GNU Health

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GNU Health
GNU Health Logo
GNU Health on Tryton
Original author(s) Luis Falcón
Developer(s) GNU Project
Initial release October 12, 2008 (2008-10-12)
Stable release 1.8.1 / March 18, 2013 (2013-03-18)
Development status active
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Hospital Information System
License GNU GPL
Website health.gnu.org

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) and different database management systems (PostgreSQL). It's written in Python and using Tryton framework.

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History [edit]

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 16th, 2011: Thymbra transfers GNU Health to the NGO GNU Solidario
  • April 18th, 2011: Medical switches the development environment from OpenERP to the Tryton framework.[1]
  • 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.
  • June 25th 2012: Creation of a public Internet GNU Health database test server in Amsterdam.
  • February 9th 2013: Release of version 1.8.0, compatible with Tryton 2.6 and Android client
  • March 18th 2013: Release of version 1.8.1, with Intensive Care Unit functionality

Usage [edit]

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 [edit]

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: Includes 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
  • Lab: Manages the request, creation and evaluation of laboratory analyses. Interface to Laboratory Information Management System
  • 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.
  • Services: Groups health related services for the patient. It also allows to generate invoices / billing to the selected services. Replaces the initial "invoice" module.
  • Calendar: Adds functionality to connect with a CalDAV client, and manage calendars for appointments.
  • Inpatient_calendar: Manages calendars for patient hospitalizations and bed assignments.
  • QR_codes: Includes Quick Recognition (QR) Codes for identification
  • History: Specific reports for patient clinical history
  • MDG6: Millennium Development Goal 6. Functionality to fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
  • Reporting: Generates graphs for epidemiological and health center related information.
  • Nursing: Nursing functionality. Patient roundings, medication administration and procedures.
  • ICU: Intensive-care Unit functionality.
  • Stock: Pharmacy stock management and automatic stock moves generation on medical procedures.

Cultural Impact [edit]

GNU Health was awarded the Free Software Foundation's 2011 Award for Projects of Social Benefit.[2]

GNU Health won the awards PortalProgramas 2012 for Most Revolutionary Free Software and Software with Largest Potential of Growth .[3]

See also [edit]

Portal icon Free software portal

Notes and references [edit]

  1. ^ "Free Software vs Open Source: Tryton vs OpenERP". 8 September 2011. 
  2. ^ Lee, Matt (26 March 2012). "2011 Free Software Awards announced". Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012. 
  3. ^ "Premios PortalProgramas al Software Libre 2012". 4 January 2013. 
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