GNUHealth a la Medicina Social 2022.

El Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental ha elegido GNUHealth para mejorar la gestión de sus recursos, así como para ofrecer la mejor asistencia médica a su comunidad, tanto en un entorno ambulatorio como hospitalario. Ser capaz de identificar inequívocamente y en tiempo real a cada persona que necesita atención, así como conocer la historia socio-sanitaria, médica y su historia clínica será una gran ayuda para los profesionales de salud como para el propio paciente.

La implementación de GNUHealth en el Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental se llevará a cabo por la cátedra de Salud Pública de la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, conjuntamente con el equipo local del centro de salud (psicólogos, enfermeros, médicos, agentes sociales) y apoyada por GNU Solidario. El día de mi visita nos reunimos con el equipo de salud y se presentó el proyecto “Implementación de un sistema informático para la gestión hospitalaria y el cuidado de la salud de los usuarios del Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental de la ciudad de Paraná”, que cuenta con el financiamiento de los Proyectos Federales de Innovación 2022.

Integrantes del equipo de salud del Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental, representantes de la provincia de Entre Ríos y autoridades académicas.

La salud es un equilibrio de los dominios físico, social, mental, espiritual y medioambiental, que son interdependientes e inseparables. Practicar la medicina es intentar mantener el balance cuerpo-mente-espíritu, tanto a nivel individual como colectivo. Este abordaje holístico de la salud está codificado en el genoma de cada enfermera, psicólogo, trabajador social y médico del Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental, así como de cada centro de Atención Primaria que he visitado a lo largo de estos años en Entre Ríos, Argentina. Es un honor y me siento muy afortunado de poder cooperar con ellos.

Referencias / enlaces relacionados

Un software Libre para mejorar las políticas de salud: https://www.eldiario.com.ar/253548-un-software-para-mejorar-las-politicas-de-salud/

Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental : http://www.hesm.gob.ar/

Audiovisual institucional Hospital Escuela de Salud Mental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx08WyfKRIE&t=12s

GNU Health: https://www.gnuhealth.org

GNUHealthCon 2020. Social Medicine in a time of pandemic

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

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

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ehealth, GHCon, Human Rights, IWEEE, Public Health, Social Medicine

It was not easy… we’re so used to celebrate the GNU Health Conference (GHCon) and the International Workshop on eHealth in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) in a physical location, that changing to a virtual conference was challenging. At the end of the day, we are about Social Medicine, and social interaction is a key part of it.

The pandemic has changed many things, including the way we interact. So we decided to work on a Big Blue Button instance, and switch to virtual hugs for this year. Surprisingly, it work out very well. We had colleagues from Gabon, Brazil, Japan, Austria, United States, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Chile, Belgium, Jamaica, England, Greece and Switzerland. We didn’t have any serious issues with the connectivity, and all the live presentations went fine. Time zone difference among countries was a bit challenging, specially to our friends from Asia, but they made it!

Social Medicine, health literacy and patient activation

The non-technical talks covered key aspects in Social Medicine, Citizens, health literacy, patient activation and Global digital health records, given by Dr. Richard Fitton, Steve and Oliver, two of his patients. Armand Mpassy talked about the challenges about GNU Health for IT illiterate Case study: Patient workflow at the outpatient service.

Individual privacy and crypto

On privacy and cryptography subjects, we had talks from Isabela Bagueros from Tor, Surviving the surveillance pandemic, Ricardo Morte Ferrer on A proposal for the implementation of a Whistleblower Channel in GNU Health, and Florian Dold on GNU Taler: A payment system by the GNU Project.

openSUSE Leap, packaging GNU Health and Orthanc

On operating systems, Doug Demaio from openSUSE talked about The big Change for openSUSE Leap 15.3, the new features on the upcoming release of this great distribution, bringing sources of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) closer to the community distribution. I can not stress enough the importance of getting professional support on your GNU Health installations. Health informatics should not be taken lightly, and is key to have a solid implementation of the underlying operating system components, to get the highest levels of of security, availability and performance in GNU Health.

Axel Braun, board member openSUSE and core team member of GNU Health, focused on packaging GNU Health and the openSUSE Open Build Service (OBS). The presentation Hidden Gems – the easy way to GNU Health, put the stress on making GNU Health installation even easier, in a self-contained environment.

Sébastien Jogdone, leader of the Orthanc project, presented Using WebAssembly to render medical images, an open standard that allows to run C/C++ code on a web browser. This is great news since GNU Health integrates with Orthanc PACS server.

Qt and KDE projects in the spotlight

If we think about innovation in computing, we think about Qt and KDE. GNU Health integrates this bleeding edge technology in MyGNUHealth, the GNU Health Personal Health Record for desktop and mobile devices that uses Qt and Kirigami frameworks.

Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., presented Delivering Software like KDE, putting emphasis on delivering code that would be valid for many different platforms, specially mobile devices.

Cristián Maureira-Fredes, leader of the Qt for Python project, in his presentation Qt for Python: past, present, and future!, talked about the history and the upcoming developments in the project, such as PySide6, the latest Python package and development environment for Qt6. MyGNUHealth is a PySide application, so we’re very happy to have Cristián and Aleix on the team!

Dimitris Kardarakos, presented a key concept on modern applications, that is convergence, the property of the application to adapt to different platforms and geometries. His talk Desktop/mobile convergent applications with Kirigami explained how this framework KDE framework, that implements the KDE Human Interface Guidelines, helps the developers create convergent, consistent applications from the same codebase. MyGNUHealth is an example of a convergent application, to be used both in the desktop as in a mobile device.

I did go into details on MyGNUHealth design in my talk, MyGNUHealth The GNU Health Personal Health Record (PHR).

Argentina leading Public Health implementations with Libre Software

Many years of methodical and intense hard work in the areas of health informatics and public health have paid off. The team lead by Dr. Fernando Sassetti, head of the Public Health department of the National University of Entre Rios, has become a reference in the world of public health, Libre Software in the public administration, and implementations of GNU Health in many primary care centers and public hospitals in Argentina.

The National Scientific and Technological Promotion Bureau (Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica), chose Dr. Sassetti project based on GNU Health as the system for management of epidemics in municipalities. Health professionals were trained in GNU Health epidemiological surveillance system, as well as the contact tracing functionality.


Ingrid Spessotti and Fiorella de la Lama on their talk Outpatient follow-up and home care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, explained some of the functionality and benefits of these GNU Health packages, for instance:

  • Real-time observatory and epidemiological surveillance
  • Automatic notification of notifiable disease to the National Ministry of Health
  • Reporting on cases and contacts
  • Calls registry, monitoring of signs and symptoms.
  • Risk factors on each individual (eg, chronic diseases, socioeonomic status…)
  • Geolocalization of suspected or confirmed cases
  • Clinical management and followup for both inpatient and outpatient cases.

Carli Scotta and Mario Puntin, presented the Design, development and implementation of a Dentistry module for GNU Health: experience at the Humberto D’Angelo Primary Care Center in Argentina, a package that will be the base for the upcoming dentistry functionality in GNU Health 3.8 series.

The GNU Health Social Medicine Awards 2020

GNU Health is a social project. In every GHCon, we recognize the people and organizations that work to deliver dignity to those who need it most around the world.

Our biggest congratulations to Prof. Angela Davis, Proactiva Open Arms and Diamante Municipality!

As you can see, we still can do great conferences in the context of the pandemic. I hope to see you and hug you in person at GHCon2021.

In the meantime, stay safe!

For this and past editions of GNUHealthCon, you can visit www.gnuhealthcon.org

GNU Health en Evento Nacional de Salud – Cuba –

25 Thursday May 2017

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

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#medicinasocial, #publichealth, #saludpublica, #socialmedicine, Cuba, freesoftware, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS

Queremos agradecer a la Dirección de Salud Pública de Cuba y UIC por invitar al Dr. Luis Falcon al Evento Nacional de Salud el 25-26 Mayo en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas en la Matanzas (Cuba).

GNULinuxMeeting, Palermo (Italy)

05 Friday May 2017

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#freedom, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, #unipa, @unipa_it, freesoftware, fsf, gnu, GNU Health, gnuhealthfederation, gnulinuxmeeting, healthcare, HMIS, italy, palermo, richard stallman, sanità pubblica

GNU Health was at GNULinuxMeeting in Palermo (italy) on May 5-6, 2017. We want to thank Vincenzo Virgilio to invite us and for the great work in the GNU Health Community.

 

Dr. Luis Falcón talking about the GNU Health Federation

 

Vincenzo Virgilio and his presentation about “GNU Health prova su strada”

 

Università di Palermo – Auditorio –

 

 

At the event we had the honor to listen to Richard Stallman speach about “Free Software, your Freedom and Medicine”

Some press about the event:
https://www.ilgazzettinodisicilia.it/2017/05/13/gnulinuxmeeting/ …

 

GNU Health at Med-e-Tel 2017

04 Tuesday Apr 2017

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health

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#freedom, #opensuse, #publichealth, #raspberrypi, #socialmedicine, @Raspberry_Pi, freesoftware, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, medetel

GNU Health was at the FLOSS Village at Med-e-Tel, 5-7 April. Thank you so very much to Dr. Etienne Saliez, Thomas Karopka and Dr. Tom Kane for being part of the team !
Dr. Etienne Saliez, Thomas Karopka, Dr. Tom Kane
Dr. Tom Kane showing GNU Health running on Raspberrypi

GNU Health at SCALE 15x

03 Friday Mar 2017

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#freedom, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, Dr. M. Roofe, freesoftware, fsf, gnu, GNU Health, healthcare, Jamaica, primary care, scale15x

GNU Health at the Fifteenth Annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCALE 15x .

It was a great experience and a moment to see old friends and meet new ones.

Vienna Linux Meetup

10 Tuesday Jan 2017

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#healthinformatics, #linuxmeetup, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, linux

Dr. Edgar  Hagenbichler will be presenting GNU Health at First Meetup: Vienna Linux Meetup. Don’t miss it !

OSBAR Awards to GNU Heath

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

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#opendigi, #OSBAR, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, @coogor, @meanmicio, freesoftware, GNU Health

OSBAR Special Award to the GNU Health Project in Stuttgard, Germany. 
Thank you very much to Axel Braun for the great job and commitment to the project in Germany !

GNU Health Con – IWEEE 2016 venue

04 Friday Nov 2016

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#GNUHealthCon2016, #IWEEE2016, #LasCanteras, #LasPalmas, #socialmedicine, freesoftware, GNU Health, software libre

The GNUHealthCon – IWEEE 2016 will be held at: Canteras Congress Room, EXE HOTEL LAS CANTERAS
http://www.exelascanteras.com/EN/contact-&-map.html 
http://www.exelascanteras.com/EN/photos.html
http://www.exelascanteras.com/EN/photos.html
 

Welcome to GNU Health Con 2016 – IWEEE 2016

15 Thursday Sep 2016

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After all these years of growing as a community, it’s about time together! We are very proud and happy to announce that GNU Health now has its own conference!

 

GNU Health Con is an annual conference that brings together enthusiasts and developers of the Free/Libre Health & Hospital Information System.

More info about the GNU Health Con 2016 here

You can make a reservation for your room at a special rate at HOTEL EXE  or at HOTEL ALISIOS 

Please send a mail with the GNUHealthCon or IWEEE reference to:

comercial@exelascanteras.com
jrecepcion@exelascanteras.com
reservas@exelascanteras.com
 

reservas@hotelalisioscanteras.com

We`ll see you in Las Palmas ! 

http://www.gnuhealthcon.org/2016-las_palmas/registration.html
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