HOSxP

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HOSxP is a hospital information system, including Electronic health record (EHR). Design and develop by health care practitioners with first-hand experiences, the software aimed to ease healthcare workflow of health centers, for small sanitariums to central hospitals.

HOSxP is free software, distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). The development started in 1999. Emerged from a solo project by Chaiyaporn Suratemekul, a pharmacist by training, now main developers of the software are staffs from Bangkok Medical Software Co., Ltd., a company lead by Chaiyaporn. The development infrastructure, including source code repository, is hosted by SourceForge^[1]

At a time of writing (July 6, 2006) the software is in a production use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. With many hospitals currently testing/reviewing the software.

Not to be confused, the project has nothing related to Hospital OS project, except that both are hospital information system, use GPL, and come from Thailand.

1 Architecture and technical information
2 Name
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[edit] Architecture and technical information

HOSxP uses client-server architecture. For the database server, it is claimed to run on many RDBMS, like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Interbase/Firebird.

Client-server (two-tier)
- a server software can run on either GNU/Linux or Microsoft Windows
- a client software can run only on Microsoft Windows
Multi-tier technology (Borland DataSnap)
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)

Delphi and its Linux-sister Kylix are IDEs of choice.

A user is allowed to write scripts in Pascal programming language to automate tasks in HOSxP.

[edit] Name

Before becoming HOSxP, the software was called KSK-HDBMS. Seeking for a more friendly name, the development team opted for the name HOSxP, which comes from "Hospital" and "Experience". The name also reflects the software's graphical user interface, which mimic the theme of Windows XP, no matter what actually the underlying operating system.