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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 Reporting

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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In the last blog I talked about the QR codes integration in GNU Health.
Today I am very happy to  show a couple of reports from GNU Health, done in the Tryton (Relatorio and Libre Office) framework.
In GNU Health you can generate complex dynamic reports. In the next two examples, the patient and newborn information is displayed. Some of the information is encoded in the QR code.

Patient ID card report on GNU Health

Tryton allows you to create dynamic LibreOffice reports, and these two examples show how we can embed functions, real-time graphics or change the font color depending on the gender of the patient, to name a few capabilities of this great environment.
Newborn wristband Identification, with all the information encoded in QR

We show again how Free Software (Tryton, Libre Office, Python, Postgresql, GNU/Linux, … ) allow us doing anything we need. So, please use Free software. It’s ethical.  

We fight for equity in Health care, and one way of doing so is by using Free Software !

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)

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 Paraguay Ministry of Public Health

26 Saturday Nov 2011

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I just got back from Paraguay, where we were invited by Mr. Nicolás Caballero from the Paraguayan Government to talk about GNU Health at the Social Security Institute (IPS – Instituto de Previsión Social ) and Ministry of Public Health .

It’s great  to see how Paraguay is adopting Free Software in the Public Health System, working as a team, from the Presidency office, the Social Security Institute (IPS) and the Ministry of Public Health (MSPBS).
I noticed how the government conceives Health informatics as a public good, an integral component  of Public Health.   

At Dr. Emilio Cubas Hospital. The largest health center in Paraguay

We spent two non-stop days in Asunción, capital of Paraguay, visiting the different health centers and having meetings with health officials. In those meetings, Nicolas Caballero explained the latest and concrete resolutions that the Paraguayan government is taking on Free Software adoption in public health care. 

Nicolas Caballero and Social Security Institute (IPS) members

Luis Falcón, Nurhizam Safie, Cristina Melgosa, Rosa González and Ana Ayala (director of Informatics)  from IPS

After visiting the different health centers, we had a meeting with the information system team, with whom we discussed the technical details about GNU Health, such as the programming environment, security, scalability and reporting. 
Explaining technical details about GNU Health at the General Hospital
At Clinica Nanawa

Dr. Nurhizam Safie, from the United Nations University, Institute of Global Health explained the partnership with GNU Solidario, and implementation cases of GNU Health in Asia, Africa and Latinamerica.
Nurhizam stressed the commitment of the UNU – the academic branch of the United Nations – with GNU Health and the implementation in the Paraguayan Public Health system, as a way of delivering universality in health care. Today UNU provides training and capacity building in GNU Health implementations.  

Dr. Nurhizam Safie from United Nations University, talking about the UNU commitment to the project
Part of the Informatics department team at Central Hospital led by Rosa González
Ms. Rosa González, Social Security Institute chief of the informatics department, gave us an extensive tour throughout different health institutions and their departments. Among them: Pharmacy, Laboratory, Appointments, Inpatient administration and Imaging.
Rosa explained to her team that GNU Health is licensed under GPL, the GNU General Public License, so they have all the freedom to use and custumize GNU Health to fit their needs. I stressed the importance of working with the community, so the health informatics team can always ask questions in public forums and share with us their developments and bug fixes. GNU Health is the result of many contributions and feedback  from an international community and multi-disciplinary teams.
At the Geriatric Hospital

Dr Nurhizam, Cristina Melgosa and Rosa González at IPS entrance hall

On Friday afternoon we were invited by Dr. Graciela Gamarra, General Director of Strategic Health Information Systems, from the Health Ministry (Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social). They showed us their current epidemiology systems that are being built on Free Software.
We also discussed on integrating all the current systems with GNU Health, and link it to the current epidemiology engine.
Taking a break

I want to thank the government of Paraguay for inviting us and for the hospitality, they made us feel at home.

But most importantly, I want to thank the government of Paraguay for the commitment with Free Software in Public Health. Latin America is today a leader in the adoption of Free Software in public administrations, delivering equity and universality in health care for their habitants.

Last but not least, thanks to Richard Stallman, who referred GNU Health to Nicolás Caballero , chief technology innovation officer of the Presidency office.  Thanks Nicolás for making this possible !

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 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 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 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 :

    GNU Health 1.4.1 released !

    29 Saturday Oct 2011

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    I’m 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 :

    GNU Health 1.3.3 released

    19 Monday Sep 2011

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    I’m pleased to announce GNU Health 1.3.3

    This version could be considered a milestone in itself, due the major changes and new features:

    • New naming convention of modules and models. From  medical to gnuhealth
    • New installation scripts (setup.py) . 
    • Major improvements in the Laboratory module. Now we have automatic visual alerts, possibility to exclude analytes from the analysis, qualitative and quantitative testing. Contextualize results in the patient status (gender, age, comorbidities … ).

    Screenshot of a sample lab report on GNU Health 1.3.3

    As in every new release, bugs are fixed, navigation improved and new features are includes.

    Since Health is now part of the official GNU system, the development is hosted at GNU Savannah.

    Last but not least…  many thanks to Cedric and Tryton community for getting involved in the GNU Health 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 part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.
    Main site : health.gnu.org
    Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :

    GNU Health 1.3.2

    08 Thursday Sep 2011

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    We announce the release of GNU Health 1.3.2. This release fixes bugs, improves navigation, reports, translations and patient appointment and evaluation process.
    GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System.