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GNUHealthCon 2020. Social Medicine in a time of pandemic

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, GNU solidario, KDE

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ehealth, GHCon, Human Rights, IWEEE, Public Health, Social Medicine

It was not easy… we’re so used to celebrate the GNU Health Conference (GHCon) and the International Workshop on eHealth in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) in a physical location, that changing to a virtual conference was challenging. At the end of the day, we are about Social Medicine, and social interaction is a key part of it.

The pandemic has changed many things, including the way we interact. So we decided to work on a Big Blue Button instance, and switch to virtual hugs for this year. Surprisingly, it work out very well. We had colleagues from Gabon, Brazil, Japan, Austria, United States, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Chile, Belgium, Jamaica, England, Greece and Switzerland. We didn’t have any serious issues with the connectivity, and all the live presentations went fine. Time zone difference among countries was a bit challenging, specially to our friends from Asia, but they made it!

Social Medicine, health literacy and patient activation

The non-technical talks covered key aspects in Social Medicine, Citizens, health literacy, patient activation and Global digital health records, given by Dr. Richard Fitton, Steve and Oliver, two of his patients. Armand Mpassy talked about the challenges about GNU Health for IT illiterate Case study: Patient workflow at the outpatient service.

Individual privacy and crypto

On privacy and cryptography subjects, we had talks from Isabela Bagueros from Tor, Surviving the surveillance pandemic, Ricardo Morte Ferrer on A proposal for the implementation of a Whistleblower Channel in GNU Health, and Florian Dold on GNU Taler: A payment system by the GNU Project.

openSUSE Leap, packaging GNU Health and Orthanc

On operating systems, Doug Demaio from openSUSE talked about The big Change for openSUSE Leap 15.3, the new features on the upcoming release of this great distribution, bringing sources of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) closer to the community distribution. I can not stress enough the importance of getting professional support on your GNU Health installations. Health informatics should not be taken lightly, and is key to have a solid implementation of the underlying operating system components, to get the highest levels of of security, availability and performance in GNU Health.

Axel Braun, board member openSUSE and core team member of GNU Health, focused on packaging GNU Health and the openSUSE Open Build Service (OBS). The presentation Hidden Gems – the easy way to GNU Health, put the stress on making GNU Health installation even easier, in a self-contained environment.

Sébastien Jogdone, leader of the Orthanc project, presented Using WebAssembly to render medical images, an open standard that allows to run C/C++ code on a web browser. This is great news since GNU Health integrates with Orthanc PACS server.

Qt and KDE projects in the spotlight

If we think about innovation in computing, we think about Qt and KDE. GNU Health integrates this bleeding edge technology in MyGNUHealth, the GNU Health Personal Health Record for desktop and mobile devices that uses Qt and Kirigami frameworks.

Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., presented Delivering Software like KDE, putting emphasis on delivering code that would be valid for many different platforms, specially mobile devices.

Cristián Maureira-Fredes, leader of the Qt for Python project, in his presentation Qt for Python: past, present, and future!, talked about the history and the upcoming developments in the project, such as PySide6, the latest Python package and development environment for Qt6. MyGNUHealth is a PySide application, so we’re very happy to have Cristián and Aleix on the team!

Dimitris Kardarakos, presented a key concept on modern applications, that is convergence, the property of the application to adapt to different platforms and geometries. His talk Desktop/mobile convergent applications with Kirigami explained how this framework KDE framework, that implements the KDE Human Interface Guidelines, helps the developers create convergent, consistent applications from the same codebase. MyGNUHealth is an example of a convergent application, to be used both in the desktop as in a mobile device.

I did go into details on MyGNUHealth design in my talk, MyGNUHealth The GNU Health Personal Health Record (PHR).

Argentina leading Public Health implementations with Libre Software

Many years of methodical and intense hard work in the areas of health informatics and public health have paid off. The team lead by Dr. Fernando Sassetti, head of the Public Health department of the National University of Entre Rios, has become a reference in the world of public health, Libre Software in the public administration, and implementations of GNU Health in many primary care centers and public hospitals in Argentina.

The National Scientific and Technological Promotion Bureau (Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica), chose Dr. Sassetti project based on GNU Health as the system for management of epidemics in municipalities. Health professionals were trained in GNU Health epidemiological surveillance system, as well as the contact tracing functionality.


Ingrid Spessotti and Fiorella de la Lama on their talk Outpatient follow-up and home care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, explained some of the functionality and benefits of these GNU Health packages, for instance:

  • Real-time observatory and epidemiological surveillance
  • Automatic notification of notifiable disease to the National Ministry of Health
  • Reporting on cases and contacts
  • Calls registry, monitoring of signs and symptoms.
  • Risk factors on each individual (eg, chronic diseases, socioeonomic status…)
  • Geolocalization of suspected or confirmed cases
  • Clinical management and followup for both inpatient and outpatient cases.

Carli Scotta and Mario Puntin, presented the Design, development and implementation of a Dentistry module for GNU Health: experience at the Humberto D’Angelo Primary Care Center in Argentina, a package that will be the base for the upcoming dentistry functionality in GNU Health 3.8 series.

The GNU Health Social Medicine Awards 2020

GNU Health is a social project. In every GHCon, we recognize the people and organizations that work to deliver dignity to those who need it most around the world.

Our biggest congratulations to Prof. Angela Davis, Proactiva Open Arms and Diamante Municipality!

As you can see, we still can do great conferences in the context of the pandemic. I hope to see you and hug you in person at GHCon2021.

In the meantime, stay safe!

For this and past editions of GNUHealthCon, you can visit www.gnuhealthcon.org

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IWEEE 2015 Speakers

14 Friday Aug 2015

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free software, fsf, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, Hospital Information System, interoperability, IWEEE, Las Palmas, medical informatics, Public Health, richard stallman, Social Medicine, tryton

http://www.iweee.org/2015-las_palmas/speakers.html

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Call for Papers IWEEE 2015 : Social Medicine – People before Patients –

06 Monday Jul 2015

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#socialmedicine, free software, GNU Health, GNU Health, GNU solidario, healthcare, IWEEE, iweee2015, patients, Public Health, Salud Pública

The International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) is an annual conference for Free (Freedom) Software in Healthcare and Social Medicine advocates.

The workshop promotes Free Software as an effective and ethical solution to provide universality and equity in health care.

This year the theme of IWEEE is “People before Patients”. We will put the attention on health promotion and disease prevention. 

Share your government experiences and ideas, such as how your government is improving Public Health with Free Software, or personal health devices using open hardware.
IWEEE is a non-profit event organized by GNU SOLIDARIO.
If you are interested to participate, please submit your presentation at: papers@iweee.org

If you want to sponsor the event, please contact us via: sponsors@iweee.org

Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested.

*Deadline*

 If you wish to participate to the call for papers/posters :

*Abstract* *submission*: no later than 1st of August 2015

Paper and posters submission guidelines
We hope to see you in Las Palmas !

GNU Health presentation at World Health Organization – WHO

25 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Luis Falcon in events, GNU Health, GNU solidario

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AIDS, Chagas, developing countries, GNU Health, GNU solidario, government, GPL, IWEEE, Jamaica, MDG6, WHO

Dear friends

I’m very proud to announce that our GNU Health presentation at WHO Second Global Forum on Medical Devices in Geneva, Switzerland, has been published at the World Health Organization site . Thank you United Nations for inviting me, it has been a fantastic experience and opportunity !
I shared with the audience the importance of Free (Freedom) Software in the Health Care sector, stressing that Health must be a public good and it can not belong to private corporations.
GNU Health is now being installed in many countries around the World, it has over 80 translation teams, and a great community that contributes that keeps growing every day.
GNU Health presentation at World Health Organization - WHO
Special thanks to the government of Jamaica, and to its Ministry of Health, who has adopted GNU Health as their eHealth system for the whole country. This is amazing ! Just some years ago, we, health care professionals and social activists, just dreamed about one day being able to provide equality in health care. Today is becoming a reality !
This April 10th I will be in Luxembourg, at Medetel , talking about the GNU Health implementation in Jamaica.
GNU Health 2.6 is coming soon, with a lot of new functionality, such as HL7 FHIR, improved ergonomics, strong auditing, and much more. We’ll be releasing the RC version soon so you can take a look of what is coming up and be able to test it.
Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for making GNU Health a GNU official package; to Free Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD; to great frameworks like Tryton; to fantastic programing languages like Python and to the most beautiful and powerful database engine PostgreSQL. They all make GNU Health possible.These are just some examples, from a much larger list, to show that GNU Health is a real community-based project.
Let me take this opportunity to invite you to the upcoming International Workshop on Emerging Economies – IWEEE “Social Medicine” , brought to you by GNU Solidario, that will take place in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this May 29-30th.  Join us and share your experience and benefits of Free Software in the Health Sector !
IWEEE 2014 - Social Medicine
Remember that health must be a non-negotiable human right, and that people always come before profit.
Looking forward to seeing you in Las Palmas !

[1] Luis Falcon. GNU Health Interfacing and Interoperability   http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/2nd-gf_posters/en/index8.html

[2] Poster : http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/H40.pdf

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.

Main site : health.gnu.org

Entrevista a Luis Falcón en Ethical Magazine (español).

08 Thursday Aug 2013

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e-salud, educación, emerging economies, Ethical Magazine, free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, Hospital Information System, IWEEE, millenium development goals, salud, Salud Pública, software libre

Ethical Magazine:  Entrevistamos a Luis Falcón, creador de GNU Solidario y GNU Health dos herramientas para promover la salud gracias al software libre, implantado ya en los cinco continentes con un objetivo claro: “romper los grilletes digitales” que nos atan a grandes corporaciones multinacionales y que frenan la salud pública de todos como motor básico para el desarrollo de los pueblos …

Entrevista completa:

Muchas gracias al equipo de Ethical Magazine !

Richard Stallman at IWEEE 2013 . Webm format

21 Thursday Feb 2013

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Deeveloping countries, ehealth, Free Software Foundation, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, IWEEE, richard stallman, stallman, UNESCO, webm

Just wanted to share Richard Stallman’s interview at the GNU Solidario‘s International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies – IWEEE 2013 -. (in Spanish)
As Richard and the Free Software community request, the following video is in encoded in WebM format.

The video in webm format can also be downloaded here  : http://www.iweee.org/presentations/2013-las_palmas/IWEEE_2013_stallman.webm
IWEEE is the annual GNU Solidario workshop that focuses in Free Software solutions for the health care sector, especially for developing countries. 

This year we had speakers from :

  • UNESCO chair of Telemedicine
  • The Free Software Foundation
  • Doctors without Borders
  • ZoHE
  • Thymbra
  • El Salvador Health Ministry
  • Caritas
  • GNU Solidario
  • Red Cros
  • MedFloss
  • University of Georgia
  • EpSOS -. The European eHealth Project
  • Ingenia
  • BikaLabs
  • BrainOS

IWEEE keeps getting bigger and better ! Thanks to all of you who contributed to this great workshop and we’re looking forward to seeing you at IWEEE 2014 !

IWEEE 2013 Program !

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Caritas, Cruz Roja, ehealth, free software, Free Software Foundation, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, IWEEE, IWEEE 2013, Las Palmas, MSF, Public Health, richard stallman, software libre, Spain

Time
Speaker
Organization
Country
Presentatiom
08:30-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:15
Luis Falcón
GNU Solidario
Spain
Opening Session
09:20-09:35
Thang Dao
Doctors without Borders – Switzerland –
Switzerland
Information Systems Governance at a humanitarian NGO
09:40-09:55
Carlos J. Martín Pérez
Ministry of Health El Salvador
El Salvador
Enjoying the free-libre software benefits to build a country level health information system: now is the time of giving back
10:00-10:15
Aymón López Márquez
Bubble Software Assotiation
Spain
TBC
10:20-10:35
Licino Kustra Mano
epSOS
Portugal
(epSOS) Smart Open Services for European Patients and the OpenNCP Initiative
10:40-10:55
Jesús González Herrera
Ingenia
Spain
Implementation of a software solution for Emergency Coordination based on Free Software. Sustainable investment.
11:00-11:15
Zviad Kirtava
Partners for Health NGO – Tbilisi State Medical University
Georgia
Hybrid (Fiber + Wireless) cost-efficient solution for Adjara Regional e-Health Network (REHN)
11:20-11:35
O. Ferrer – Roca
UNESCO – Univeristy of La Laguna
Spain
mHealth, BYOD, Gamification & Inverse Innovation
11:35-11:50
Coffee Break
11:55-12:10
Pedro Herranz Porcio
Caritas
Spain
CARITAS IN THE WORLD: Health related projects within the Social Action
12:15-12:30
Nicholas Wilkie
Doctors without Borders – Switzerland –
Switzerland
Mobile Healthcare Software for Emerging Economies
12:35-12:50
Holger Schmuhl
Helmholtz Zentrum München / medfloss.org
Germany
An overview of Medfloss.org and International Open Source Working Groups
12:15-12:30
Jordi Puiggené Valls
BIKA Labs
Spain
Bika Health, LIMS for public health laboratories
13:35-13:50
Alberto Lazzero
ZOHE – eHealth Open Zone
Italy
ZOHE: work and achievements
13:55-14:10
Benjamine Budiman
Cruz Roja
Spain
Humanitarian Logistics Center
14:10-15:00
Lunch Recess
15:00-15:15
Luis Falcón
Sebastián Marró
GNU Solidario
Spain
Adoption of GNU Health in Public Hospitals
15:30-16:30
Round Table
16:30-18:30
Richard Stallman
Free Software Foundation
USA
Free Software …. Defending Your Freedom

Registration is open for IWEEE 2013

05 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by Luis Falcon in Uncategorized

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free software, gnu, GNU Health, GNU solidario, IWEEE, IWEEE 2013, Las Palmas, medicine, registration, Social Justice

We are thrilled to announce opening of registration for the VI edition of IWEEE 2013: Social Justice
Admission is free, but previous registration is required. Make sure to reserve your place !

In the next few weeks we will start publishing the tentative program, so don’t forget to check out our latest news and events.

We hope to see you in Las Palmas !

IWEEE 2013 at EUROSTARS Las Canteras

01 Thursday Nov 2012

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EUROSTARS Las Canteras, free software, gnu, GNU Health, IWEEE, IWEEE 2013, Las Palmas, Spain

The next edition of IWEEE: VI International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies, will be held at Salón Canteras – EUROSTARS Las Canteras –  in Las Palmas (Spain).
If you would like to book a room at the same hotel, please make sure to send a mail to make a reservation to: comercial@eurostarslascanteras.com and to reservas@exelascanteras.com and don`t forget to mention that you will be attending IWEEE 2013 !

Attending IWEEE 2013  will give you the opportunity to visit the beautiful Gran Canaria.

Eurostars Las Canteras 

[…] Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, commonly known as Las Palmas, is the co-capital (jointly with Santa Cruz) and the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands […] Las Palmas enjoys a subtropical climate, with mild to warm temperatures throughout the year. 
According to a study carried out by Thomas Whitmore, director of research on climatology at Syracuse University in the United States, Las Palmas enjoys “the best climate in the world” […] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Palmas)

Las Palmas` Cathedral
In Las Palmas you will be able to enjoy culture, beaches and entertainment, all at the same place !

Alfredo Kraus` Auditorium

You can find more info about the city at the Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Night view

We hope to see you in Las Palmas !

6ª edición IWEEE: Internacional Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies

22 Monday Oct 2012

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developing countries, e-health, españa, free software, fsf, GNU Health, GNU solidario, gobiernos, IWEEE, Las Palmas, Public Health, richard stallman, Salud Pública, software libre

Con gran orgullo anunciamos la 6ª edición de IWEEE: International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies: Social Justice (English version)
La próxima edición tendrá lugar en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (España) el 25 de enero 2013. Richard Stallman, de la Free Software Foundation ya confirmó su presencia ! 
“Como la mayoría de ustedes ya sabe, IWEEE reúne a un equipo multidisciplinario que representa ONGs, Academias, Gobiernos e Industrias para compartir sus experiencias y tratar de encontrar formas de mejorar la vida de millones de seres humanos en todo el mundo. IWEEE se centra en el factor humano y en crear conciencia sobre la situación actual de las sociedades. Vamos a discutir mecanismos que ayudaránn a los profesionales de salud, instituciones y organizaciones no gubernamentales en mejorar la calidad de vida de muchos seres humanos. El evento promueve el Software Libre como una solución eficaz y ética de proporcionar la universalidad y la equidad en la atención de la salud. No habrá conferencias paralelas. IWEEE es un evento sin fines de lucro organizado por GNU Solidario. Espero que encuentren este evento tan inspirador como lo es para mi. Espero verles en Las Palmas !”. Luis Falcón, Presidente GNU Solidario.
En las próximas semanas publicaremos más información. Mientras tanto les pido de contactarnos si están interesados en esponsorizar o auspiciar el evento, así como si quisieran hacer una donación a GNU Solidario. 
Su ayuda contribuirá a entregar Salud y Educación a los más necesitados.
En las próximas semanas abriremos las inscripciones y la presentación de ponencias.

Más información:
info@gnusolidario.org

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