GNU Health: Winner Premios PortalProgramas 2014

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GNU Health won the Award of Premios PortalProgramas 2014 in the category of Most Revolutionary Free Software.

We want to thank Premios PortalProgramas and everyone who voted for GNU Health.

1st place
GNU Health

“GNU Health had already won in this category in the 2012 edition of Premios PortalProgramas, and we must admit that this is a huge project that brings together all the true values of Free Software. We’re pleased to see that this project is still alive, growing and has a very bright future”.

The winners of this year:

http://www.portalprogramas.com/milbits/informatica/ganadores-6-edicion-premios-portalprogramas-software-libre-2014.html

IWEEE 2012: V International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies

11 Sunday Dec 2011

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We are very happy to announce the 5th edition of IWEEE: International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies.

The next edition will be held in Granada (Spain) on January 11, 2012. The slogan for the 2012 is going to be: “Commitment”. It’s time for individuals, public administrations and governments to adopt Free Software in public health, so we can all have access to good quality health care.

Our mission in GNU Solidario is: Health and Education with Free Software.

Some of the topics for discussion will be :

* Free software in the health sector
* e-Health in Public Health
* Need for Free Standards in e-Health

If you are interested to participate with a speech or presentation, please send us your papers: info@iweee.org

More info:

http://www.iweee.org/

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 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 :

European Commission (EU) , OSOR

Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

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 …