GNUmed 0.4 series in Ubuntu

Karmic ships the GNUmed electronic medical record application. Both the client and the server part are included. Jaunty shipped a buggy version which would (user approved) call home and report the bug. That way we had a feeling how many people attempted to use GNUmed.

Karmic ships GNUmed client 0.4 series which is a lot more stable. So far noone has called home. That either means that GNUmed is indeed stable or noone is trying it :-)

As far as I know there are no statistics available on the downloads of the packages. Even the PPA don't have the feature unless I have missed something.

It is a little sad to be left in the dark how many people are looking at GNUmed.

GNUmed 0.6 release candidate out now

Hi all,

Karsten Hilbert has announced the first release candidate for GNUmed client 0.6. Major new feature for this release is prescription handling. We need your input and help.

GNUmed has communicated with many doctors around the globe to implement prescriptions the way those physicians would like to have it in daily practice.

Join us and find out if it suits your prescribing needs well.

All info on how to get it can be gotten from
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2009-11/msg00111.html

Don't hesitate to contact us at gnumed-devel@gnu.org if you have any questions.

Take care,
Sebastian Hilbert
- for the GNUmed team -

GNUmed adds medication management and prescription handling

The current , work-in-progress state of the new medication handling in GNUmed is captured in this screenshot showing a health issue with associated medication.

Gelbe Liste Medikamentendatenbank unter Linux

Die Medikamentendatenbank Gelbe Liste von MMI lässt sich auch unter Linux nutzen. Dazu benötigt man Wine. Es lässt sich problemlos installieren. Man sollte auf die eingesetze Wine-Version achten. Die Testversion 1.3.21 scheint zu neu und produziert einen Absturz. Die Version 1.1.9 funktioniert prächtig.

GNUmed billing feature for US healthcare providers

Unofficial word has it that a company is working on a billing feature for GNUmed for US healthcare providers. Stay tuned. This could be a significant move for GNUmed.

Cardiac device plugin revisited

Unfortunately I haven't had time to work on the Cardiac device plugin. First GNUmed 0.5 had to be released. Then private activies consumed most of my free time. Not to mention rotating to another hospital.

Looking back I wanted to know why work has not progressed the way I would have liked it. I guess most of it is due to wanting everything at once. My dream plugin is so complex it just takes too much effort to implement. This is going to change. I have restarted in simpler steps. A first working version will be provided. Building on top of it I hope to be able to release a better one over time.

Keep it stupid simple is what I should have done from the beginning.

GNUmed electronic medical record 0.5.1 released

GNUmed - the electronic medical record for physician's offices has been updated to version 0.5.1. It helps physicians, physiotherapists or occupational therapists as well as chiropractors keep track of their patient's health, diseases, treatments, hospital stays, medications. It provides an episode view which helps to keep on top of multiple episodes of multiple illnesses.

If you want the latest feature packaged for Ubuntu visit
https://launchpad.net/~gnumed/+archive/ppa

Let us know if you run into trouble installing and running GNUmed.
You can try GNUmed with a publicly available data source or set up your own local database.

Help is available via our GNUmed for Ubuntu guide.

GNUmed needs a press kit

Hi all,

I am looking for a voluteer to write up non-technical about GNUmed. If you can spare a minute please write a page or so that can be distributed to press and press-alike people.

Background: I was talking to the openSUSE guys about including it into the distribution and writing about it in the suse blogs.

They asked me to provide some non-technical information on GNUmed.

I believe this document should include:

- GNUmed is an electronic medical record program

- Targeted at medical offices - not hospitals

- aimed at record keeping - not billing

- talk about some features

- talk about use cases

- who creates it and why

- what is desired for the future

Any help is really appreciated. I believe GNUmed's current feature set is big enough to raise awareness that GNUmed can be used in certain settings today.

Sebastian

GNUmed on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

It seems quite a few people still use Ubuntu 8.10 aka Intrepid Ibex. When those users try to run GNUmed electronic medical record they are presented with a crash dialog right away.

GNUmed's crash handler catches those errors and sends them off for us to fix. So we did. Unfortunately there is no easy way to replace the broken GNUmed in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 8.10 with a fully fucntional one.

Ubuntu provides a place for updates. This is called a PPA and GNUmed provides updates for all major versions there.

Have a look at https://launchpad.net/~gnumed/+archive/ppa to find updates for Intrepid (8.10), Jaunty (9.04), Karmic (9.10).

This is obvious to techies but few users seems to be aware of it. I bet a lot of them think GNUmed crashes and that is it.

Users using Jaunty are in a similar situation. Karmic is the first release that ships a fairly stable version of GNUmed.

Hopefully many users will make the switch to Karmic to have a chance to evaluate GNUmed out of the box.

However, if you want the latest feature set even with Karmic be sure to visit
https://launchpad.net/~gnumed/+archive/ppa

GNUmed 0.5.1 has been release a few days ago and brings quite a few neew goodies.