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GNU Health and Lomonosov Moscow State University – Faculty of Medicine

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Hospital Main Entrance

On December 5th. in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) GNU Solidario welcomed a delegation of members from the Lomonosov Moscow State University – Faculty of Medicine (Russia) and from ARMIT (Association of Developers of Software for Healthcare System).

The Russian Delegation, lead by Prof. Oleg Medvedev, (VD, Ph.D) Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology. Prof. Oleg got in touch with Luis Falcón, of GNU Solidario, around a month ago. He was coming to Argentina and wanted to learn more about the Organization of the National Health Care System in Argentina.

Moscow University delegation at Hospital Militar Central – Buenos Aires –

Thanks to the help and organization of the Universidad Barceló, the Russian Delegation could get a guided tour at the Dr. Cosme Argerich Hospital.

The delegation is received in the main hall by the authorities of the Hospital
At the Dr. Cosme Argerich Hospital, Dr. José Luis Ciucchi, Dr. Oscar Regalado and Lic. Viviana Rousseaux were in charge of the visit. The 33 delegates with the members from GNU Solidario and the Universidad Barceló were received in the main hall and then started a very interesting tour, beginning with an institutional video about the hospital.

Hospital Institutional video
After that, in order to have a better idea of the hospital care system and organization, the visit continued to the laboratory, hospital rooms, main kitchen, rehab and traumatology, emergency room, operating rooms. The tour at the Hospital ended with a visit to the Museum and with a delicious lunch.

Questions and answers session
Visiting the Hospital. Selene Cordara and Dr. Meirovich
Operating Rooms Section. Dr. Luis Simes and Selene Cordara
Dr. Simes, Dr. Meirovich, Dr. Medvedev, Luis Falcón
Dr. Simes, Lic. Rocio Cabaleiro, Selene Cordara, Dr. Meirovich
Dr. Simes and Dr. Medvedev
At the Hospital Museum
Lunch is served

Group picture
We would like to give a special thanks to the Dr. Cosme Argerich Hospital of Buenos Aires and all the people involved in the organization for their hospitality. It was a great and very rewarding experience.
After lunch prof. Medvedev, Luis Falcón, Dr. Meirovich and Selene Cordara went to the main campus of the Universidad Barceló (Las Heras) to meet with the Dean Dr. Héctor A. Barceló, where a cooperation agreement between the two Universities was signed.

Signing the cooperation agreement. Dr. Héctor A. Barceló and Dr. Oleg Medvedev
Finally we all went to the other campus where the Conferences Program started:
“GNU Health: Benefits of Free Software in Public Health” by Luis Falcón – GNU Solidario –
“Latest Developments In Pharmacology and Research in Latin America” by. Dr. Roberto Baistrocchi, Dr. Aldo Perusso, Dr. Ionathan Meirovich, Dr. Crisitna Rilo – Universidad Barceló –
“Remote-Nutrition: Using new Technologies applied to Education” by Laura Pets and Sofia Goldy – Universidad Barceló –
“Public Health” by Dr. Hector Lombardo Lombardo, former Argentina Minister of Health.
“Current State of Medical Education in Russia” by Dr. Oleg Medvedev – Faculty of Fundamental Medicine –
Luis Falcón and Dr. Medvedev
Luis Falcón – GNU Solidario –
Luis Falcón presenting GNU Health
Prof. Dr. Adrian Barceló and Luis Falcón
Questions and answers
Luis Falcón and Dr. Medvedev at the closing session
Laura Pets, Sofia Goldy, Dr. Meirovich, Dr. Cristina Riló, Dr. Medvedev
Dr. Meirovich, former minister of health Dr. H. Lombardo, Dr. Medvedev
Dr. Medvedev presentation
Dr. Medvedev
Dr. Medvedev showed a great mobile ECG and real-time cardiac monitoring devices (seen on to of the table)

The university also gave us a chance to visit the Nutrition Department, the Library, the Anatomy Lab, the Anatomy Museum, different labs and a classroom.

It has been a very intensive day, full of emotions and knowledge. We were honored to meet Prof. Oleg and its delegation. We are pretty sure this is going to be the first step for future knowledge and business exchanges.
Our special thanks to:
Dr. Luis Simes (Universidad Barceló)
Dr. Ionathan Meirovich (Universidad Barceló)
Dr. Cristina Riló (Universidad Barceló)
Lic. Rocio Cabaleiro (Universidad Barceló)
Dr. José Luis Ciucchi (Hospital Militar “Dr. Cosme Argerich”)
Dr. Oscar Regalado (Hospital Militar “Dr. Cosme Argerich”)
Lic. Viviana Russeaux (Hospital Militar “Dr. Cosme Argerich”)

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

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 :