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Masaki Clinic in Tanzania chooses MEDICAL

03 Friday Jun 2011

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I’m happy to announce that the Masaki International Clinic in Tanzania chose MEDICAL as their Hospital Information System.

The Health center has specialists in :

– Family Medicine
– Tropical diseases
– Obstetrics and Gynecology
– Pneumology
– Mental health
– Endocrinology
– Diet and lifestyle counseling
– Physiotherapy

Today MEDICAL , GNU Solidario Free Health and Hospital Information System is helping health centers around the world improving the quality of life of their patients and families.

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System 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.


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Indignados demonstration in Spain. Analogies in Free Software community

22 Sunday May 2011

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Yesterday I returned to Buenos Aires from my European tour. It was a very productive week in Geneva and Barcelona, talking about MEDICAL with colleagues, partners, and organizations interested in implementing and joining the MEDICAL project. We also talked about the next version of MEDICAL, Tryton and OpenERP.

Angel, Albert Cervera (Nan Tic) and Luis Falcón in Barcelona

 

Nice dinner with the NaN tic guys. We talked about the OpenERP community, and the need of having a governance in Free Software projects without censorship  or being partial. We all see today how speculators are getting into the “open source” and the techniques they are using to lock-in users.

As I said in an interview last year in OpenERP ( http://www.openerp.com/node/549 ), at the end of the day, is your actions what counts, not the tools that you use. By the way, I hope this interview remains there and won’t be censored, as my latest emails 😉

Cool street names in Barcelona 🙂

Finally, I had the chance to go and support the “Indignados” demonstration in Plaza Cataluña, against politicians and private companies responsible of the crisis that we – as the community – have to suffer.

“Indignados” demonstration in Barcelona

After all, greed puts at risk the development and dignity of communities. The same greedy hands are the ones destroying societies and the free software projects.

Luckily, these people in Barcelona and in the rest of Spain, as well as the free software advocates,  have the conviction to fight for our dignity and future.

Bests
Luis

MEDICAL welcomes Tryton !

20 Friday May 2011

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I have great news for the Free Software advocates.
 

We have started working in extending MEDICAL to support the Tryton ERP. Tryton is a great ERP with a solid free software philosophy, not only for releasing the source code, but by having NO LOCK-IN policies. So this is what we will achieve

–  Freedom of choice : Now the user will have complete freedom in Operating System, Database or ERP . The user will be able to choose from OpenERP or Tryton.

– Guarantee Upgrades : MEDICAL must rely on an architecture that allows the user to upgrade their infrastructure. The users and health centers should have the upgrade tools and documentation to update the operating system, database and ERP at no cost if they choose to do. Today we see that concept in GNU/Linux, Postgresql and Tryton. This schema guarantees that the end user has the best and most updated MEDICAL version, as well as the underlining components.

In this sense, we, as a community, will always be vigilant to any lock-in strategy in the underlying software (operating system, database or ERP) that could compromise its sustainability.

Many organizations around the world have chosen MEDICAL to improve the lives of the underprivileged. This community keeps growing because not only because of its technical capabilities, but also because of the free software philosophy behind it.

– Vendor independence : We, as a community, can NOT depend on a single vendor or group of vendors for the future of MEDICAL (or any free software solution for that matter). MEDICAL does not belong to Thymbra. MEDICAL is part of a non-for-profit organization, GNU Solidario, which can not be bought or fall into speculators hands. MEDICAL is a public good.

– Back to the roots : We need to get back to the origins of Free Software. As I said, this is not about only “open source”, but about community and ethics.

I believe that today we have the perfect scenario of freedom of choice, vendor independence, no lock-in policies of any type, community and evolution. These factors guarantee the sustainability of MEDICAL for the current and all the next installations around the world.
 
We will of course keep on developing MEDICAL so it will have the same functionality in all the environments (OpenERP, Tryton, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD…).

Today is a great day for MEDICAL and for Free Software.

About Medical

Medical is a free (GPL license), centralized Health and Hospital Information System 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.


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Thymbra OpenERP academia .- May 2011

12 Tuesday Apr 2011

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I’m happy to announce the upcoming OpenERP academia taking place in Buenos Aires, May 2nd-6th.

Get the best from the first OpenERP partner in LatinAmerica.

En Español : http://www.thymbra.com/es/training/training_cursos_openerp.html

Thymbra and Tiny SPRL (Now OpenERP) created in 2007 the OpenERP LatinAmerica Academy in order to satisfy the local market demand.

  

This makes Thymbra the first OpenERP official education partner. In the Academy we give the same material (technical and functional courses) as in Belgium, but localized both in the language and market specifications for Latin America.

Experience tells us that places are taken shortly after announcing our academia, so please make sure you get your seat by writing to academia@thymbra.com

Looking forward to meeting you in Buenos Aires !

For more information, please check the following links

http://www.thymbra.com/en/training/training.html

En Español : http://www.thymbra.com/es/training/training_cursos_openerp.html

Thymbra acquires Open Unit

20 Sunday Mar 2011

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Thymbra has acquired Open Unit Solutions, a company specialized in Free Software. This acquisition positions Thymbra as the company leader in Free Software consulting in Latin America.

Thymbra is the first OpenERP partner in Latin America. Since 2005, we are official OpenERP Gold Partners.

We have developed the Argentinian Localization, the logon manager and the Electronic Invoicing module, among others.

Thymbra is pioneer in Free Software development for Health Informatics, such as MEDICAL

Thymbra has since 2007 the OpenERP LatinAmerica Academia, so your company can get the best OpenERP functional and technical training. Please contact us at academia@thymbra.com to get information about the next training in your area.

Please contact us if you need information of our training session on OpenERP or MEDICAL, or if you want to implement it in your company or Health Center.

About Thymbra

Thymbra is an IT company specialized in ERP (OpenERP and SAP) administration and Health Informatics. Our goal is to maximize the performance, security and availability for your Enterprise. Our offices are in Spain and Argentina, with clients in Europe and the Americas.

We have two business divisions: Medical Informatics and ERP consulting. ERP services include the implementation, upgrade, migration and administration of OpenERP and SAP. Thymbra has years of experience in the SAP administration and clients all over Europe and Latin America.

Our Medical Informatics division develops open source solutions for doctors, institutions, NGOs and country health services. We make special emphasis on helping out developing countries in improving their population health campaigns, epidemiology studies and socio-economics of their people. Proper health care must be universal for everyone of us, no matter where we live.

Thymbra has been committed with Free Software since its beginning. In 1999 Thymbra made the first SAP installation on GNU/Linux in Latin America and today is leader in number of installations in this environment.

Thymbra is OpenERP first partner in Latin America, since 2005. We work on the localization of the ERP / CRM / BI for Latin America.

Kisiizi Hospital – to Implement Medical and OpenERP

09 Thursday Dec 2010

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Kisiizi Hospital is located in the Republic of Uganda in Western region near the boarder of DR congo. Kisiizi Hospital treats about 300,000 residents with the nearest hospital nearly 100 kilometers away, in Kabaale, it serves as a health haven for most residents who can barely afford pain killers. 
With support from many well wishers from UK, the hospital also trains Nurses at the Nursing school, these in turn are employed at the hospital. The hospital generates its own power through a hydro power plant. Its capacity is 250 beds. 
We at Geomaqs Technologies Ltd are helping the hospital implement a management Information System based on openerp. 
We would like to adopt medical as a HIS/MRS. Are there any members who have functional modules for openerp 5.0.14, reply mokongo@geomaqs.com 
*Note t hat q is Q in my mail.

Michael Okongo Sangoro
Kampala, Uganda

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 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.

Biomed chooses Thymbra to implement OpenERP

07 Monday Dec 2009

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Biomed Brokers, a company specialized in medical and laboratory equipment, has chosen Thymbra as their partner fot the OpenERP implementation.

The implementation consist in the migration of their current data to OpenERP, using all the functionality ( sales, purchase, stock, accounting, MRP, … ).

Biomed will be using Thymbra hosting facilities and the SaaS services, so they won’t have to worry about the administration or maintenance of their OpenERP infraestructure and hardware.