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Dengue, Diagnostic Imaging Tests, ehealth, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, MDG, tryton, tryton development
Luis Falcón
25 Wednesday Sep 2013
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Dengue, Diagnostic Imaging Tests, ehealth, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, MDG, tryton, tryton development
21 Saturday Sep 2013
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ehealth, freesoftware, GNU Health, GNU solidario, gnusolidario, HMIS, Jamaica, Kingston, Ministry of Health, Public Health
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| Welcome presentation of GNU Solidario Mission by the MoH |
“Success requires hard work” is the meaning of this Jamaican proverb. With a bright Caribbean sun and an even brighter welcoming crew, GNU Health unshipped in a new bay this week. In cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MoH), a group mission of GNU Solidario visited Jamaica and inaugurated officially the project of deploying GNU Health within their Public Health Care system.
The mission is in the context of the agreement signed between Jamaica Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario, to cooperate in the implementation of GNU Health, the Free Health and Hospital Information System in this country.
This step is a tipping point in health history, granted that Jamaica is the first country to embrace GNU Health nationwide. A herculean task, this implementation is demanding cross-sectoral integrations from all the regions of this country. Hence, not only the permanent secretary of the MoH, Dr. Jean Dixon, vouched for this undertaking, but Mr. Gary Campbell (Director, ICT; Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining) also extended his blessing while announcing the GOJ FOSS Migration project and how it will cooperate with the GNU Health enterprise as well.
Programmers, system administrators, physicians, nurses, health records staff, as well as other public officials gathered to participate in several meetings, workshops and focus groups. The MoH Health Informatics team itself had representatives from both the national and the regional levels, as well as Health Records, Clinical, IT and Management Personnel.
After an intense week, the initial guidelines for the project were designed in order to complete the first stage by the end of this year. Moreover, our GNU Solidario team visited the Slipe Pen Road Comprehensive Health Centre for incipient calculations and further extrapolations.
This initiative has generated a gratification that transcends the local jurisdiction, so that not only the Free Software community, but the whole world rejoice in this unprecedented milestone within Public Health Care.
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| Main IT crew that attended the workshops |
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| Jamaican MoH building in Kingston |
As stated at World Health Organization (WHO) Primary Health Care portal, “the ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all”. WHO has identified five key elements to achieve that goal[1]:
*GNU Health won the Best Project of Social Benefit from the Free Software Foundation, among other international awards.
*GNU Health is an official GNU Package , and is part of GNU Solidario, an NGO that delivers health with free software. GNU Solidario and the United Nations University, International Institute for Global Health have signed an agreement to implement and to train Health professionals GNU Health around the world.
*GNU Health was presented at the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Communication Union (ITU) session “ICT for Improving Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health” at the World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS 2013 Forum in Geneva.
19 Friday Jul 2013
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Budi Luhur University, ehealth, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, healthcare, HMIS, Hospital Information System, Indonesia, Public Health
16 Tuesday Jul 2013
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” … I believe GNU Health will take the Kyeni Hospital to another level an it will greatly increase the efficiency and control of the hospital information. I think it covers all te areas we need and it also offers the ability to customize further developments if they are required. It’s been a very intense training and I believe I’ll be able to train the local team in Kenya ! GNU Health is a very “user-friendly” system and I hope we’ll be another success story … ” Beatriz Meijide
Thanks again to Beatriz and the Kyeni Hospital. We’re very proud and exited to be part of this beatiful project !
19 Wednesday Jun 2013
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ehealth, EMR, esalud, free software, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, Hospital Information System, OpenStreemap, primary care, Public Health, Sistema de Información Hospitalaria, software libre, tryton
27 Monday May 2013
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developing countries, ehealth, EMR, esalud, free software, GNU Health, GNU solidario, HMIS, Hospital Information System, ITU, phealth, Public Health, tryton, WHO, World Health Organization, WSIS
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| Oficinas Centrales de la Organización Mundial de la Salud en Ginebra |
No puedo dejar de pensar en los tremendos niveles de mortalidad materno-infantil, la mayoría por enfermedades prevenibles. Estos pensamientos son el motor principal para el desarrollo de GNU Health, una herramienta con Software Libre que puede mejorar la salud de millones de personas en países en desarrollo.
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| Opening Session en WSIS 2013 |
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| Tily Martín y Miguel Falcón de GNU Solidario |
De esta manera luchamos para que la Salud y e-Salud sean un bien público. Los gobiernos deberían utilizar el Software Libre como una forma de lograr políticas de Estado sostenibles en el ámbito de la salud pública.
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| Luis Falcón en su sesión |
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| Tily Martín, Dr. Alberto Lazzero y Luis Falcón |
En mi charla presenté el caso de la implementación de GNU Health en un Hospital Público de Entre Ríos, Argentina. GNU Health gestiona los datos demográficos de la ciudad, la información socioeconómica de las familias, las evaluaciones de los pacientes, los análisis de laboratorio, farmacia y stock, hospitalización, contabilidad financiera y RRHH, para mencionar algunos de los procesos utilizados. El centro sólo tuvo que invertir en la compra de computadoras para las oficinas de los profesionales de la salud.
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| Dr. Jordi Serrano, Luis Falcon y Sr. Hani Eskandar |
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| Ponentes sesión sobre eSalud |
GNU Health es un Sistema Libre de Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de la Salud con las siguientes funcionalidades:
24 Friday May 2013
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educación, education, ehealth, EMR, free software, fsf, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, health promotion, HMIS, University of West indies, UWI
07 Tuesday May 2013
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EMR, Essential Medicines, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, historia clinica electronica, HMIS, OMS, software libre, tryton, WHO
Welcome health_who_essential_medicines ! More information on this at the WHO site http://www.who.int/topics/essential_medicines/en/
22 Monday Apr 2013
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Chagas, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, GNU/Linux, HMIS, neglected tropical diseases, parabola, tryton, WHO
From Luis Falcón:
I’m happy to announce the scheduled release for the next stable version of GNU Health 2.0
We should be able to release it on May 12th, 2013.
The main changes will be :
We will upload the RC to the community server in 10 days or so from now.
Let’s work in parallel on the documentation and translation !
12 Friday Apr 2013
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