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CHOS project presentation in Las Palmas

16 Tuesday Mar 2010

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by Luis Falcon

My presentation in Las Palmas is now at:

 

I am seeking partners interested to participate in the component they would like to work on in the scope of:
 

Feel free to send your critics and suggestions.

Who of you could come to the MEDETEL conference on 14-16 April 2010 in Luxemburg, the annual conference of the ISFT, http://www.isft.net/ ?
Thomas did prepare an excellent FLOSS track as you can see at :

GNU Solidario on the News / GNU Solidario en la Prensa

08 Monday Mar 2010

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by Luis Falcon

(versión en español al final)

Dear all
Let me share two articles from the local spanish newspaper “Canarias 7”. They talk about IWEEE, an interview to Dr Agudelo and the project GNU Solidario.
You can download them from the following links :
Hope you like them !

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Queridos amigos
He publicado dos artículos del períodico español “Canarias 7” que hablan sobre el proyecto GNU Solidario, IWEEE y una entrevista al Dr. Bernardo Agudelo.
Espero que les guste !

Impressions from IWEEE 2010

18 Thursday Feb 2010

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by Luis Falcon

The first International Workshop on e-Health for Emerging Economies – IWEEE 2010 – has been a success.
In these three days, we have had the oportunity to learn the reality from personalities coming all different parts the world: Uganda, Canada, Belgium, United States, Rwanda, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Germany and Switzerland.
We heard Ans de Jager (War Child) talking about the need of energy for the kids in Northern Uganda; Carlos Travieso (ULPGC) using biometrics to identify aborigins in Costa Rica for Medical purposes; Pedro Herranz (Caritas) explaining the huge gap among the “North and the South”; Dr Caminero discussing the links between poberty and tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS; Cesar Brod and Corinto Meffe (Brazilian Government) talked about how free software is being used in the public sector. Dr. Moses Isyagi explained how they’ve been doing telepathology in rural areas of Uganda. Dr Carmen Martín (Red Cross) talked about the efforts being made to help the elderly and the people with special needs. 

On the technical side, Mark Höller and Thomas Karopka (German IT Center) talked about adapting Medical for Nursing and the need for convergence. Norman Young (Clear Canvas) showed us a demo how open source is working in the field of Radiology. Raúl Zambrano (United Nations) talked about the rol of the United Nations Development Program and the importance of free software as a public good. Rayco and Alfonso García (ULPGC – OSL) talked about the COREi project. We had the visit of Dr. Bernardo Agudelo and Juan José Vélez, from the University of Antioquía, Colombia, who demo the use of free software in a red-code protocol. Dr. Etienne Saliez explain the need of having a working group that include multi-disciplinary team of doctors and scientists. 

Finally I talked about our NGO, GNU Solidario, and the Medical project in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

The slogan for this congress was “The Human Factor”, a key concept missing from many of other e-Health events. IWEEE 2010 has been focused on the human factor, considering that health is a human right, and that all the contributing factors – education, access to technology, employment, nutrition, family affection, energy, peace, … – must be also met in order to have healthy individuals and societies. The round table discussion among the multi-disciplinary representatives (NGOs, government, church and UN) gave all the participants the opportunity not only to expose their realities, but to discuss possible solutions to the most urgent needs.
Organizing an event like IWEEE is a great challenge, and, even though we had been working non-stop for a year there where high expectations that we had to deliver. Finally, I must say that those expectations have been met, and that we have been asked to organize IWEEE 2011, again in Canary Islands, which we have already started to do. My gratitude to Fundación La Caixa, the University of Las Palmas (specially to Fernando Real ), Consejería de Sanidad (who provided the Hospital Auditorium) , Colegio de Médicos de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Turism and Innovation Bureau, Cabildo de Gran Canaria ( specially to Carmelo Ramírez ) and to Juan Montero from UNESCO. 

My gratitude goes to all of you who have participated and donated your time, experience and knowledge, putting them in the hands who need it most. I’m looking forward to seeing you again in IWEEE 2011.

CIE-10 for Medical

20 Sunday Sep 2009

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For the spanish speaking friends, we have the CIE-10 (spanish version of ICD-10) available since version 0.0.41 of Medical !
So, at this time, users can choose not only the login language (English, French, German, Spanish, Indonesian .. ) but also the whole WHO / OMS disease list and categories in other languages.

We will be talking about medical at the eHealth 2009 conference, ( http://www.electronic-health.org) this week (Istambul, Turkey, September 23-25th )

Versión CIE-10 en castellano


You can get the latest information from Medical at :

http://medical.sf.net

Remember that Medical is part of the GNU solidario Project, a non-profit effort to deliver education and health to the most needed.

Regards
Luis Falcon

Medical 0.0.35 and GNU solidario

19 Wednesday Aug 2009

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Hi there !

I just published medical 0.0.35 in sourceforge. It has many changes and improvements.

– Redesign on the disease note and history forms
– New section on Genetic risks and prevention of vertical transmissions.
– New section on Perinatal and puerperium

You are urged to switch to this version. If you haven’t upgraded to OpenERP 5.0.2, do so before installing Medical, because it’s __way__ faster than the previous version.

You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/medical/

Please check it out and test it as much as you can. Then file all the bugs and feedback on sourceforge.

Medical is part of the GNU solidario project (www.gnusolidario.org). GNU solidario – previously called Linux Solidario – is a non-profit project with the goal of improving the quality of life of the people in developing countries with free software.

If you want to contribute to the project with ideas, coming up with a nice gnu logo that represent the project, etc…, please let us know !

Thanks
Luis

Instalación de Debian GNU/Linux en Escuelas de Santiago del Estero

06 Friday Oct 2006

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El día 6 de Octubre comenzó un gran proyecto : La instalación de cinco computadoras nuevas con Debian GNU/Linux y una impresora láser en la escuela Nuestra Señora de La Merced, en el pueblo de Los Pereyra, provincia de Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

El proyecto “Linux Solidario” tiene como objetivo el integrar a las comunidades rurales de Argentina al mundo informático, por medio del sistema operativo GNU/Linux. Este programa da la oportunidad que los niños tengan acceso a sistemas ofimáticos e Internet desde la escuela primaria, facilitándoles la transición con los ciclos superiores ( secundaria y universitaria ).

Nuestra visita al colegio empezó temprano, sobre las 07:00 ya estábamos en camino. Alrededor de las 09:30 habíamos llegado a la comunidad de Los Pereyra, departamento de Villa Robles. Allí fuimos recibidos por un grupo de profesores y por la directora del colegio, la señora Mirta. El trato recibido por parte de ellos fue extraordinario. La calidez humana de los profesores y alumnos superó todas nuestras expectativas.

Fue un día de mucho trabajo, armamos las computadoras, instalamos Linux y montamos una red entre las cinco computadoras y la impresora láser, Por supuesto, tuvimos la colaboración de los profesores y de algunos alumnos, especialmente de Mariano, que seguramente será gerente del departamento de Tecnología de Información. Aproximadamente a las 19:00 horas quedó lista la sala de computación, ubicada en la biblioteca del centro. Entre instalación e instalación, empezaron a usar el Open Office y, por supuesto, alguna partidida al “gnome-mines” y otros jueguitos 😉

Es imposible expresar con palabras el cariño y hospitalidad que nos brindaron tanto el personal académico como los alumnos, hasta los más pequeñitos, de sala de cinco años. No tenemos palabras de agradecimiento para todos los niños y, sobre todo, para los profesores, los verdaderos héroes, que todos los días con muy pocos medios materiales hacen lo posible para asegurarle el futuro a los 90 alumnos que conforman la escuela.

Todas las fotos y videos del evento: https://goo.gl/photos/GViUW1Ayn6ajwAGv8