GNU Health at AfriHealth 30 November-1 December 2011

06 Sunday Nov 2011

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AfriHealth was first held in 2007 to bring together researchers, medical practitioners and ICT personnel to share information on the developments in the use of ICT to improve healthcare in Africa. We have in the past addressed the use of ICT to improve patient safety and enhance healthcare delivery in Africa.

AfriHealth 2011 will focus on current research, development and implementation of ICT technology and resources in the African Healthcare arena. A key objective of the conference, now in its fourth year, will be to share knowledge and experience from practical mobilization of ICT-based healthcare systems and projects, to showcase best practice through practical case studies and highlight potential for scaling up success stories at national and regional levels (more info: http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/74)

 
In this year edition, Dr. Nurhizam Safie, from the United Nations University, International Institute of Global Health (UNU-IIGH), Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia will give a workshop about Open Source Healthcare Information Systems and will talk about their experience with GNU Health and why it was chosen by the United Nations University.
At AfriHealth will also participate Dr Christoph Larsen, synaLinQ, Vietnam & Kenya (a very active member of the GNU Health community). He will be giving a speech on Addressing the fragile environment of e-health in resource-limited settings.
You can download the full program at the following link: http://bit.ly/uU4EVd

United Nations University offers courses in GNU Health

03 Thursday Nov 2011

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The United Nations University (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations.
The establishment of United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) befits the role of the United Nations in the effort to resolve issues pertaining to the well being of its
people and member states.

The role of UNU-IIGH fulfills the needs to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as the role transcends all the agendas as outlined in the MDGs.

UNU-IIGH is to undertake research, capacity development and dissemination of knowledge related to key issues of human health. The institute seeks to contribute to the development and strengthening of health services policy frameworks and management actions, particularly for people in developing countries and to support implementation of promotive approach to human health.


GNU Health Courses at the UNU-IIGH
The UNU-IIGH offers courses on the use of GNU Health, both from the technical and functional side.

Technical Training

– Installation from scratch ( Database, Tryton and GNU Health )
– Module development and Installation
– Introduction to reporting using LibreOffice and Tryton
– Security aspects
– Introduction to the development environment ( GNU Savannah and Mercurial )
– Data security and integrity
Functional Training

– Localization ( accounting, currency, language .. )
– Workflows
– Health center administration (Finances, stock, Supply Chain Management, … )
– User profiles and groups
– Introduction to Patient Management
For more information please refer to :
Dr. Nurhizam Safie : nurhizam@unu.edu
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 :

GNU Health at Hospital Italiano – Buenos Aires –

01 Tuesday Nov 2011

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This afternoon, in the context of the VI Jornadas Universitarias de Sistemas de Información en Salud (Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires), GNU Solidario participated with a presentation of GNU Health.

Luis Falcón at Hospital Italiano

The lectures about Open Source and Free Software Tools in Medical Informatics, coordinated by Dr. Fernando Plazzotta, started at 2:00 pm. There were many participants who presented their very interesting projects and success stories, among them Dr. Jorge Rodriguez (Biolinux).           

Dr. Fernando Plazzotta (Hospital Italiano)
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez (Biolinux)
Of course Luis Falcón gave an introductory speech about GNU Solidario and then presented GNU Health: the Free Health and Hospital Information System with its functionalities, like:
  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System 
Luis Falcón (screenshot of epidemiology)
Luis Falcón (screenshot of patient management)

We would like to give a special thanks to the Hospital Italiano for inviting us to the event.

    Attendees
    Please feel free to contact us, we`ll be more than happy to answer all your questions !

    More info: health@gnusolidario.org

    GNU Health at Encuentro Nacional de Tecnología da Informação -ENTI-

    30 Sunday Oct 2011

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    Brasilia: National Congress

    These last two weeks have been very busy !! We went from Latinoware (Foz do Iguaçu) where we organized IWEEE 2011 Brazil: Momentum to the Encuentro Nacional de Tecnología da Informação (ENTI) in Brasilia.

    Luis Falcón

    The event, organized by Ministério do Planejamiento, Ministerío das Cidades, and Secretaria de Relações Institucionaias, gathered  parallel activities:

    Juscelino Kubitschek’s Bridge
    • – II Encontro Nacional de Tecnologia da  Informação para os Municípios 
    • – II Encontro Nacional de Qualidade de Software 
    • – I Encontro de Governança em Tecnologia da Informação 
    • – I Encontro Nacional de Dados Abertos 
    • – Pré-Conferência Nacional de Governo Eletrônico 
    GNU Solidario was invited in order to present GNU Health on the 26th. Luis Falcón gave an introductory speech about the ONG, the projects and GNU Health.

    Luis Falcón and Cesar Brod
    At the presentation participated also Cesar Brod (Coordinator of the Brazilian Public Software Portal, Ministry of Planning, Brazil), who explained how they met and how Luis`s work ,with GNU Solidario, contribuited to the spread of Free Software, Education and Health. 
    Presentation of GNU Health and GNU Solidario
    The introductory speeches created the perfect atmosphere for a round table that was animated by a strong participation from the public ! There were people from the Argentinian government, from Brazilian Ministry of Health, medical professionals from different hospitals, universities and IT specialists.
    The public had many questions
    Unfortunately time really flew … There were too many questions and too little time !! As you know, you are more than welcome to get in touch with us and send us your questions, doubts, concerns …
    Roberto Sahakian – Jorge Luis Cabezas (Argentinian Government) and C. Melgosa
    Our special thanks  to Cesar Brod and Corinto Meffe (Director of Department of Integration Information System, Brazil) for all the help, support, organization and … for the translating !
    Luis Falcón and Corinto Meffe
    Going to the event !
    For more info: health@gnusolidario.org

    GNU Health 1.4.1 released

    30 Sunday Oct 2011

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    GNU Solidario is 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 :

    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 :

    GNU Health Version 1.4.0

    27 Thursday Oct 2011

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    GNU Solidario is happy to announce the release of GNU Health 1.4.0 (stable) for Tryton 2.2

    There are many improvements and new features, some of them are :

    • CalDav compatibility (it allows complex calendar views and settings for appointments and hospitalizations)
    • Enhanced Medication form
    • New Medicament categories
    • Medication pregnancy category
    • Fully Tryton 2.2 compatible
    • 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 !

    You can download Health from the official site at Savannah : https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/health

    Please report any bugs you  find in GNU Savannah.

    New Version Tryton 2.2

    27 Thursday Oct 2011

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    The Tryton team is happy to announce the 2.2 release of Tryton. 

    The changes on the user interface are once again really important:

    • The pop-up windows are now “no modal”, which means that they are linked to the tab in which they were opened. Creating a new tab is now possible. Also, switching from one tab to the other restores the state of the opened pop-up windows.
    • The search widget has been completely redesigned. We are now using a unique widget which allow users to use the search function in a much more natural way using a simple syntax. An auto-completion system has been included to help users write their search query.
    • The action toolbar on the bottom of the screen has been merged with main toolbar.
    • The user experience has been improved by using the same design from the Many2Many and One2Many widgets.

    More info and news: Tryton

    Please find following some screenshots of the new version:

    Latinoware Day 3

    23 Sunday Oct 2011

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    At the airport waiting …
    With a bit of nostalgia and sadness we finally got to the last day of Latinoware and IWEEE …
    Like it always happens in these events, the adrenaline of the previous planning and the end of it leave us with a sour taste !
    The last day of Latinoware was very intense, especially for the meetings with all the people met at IWEEE and for the commitments with the press for the interviews. 
    I leave you with a potpourri of “profesional ” and “social” pictures.
    A special acknowledgment to Joice Käfer, Cesar Brod and to the team of Latinoware that made all this possible: Joanne Candida, Michelle, Daniela Priscila de Oliveira Veronezi, Marcos Siriacos Martins and many more …

    C. Muñoz-Reyes, Jon “Maddog”, L. Falcón, C. Brod and J. Käfer
    Wilber, Cristina and Tux !
    S. Marró, C. Muñoz-Reyes, C. Melgosa, C. Brod and J. Käfer
    Dr. Lucia Brum, Dr. Aguiar, D. Linhares, S. Marró, C. Melgosa
    Dra. Lucia Brum (Doctors without Borders) and Cristina Melgosa
    We have to find some time to work …
    Dr. Alexandre Aguiar, Luis Falcón, Daniel Linhares, Sebastián Marró.
    Sebastián Marró. Would you like a sticker !?
    Interview by Kemel Zaidan from Linux New Media
    Interview by Serviço Federal de Procesamento de Dados (Serpro)
    Debian T-shirts for all !
    Cristina Melgosa at our booth.
    Cristina Melgosa, Luis Falcón, Dr. Lucia Brum and Dr. Alexandre Aguiar

    New Project Leader of GNU Health in Brazil.

    23 Sunday Oct 2011

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    We are very happy to announce that Dr. Alexandre Aguiar is the New Project Leader of  GNU Health in Brazil.
    Dr. Aguiar participated at the last edition of IWEEE Brazil – Latinoware 2011. 
    He will be giving a presentation at the II Encontro Nacional do Tecnologia do Informaçao do SPB (Brasilia, Oct. 25-27, 2011). The event is organized by the Ministerío do Planejamiento, Ministerío das Cidades and the Secretaria de Relacoes Institucionais of Brazil.
    Some more info:

    Dr. Alexandre Aguiar was born in 1962.

    He graduated from Medicine School in 1986 at the Universidade Federal Fluminense.

    He completed his Residency in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery in 1991, Escola Paulista de Medicina (Universidade Federal de São Paulo).

    He graduated in Computer Science, 1996 from Fundação Alvarez Penteado

    He has worked and published in Public Health programs, Pediatric Surgery, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Medical Informatics, Clinical Research, Biostatistics (and he still does !).

    The list of papers indexed at Pubmed and/or Scielo journals is at:

    [http://asaguiar.net/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=52].