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New version GNU Health 2.2.0

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Dengue, Diagnostic Imaging Tests, ehealth, gnu, GNU Health, HMIS, MDG, tryton, tryton development


Dear All:
I’m proud to announce the release of GNU Health version 2.2.0 !
New functionality, bug fixes and  new modules (Dengue and Diagnostic Imaging Tests ). Improvements in Surgery, appointments and patient evaluations, among others.
The development process for the next version (2.4) will focus on the upcoming Tryton 3.0.
You can download the official version from GNU
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/gnuhealth-latest.tar.gz
 
The upgrade should be straight forward, as all the upgrade scripts in Tryton and GNU Health are always included. An update=all should do it. Please report any issue you may find, either in the upgrade process or in the initial installation at health@gnu.org
Thank you for being part of the GNU Health community !
Luis Falcón

Jamaica Ministry of Health adopts GNU Health

21 Saturday Sep 2013

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ehealth, freesoftware, GNU Health, GNU solidario, gnusolidario, HMIS, Jamaica, Kingston, Ministry of Health, Public Health

“If yu waa good, yu nose affi run”
 
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.

 The path towards the national deployment has started, and both the local team at the Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario are optimistic and determined about fulfilling the roadmap and its expectations.

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.

Main IT crew that attended the workshops
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]:

  • reducing exclusion and social disparities in health;
  • organizing health services around people’s needs and expectations ;
  • integrating health into all sectors;
  • pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue; and
  • increasing stakeholder participation.
That is GNU Health objective : Universality in Health Care. eHealth for all !
 
[1] The World Health Organization (WHO): Primary Health Care
http://www.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/
 
About GNU Health

GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality: 

  • Health Information System (Demographics, Epidemiology)
  • Hospital Information System
  • Electronic Medical Record 

*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.

 

Budi Luhur University, Indonesia, joins GNU Health !

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

Once again, with great pleasure and honor, we announce that another university has joined the GNU Health Community: The Budi Luhur Universitas (Indonesia)
Budi Luhur University, under the management of Budi Luhur Foundation is a nationally recognized institution with excellent teaching. The university being the pioneer among private universities in Indonesia offering computer studies, is consistently judged as one of Indonesia’s best higher educational institution in computer studies and is still highly respected.
We are so proud to see how GNU Health is spreading globally in the health care and academic system.
Thanks again to the Budi Luhur University for joining us !

GNU Health project at Kyeni Consolata Hospital – Kenya –

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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ehealth, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, HMIS, Hospital Information System, Public Health

Few weeks ago we got a mail from Beatriz Meijide. She is from Spain and she has been involved in a very great project for the last 10 years.
Beatriz has been collaborating with the Kyeni Consolata Hospital (Kenya), this a 166 bed hospital with a patient growth on +188% from 2005 to 2012. It is considered the locals favorite hospital for personalised attention and services. The hospital has improved a lot since 2005 and the idea of the people working there is to enhance it even more.  Knowing that the Hospital was in need of an Hospital Information System, Beatriz heard about GNU Health and contacted us and completed a GNU Health Training.
These are her words:

    ” … 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 !

GNU Health upcoming version 2.0

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

The upcoming GNU Health version 2.0, will come with a new demographics section. This will improve and speed up data entry at the front desk, and differentiates individual vs patient information. It will also improve data collection for better Primary Care campaigns.
 

Another new feature of the upcoming version will be the integration with OpenStreetMap ! It can visualize the exact location of any Domiciliary Unit in your operational sector around the world. Thanks to the OSM integration, we can now early identify disease outbreaks, improve epidemiology and demographic studies and many other actions to improve public health. 


Reflexiones acerca de GNU Health en la sesión de la UIT – OMS WSIS 2013

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

From Luis Falcon’s blog (english version)
En este mes de mayo he tenido el gran privilegio de ser invitado a participar como ponente en la sesión de la Unión Internacional de las Telecomunicaciones (UIT) y de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) : “TICs para la Mejora de la Información y Responsabilidades de la Salud Materno-Infantil” en la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información – WSIS 2013 Forum.

 
El titulo de mi presentación fue: “GNU Health: Mejorando la Salud de Niños y Madres con el Software Libre” y se realizó el día 14 de mayo, con una transmisión de la misma en vivo por Internet.
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.

Opening Session en WSIS 2013
GNU Health tiene su foco principal en la Atención Primaria y en la Declaración de Alma Ata. Nosotros solo cambiamos una letra de esa declaración, transformando el original “Salud para Todos” en “e-Salud para Todos”.

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.

Luis Falcón en su sesión
Es desgarrador ver a países pagar millones de dólares a corporaciones extranjeras en licencias de software privativo. Deberían mejor pensar en utilizar ese dinero para potenciar la promoción de la salud; las campañas de prevención de enfermedades, o mejorar los salarios de los profesionales de la salud o la infraestructura de muchos centros, por mencionar algunas ideas. 
Para continuar con los conceptos de la  Declaración de Alma Ata y con la Atención Primaria de la Salud, la tecnología médica debe ser accesible, asequible y factible. No es necesario adquirir sistemas costosos o de ciencia ficción, en la Atención de la Salud lo que necesitamos son herramientas asequibles y eficaces.

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.

Dr. Jordi Serrano, Luis Falcon y Sr. Hani Eskandar

La informática medica es sólo una herramienta para optimizar el profesional de la salud, los centros de salud y las autoridades sanitarias. No es ciencia ficción y no debe reemplazar el factor humano. El rol del profesional de la salud, integrado con los pacientes, las familias y la sociedad es insustituible.

He tenido el honor de compartir el panel con la Dra. Véronique Thouvenot (ITU), el Dr. Misha Kay (WHO eHealth Unit), el Sr. Hani Eskandar (ITU), el Dr. Ousmane Ly (National Mali Telemedicine Agency), el Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons (UniversalDoctors) y el Prof. Peter Bruck ( World Summit Award).

Ponentes sesión sobre eSalud
Mi agradecimiento a la Unión Internacional de las Comunicaciones (IUT) y a la Organización Mundial de la Salud (WHO) por invitarme a un evento tan importante y por poner el Software Libre (FLOSS) en el orden del día. El Software Libre mantiene viva la Declaración Alma Ata y La Atención Primaria de la Salud, aportando equidad y universalidad. La Salud debería seguir siendo un derecho humano no negociable y, la comunidad del software libre, debería ser un elemento clave para lograr este objetivo.

Algunos enlaces:
WSIS Agenda
Fotos 2º día
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
En 2012 GNU Health ha sido galardonado como mejor Proyecto para Beneficio Social 2011 por la Free Software Foundation.
En 2013, GNU Health ha recibido los premios como  Software Libre mas revolucionario y software con mayor potencial de crecimiento por el  PortalProgramas.

GNU Health es un  Paquete Oficial GNU , y es parte de GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario en una ONG que entrega educación y salud con software libre a países en vía de desarrollo. GNU Health es un sistema de Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de la Salud elegido por las Naciones Unidas y el International Institute of Global Health. GNU Solidario y la Universidad de Naciones Unidas, International Institute for Global Health han firmado un acuerdo para implementar y enseñar GNU Health a nivel mundial.

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University of West Indies, Jamaica, joins GNU Health

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

We are very pleased to announce that the University of West Indies has joined the GNU Health‘s Community !
GNU Solidario and UWI are starting this cooperation working closely on GNU Health’s development and deployment in the region.
The University of the West Indies is a dynamic, international institution serving the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua/Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands).
UWI’s mission is to unlock West Indian potential for economic and cultural growth by high quality teaching and research aimed at meeting critical regional needs, by providing West Indian society with an active intellectual centre and by linking the West Indian community with distinguished centres of research and teaching in the Caribbean and overseas. 
UWI recognises that as a regional university supported by the West Indian peoples, and as the sole local organ equipped to meet local requirements and to relate its own developmental programmes to them, it should give priority to regional needs (…).
It’s wonderful to see how the GNU Health’s community is growing. We need to deliver more Health and Education with Free Software !

WHO Essential Medicines – OMS Medicinas Esenciales

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

WHO Essential Medicines will be a new module from GNU Health 2.0.
Although the updated list of WHO essential medicines has been in GNU Health for quite a while, we have decided to create a module for itself, this will give us more flexibility and modularity.

Welcome health_who_essential_medicines ! More information on this at the WHO site http://www.who.int/topics/essential_medicines/en/

Medicamentos Esenciales de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), será un nuevo módulo de la version 2.0 de GNU Health.
Aunque la lista actualizada de los medicamentos esenciales de la OMS ha estado en GNU Health durante bastante tiempo, hemos decidido crear un módulo especifico, esto nos dará más flexibilidad y modularidad.

Bienvenido health_who_essential_medicines! Mas información en el sito de la OMS: http://www.who.int/topics/essential_medicines/es/index.html

 

GNU Health 2.0 – stable version

22 Monday Apr 2013

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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 :

  • Compatibility with upcoming Tryton 2.8
  • Initial inclusion of Neglected Tropical Diseases series (health_ntd series) starting with Chagas disease (health_ntd_chagas)
  • Bug fixes and enhancements of current modules
  • Packages for Archlinux and Parabola GNU/Linux

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 !

GNU Health Conference at Medetel 2013

12 Friday Apr 2013

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ehealth, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, health, HMIS, Hospital Information System, Medetel 2013, phealth, tryton

Don’t miss Sebastián Marró presentation. Today April 12th. at 11 AM in the Conference Room 4 – Medetel 2013 – 
“GNU Health: The Free Health & Hospital Information System”
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