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
It is designed to be multi-platform, so it can be installed in different operating systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MS Windows), database management systems (PostgreSQL), and enterprise resource planning (Tryton).
History
GNU Health started in 2008 by Luis Falcón as a project for Health promotion and disease prevention in rural areas. Its initial name was Medical. Today it has evolved into a Health and Hospital Information System, with a multi-disciplinary international team of contributors. GNU Health is a project of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the areas of health and education with free software.
Main Development events
- October 12th, 2008 : Medical project registered at Sourceforge
- November 2nd, 2008 : Medical Version 0.0.2 is released at SourceForge
- April 15th, 2010 : Medical is registered at Brazilan government Portal do Software Público Brasiliero (SPB)
- July 31st, 2010 : The Project is registered at the European Community Open_Source_Observatory_and_Repository
- April 18th, 2011 : Medical switches the development environment from OpenERP to the Tryton framework.
- June 12th, 2011 : The project is renamed from Medical to GNU Health.
- August 16th 2011 : version 1.3.0 is released, supporting Tryton and PostgreSQL.
- August 26th 2011 :Richard Stallman declares GNU Health an official GNU Package. At this point, the development portal is moved from SourceForge to GNU Savannah.
- October 29th 2011 : Release of GNU Health v 1.4.1 . This version is also included at the The Python Package Index - PyPI as a set of Python modules.
Usage
GNU Health is intended to run in Health Centers, to take care of the daily clinical practice as well as to manage the health center resources.
Features
GNU Health uses a modular approach around the kernel, with different functionality that can be included to meet the health center needs. The current modules are:
- Health: Main data model for objects such as patient, evaluations, health centers, diseases, appointments, vaccinations and medicaments
- Pediatrics: Include models for neonatology, pediatrics and psychosocial evaluations (Pediatric Symptoms Checklist - PSC)
- Gynecology: Gynecology, obstetrics, preventive medicine, perinatal information and puerperium
- Lifestyle: Physical exercise, diets, drug addictions, National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) recreational drug database, Henningfield ratings, sexuality, risk factors, home safety, child safety
- Genetics: Hereditary risks. Around 4200 “disease genes” from the NCBI / GeneCards
- Socioeconomics: Education, occupation, living conditions, hostile areas, child labour and prostitution, among others.
- Inpatient: Patient Hospitalization, bed assignment, care and nursing plans.
- Surgery: Pre-operation checklist, procedures, operating rooms, patient surgery history.
- Invoice: Link to the health center financial administration.
- Calendar : Adds functionality to connect with a CalDAV client, and manage calendars for appointments.
- Inpatient_calendar : Manages calendars for patient hospitalizations and bed assignments.
See also
Notes & References
- Web pages
External links
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GNU_Health GNU Health] at Wikimedia Commons