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

Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

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

Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

Enhanced functionality on drug abuse in Medical

14 Thursday Oct 2010

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I’m happy to announce the enhanced functionality for drug addictions surveillance and control under Medical.

The main points are :

  •  NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) categorization, descriptions and effects of most important recreational drugs
  • Administration routes
  • Commercial and street names
  • Dr. Henningfield’s drug rating / score on :
    • Withdrawal
    • Reinforcement
    • Tolerance
    • Dependence
    • Intoxication

    • Additional fields to rank the toxicity and addiction levels of the drug
    • Special indicator for Intravenous (IV) users

    In addition, new lifestyle All these extra indicators and functionality will help the health professional to better In addition, I have enhanced the tobacco and alcohol sections, with extra input fields.

    The information will help the health professional and social workers to improve the prevention and treatment of the patient, as well as to have better epidemiological information on the prevalence and incidence of different addictions.

    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

    Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

    El centro de salud Doctor Oñativia en Argentina instala Medical

    14 Thursday Oct 2010

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    Sistema Medical – Centro Regional de Referencia Doctor Oñativia (Corrales)

    A continuación les copio un correo de Mario Puntin sobre la instalación de Medical que se realizó en el centro de Salud regional. Enhorabuena !
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    El equipo del centro de salud Dr. Oñativia
    El proyecto involucra:
    • Un sistema informático desarrollado a medida del proceso,
    • El desarrollo de la cultura informática del personal del centro de salud,
    • La creación de la red de computadoras necesarias e instalación del servidor del sistema
    Para el primer item se procedió a contratar a un proveedor de desarrollo informático, que propuso el software de gestión en salud MEDICAL.
    Este sistema en su conjunto está basado en software libre. por lo que se provee al Centro un sistema libre de patentes o licencias.
    La solución creada para el centro permite, entre otras tareas, generar y manipular la información sobre:
    • Base de datos de pacientes adultos y pediátricos (Plan Nacer, del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación)
    • Turnos médicos ambulatorios y otros servicios de profesionales del Centro,
    • Cuadro social perteneciente al paciente, cobertura de salud, datos personales,
    • Historia clínica por paciente a partir de las prestaciones y diagnósticos,
    • Estadísticas predeterminadas de prestaciones.
    El centro de salud tiene una guardia médica y servicio de ambulancia las 24 hs.
    Ofrece atención en medicina clínica, cardiología, ginecología, obstetricia, pediatría, kinesiología, odontología y oftalmología.
    También cuenta con una farmacia, un laboratorio, especialistas ecógrafos y nutricionistas. Hay además un Área Social, con psicólogos, psicopedagogos y asistentes sociales.
    Centro de Salud Dr. Oñativia, Entre Ríos
    Se realizan también otras actividades, como salidas a terreno de algunos especialistas para atender familias o niños en situación de riesgo sanitario.
    El centro de salud cuenta con un grupo de más de 90 profesionales.
    Como centro de referencia de la zona, atiende las necesidades de una población de más 20000 personas.

    Mi enhorabuena a Mario y a todo el equipo del centro Dr. Oñativia, que todos los días trabajan para mejorar la calidad de vida de sus habitantes.

    Luis Falcón

    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

    Release of Medical 0.1.3 and OpenERP v6 integration

    10 Sunday Oct 2010

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    I’m happy to announce the release of Medical 0.1.3, with includes bug fixes and improvements in Patient Hospitalization Management, Laboratory Administration and PoS / Billing, among others.

    It all looks like that Medical v1 and OpenERP v6 will come out very closely in dates.

    For the last weeks, I’ve been working on adapting Medical to the upcoming version of OpenERP v6. I have work on the code, the views and the documentation, so I can say now that most of the code is v6 compatible ( including wizards).

    Medical 0.1.3 has been released today. From this point on, all the active development (trunk) will be done in OpenERP / OpenObject v6.

    The current trunk has been moved to branch openerp5. This will be based in medical 0.1.3 and it’s a maintenance version, so bugfixes will be applied to it.

    I invite all of you who are actively developing Medical to download the latest OpenERP repository and install Medical on it.  Please document the new functionality on the Wiki (http://medical.wiki.sourceforge.net). I already documented the installation process for Medical under OpenERP v6.

    This approach is the best way to keep Medical uptodate with the latest OpenERP developments, improvements and functionality. Of course, we will keep the 5x version for people that don’t want to migrate at this point.

    The new online demo of Medical version , compatible with openerp v6 will be available soon at the GNU Solidario portal. Same user, ports, etc..

    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

    Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

    Medical 0.1.2 – Hospitalization (inpatient) management

    13 Monday Sep 2010

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    In this version of Medical  we have added important hospital functionality like the inpatient admission administration.

    The module “medical_inpatient” concentrates the main functionality to :

    – Make bed reservations
    – Check  availability
    – Graphically manage the hospital or health cernet beds in wards and or rooms.

    Medical allows to manage bed assignments for different types of admissions (routine, periodic, maternity, emergencies, ..), for the specific hospital department.

    calendar for hospital bed and patient management

    In this view, it’s easy to look for patient’s locations and status in the hospital. The colors visually differentiate the type of admissions.

    We have also improve other sections, like vaccinations. Thanks to Andrew Gledhill (NHS) who proposed the addition of the vaccine lot and expiration date. Actually, the vaccine is integrated to the product, so all the production lot, traceability, and procurement is automated. Special controls for vaccine expiration dates have been put in place now.

    Finally, this version includes the translation to Vietnamese (thanks to Phong Nguyen) of all the modules !

    You can find a detailed description of changes in the Changelog file (http://medical.sf.net/Changelog)

    You can download this latest version from Sourceforge of from the European Community Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

    Please report any suggestions or issues you find to our mailining lists or bug tracking system.

    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

    Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

    Getting ready for IWEEE 2010 Brazil

    10 Friday Sep 2010

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    We have a date for IWEEE 2010 Brazil !
    The biannual International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies – IWEEE – will be held at Latinoware, in Foz do Iguaçu.

    The slogan for this event is “e-Health for all” (not just for the elite).
    Some of the topics will be :

    – Current government efforts on public health
    – The rise of type 2 Diabetes in developing countries
    – Free software in the health sector
    – e-Health on rural areas
    – Telemedicine
    – Prevention of poverty-related diseases and epidemics using Free Software
    – Work on the LDC (Least Developed Countries)

    We want to have you there and share your experiences with us. Please check the instructions on IWEEE (http://www.iweee.org/2010-brasil/contact.html) and send us your paper !
    You will also get to see all the Latinoware events with the same ticket.
    I would like to thank Cesar Brod, Corinto Meffe and the Latinoware sponsors for inviting me over, and giving us the space for IWEEE. 

    Hope to see you all in the beautiful Foz do Iguaçú !

    Main site : http://www.iweee.org

    Preparándonos para IWEEE 2010 – Brasil : "e-Health para todos"

    10 Friday Sep 2010

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    Queridos amigos:

    Ya tenemos fecha para la segunda parte de IWEEE 2010, que se realizará en Foz de Iguazú, Brasil, en el marco de Latinoware, los días 10 al 12 de Noviembre

    En esta ocasión estaremos contando con la presencia de autoridades de Brasil, así como ponentes de diversos países.

    El slogan del proyecto es “e-Health para todos” (e-Health for all), donde rescatamos y destacamos la necesidad imperiosa de contar con las herramientas necesarias, tanto humanas como técnicas, en sociedades desarrolladas y, especialmente, en las emergentes.

    Algunos de los temas a desarrollar en el congreso son :

    • Esfuerzos actuales de los gobiernos en salud pública
    • La escalada de la diabetes tipo II (DM2) en países emergentes
    • Software Libre en el sector salud
    • e-Health en áreas rurales y Telemedicina
    • Prevención de epidemias usando Software Libre
    • Trabajando en los países menos desarrollados (LDCs)

    IWEEE 2010 Brasil se dará en el marco de Latinoware, donde podrá también asistir al evento más imporante de software libre de Latinoamérica.

    Muchas gracias a los amigos Cesar Brod y Corinto Meffe, así como a la organización de Latinoware, por invitarme y cedernos este espacio para IWEEE en un evento tan importante como Latinoware.

    Espero verlos y compartir experiencias en Foz de Iguazú !

    Para tener la información actualizada, visite nuestra página de IWEEE en :

    http://www.iweee.org

    Gracias !
    Luis Falcón

    LinuxCon 2010 Brazil and Medical

    03 Friday Sep 2010

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    Just got back from LinuxCon 2010 Brazil, (thank you Linux Foundation for inviting me ! ) where I was the speaker for Medical : Benefits of Implementing a Free Hospital and Health Information System.

    Linus Torvalds and Luis Falcón at LinuxCon 2010

    The event was great, I got the chance to see again my Brazilian friends, like Corinto Meffe, who is doing a great job on the public software portal. Corinto was the one who included Medical in the community of the Software Publico Brasileiro.

    Corinto Meffe (Brazilian government ), Marcelo Moreno (Ginga), Tatiana Al-Chueyr (In-vesalius), Luis Falcón (Medical) and  Ricardo Amorim (codecommunity) at LinuxCon 2010 Brasil

    I also talked to Linus Torvalds about the GNU Solidario organization, and the countries we are currently working.

    I am quite happy with the fact of having LinuxCon in LatinAmerica. This was the first year of the conference in South America and I’m looking forward to see more people and companies of LatinAmerica and Spain next year.

    The same group with Francine and Rainer Kruger (Pandorga Linux)

    You can find the paper and more pics of the event at the GNU Solidario Site or in the new GNU Solidario social network of at Amazee (http://www.amazee.com/gnusolidario). While you are there, just join the team !