Installation instructions for Ubuntu updated

The call for testing the new GNUmed release was a success for the project. We received problem reports from a Debian user and an Ubuntu user. The report from the Dutch Ubuntu user was especially helpful as it contained a suggestion how to improve the installation instructions for GNUmed on Ubuntu. The instructions are not only more detailed but easier to follow as well. Thank you all who provided feedback.

The improved instructions are available at http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/UbuntuGuideShort.

Tip of the Day: List all your patients in the database

GNUmed has a feature to search your database. The analysis plugin comes with a few pre-defined search itmes but lets you create your own. Recently someone asked for a list of all patients. Here is how to do that:
Enter a name for your search item in the field :'Analysis' and 'select * from dem.v_basic_person' in the field SQL-field. Select run and observe the output.



If you feel others might benefit from your search item you can contribute it to the GNUmed community via the push of a button. Push the 'Contribute' button and the search item (not the results, of course) will be sent to the GNUmed mailing list for others to view and use.

Getting a a GNUmed database installed locally

Dear all,
GNUmed ships as packages for Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu. There is a client package called gnumed-client and a server package called gnumed-server.

Those can packages can easily be installed through the packages manager of your Linux distribution. There is one important step left that is *not* covered by installing the package. For the client package all is ready to run. For the server package however there is one more step before the client can connect to a local database. One needs to boostrap a local database first (*). In other words one needs to create a GNUmed database inside the PostgreSQL database server. The gnumed-server package does not do this for you. It merely copies everything that is neccessary for the creation of the database into your system. In other words it prepares a bootstraping environment.

So after you installed the gnumed-server package you are ready for the final step:

become root user in your system and run the command : gm-bootstrap_server

You will see a few lines fly by and if all goes well a version 12 database will appear in your system. A good indicator will be a line

''We most likely succeeded"

* Beware that if you have a local database already you must not use gm-boostrap_server as it will overwrite your data. Use gm-upgrade_server instead.

Thera-Pi für die Physiotherapie

Einige Zeit ist vergangen seit ich zulezt Thera-Pi als OpenSource-Programm für die Physiotherapie angeschaut habe. Ich war überrascht als ich gestern erneut auf der Seite www.thera-pi.org war und feststellen konnte, dass das Programm rapide an Funktionalität zugenommen hat. Die Macher sind sehr aktiv und es sieht sehr danach aus als könnte das Ziel erreicht werden.

Das Ziel ist kein Geringeres als eine komplette Lösung für die Heilberufe bereitzustellen. Natürlich mit Abrechungsfunktionaliät.
Gute Arbeit. Weiter so.

Das Projekt wurde in den vergangenen Monaten zweimalig gehackt. Ob das ein Zeichen dafür ist, dass die Mitbewerber aufmerksam geworden sind lässt sich nicht sicher sagen.

GNUmed 0.6.0 for Ubuntu released

I am pleased to announce Ubuntu packages for the release of version 0.6.0 of the GNUmed EMR client
and version 12.0 of the GNUmed EMR server.

The GNUmed project builds free, liberated open source Electronic Medical
Record software to assist and improve longitudinal care. It is made available
at no charge and is capable of running on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It
is developed by a handful of medical doctors and programmers from all over the
world. It can be useful to anyone documenting the health of patients
including, but not limited to, doctors, physical therapists, occupational
therapists ...

Ubuntu packages for Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic and Lucid will appear shortly in the GNUmed PPA. We love feedback so give it a spin. Seems like Feb 11th will be FeatureFreeze for Debian packages. We are working hard to get GNUmed included in Lucid so users will have a chance to get it onto their boxes.

Stay tuned and be sure to check out wiki.gnumed.de

Sebastian Hilbert
for the GNUmed team

GNUmed electronic medical record version 0.6.0 released

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.6.0 of the GNUmed EMR client and version 12.0 of the GNUmed EMR server.

The GNUmed project builds free, liberated open source Electronic Medical Record software to assist and improve longitudinal care. It is made available at no charge and is capable of running on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is developed by a handful of medical doctors and programmers from all over the world. It can be useful to anyone documenting the health of patients including, but not limited to, doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists ...

The big improvements are

- LaTeX based letter writing

- medication handling

The full list of changes:

0.6.0

- can promote an episode to being a health issue

- can add home phone/external ID to newly created patient directly

- can track diagnostic certainty classification (ABCD) on episodes and issues

- can track procedures performed on a patient

- can do end user friendly free-text search across all EMRs

- can move all progress notes of a pre-selected list of encounters to another episode

- can manage provinces

- can manage substance intake

- can print medication list

- can print LaTeX as well as OOo letters

- referral letter template contributed by Rogerio Luz and James Busser

- can interface with German "MMI/Gelbe Liste" external drug database

- show info on drug/substance by PZN / name

- show interactions

- import drugs/substances

- can display UI in Polish and a few other languages (all partially)

- can include potential problems in problem list of soap plugin

- can remove DOB from person

- improved (more) placeholders

- gender to re placement mapper

- medication list

- allergies list

- problems list

- improved inbox

- improved tarballs: include schema/API docs, better names

- improved import path detection

Get your copy here:

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.6/

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v12/

Yes, this will require you to upgrade your existing v11

databases by

./upgrade-db.sh 11 12

These scripts can help:

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_upgrade-gnumed_server.sh

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_install-gnumed_server.sh

Please enjoy and report bugs !

Sebastian Hilbert

on behalf of the GNUmed team

GNUmed in the news

GNUmed has been recognized for doing a good job in delivering a FOSS EMR to users and anyone interested in FOSS EMR

Have a look at
http://www.apfelkraut.org/2010/01/freemedsw-stats-and-more/

Fedora medical SIG - first meeting

On Tuesday Jan 19th the first IRC meeting of the Fedora medical special interest group took place. Take a look at the meeting summary or the full conversation log. There is a Wiki page available for the Fedora medical SIG.

There is a similar effort from openSUSE members. The project is called openSUSE medical.

Sebastian

GNUmed client 0.6 release candidate 6 released

Karsten has uploaded 0.6.rc6 which contains the full referral
letter package. The public database is updated, too.

        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.6/
        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v12/

If he does not hear back about bugs by Friday he will release
0.6.0 based on this code.

Packages for openSUSE , Fedora and Mandriva are available through the openSUSE build service. Check it out via the download area at wiki.gnumed.de

Sebastian

FOSS EMR meeting

There will be a meeting of people from Fedora and openSUSE at 18:00 UTC. Join IRC at #fedora-meeting if you are interested in FOSS EMR 

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=1&year=2010&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

Sebastian

GNUmed screenshots #2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnumed/sets/72157623210741050/show/

Let us know what you think. Do they look better ?

Sebastian

GNUmed client 0.6.rc5 openSUSE packages available

If you want to try the fifth (and hopefully final) release candidate of the GNUmed client 0.6 series head over to

http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.2&p=1&q=gnumed-client

and install through the 1-click installer.

Sebastian

Screenshots for GNUmed 0.5.2 available

New screenshots of version 0.5.2 are available on Flickr. Take a look at the pictures or the slideshow.

GNUmed online help availble.

Imagine you are browsing the GNUmed wiki but cannot find the information you are after. Imagine further you really want to try GNUmed but you don't know how.

There are a number of ways to get in touch. You could hunt around for an email address or you could ask a question on launchpad. It just got easier. Thanks to a service called olark you can now contact a member of the GNUmed team directly (given he is available for help).

Have you noticed the black bar in the lower right corner of every Wiki page ? If I am available just start chatting away. I would be glad to help.

GNUmed 0.6 release candidate 4 is out

Karsten has uploaded 0.6.rc4:

        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.6/
        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v12/

The Changelog:

- can promote an episode to being a health issue
- can add home phone/external ID to newly created patient directly
- can track diagnostic certainty classification (ABCD) on episodes and issues
- can track procedures performed on a patient
- can do end user friendly free-text search across all EMRs
- can move all progress notes of a pre-selected list of encounters to another episode
- can manage provinces
- can manage substance intake
- can print medication list
- can print LaTeX as well as OOo letters
- can interface with German "MMI/Gelbe Liste" external drug database
        - show info on drug/substance by PZN / name
        - show interactions
        - import drugs/substances
- can display UI in Polish
- can include potential problems in problem list of soap plugin
- can remove DOB from person

- improved (more) placeholders
        - gender to re placement mapper
        - medication list
        - allergies list
- improved inbox

- improved tarballs: include schema/API docs, better names
- improved import path detection

Please test and find bugs !

Packages for openSUSE , Fedora and Mandriva will appear shortly. Have a look at wiki.gnumed.de to find out how to get those packages installed.

Sebastian

openMolar - Open Source Dental Practice Management Software

I just found out about a software package for dental practices through the Debian med mailing list.

It is called openMolar and can be found at the openMolar website. There are screenshots available as well as a video showing it in action. There seems to be a version for Ubuntu, Pardus and Windows.

The author says it should be available for Mac OS X as well but there is no easy to install package yet. The project founder and programmer is a dentist who has an interest in computing. After becoming severely disatisfied by existing commercial applications, he decided to write his own.

For the technically inclined :
OpenMolar leverages some wonderful open source tools.
Python http://www,python.org
PyQt4 http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro
Qt4 http://www.qtsoftware.com/
MySQL http://www.mysql.com

Live CD for GNUmed 0.5.2 available

GNUmed 0.5.2 client is now available as a Live CD. If you would like to try out GNUmed but you don't want to bother with getting and installing it get yourself a Live CD. It involves downloading one big file, burning it to a CD and starting your PC from CD drive. Have a look at the user guide.

Download Live CD now !