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  3 Laws of Hospital Health Information Technology Implementation.
Humor Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday February 22, @02:16PM
from the Humor dept.
3 Laws of Hospital Health Information Technology (HIT) Implementation.

1) Implementers and salespeople who don't know what they are doing will always get a binding, multi-year contract first.

2) Hospital management and owners will always do the wrong thing.

3) Everyone will grossly underestimate the time, difficulty, and expense it takes to fully implement Health IT in a hospital.


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  Call for participation "FLOSS village at Med-e-Tel 2014"
International/Europe Posted by Thomas Karopka on Monday January 20, @12:36PM
from the dept.
This is an invitation to demonstrate your Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) project or organization within a dedicated village at the Med-e-Tel 2014 conference (9-11 April, Luxembourg). Either join us in Luxembourg to represent your project/organization in person or otherwise you are welcome to send in an overview in the form of a poster that will be shown at the FLOSS village.
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  OpenEMR Free Hosting
OpenEMR Posted by CapMinds Technologies on Wednesday November 06, @10:20AM
from the EMR/HEalthcare dept.
OpenEMR intro
OpenEMR is ONC-ATB Ambulatory EHR 2011-2012 certified electronic medical records software with scheduling, prescription, billing and security modules. It's free open source software (FOSS), which makes it user customizable. It is installed either on a single machine acting as a web-server in an office or on a hosted server. Either way users access OpenEMR thru a web browser. Patient and visit information is stored in a database and accessible for reporting.
OpenEMR is a mature electronic health record system. It can track patient demographics, vitals, immunizations, medications, prescriptions, conditions, risk factors, visit clinical notes, and user specified variables. The real strengths of the program are its' affordability, extensive user and support base, translation features, CCHIT certification and ability for users to customize.

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  NHS Abandons £11bn IT system
International/Europe Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Tuesday October 29, @01:01PM
from the international/Europe dept.
NHS has abandoned its effort to create "the world's largest single civilian computer system linking all parts of the National Health Service"
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  Jamaica Ministry of Health adopts GNU Health
LinuxMedNews Posted by Luis Falcon on Monday September 30, @12:38AM
from the dept.

Original post with pictures in GNU Solidario's blog

Jamaica Ministry of Health chooses GNU Health

"If yu waa good, yu nose affi run"

"Success requires hard work" is the meaning of this Jamaican proverb. With a bright Caribbean sun and an even brighter welcoming crew, GNU Health unshipped in a new bay this week. In cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MoH), a group mission of GNU Solidario visited Jamaica and inaugurated officially the project of deploying GNU Health within their Public Health Care system.

The mission is in the context of the agreement signed between Jamaica Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario, to cooperate in the implementation of GNU Health, the Free Health and Hospital Information System in this country.

This step is a tipping point in health history, granted that Jamaica is the first country to embrace GNU Health nationwide. A herculean task, this implementation is demanding cross-sectoral integrations from all the regions of this country. Hence, not only the Permanent Secretary of the MoH, Dr. Jean Dixon, vouched for this undertaking, but Mr. Gary Campbell (Director, ICT; Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining) also extended his blessing while announcing the GOJ FOSS Migration project and how it will cooperate with the GNU Health enterprise as well.

Programmers, system administrators, physicians, nurses, health records staff, as well as other public officials gathered to participate in several meetings, workshops and focus groups. The MoH Health Informatics team itself had representatives from both the national and the regional levels, as well as Health Records, Clinical, IT and Management Personnel.

After an intense week, the initial guidelines for the project were designed in order to complete the first stage by the end of this year. Moreover, our GNU Solidario team visited the Slipe Pen Road Comprehensive Health Centre for incipient calculations and further extrapolations.

The path towards the national deployment has started, and both the local team at the Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario are optimistic and determined about fulfilling the roadmap and its expectations.
This initiative has generated a gratification that transcends the local jurisdiction, so that not only the Free Software community, but the whole world rejoice in this unprecedented milestone within Public Health Care.

Main IT crew that attended the workshops Jamaican MoH building in Kingston As stated at World Health Organization (WHO) Primary Health Care portal, "the ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all".

WHO has identified five key elements to achieve that goal[1]:

  • reducing exclusion and social disparities in health;
  • organizing health services around people's needs and expectations ;
  • integrating health into all sectors; pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue; and increasing stakeholder participation.
  • That is GNU Health objective : Universality in Health Care. eHealth for all !

    [1] The World Health Organization (WHO): Primary Health Care http://www.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/

    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.


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      Astronaut VistA 13.06 is Out
    Astronaut Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Sunday August 18, @01:26AM
    from the Astronaut dept.
    Lots of upgrades and bug fixes. Nearly everything has been refreshed. The latest GTM 6.0002, Fileman 22.2, WorldVistA/dEWDrop 5, tmg-cprs has bug fixes, the latest vitals .dll, treatment plans, improved template math, images in notes. The usual Astronaut goodness: ability to easily install and use arbitrary Linux distributions, migrate, backup, upgrade. Up to date EWD. Installation guide is here.
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      OpenEMR 4.1.2 is released
    OpenEMR Posted by Brady Miller on Saturday August 17, @11:45PM
    from the dept.
    The OpenEMR community has released version 4.1.2. This new version continues to maintain Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification and has numerous new features including 20 language translations, Direct messaging and Interoperability support. OpenEMR 4.1.2 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release.
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      GNUmed 1.3.0 released
    GNUMed Posted by Sebastian Hilbert on Sunday March 24, @12:22PM
    from the dept.
    Hello all,

    I am glad to be able to announce the immediate availability
    of the GNUmed 1.3.0.3 "御>出度う御座います" Feature Release !
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      ADCL Announces Upcoming Open Source Group Home Management Software
    Medical Open Source Development Posted by David Ralson on Sunday March 17, @01:53AM
    from the dept.
    Advanced Data Concepts, a small software development company in NE Oklahoma, announced on Friday that it will release the open source Paperwork Analysis and Trend Tracking System (PATTS) on June 15th. The software, which allows juvenile group homes to better manage paperwork, track behavior, and spot developing trends, has been in development since last August.

    Company CEO Anthony Papillion said during Friday's announcement that the company was working with several large group homes in Oklahoma and Missouri to ensure that the features customers needed were actually there and that the software fully complied with State and Federal regulations. According to Papillion, five group homes will go online with the software on launch day with an additional 17 starting on-premises testing.

    Find out more about ADCL by visiting their website athttp://www.adcl.us. More information about PATTS will be posted on the site as it becomes available.
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      OC13 - OpenClinica 2013 Global Conference draws clinical research community to Boston on June 21
    Medical Open Source Development Posted by Rob Rittberg on Friday March 15, @06:42PM
    from the Open Source EDC dept.
    OC13 - OpenClinica's 2013 Global Conference - http://community.openclinica.com/conference - draws bio-pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations (CROs), academic, and government organizations, along with it's vibrant open source community of users and developers to present, discuss, train and demonstrate the value of OpenClinica's clinical research EDC software.
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