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Medical 0.1.2 – Hospitalization (inpatient) management

13 Monday Sep 2010

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In this version of Medical  we have added important hospital functionality like the inpatient admission administration.

The module “medical_inpatient” concentrates the main functionality to :

– Make bed reservations
– Check  availability
– Graphically manage the hospital or health cernet beds in wards and or rooms.

Medical allows to manage bed assignments for different types of admissions (routine, periodic, maternity, emergencies, ..), for the specific hospital department.

calendar for hospital bed and patient management

In this view, it’s easy to look for patient’s locations and status in the hospital. The colors visually differentiate the type of admissions.

We have also improve other sections, like vaccinations. Thanks to Andrew Gledhill (NHS) who proposed the addition of the vaccine lot and expiration date. Actually, the vaccine is integrated to the product, so all the production lot, traceability, and procurement is automated. Special controls for vaccine expiration dates have been put in place now.

Finally, this version includes the translation to Vietnamese (thanks to Phong Nguyen) of all the modules !

You can find a detailed description of changes in the Changelog file (http://medical.sf.net/Changelog)

You can download this latest version from Sourceforge of from the European Community Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Please report any suggestions or issues you find to our mailining lists or bug tracking system.

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System

Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Main site : http://medical.sf.net

Governments hosting Medical through their portals :

LinuxCon 2010 Brazil and Medical

03 Friday Sep 2010

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Just got back from LinuxCon 2010 Brazil, (thank you Linux Foundation for inviting me ! ) where I was the speaker for Medical : Benefits of Implementing a Free Hospital and Health Information System.

Linus Torvalds and Luis Falcón at LinuxCon 2010

The event was great, I got the chance to see again my Brazilian friends, like Corinto Meffe, who is doing a great job on the public software portal. Corinto was the one who included Medical in the community of the Software Publico Brasileiro.

Corinto Meffe (Brazilian government ), Marcelo Moreno (Ginga), Tatiana Al-Chueyr (In-vesalius), Luis Falcón (Medical) and  Ricardo Amorim (codecommunity) at LinuxCon 2010 Brasil

I also talked to Linus Torvalds about the GNU Solidario organization, and the countries we are currently working.

I am quite happy with the fact of having LinuxCon in LatinAmerica. This was the first year of the conference in South America and I’m looking forward to see more people and companies of LatinAmerica and Spain next year.

The same group with Francine and Rainer Kruger (Pandorga Linux)

You can find the paper and more pics of the event at the GNU Solidario Site or in the new GNU Solidario social network of at Amazee (http://www.amazee.com/gnusolidario). While you are there, just join the team !

Medical included in the European Community and Brazil Public Software Portals

13 Friday Aug 2010

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Medical (http://medical.sf.net) has been included in the European Commission Open Source Observatory (OSOR).

OSOR is the Free Software portal of the European Community to use in the public administrations.

Now Medical has a local mirror for Europe, with the software as well as local news.


The EU follows the same steps as the Brazilian government, that have included Medical in the Public Software Portal (Portal do Software Publico Brasileiro ), where there is a community (Medical – BR ) dedicated to the Brazilian localization.
Corinto Meffe, IT innovation manager from the Brazilian government, will join me  at LinuxCon 2010 Brasil, in the Medical presentation “Benefits of implementing a Free Hospital Information System” 

Many thanks to both governments to include Medical in their portals and to work on the inclusion of free software in the Public sector.

More information at :

http://www.osor.eu

http://www.softwarepublico.gov.br

http://medical.forge.osor.eu

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System for OpenERP that provides the following functionality :

  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  • Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Health Information System

Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Medical goes Beta !

21 Wednesday Jul 2010

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I am happy to announce the release of the Beta version of Medical, the award-winning  free Health and Hospital Information System.

This beta version represents almost 2 years of work, with a multinational team of scientists, physicians, social workers, biochemists, pharmacists, translators and many others who have contributed their time.

Medical represents a solid alternative to proprietary systems, specially for those living in emerging economies and those helping the underprivileged. It’s a free system put on the hand of health professionals and governments to improve the lives of their citizens.

The Beta version highlights are :

  •  Strong focus in family medicine and Primary Health Care
  •  Major interest in Socio-economics (housing conditions, substance abuse, education…)
  •  Diseases and Medical procedures standards (ICD-10 / ICD-10-PCS)
  •  Patient Genetic and Hereditary risks : Over 4200 genes related to diseases (NCBI / Genecards)
  •  Epidemiological and other statistical reports
  •  Prescription writing
  •  Billing
  •  Perinatal and puerperium
  •  Inpatient / Outpatient management
  •  100% paperless patient examination and history taking
  •  Patient Administration
  •  Appointment management
  •  Doctor Administration
  •  Lab Administration
  •  Vademecum
  •  Drugs and medication
  •  Medical stock and supply chain management
  •  Hospital Financial Administration

Medical and / or  its homepage has been translated to Bahasa, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.

We are also working on the new documentation portal, that can be accessed directly from the Medical homepage

You can download and test Medical at sourceforge : http://medical.sf.net

Medical is part of GNU Solidario ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

We’ll be presenting Medical in LinuxCon Brazil 2010, this August. You can check the current and next events here

Thanks
Luis Falcón
GNU Solidario

Medical 0.0.51 : Easy to install, Signs, Symptoms and health promotion

20 Sunday Jun 2010

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In this new version of Medical, we have improved the installation; the signs and symptoms in the patient examination; and the functionality on health promotion and disease prevention.

Installation :

Medical 0.0.51 has now a “Medical Center profile” that include the most important functionality modules, so you don’t have to install one by one. It will be done automatically during the installation.

This will include the core module, admissions, lifestyle / sexuality, socioeconomics, diseases (ICD-10), laboratory,gynecology and genetics

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 

– Gynecology ( mammography, colposcopy, breast self-examination )
– Home and car safety
– Sexuality ( sexual habits, practices and associated risks )

Signs and Symptoms

The signs and symptoms section on the patient evaluation / physical examination has been extensively revised and improved. Now we count with over 115 signs and symptoms, covering most of the evaluations. This is important not only for the health professional, but also to get good statistical information.

For a detailed log of chages, please visit the Changelog

Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.

As usual, you can download and test Medical at sourceforge : http://medical.sf.net

Please download it and report any bugs and suggestions !

Medical is part of the GNU Solidario project ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Release of Medical 0.0.50

07 Monday Jun 2010

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In this version we keep on improving navigation, demo data and reporting.

Since 0.0.50 the patient’s diseases (including allergies) will be always visible. A new color schema will differentiate and highlight severe and infectious diseases. The diseases are also ordered by different parameters ( active,  disease status, severity, diagnosis date, pregnancy warnings, … ).

This design optimizes navigation and the focus on the different aspects of the patient, without missing critical information about the patient.

Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.

As usual, you can download and test Medical at sourceforge : http://medical.sf.net

Please download it and report any bugs and suggestions !

Medical is part of the GNU Solidario project ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

Medical 0.0.49 released !

31 Monday May 2010

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In this release we have optimized the navigation, allergy and basic reports.

For a detailed list of modifications, please check http://medical.sourceforge.net/Changelog

Here are a couple of screenshots that show some reporting and the navigation in some areas (medicaments and allergies).

You can see the relationship between what is in the screen and the report generated.

We have also included Panagiotis Kontaxis localization for Greece.

Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.

As usual, you can download and test Medical at sourceforge : http://medical.sf.net

Please download it and report any bugs and suggestions !

Medical is part of the GNU Solidario project ( http://gnusolidario.org/en ) . GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health solutions with free software.

New MEDICAL Demo DB and data

08 Saturday May 2010

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I just created a new DB with some demo data to test and play with.

This version is based on SVN rev. 87, with the modular design. Most modules have been loaded.

I believe that the best way to test the system is to have a couple of demo Medical Records, with as much information as possible, as well as the institution information.

The basic data includes :

– Female patient
– Diabetes type 1.
– Using an insulin pump
– Allergic to penicillin
– Mother of 2 infants ( G2P2A0). One premature.

– There is one evaluation (Presumptive diagnosis : Acute cystitis)
– One prescription ( Ciprofloxacin )
– One lab test ( urine analysis )
– Health Institution
– Doctor

Other info : Has traveled to malaria endemic area 4 months ago and did not take any anti-malarial prophylaxis.

In this demo instance, please play with the following :

– Hospitalizations
– Family members
– Lifestyle
– Perinatal and puerperium information
– Socioeconomics ( patient occupation, living conditions, … )
– Surgeries
– Genetic risks and family history
– Other lab tests (eg, CBC)
– Sexuality
– Vaccinations

We should also have demo data for the Hospital Administration (personnel, financials, products, stock, suppliers, pharmacy, … )

All that info will be used and included in the next version (0.0.49), so we have a case to work on from the start. It’s also a good way to check and look for bugs.

Please check the online demo and join the mailing lists were you’ll find the access data, and can make questions about the system. If you are not a developer, then you should subscribe to the medical-users mailing list only.

Enjoy and thanks for testing !
Luis Falcon

Getting ready for Medical 0.0.48

19 Monday Apr 2010

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Medical 0.0.48 will represent a major milestone in the development of the HIS. This new distribution greatly improves the development, localization and scalability of the system. Specific teams can work independently in their disciplines, without affecting the rest. Smaller centers won’t necessarily have to install all the modules, just the ones they need.

We plan to release the 0.0.48 on this Sunday 25th, with most of the translations in place. Developers can get it from the SVN repository.

I have updated the SVN repository, with the new medical schema. The “monolithic” main module has been divided now into the following. There are many that we are working on ( like epidemiology and reporting ) that will be included also shortly.

medical : Core module. It contains the main objects, such as patient, disease, physicians, evaluations, ethnic groups, hospitals and their infrastructure, admissions, families, operational areas and sectors,  medicaments and medications, administration routes and appointment administration.

medical_genetics : It contains all the objects and functionality relevant to family history and genetic disorders. Over 4200 genes associated to diseases.

medical_gyneco : Gynecological and obstetric info. Pregnancy, perinatal, birth, postpartum and puerperium information, monitors and history

medical_socioeconomics : Living conditions, Educational level, Infrastructure (electricity, sewers, drinking water …), Family affection ( APGAR ), Drug addiction, Hostile environment, Teenage Pregnancy, Working children, ….

medical_surgery : Module specific for surgery medical discipline. It also holds the patient surgeries history. It can work with ICD10-PCS module for the Procedures Codes.

medical_icd10pcs : Procedure Coding System for Medical ICD-10-PCS. It’s a standard that represents the successor of ICD-9-CM for medical procedures (surgical and others ).

medical_icd10 : World Health Organization – International Classification of Diseases for MEDICAL – 10th revision. You can use this standard for the pathology coding. Medical uses a coding system such there is no mistake in the typing or interpretation of the diagnosis.

medical_lifestyle : Gathers information about the habits and sexuality of the patient. For example, eating habits, drinking, drug addictions,  sexuality and sexual education, physical activity, …

medical_lab : Will hold the functionality for clinical tests and the interfaces with industry clinical devices

medical_ : These modules will hold the localization effort for different countries ( such as medical_gr for Greece, medical_br for Brazil or medical_es for Spain ). will be the two letter country ISO code. We should not confuse this with the translation. Each module will have a i18n directory that will hold all the translations for different languages.

Thanks
Luis Falcón

New Modular Design for Medical

16 Friday Apr 2010

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New Modular Design for Medical

Dear MEDICAL team

Since next development version (0.0.48), Medical will be more modular.
The new design will have the following advantages :

  • Dedicate teams to specific functionality ( localization, medical specialties, socioeconomics, epidemiology …. )
  • Development process speedup
  • Easier and faster installation
  • Ability to install only the required functionality
Some Medical modules and the core

Please make sure you test it and send us feedback.

Thanks again to all of you who are making Medical the Universal Free Hospital Information System !
Luis Falcón