A letter from Gabon to the GNU Health community

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From Luis Falcón:
Dear GNU Health and Free Software community : 
Mr. Armand Mpassy-Nzoumbato has written this letter to the GNU Health community, that I proudly want share with all of you. It shows the importance of Free Software in real-life scenarios, delivering our motto : Freedom and Equity in Healthcare (original source)
 Gabon training
Dear Luis, Dear Axel,

First of all happy new year and congratulations to Luis and off course all others for the great work that is being accomplished. I just know a few of you guys (Luis, Selene, Cedric, Nicolas, Axel) and I just joined this community about a year ago. However, I can tell you that it is having a huge impact on the health of communities in central Africa and very soon in West Africa as well.

I implemented the lab module of GNU Health at the Medical Research Center in Franceville (Gabon). They do medical lab analyses for the population of Franceville. It has changed the face public health in this small city. People used to wait a few days before getting their lab results. Now they get their results just after a few hours. And I can tell you it can make a difference between staying alive or dying because the doctor will not be able to make a correct assessment of the medical status of the patient on time.

A number of other health institutions are very much interested in implementing GNU Health and I’ll make sure that each and every health professional has heard about GNU Health. I am working on a strategy that will ensure that a huge number of them can test the system using the Demo version on DVD. It is indeed very difficult to access the demo version online.

On behalf of all those who you are serving: the communities of Africa and of the world, the voiceless people, and who don’t even know that you exist, I say:

Thank you, Muchas Gracias

Kind regards,

Armand

GNU Health 3.0 is out !

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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

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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 in Manila

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During his trip to Manila to participate at the Global Forum 2015, Luis Falcón had the opportunity to visit the Navotas City Hospital and the APC University.

We want to thank Mayor John Rey de Navotas City to install GNU Health in his hospital, the team at Navotas City (Dr. Christia, Dr. Maffy and Dr. Lilly ) as well as Dr. Alvin Marcelo.

This experience was possible thanks to Mr. Joe Gene Quesada (IOSS Philippines) and Mr. Thomas Karopka 

GNU Health training in Franceville – Gabon –

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Mr. Armand Mpassy-Nzoumba, GNU Solidario representative in Africa, provided a GNU Health Training at the Centre of Medical Research of Franceville (Gabon).

These are some words from Mr. Armand Mpassy-Nzoumba about this great project:

” During the Training of GNU Health we implemented the lab modules of GNU Health. It was done in replacement of of similar software which did no longer met user requirements. The lab team, of about 15 members, was trained. After implementation we noticed a number of improvements including:

  • Improved quality of medical lab analyses
  • improved process time. It took 3 to 5 days to deliver results. Now results can be delivers the same day
  • A full patient database.
  • Improved reliability of the software. The previous one did have a number of bigs and required a lot of maintenance
  • Improved return on investment thanks to free and open source software … “

Programa IWEEE 2015

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El programa puede verse sujeto a cambios por circunstancias externas a la organización.
The program is subject to change
Mapa/Map EXE Hotel Las Canteras 25/09/2015
http://www.exelascanteras.com/contacto-y-mapa.html

Mapa/Map Colegio Médicos de Las Palmas 26/09/2009

www.exelascanteras.com/contacto-y-mapa.html

IWEEE 2015: más información

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Agenda (Preliminar):

Viernes 25: Sesiones Técnicas
  • GNU Health: Sistema Libre de Información y Gestión Hospitalaria de Salud 
  • Tryton
  • Localización
  • Interoperabilidad y estándares
  • Telemedicina y Hardware Libre en Salud
  • Whorkshop: GNU Health, Tryton, criptografía y firmas digitales.
Sábado 26: Sesiones de Medicina Social
  • Cruz Roja: Centro de Cooperación con África
  • GNU Solidario: Los factores ambientales de la salud y de la enfermedad
  • Richard Stallman Discurso sobre “Software Libre y Medicina”
  • Adopción de Free / Libre Software en Sistemas de Salud Pública
  • Mesa redonda

Lugares conferencias:

    Conferencias técnicas (viernes 25): Hotel Exe Canteras (mapa)
   Charla de Richard Stallman (sábado 26): Colegio de Médicos de Las  Palmas (mapa)

IWEEE 2015 venues

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We’re happy to announce that IWEEE 2015 will be held at the EXE Hotel Las Canteras on the 25th of September and at Colegio de Médicos Las Palmas on the 26th of September.

El IWEEE 2015 tendrá lugar en el EXE Hotel Las Canteras, el día 25 de septiembre y en el Colegio de Médicos de Las Palmas el día 26 de septiembre.

On September 25th we will meet at the KRAUS Lounge at the EXE Hotel Las Canteras (see map). You can also make a reservation for your room at a special rate if you mention IWEEE 2015. Please contact Marieta Gonzalez: comercial@exelascanteras.com

El día 25 de Septiembre nos reuniremos en el Salón KRAUS  del Hotel Las Canteras EXE (ver mapa). También puede reservar su habitación a un precio especial si menciona IWEEE 2015. Por favor, póngase en contacto con Marieta González: comercial@exelascanteras.com

 
On September 26th Mr. Richard Stallman will present “Free Software and Medicine” at Colegio Médicos Las Palmas (see map).

El día 26 de septiembre el Sr. Richard Stallman hablará sobre el  Software Libre y Medicina en el Colegio Médicos de Las Palmas (ver mapa).

Don’t forget to register and we hope to see you in Las Palmas !

No olvide registrarse. Los esperamos en Las Palmas !