GNU Health at Hospital Italiano - Buenos Aires -

This afternoon, in the context of the VI Jornadas Universitarias de Sistemas de Información en Salud (Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires), GNU Solidario participated with a presentation of GNU Health.

Luis Falcón at Hospital Italiano

The lectures about Open Source and Free Software Tools in Medical Informatics, coordinated by Dr. Fernando Plazzotta, started at 2:00 pm. There were many participants who presented their very interesting projects and success stories, among them Dr. Jorge Rodriguez (Biolinux).           

Dr. Fernando Plazzotta (Hospital Italiano)

Dr. Jorge Rodriguez (Biolinux)

Of course Luis Falcón gave an introductory speech about GNU Solidario and then presented GNU Health: the Free Health and Hospital Information System with its functionalities, like:

• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
• Hospital Information System (HIS)
• Health Information System 

Luis Falcón (screenshot of epidemiology)

Luis Falcón (screenshot of patient management)

We would like to give a special thanks to the Hospital Italiano for inviting us to the event.

Attendees

Please feel free to contact us, we`ll be more than happy to answer all your questions !

More info: health@gnusolidario.org

GNU Health at Encuentro Nacional de Tecnología da Informação -ENTI-

Brasilia: National Congress

These last two weeks have been very busy !! We went from Latinoware (Foz do Iguaçu) where we organized IWEEE 2011 Brazil: Momentum to the Encuentro Nacional de Tecnología da Informação (ENTI) in Brasilia.

Luis Falcón

The event, organized by Ministério do Planejamiento, Ministerío das Cidades, and Secretaria de Relações Institucionaias, gathered  parallel activities:

Juscelino Kubitschek's Bridge

• - II Encontro Nacional de Tecnologia da  Informação para os Municípios 
• - II Encontro Nacional de Qualidade de Software 
• - I Encontro de Governança em Tecnologia da Informação 
• - I Encontro Nacional de Dados Abertos 
• - Pré-Conferência Nacional de Governo Eletrônico 

GNU Solidario was invited in order to present GNU Health on the 26th. Luis Falcón gave an introductory speech about the ONG, the projects and GNU Health.

Luis Falcón and Cesar Brod

At the presentation participated also Cesar Brod (Coordinator of the Brazilian Public Software Portal, Ministry of Planning, Brazil), who explained how they met and how Luis`s work ,with GNU Solidario, contribuited to the spread of Free Software, Education and Health. 

Presentation of GNU Health and GNU Solidario

The introductory speeches created the perfect atmosphere for a round table that was animated by a strong participation from the public ! There were people from the Argentinian government, from Brazilian Ministry of Health, medical professionals from different hospitals, universities and IT specialists.

The public had many questions

Unfortunately time really flew ... There were too many questions and too little time !! As you know, you are more than welcome to get in touch with us and send us your questions, doubts, concerns ...

Roberto Sahakian - Jorge Luis Cabezas (Argentinian Government) and C. Melgosa

Our special thanks  to Cesar Brod and Corinto Meffe (Director of Department of Integration Information System, Brazil) for all the help, support, organization and ... for the translating !

Luis Falcón and Corinto Meffe

Going to the event !

For more info: health@gnusolidario.org

GNU Health 1.4.1 released

GNU Solidario is happy to announce the release of GNU Health 1.4.1, in which we have incorporated support for PyPI, the Python Package Index

This version is compatible with the latest tryton release (2.2.0). Now GNU Health is also a set of python modules, fully integrated to the Python community.

Thanks to the magic of pip, and the help of the Tryton community ( Cedric Krier, et al ), installing the latest GNU Health version is as easy as running

pip install --user trytond_health_profile

This will install the requirements ( the tryton server and all the standard GNU Health modules ) automatically and in your "$HOME/.local" directory. I will be updating the installation process at the wiki today.
The main site is the GNU Savannah where all the development and discussion takes place.

There are many improvements, bug fixes and news features, some of them :

• CalDav compatibility (it allows complex calendar views and settings for appointments and hospitalizations)
• Support for JSON RPC protocol
• Fully Tryton 2.2 compatible
• Enhanced Medication form
• New Medicament categories
• Medication pregnancy category
• Included the latest WHO essential medicines (17th edition)
• New translation engine (to be used with .po format)
• Improve Laboratory model and functionality

Thanks to all of you for contributing with your code, testing, translating and documenting the project !

About GNU Health

GNU Health (formerly known as "Medical") is a free (GPL license), Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality :

• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
• Hospital Information System (HIS)
• Health Information System

GNU Health is an official GNU Package and is part of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is a NGO that delivers education and health to emerging economies with free software.

GNU Health is the Hospital Information System chosen by the United Nations International Institute of Global Health.

Main site : health.gnu.org

Governments hosting GNU Health through their portals :

• European Commission (EU) , OSOR

• Brazil: Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB)

GNU Health Version 1.4.0

GNU Solidario is happy to announce the release of GNU Health 1.4.0 (stable) for Tryton 2.2

There are many improvements and new features, some of them are :

• CalDav compatibility (it allows complex calendar views and settings for appointments and hospitalizations)
• Enhanced Medication form
• New Medicament categories
• Medication pregnancy category
• Fully Tryton 2.2 compatible
• Included the latest WHO essential medicines (17th edition)
• New translation engine (to be used with .po format)
• Improve Laboratory model and functionality

Thanks to all of you for contributing with your code, testing, translating and documenting the project !

You can download Health from the official site at Savannah : https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/health

Please report any bugs you  find in GNU Savannah.

New Version Tryton 2.2

The Tryton team is happy to announce the 2.2 release of Tryton. 

The changes on the user interface are once again really important:

• The pop-up windows are now "no modal", which means that they are linked to the tab in which they were opened. Creating a new tab is now possible. Also, switching from one tab to the other restores the state of the opened pop-up windows.
• The search widget has been completely redesigned. We are now using a unique widget which allow users to use the search function in a much more natural way using a simple syntax. An auto-completion system has been included to help users write their search query.
• The action toolbar on the bottom of the screen has been merged with main toolbar.
• The user experience has been improved by using the same design from the Many2Many and One2Many widgets.

More info and news: Tryton

Please find following some screenshots of the new version:

Latinoware Day 3

At the airport waiting ...

With a bit of nostalgia and sadness we finally got to the last day of Latinoware and IWEEE ...

Like it always happens in these events, the adrenaline of the previous planning and the end of it leave us with a sour taste !

The last day of Latinoware was very intense, especially for the meetings with all the people met at IWEEE and for the commitments with the press for the interviews. 

I leave you with a potpourri of "profesional " and "social" pictures.

A special acknowledgment to Joice Käfer, Cesar Brod and to the team of Latinoware that made all this possible: Joanne Candida, Michelle, Daniela Priscila de Oliveira Veronezi, Marcos Siriacos Martins and many more ...

C. Muñoz-Reyes, Jon "Maddog", L. Falcón, C. Brod and J. Käfer

Wilber, Cristina and Tux !

S. Marró, C. Muñoz-Reyes, C. Melgosa, C. Brod and J. Käfer

Dr. Lucia Brum, Dr. Aguiar, D. Linhares, S. Marró, C. Melgosa

Dra. Lucia Brum (Doctors without Borders) and Cristina Melgosa

We have to find some time to work ...

Dr. Alexandre Aguiar, Luis Falcón, Daniel Linhares, Sebastián Marró.

Sebastián Marró. Would you like a sticker !?

Interview by Kemel Zaidan from Linux New Media

Interview by Serviço Federal de Procesamento de Dados (Serpro)

Debian T-shirts for all !

Cristina Melgosa at our booth.

Cristina Melgosa, Luis Falcón, Dr. Lucia Brum and Dr. Alexandre Aguiar

New Project Leader of GNU Health in Brazil.

We are very happy to announce that Dr. Alexandre Aguiar is the New Project Leader of  GNU Health in Brazil.

Dr. Aguiar participated at the last edition of IWEEE Brazil - Latinoware 2011. 

He will be giving a presentation at the II Encontro Nacional do Tecnologia do Informaçao do SPB (Brasilia, Oct. 25-27, 2011). The event is organized by the Ministerío do Planejamiento, Ministerío das Cidades and the Secretaria de Relacoes Institucionais of Brazil.

Some more info:

Dr. Alexandre Aguiar was born in 1962.

He graduated from Medicine School in 1986 at the Universidade Federal Fluminense.

He completed his Residency in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery in 1991, Escola Paulista de Medicina (Universidade Federal de São Paulo).

He graduated in Computer Science, 1996 from Fundação Alvarez Penteado

He has worked and published in Public Health programs, Pediatric Surgery, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Medical Informatics, Clinical Research, Biostatistics (and he still does !).

The list of papers indexed at Pubmed and/or Scielo journals is at:

[http://asaguiar.net/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=52].

Latinoware Day 2 - IWEEE 2011 -

After a lot of work organizing, planning (and of course a lot of stress too :D ) IWEEE 2011 Brazil: Momentum finally started .

In this last edition we shared experiences and speeches with health professionals who contributed with their precious experiences and knowledge .

The presentations were very interesting and created the perfect environment for the round table, during which arose ideas, projects, reflexions ...

Opening Session by Cesar Brod

Dr. Alexandre Aguiar - Brazil -

Claudia Muñoz-Reyes, Seeds of Empowerment - Stanford University -

Giuliana Garcete, U.I.R Décima Región Sanitaria - Paraguay -

Luis Falcón, GNU Solidario - Spain -

Nicolás Caballero, Gabinete Civil Presidencia de la Nación - Paraguay -

Sebastían Marró, Thymbra - Argentina -

The round table was very rewarding

Group picture !!

It has been a pleasure to have you all at IWEEE 2011 - Latinoware !

We hope to see you at the next edition IWEEE 2012 Europe.

Latinoware day 1

Neither the ashes or the incompetence of the airline companies could stop us ... and we finally made it to Latinoware !!

Let me remind you that tomorrow from 10 AM to 6 PM Latinoware will host IWEEE 2011 Brazil: Momentum.

Here is the program:

 

Today at 2:30 PM there was the Opening Session of Latinoware 2011, this edition registered a record of participant, 4092 so far !

Here is the link where you'll find all the info about speeches and courses, they are really interesting: http://goo.gl/vfuVR

I leave you with some pics of the day !

We made it !!

Cristina Melgosa and Sebastián Marró at our stand

Opening Session

Sebastián Marró, TUX and Luis Falcón !

Luis Falcón and Sebastián Marró

Jon "Maddog", Sebastián Marró and Luis Falcón

Jon "Maddog", Sebastián Marró and Cristina Melgosa

A little work ...

What happened  TUX !?!? Please, help him ...