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Richard Stallman in Argentina

11 Monday Jun 2012

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As the “Free Software World” knows, Dr. Richard Stallman visited Argentina last week.
Dr. Stallman
Thanks to the great work of Fundación Via Libre and the Centro de Estudiantes “Nuevo Espacio”, Stallman could come to Argentina one more time !
So, as planned, Dr. Stallman got to Argentina for the last time and started his agenda. He first went to Rio Negro where he provided support for the initiative of the provincial government to pass a Law of Free Software. 

Then, on Friday, June 8th he gave an excellent conference at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). There were around 500 people present and, according to many people, it was one of the best conference Dr. Stallman has given. 
During the lecture Luis Falcón, of GNU Solidario, was invited by Stallman to talk about GNU Health: The Free Health and Hospital Information System. We really want to to thank Mr. Stallman for this opportunity and for the support to the GNU Health project. 
Luis Falcón – GNU Solidario –
Unfortunately, a night that was supposed to be remembered forever as the last time of Stallman in Argentina, ended up in the worst way. While many people were surrounding Mr. Stallman to take pictures and buy some merchandising, his bag was stolen. He was robbed of his computer, passport, money, medicines … (wikinoticias).
During the weekend we had the opportunity to spend some time with him and it was nice to have a dinner with talks and jokes (Mr. Stallman has a great sense of humor, even in Spanish !).

We wish him good luck and a safe trip back home !
If anyone has news about the stolen articles send a mail to: info@vialibre.org.ar

GNU Health versión 1.6 liberada

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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English version from Luis Falcon’s blog
Estoy orgulloso de anunciar la salida de las series 1.6 de GNU Health !

Estas series vienen con muchas características nuevas e interesantes tanto a nivel técnico como funcional.

Desde el punto de vista técnico, la más importante es la compatibilidad con Tryton 2.4 y la demo del database, de manera que usted podrá testearlo con los datos.

Desde el lado funcional hubo mejoras en el módulo ginecológico, especialmente en términos de screening (mamografía, PAP test, colposcopía …) y en la historia clínica.
Ha habido cambios importantes en la funcionalidad de los servicios y facturación, facilitando el seguimiento de todos los servicios realizados a un paciente y de lo que estaría sujeto a facturación.
Otras características de las series 1.6, en breve:
  • Compatible con Tryton 2.4
  • Reporte completo de la Historia Clínica del Paciente en LibreOffice
  • Incluye demo database con mas de 500 pacientes 
  • Tablas y gráficos estadísticos en tiempo real
  • Asignación automática del doctor en las evaluaciones de los pacientes
  • Añade Screening Historia Ginecológica – Mamografía, PAP y colposcopía
  • Mejora de evaluación del paciente, diagnóstico diferencial y condiciones secundarias
  • Añade grupos de enfermedades, muy útil para epidemiología
  • Mejor seguimiento de paciente y contacto
  • Primeros tests de laboratorio de Tuberculosis, incluidos en el módulo  MDG (Millennium Development Goal # 6 ).
Hemos incluido también el Módulo de Health servicios, 
 

Este nuevo módulo permite agrupar todos lo servicios realizados a un paciente, ya sea en el ámbito ambulatorio o de internación. Este módulo permitirá también al Centro de Salud facturar servicios determinados a un party específico (paciente, compañía de seguro …). Dado que los servicios están vinculados a los productos, el centro de salud mantendrá un registro detallado de los medicamentos e insumos utilizados. Podrán también relacionar las órdenes de laboratorio.

Gracias a todos ustedes que han contribuido a esta nueva versión de GNU Health. Gracias a la comunidad Tryton para la gran versión Tryton 2.4; a mis compañeros de Thymbra para desarrollar el módulo de gráficos / reportes (Sebastián), por trabajar  en la documentación y testing (Cristina y Selene) y, por supuesto, a toda la comunidad de GNU Health y GNU para adoptar y hosting nuestro proyecto !
About GNU Health

GNU Health es un Sistema Libre de Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de la Salud con las siguientes funcionalidades:

  •     Expediente Médico Electrónico (EMR)
  •     Sistema de Gestión Hospitalaria (HIS)
  •     Sistema de Información de Salud
GNU Health ha sido galardonado con el Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social por la Free Software Foundation en 2012.

GNU Health es un paquete oficial GNU Package, elegido por Richard Stallman, y es parte de GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario es una NGO que ofrece soluciones para la educación y la salud con el software libre.

GNU Health es el Sistema de Información Hospitalario elegido por  el International Institute of Global Health de las Naciones Unidas.

Pagina web : health.gnu.org

Gobiernos que acogen a GNU Health en sus portales :

European Commission (EU) , JoinUp
 
Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

GNU Health in Peru.

07 Saturday Apr 2012

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GNU Solidario will be at the e-Health conference: “Tecnologías de Información, como Herramienta en la Salud e Inclusión Social 2012” in Peru; April 12-14, 2012


The event is sponsored by Peru’s national social security agency, EsSalud, in association with the government office for informatics, ONGEI. 

GNU Health, the freshly winner of the FSF Award for Projects of Social Benefit will be presented at the e-Health conference by Sebastián Marró.


GNU Health wins FSF Project of Social Benefit

02 Monday Apr 2012

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Just got back to Buenos Aires after a 10 days in the United States and El Salvador, and finally got some time to write about the award, what it means to GNU Solidario and to the community at large.
The FSF’s ceremony took place at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMass) on Sunday March 25th, during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference. On the ceremony, there were two awards :
  • Award for the Advancement of Free Software:Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby Programming Language. Congratulations Matz !
  • Award for the Project of Social Benefit : GNU Health
Richard Stallman and Luis Falcon
As stated by the FSF, the Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity.

GNU Health won award for Project of Social Benefit 2011
I want to thank the committee for choosing GNU Health : Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden, Harald Welte, and Rob Savoyes.

Luis Falcon holding the award and the mascot


We take this award with great pride, but also with great responsibility. We share this award with novel previous winners  Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Internet Archives, Groklaw, Tor and Sahana Disaster Management System .

I see Free Software as social activism. GNU Health goal is to improve the lives of the underprivileged by means of Free Software.  We deliver a Free Health and Hospital Information System to health centers all around the world. Because is Free (Freedom), the software belongs to them. They can modify it, improve it, and localize it to their needs ! This is the Free Software philosophy.

GNU Health provides the basis for sustainable and universal medicine, no matter the economical status of the health center or the patient. After all, Health is a non-negotiable human right and never should belong to the greedy corporations. Health is a public good, and so it should be health informatics.

Yukihiro Matsumoto “Matz” and Luis Falcon
I want to thank the Free Software Foundation and his creator, Richard Stallman, for creating the environment for social justice and equity. 
Thank you to the Free Software community : Python, Postgresql, Tryton, GNU/Linux, GnuPG and Wikimedia foundation are just some of the building blocks for GNU Health. Without a free software community, GNU Health wouldn’t exist.
Thank you to the governments adopting Free Software as a Public good.
Thank you to the community, to all of you who contribute your time and talent to improve GNU Health !
Finally, I want to dedicate this award to the men and women who anonymously give their lives to help the underprivileged. You are an example for all of us !
For more information, please check the official announcement at the Free Software Foundation  : 
About GNU Health

GNU Health is a free 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 , chosen by Richard Stallman, 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) , JoinUp

    Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)


2011 Free Software Awards announced

29 Thursday Mar 2012

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by Matt Lee — Published on Mar 26, 2012 12:41 PM  
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, March 26th, 2012 — Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF’s annual free software awards at a ceremony on Sunday, March 25th, held during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.

Yukihiro Matsumoto and Richard Stallman.
This year, it was given to Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz), the creator of the Ruby programming language. Matz has worked on GNU, Ruby, and other free software for over 20 years. He accepted the award in person and spoke at the conference on his early experiences with free software, especially the influence of GNU Emacs on Ruby.
Yukihiro Matsumoto joins a distinguished list of previous winners:
  • 2010 Rob Savoye
  • 2009 John Gilmore
  • 2008 Wietse Venema
  • 2007 Harald Welte
  • 2006 Ted Ts’o
  • 2005 Andrew Tridgell
  • 2004 Theo de Raadt
  • 2003 Alan Cox
  • 2002 Lawrence Lessig
  • 2001 Guido van Rossum
  • 2000 Brian Paul
  • 1999 Miguel de Icaza
  • 1998 Larry Wall
The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity.

Luis Falcon and Richard Stallman.
This year, the award went to GNU Health, a free software project that works with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged. GNU Health has been adopted as the Health and Hospital Information System of choice by the United Nations University. Luis Falcon, the president of GNU Solidario (the organization behind GNU Health), was present to accept the award on behalf of the project.
GNU Health joins an impressive list of previous winners:
  • 2010 Tor
  • 2009 Internet Archive
  • 2008 Creative Commons
  • 2007 Groklaw
  • 2006 Sahana Disaster Management System
  • 2005 Wikipedia
This year’s award committee was: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Peter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Vernor Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda G. Weiden, Harald Welte, and Rob Savoye.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users’ right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants — and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF’s work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

Media Contacts

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Free Software Foundation 
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GNU Health en la prensa española y extranjera

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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La prensa Española hoy se ha hecho eco del premio que la Free Software Foundation le otorgó a Luis Falcón por GNU Health, como Premio al mejor Proyecto Social de Software Libre. 
Luis Falcón y Richard Stallman
Links:
http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/free-software-foundation-otorga-canario-luis-falc%C3%B3n-premio-123023799.html

http://noticias.lainformacion.com/economia-negocios-y-finanzas/software/free-software-foundation-otorga-al-canario-luis-falcon-su-premio-al-mejor-proyecto-social-de-2011_LjmTSGOnXNSOYraroL3Bs/ 
 
http://somoslibres.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5372 

http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1133409

http://jalame.com/gran-canaria/free-software-foundation-otorga-al-canario-luis-falcon-su-premio-al-mejor-proyecto-social-de-2011/alert/6/

http://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?Id=254801

http://www.que.es/las-palmas/201203271430-free-software-foundation-otorga-canario-epi.html

http://www.noticias.com/free-software-foundation-otorga-al-canario-luis-falcon-su-premio-al-mejor-proyecto-social.1641319

http://www.tecnologiaslibres.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19980&Itemid=52&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TecnologasLibres_Novedades+%28Tecnolog%C3%ADas+Libres+-+Novedades%29

http://softwaredesarrollo.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/premian-un-sistema-libre-de-gestion-hospitalaria-ideado-por-un/

http://iberoamerica.net/espana/prensa-generalista/terra.es/20120327/noticia.html?id=8q542oj

http://paper.li/juandoming#!science

http://www.laspalmasdegrancanaria.net/Cultura/Free-Software-Foundation-otorga-al-canario-Luis-Falcon-su-premio-al-Mejor-Proyecto-Social-de-2011.php

http://www.cenatic.es/hemeroteca-de-cenatic/3-sobre-el-sector-del-sfa/39840-free-software-foundation-otorga-al-canario-luis-falcon-su-premio-al-mejor-proyecto-social-de-2011

http://www.scoop.it/t/noticias-tic-salud

http://www.economiadehoy.com/periodico/portada/free_software_foundation_otorga_canario_luis_falcon_premio_mejor_proyecto_social-31259.html 
  
http://cnbeta.com/articles/179762.htm
  
http://www.mcnix.de/?q=aggregator
  
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Free-Software-Awards-fuer-Ruby-und-GNU-Health-1486643.html

 http://bit.ly/Ho6pML

GNU Health wins the FSF Award for Projects of Social Benefit

25 Sunday Mar 2012

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We are extremely proud to announce that GNU Health just won the Award for Projects of Social Benefits, at LIBREPLANET 2012, Boston.

The Free Software Foundation gave GNU Health the Award for Projects of Social Benefits ! I want to share with all of you committed to free software as a tool for social justice and equity. I also want to share it with the health professionals who work daily on improve the lives of the most needy. Luis Falcón

The Free Software Foundation gives this Award  to a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society through collaboration to accomplish an important social task.

Luis Falcón and Richard Stallman 



More pics in the next few days !

GNU Health gana el Premio de la FSF como Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social

25 Sunday Mar 2012

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Estamos muy contentos de comunicarles que GNU Health acaba de ganar el Premio como Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social en LIBREPLANET 2012, Boston.
“La Free Software Foundation galardonó GNU Health con el Premio a Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social ! Quiero compartirlo con todos ustedes que están comprometidos con el Software Libre y lo utilizan como herramienta para la justicia social y equidad. También quiero compartirlo con los profesionales de la salud que trabajan diariamente en mejorar las vidas de los más necesitados” Luis Falcón

La Free Software Foundation otorga este premio a un proyecto que beneficia la sociedad, internacionalmente y de manera significativa, gracias a la cooperación para lograr una tarea social tan importante.

Luis Falcón y Richard Stallman 



Más fotos en los próximos días !
 

GNU Health MDG 6 and NTDs

18 Sunday Mar 2012

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Introduction

The United Nations signed in September 2000 the Millennium Declaration, to fight poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women .

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) has derived from the Millennium declaration and it has 8 goals. MDG 6 focuses on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
On the other hand, there is 1 billion (1,000 million) people living with tropical infectious diseases that could represent the “other diseases” part of the MDG 6. This group is named Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).  These are diseases of the poorest, that makes them socially excluded and stigmatized. 
GNU Solidario believes that Free Software is a key factor to accomplish these goals. GNU Health, the Free Health and Hospital Information System will help the health centers, researches, NGOs and professionals and volunteers to eradicate these devastating diseases.
What are GNU Health MDG 6 and GNU Health NTDs ?

health_mdg6 is a GNU Health module that incorporates the Millennium Development Goal # 6, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases 

GNU Health will incorporate the specific functionality to help prevent, diagnose, treat and control each of these devastating diseases.
The health_mdg6 module will maintain the multi-disciplinary approach, providing tools to the social worker, nurse, biochemist, laboratory , pharmacist, epidemiologist and physician, integrating the health professional into the community.
So, for example, upon a new possible case of active Tuberculosis (TB), GNU Health will execute the following actions : Detect and notify the contacts of the patient; Start profilaxis treatment on contacts ; Create a new laboratory order for culture and antibiogram and check for the strain resistance ; verify the DOTS (Direct Observed Treatment Short) on the patient ; Check the stock for the PPD test-kits and do a forecast for the existing anti-tuberculosis medicaments; Check for availability of special rooms if there is need for hospitalization; inform the health authorities of a new case; start a new prevention campaign.
The health_ntd will cover the Neglected Tropical Diseases.
What diseases will cover GNU Health MDG 6 and NTD?

health_mdg6. The diseases stated in first part the WHO MDG 6: 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Tuberculosis
health_ntds. Neglected Tropical diseases that affect 1 billion (1000 million) people. Diseases are dynamic by nature, so the list can include emerging diseases at any time, but the initial list will contain :

  • Guinea Worm
  • Lymphatic Filariasis
  • Blinding Trachoma
  • Sleeping Sickness
  • Leprosy
  • Soil Transmitted-Helminths
  • Schistosomiasis
  • River Blindness
  • Chagas
  • Visceral Leishmaniasis
  • Dengue
About GNU Health

GNU Health is a free 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 , chosen by Richard Stallman, 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) , JoinUp

    Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)