by Luis Falcon

I am happy to announce the release of the Beta version of Medical, the award-winning free Health and Hospital Information System.

This beta version represents almost 2 years of work, with a multinational team of scientists, physicians, social workers, biochemists, pharmacists, translators and many others who have contributed their time.

Medical represents a solid alternative to proprietary systems, specially for those living in emerging economies and the underprivileged. It’s a free system put on the hand of health professionals and governments to improve the lives of their citizens.

The Beta version highlights are :

• Strong focus in family medicine and Primary Health Care
• Major interest in Socio-economics (housing conditions, substance abuse, nutrition, education…)
• Diseases and Medical procedures standards (ICD-10 / ICD-10-PCS)
• Patient Genetic and Hereditary risks : Over 4200 genes related to diseases (NCBI / Genecards)
• Epidemiological and other statistical reports
• Prescription writing
• Billing
• Perinatal and puerperium
• Inpatient / Outpatient management
• 100% paperless patient examination and history taking
• Patient Administration
• Appointment management
• Doctor Administration
• Lab Administration
• Vademecum
• Drugs and medication
• Medical stock and supply chain management
• Hospital Financial Administration

Medical and / or its homepage has been translated to Bahasa, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.

We are also working on the new documentation portal, that can be accessed directly from the Medical homepage

You can download and test Medical at sourceforge : http://medical.sf.net

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

I’ll be presenting Medical in LinuxCon Brazil 2010, this August. You can check the current and next events here

Thanks
Luis Falcón

GNU Solidario is very happy to announce that Mr. Stallman will be at IWEEE 2010.

Richard Stallman, is an American software freedom activist, and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely-used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989

For more info: www.iweee.org

Es una gran alegría el poder compartir con ustedes el artículo de la prestigiosa revista Linux Magazine que saldrá el próximo mes de enero, la cual posiciona a Medical como un ejemplo de sistemas de software libre que ayudan a la comunidad.

Medical es un proyecto enmarcado en GNU Solidario, que tiene el objetivo de proveer salud y educación a los más necesitados.

Agradezco a todos los que colaboran con nuestro proyecto (universidades, bioquímicos, doctores, informáticos, agentes sociales, … ) desde distintos lugares del mundo, que hoy permiten que países como Nigeria tengan un sistema centralizado de gestión hospitalaria y de información de Salud, el cual mejorará la calidad de vida de sus habitantes.

Medical es un proyecto muy joven, pero en este año ya tenemos la base, el equipo y el reconocimiento de la comunidad con distintos premios.

Los animo a seguir participando y siendo parte de GNU Solidario y del proyecto Medical. En este próximo año 2010, hay una multitud de proyectos que involucran a Medical, los que dignificarán la vida de las poblaciones más necesitadas.

Finalmente, aprovecho para invitarlos a la conferencia IWEEE 2010, que tendrá lugar en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, en febrero, a la que asistirán representantes de las Naciones Unidas, OMS, FSF, entre otros.

Para más información pueden visitar los siguientes enlaces :

http://www.iweee.org
http://gnusolidario.org
http://medical.sourceforge.net/es/

Artículo original : http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/110/094-095_projects.pdf

Un abrazo

—
Luis Falcón

We are very happy and proud to announce that Thymbra is a new member of the ISfTeH

The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) exists to facilitate the international dissemination of knowledge and experience in Telemedicine and eHealth and to provide access to recognized experts in the field worldwide.
The ISfTeH is the international federation of national associations who represent their country’s Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders.

The ISfTeH is also open to additional associations, institutions, companies and individuals with a keen interest in the subject of Telemedicine and eHealth, or with activities that are relevant to this field.The ISfTeH fosters the sharing of knowledge and experiences across organizations and across borders and aims to promote the widespread use of ICT tools and solutions in health and social care.

In 2008, the ISfTeH was also awarded the status of “NGO in Official Relations with the World Health Organization”, making it an international reference in Telemedicine and eHealth for health policy makers from around the world.

Through its national member associations and through courses and conferences, the ISfTeH does participate in the establishment of eHealth training and implementation plans, and provides guidance, assistance and education where needed.

More info at: www.thymbra.com

Estamos celebrando el primer aniversario de la academia de Latinoamericana de OpenERP en Thymbra

En este año, en Thymbra hemos tenido personas de todo Latino América. Desde Argentina y Uruguay hasta España, Ecuador y Venezuela.

El número de estudiantes ha crecido de manera exponencial, proporcionalmente al interés de la comunidad Latinoamericana en OpenERP.

Desde que Thymbra empezó su relación de partner con Tiny SPRL Bélgica en el año 2005 (primeros en España y Latinoamérica), el número de implementaciones y de estudiantes no ha parado de aumentar.

Esto ratifica nuestro eslogan :

“Tres décadas de [r]evolución :
GNU (1980s ) -> Linux (1990s) -> OpenERP (2000)”

La academia OpenERP en Latinoamérica es la única que tiene la certificación de Bélgica en España y Latinoamérica.

Por último, muchas gracias a todos los que han confiado los servicios de formación e implementación en Thymbra. Retailers, compañía de servicios, universidades, empresas de manufactura …. esto es sólo el principio.

Thymbra está comprometida en brindar la mejor localización de OpenERP a las compañías de Latinoamérica y España.

Atentamente
Luis Falcón