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GNU Health 3.0.2 released

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Dear community:

GNU Health 3.0.2 patchset has been released !

Table of Contents

  • About GNU Health Patchsets
  • Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
  • Installation notes
  • List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide “patchsets” to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.
Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.
For more information about GNU Health patches and patchsets you can visit https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Patches_and_Patchsets
NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-3.0.2.tar.gz)

Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center

Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do automatic updates on the GNU Health and Tryton kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program.
Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center )
The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don’t use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.

Summary of this patchset

  • Issues with GTK client on MS, and performance improvements
  • GNU Health control now includes automatic download of security patches from its components[1]. There is always Security Advisory (SA) associated to the patch.
  • New site for GNU Health translation portal is now at translate.gnusolidario.org. GNU Health control has been updated to fetch the language packs from the new URL.
  • Bug fixes on reports, especially on dates, ages and date formats.
  • Gnuhealth-control has been updated. These tools are also packaged separately, with their own numbering, so you can always download the latest version without the need of applying a patchset.
Refer to the List of issues related to this patchset for a comprehensive list of fixed bugs.

Installation Notes

You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 3.0.1, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health FTP site (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)
Follow the general instructions at

List of issues related to this patchset

client: #47583: Windows client crashes rendering SVG files
health_iss: #48491: Remove TimeDelta for age and use patient gender
health: #47983: Performance and scalability issues on party address
health_stock: #47739: Allow to use storage for pharmacy
gnuhealth-control : Update to 3.0.3. Use SSL for main GNU URL. Include automatic download of security advisories. Updated URL for translation portal (translate.gnusolidario.org)
health: #47562: Domain error when modifying a party name
health : #47312: Use Subdivision as label in DU
task #13904: Use user specific date format in reports. Include DoB validation
health_socioeconomics : remove TimeDelta function and use standard GNU Health age computation in Family and Socioeconomic assessment
For detailed information about each issue, you can visit https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health 

Inicia la digitalización de historias clínicas en Diamante, Argentina

23 Thursday Jun 2016

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Se realiza con el sistema informático GNU Health en dos centros dependientes de la comuna,. La primera etapa consta de la digitalización de las historias clínicas personalizada y digitalizada con foto del paciente.
El Área de Salud Municipal de Diamante informó que se comenzó a trabajar con el sistema informático GNU Health en el Centro de Atención Primaria de la Salud (CAPS) de Barrio Belgrano y en el Centro Integrador Comunitario (CIC) “Dr. Domingo Liotta”. La primera etapa consta de la digitalización de las historias clínicas personalizada y digitalizada con foto del paciente … leer más 
 

GNU Solidario and Fundación Recover Hospitales para África

01 Tuesday Mar 2016

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We are very happy to announce that on March 1st. 2016, GNU Solidario and Fundación Recover signed an agreement of cooperation.

The two NGOs will join forces in order to promote and improve health care in African hospitals, through the implementation of GNU Health.

 
 

 

GNU Health 3.0 is out !

11 Monday Jan 2016

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Dear all:

After one year of work, I am vey happy and proud to announce the release
of GNU Health 3.0 series !

The following are some of the new features:

* Tryton 3.8 compatibility and responsive web client.
* Multiple person names, compliant with FHIR HL7, and flexible
  person name formats
* Automatic inclusion of medicament history from the prescription
* History of a person socioeconomic assessments
* Link to patient health conditions
* Health conditions now visible from patient main page
* Any person can be mapped to an internal user, not only the health
  professionals
* Add person biological sex and gender properties.
* Check all evaluations related to a person specific healh condition
* Easy change a patient appointment status from the tree view (checked
  in, no show, … )
* Automatic computing of a patient evaluation waiting time
* Hospitalization and outpatient discharge reason
* Merge chronic with followups evaluations. Merge ambulatory with
  outpatient evaluations
* Optimize CAGE (Alcoholism status assessment) view
* Enhanced Crypto plugin and module
* Create / see all the evaluations within a hospitalization
* Health center and hospitalization meals management
* Improved surgery module (surgery team, supplies, status, wound
  class, post-op dx, reservation workflow)
* Health services reporting
* Automatic prescription concentration, form and route based on the med
* Enhanced functionality in patient evaluation.
* Improved reporting
* Include / Update unitests ( Thanks Cedric !)
* Improved ergonomics for patient conditions and history.
* Patient protheses and amputation history ( Thanks Lao team !)
* Automatic inclusion of prescription lines in Service document
* Updated disease groups (thanks Chris Zimmerman !)
* Improve patient clinical history report
* New installer gnuhealth-setup tool
* Improved gnuhealth-control center
* Installation of language packs in one single instruction.

* Many other additions and community contributions …

New Modules :

* WHO ICD9 Volume 3 (procedural codes) (in addition to ICD10-PCS and
  ICPM) .( Thanks Min of Health of Morelos, Mexico !)
* Ophthalmology module ( thanks Sivadas !)
* Functioning and Disability module [1]

Translation portal moves to Pootle :

Since GNU Health 3.0, the main translation portal is at GNU Pootle server [2]

The following languages have been requested, and they are now included.

* Arabic
* Chinese (China)
* English (United Kingdom)
* French
* German (Austria)
* Greek
* Italian
* Japanese
* Kannada
* Lao
* Portuguese (Brazil)
* Spanish (Argentina)
* Spanish (Ecuador)
* Spanish (Mexico)
* Spanish (Peru)
* Spanish (Spain)

Some of them are still in the process of migrating the translation files from Transifex to the GNU Pootle server. It will take a bit until everything is in place. Of course, you can update your server translation packs at anytime,  using the getlang command of gnuhealth-control program.

There is a new mailing list (health-i18n) dedicated to the localization and translation of GNU Health[3]

During the upcoming weeks we’ll be updating the documentation, improving the demo database, as well as working on the translations.

Of course, we’ll be fixing any bugs you will find in this new release 🙂

Many, many thanks to all of you who have contributed to this release, in any way!

All the best,

1.-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Classification_of_Functioning,_Disability_and_Health
2.- https://chapters.gnu.org/projects/health/
3.- https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/health-i18n
4.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-9-CM_Volume_3

Luis Falcón

GNU Health en Servicios de Salud de Morelos

20 Friday Nov 2015

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Con la finalidad de optimizar la atención, así como evitar papeleo y demoras, la Secretaría de Salud a través de Servicios de Salud de Morelos (SSM), implementará un sistema de software libre GNU Health especial para expediente médico electrónico, adaptado por la Universidad de Naciones Unidas y Ministerios de Salud de distintos países … leer mas

With the purpose to optimize primary care, as well as avoiding paperworks and delays, the Ministry of Health through the Health Services of Morelos (SSM) will implement GNU Health, a free software Health and Hospital Information System, adopted by the University of United Nations and the Ministries of Health of other countries. By 2018 this software will be able to make all the medical records of 7 General Hospitals, 3 Community Hospitals and 204 Health Centers fully electronic (EMR) in order to satisfy the functionality of the medical history, hospital management and Health Information System (HIS).

This project will allow a better coordination between first and second level of health care, becauseit will be able to schedule appointments and get labs results with no need to attend the units, always guaranteeing the confidentiality of patients’ data. Given this new technology and with the goal to make the system more efficient, the Informatics Team of SSM will be trained by Luis Falcón, MD and Computer Scientis, creator of the system ­ GNU Health.

GNU Health version 2.8.0 released

02 Monday Feb 2015

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Dear GNU Health community:

After 7 months of intense work, I am happy to announce GNU Health 2.8 series !

Here is a partial list of the new features :

* Tryton 3.4 compatibility
* Distributed environment, data aggregation and synchronization features
* Universal Person Unique Identifier (PUID) and UUID implementation
* Country immunization schedule
* HL7 FHIR server (thank you, Chris Zimmerman !)
* Automatic person immunization status check
* Vital Records System : Birth and Death certificates
* Enhanced security for Tryton server credentials
* Injury Surveillance System (Thank you, Jamaica MoH !)
* GNU Health control program : Automatic backups and patches
* Enhanced Crypto features / GNU Privacy Guard integration
* New models including in digital signatures
* Demographics reports

There are many other improvements and bug fixes that have not been included in this summary document. You can read the Changelog for a detailed description of all the activity.

** Installation :
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If you are installing GNU Health as the first time, follow the instructions in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation

** Existing Installations : Upgrade procedure
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If you already have a GNU Health system in your health center, you should upgrade it to 2.8.0 . As always, the upgrade path is included in GNU Health.  The upgrade for version 2.8.0 is straight forward :

Follow the Upgrade Instructions in the Wikibook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Upgrade

** Official Languages
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GNU Health now includes English, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and  Spanish, as the official languages. The language packs of the official languages are included in the GNU Health package, with all the modules, so there is no need to download.

There are over 100 language teams for GNU Health ! If you are a language maintainer and want to include your language for the next stable release, please send us a mail to health@gnusolidario.org .

Thanks !
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A big thank you to my colleagues from GNU Health community; GNU Solidario; Thymbra and Tryton, and to the Free Software movement.

Enjoy the new version and report any bug / issues / improvements to health@gnu.org !

 
Luis Falcón

GNU Health version 2.6 released

07 Monday Jul 2014

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Dear GNU Health community

After 6 months of work, we are very happy to announce GNU Health 2.6 series. This version improves the navigation, security and data integrity (health_crypto) and audit. It has also been designed to be used in distributed environments, such a network of public hospitals in a province or country.

Here is a partial list of the new features :

* Tryton 3.2 compatibility
* Universal Person Unique Identifier (PUID)
* Additional / alternative identification codes are now stored in
  the person (party) model.
* Crypto module (Document Digest, validation, digital
  signing/verification )
* Crypto tryton plugin (included in the backend directory of the
  tarball)
* Revision of models for Distributed deployments
* Health Archives module
* New Institution model
* Revised health specialties and disease groups
* Remove extra submenus, for usability.
* Revised medication model
* Improved Obstetrics module (eg, automatic obstetric GPA calculation)
* New shortcuts from the Patient and Institution Model.
* Improved Genetics module
* Revised Neonatolgy functionality. Newborn is assigned a PUID at birth
* New directory for custom modules
* Centralized Authentication / LDAP integration
* Audit trails from the client (thanks Tryton 3.2)
* Improved installation script (covers GNU/Linux distros and FreeBSD)
* Of course, upgrade path is included.

There are many other improvements and bug fixes that have not been included in this summary document. You can read the Changelog for a detailed description of all the activity.

** Installation :
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If you are installing GNU Health as the first time, follow the instructions in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation

Note : The gnuhealth_install script tries to do a local installation, including the required Python packages. This version updates the python packages to one of the latest stable releases. If you are coming from a dedicated server for GNU Health, and used the official installation script, you should be OK. If you installed packages in a system-wide manner, then you would need to uninstall them before the update, otherwise the installation script won’t be able to upgrade them.

** Existing Installations : Upgrade procedure :
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If you already have a GNU Health system in your health center, you should upgrade it to 2.6.0 . As always, the upgrade path is included in GNU Health.  The upgrade for version 2.6.0 is straight forward :

Follow the Upgrade Instructions in the Wikibook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Upgrade

** Official Languages.
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GNU Health now includes English, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and  Spanish, as the official languages. The language packs of the official languages are included in the GNU Health package, with all the modules, so there is no need to download.

There are over 85 GNU Health language teams in Transifex. If you are a language maintainer and want to include your language for the next stable release, please send us a mail to health@gnusolidario.org .

Thanks !
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 A big thank you to my colleagues from GNU Health community; GNU Solidario; Thymbra and Tryton, and to the Free Software movement.

Enjoy the new version and report any bug / issues / improvements to
health@gnu.org !

PS: In the coming days we’ll be updating the Wikibook, so it reflects the new features of this version

Best,

—
Luis Falcon
GNU Health : Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
http://health.gnu.org
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GNU Health Reporting

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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In the last blog I talked about the QR codes integration in GNU Health.
Today I am very happy to  show a couple of reports from GNU Health, done in the Tryton (Relatorio and Libre Office) framework.
In GNU Health you can generate complex dynamic reports. In the next two examples, the patient and newborn information is displayed. Some of the information is encoded in the QR code.

Patient ID card report on GNU Health

Tryton allows you to create dynamic LibreOffice reports, and these two examples show how we can embed functions, real-time graphics or change the font color depending on the gender of the patient, to name a few capabilities of this great environment.
Newborn wristband Identification, with all the information encoded in QR

We show again how Free Software (Tryton, Libre Office, Python, Postgresql, GNU/Linux, … ) allow us doing anything we need. So, please use Free software. It’s ethical.  

We fight for equity in Health care, and one way of doing so is by using Free Software !

About GNU Health

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

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

GNU Health is an official GNU Package , chosen by Richard Stallman, and is part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.

GNU Health is the Hospital Information System chosen by the United Nations International Institute of Global Health.

Main site : health.gnu.org

Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :

    European Commission (EU) , JoinUp

    Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

GNU Health at Paraguay Ministry of Public Health

26 Saturday Nov 2011

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I just got back from Paraguay, where we were invited by Mr. Nicolás Caballero from the Paraguayan Government to talk about GNU Health at the Social Security Institute (IPS – Instituto de Previsión Social ) and Ministry of Public Health .

It’s great  to see how Paraguay is adopting Free Software in the Public Health System, working as a team, from the Presidency office, the Social Security Institute (IPS) and the Ministry of Public Health (MSPBS).
I noticed how the government conceives Health informatics as a public good, an integral component  of Public Health.   

At Dr. Emilio Cubas Hospital. The largest health center in Paraguay

We spent two non-stop days in Asunción, capital of Paraguay, visiting the different health centers and having meetings with health officials. In those meetings, Nicolas Caballero explained the latest and concrete resolutions that the Paraguayan government is taking on Free Software adoption in public health care. 

Nicolas Caballero and Social Security Institute (IPS) members

Luis Falcón, Nurhizam Safie, Cristina Melgosa, Rosa González and Ana Ayala (director of Informatics)  from IPS

After visiting the different health centers, we had a meeting with the information system team, with whom we discussed the technical details about GNU Health, such as the programming environment, security, scalability and reporting. 
Explaining technical details about GNU Health at the General Hospital
At Clinica Nanawa

Dr. Nurhizam Safie, from the United Nations University, Institute of Global Health explained the partnership with GNU Solidario, and implementation cases of GNU Health in Asia, Africa and Latinamerica.
Nurhizam stressed the commitment of the UNU – the academic branch of the United Nations – with GNU Health and the implementation in the Paraguayan Public Health system, as a way of delivering universality in health care. Today UNU provides training and capacity building in GNU Health implementations.  

Dr. Nurhizam Safie from United Nations University, talking about the UNU commitment to the project
Part of the Informatics department team at Central Hospital led by Rosa González
Ms. Rosa González, Social Security Institute chief of the informatics department, gave us an extensive tour throughout different health institutions and their departments. Among them: Pharmacy, Laboratory, Appointments, Inpatient administration and Imaging.
Rosa explained to her team that GNU Health is licensed under GPL, the GNU General Public License, so they have all the freedom to use and custumize GNU Health to fit their needs. I stressed the importance of working with the community, so the health informatics team can always ask questions in public forums and share with us their developments and bug fixes. GNU Health is the result of many contributions and feedback  from an international community and multi-disciplinary teams.
At the Geriatric Hospital

Dr Nurhizam, Cristina Melgosa and Rosa González at IPS entrance hall

On Friday afternoon we were invited by Dr. Graciela Gamarra, General Director of Strategic Health Information Systems, from the Health Ministry (Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social). They showed us their current epidemiology systems that are being built on Free Software.
We also discussed on integrating all the current systems with GNU Health, and link it to the current epidemiology engine.
Taking a break

I want to thank the government of Paraguay for inviting us and for the hospitality, they made us feel at home.

But most importantly, I want to thank the government of Paraguay for the commitment with Free Software in Public Health. Latin America is today a leader in the adoption of Free Software in public administrations, delivering equity and universality in health care for their habitants.

Last but not least, thanks to Richard Stallman, who referred GNU Health to Nicolás Caballero , chief technology innovation officer of the Presidency office.  Thanks Nicolás for making this possible !

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

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System


GNU Health is an official GNU Package and is part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.

GNU Health is the Hospital Information System chosen by the United Nations International Institute of Global Health. 

Main site : health.gnu.org

Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :
  • European Commission (EU) , OSOR

  • Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

GNU Health 1.4.1 released !

29 Saturday Oct 2011

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I’m happy to announce the release of GNU Health 1.4.1, in which we have incorporated support for PyPI, the Python Package Index

This version is compatible with the latest tryton release (2.2.0). Now GNU Health is also a set of python modules, fully integrated to the Python community.

Thanks to the magic of pip, and the help of the Tryton community ( Cedric Krier, et al ), installing the latest GNU Health version is as easy as running

pip install –user trytond_health_profile

This will install the requirements ( the tryton server and all the standard GNU Health modules ) automatically and in your “$HOME/.local” directory. I will be updating the installation process at the wiki today.
The main site is the GNU Savannah where all the development and discussion takes place.

There are many improvements, bug fixes and news features, some of them :

  • CalDav compatibility (it allows complex calendar views and settings for appointments and hospitalizations)
  • Support for JSON RPC protocol
  • Fully Tryton 2.2 compatible
  • Enhanced Medication form
  • New Medicament categories
  • Medication pregnancy category
  • Included the latest WHO essential medicines (17th edition)
  • New translation engine (to be used with .po format)
  • Improve Laboratory model and functionality

Thanks to all of you for contributing with your code, testing, translating and documenting the project !


About GNU Health

GNU Health (formerly known as “Medical”) is a free (GPL license), Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality :
  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System

GNU Health is an official GNU Package and is part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.

GNU Health is the Hospital Information System chosen by the United Nations International Institute of Global Health.

Main site : health.gnu.org

Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :