GNUmed 0.6 for Windows - out now !

Later then I had hoped I can announce the immediate availability of GNUmed 0.6 for MS Windows (tested on Windows XP). As usual client and server are available. It will install all missing pieces for you and have you running GNUmed in no time.

Full details are available at

http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort#win

Please report praise or defects.

Sebastian

GNUmed Live project started

I am proud to announce GNUmed Live.

It all originated from the need to host GNUmed Live CDs, VMware images and so on. Nothing comes for free and there was no way we could host these images on the GNUmed servers. That is why we started the GNUmed Live project on sourceforge.

This gives us the room we need to offer GNUmed in a form that allows users to try GNUmed without going through the whole installation process.

Head over to sourceforge.net to see for your self and grab a CD image.



Sebastian

New gems in GNUmed 0.6 and 0.7 (to be)

Karsten made me aware of a few gems for GNUmed in daily use. See the attached screenshot. When connected to a drug database such as German Gelbe Liste GNUmed will know the ATC code for a drug. That makes it possible to search for infos in other databases. That way GNUmed is able to know the defined daily dose (DDD) as seen in the screenshot.















Another gem is in the following screenshot. GNUmed will now display the patient's allergies directly in the prescription dialog.
















The last one gives a detailed overview over the lab plugin.

GNUmed Live media available

Hi all,

To put some meat behind the effort to create a medical linux distribution I have started to produce a number of live media.

Currently available are:

1.) Debian based Live-CD (Xfce-based)
2.) openSUSE based Live-CD (KDE4-based)
3.) openSUSE based virtual machine (vmware/virtualbox)
4.) openSUSE based disk image

Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnumedlive/

All versions include a fully configured GNUmed 0.6.2 that can access a local (as in included and running) GNUmed database.

These images are only proof of concept and are intended to serve as a nucleus for a medical linux distribution (that means packaging and including more packages)

Have a look and identify areas that can benefit from a concerted effort (e.g. wallpaper, bootsplash, firefox plugins)

Sebastian

GNUmed Live CD 0.6.2 available

Hi all,

A new Live-CD for GNUmed is available. Carries GNUmed 0.6.2 and server 12.2.
You can try GNUmed including a local database.

Get it from
http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/gnumed-live-0.6.2.iso

Sebastian

Please support bug #518784 for Ubuntu - GNUmed in Lucid

Hi all,

Ubuntu is about to release a Long Term Support release (Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid).

They have synced GNUmed (electronic medical record) client 0.6.0 and server 12.1. In the meantime we have release the bug fix release 0.6.1 and have filed a bug report against gnumed-client.

Please support the effort to get the latest fixed version into Ubuntu by visiting the following page on launchpad. While there please leave a comment indicating that this affect you as well.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnumed-client/+bug/518784

The package is in Debian unstable but will be migrated to Debian testing *after* the auto-sync period for Lucid from Debian testing is over. So the only way to make this happen is a manual sync by the Ubuntu people.

Thanks for your support,

Sebastian for the GNUmed team.

GNUmed Live CD 0.6.1 available

Hi all,

A new Live-CD for GNUmed is available. Carries GNUmed 0.6.1 and server 12.1.
You can try GNUmed including a local database.

Get it from
http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/gnumed-live-0.6.1.iso

Sebastian

CVS source code hosting is no more ...

Hi all,

All development and storage of source code is now happening in GIT. That means that the CVS tree at savannah.gnu.org which has been the central storage place for source code is no longer update. Instead GIT is now used. There is no such thing as the main development tree any more. Any developer has his/her local repository. Branches are cloned or merged at release time and will result in a release tarball.

Karsten Hilbert who has long been the main coder behind the GNUmed project will host a copy of his repository at
http://gitorious.org/gnumed/

deutsches Tutorial: http://www.online-tutorials.net/programmierung/git/tutorials-t-3-263.html
englisches Tutorial: http://cworth.org/hgbook-git/tour/

GNUmed client 0.6.1 released

Hello all,

thanks to early adopters we can offer the first 0.6
maintenance release:

        0.6.1

        - FIX: WRONG most-recent result displayed in measurement type tooltip
        - FIX: missing .GetValue() on abnormality indicator PRW on updating a test result
        - FIX: exception on problem with any placeholder rather than continuing with a notice
        - FIX: work around one more bogus PyDeadObjectError exception
        - FIX: re-add pt_BR translation to release tarball
        - FIX: missing dependencies/faulty paths in gm-install_client_locally.sh
        - FIX: several typos

As usual a database upgrade from v12.0 to v12.1 is NOT
needed. There is also no database fixups so far.

Tarball downloads are available from here:

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

There's a fixed helper script here:

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

Please report bugs.

Karsten

GNUmed client installation on Ubuntu - video available

I have uploaded another video which shows how to install the GNUmed electronic medical record client on Ubuntu. The video covers Ubuntu Jaunty but all never versions should work alike.

Have a look at http://blip.tv/file/3178833

GNUmed's PPA on Ubuntu Jaunty - video available

I have uploaded another video which shows how to add the GNUmed package archive on launchpad to you Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) sources so can install the latest GNUmed version instead of the outdated ones that ship with the release.

Have a look at http://blip.tv/file/3173725

GNUmed server on Windows - installation video available

GNUmed translations shaping up

Nice to see there is some progress regarding the translations of GNUmed.


Keep up the good work.

Sebastian

GNUmed - Configure access for other machines on the network

In order to allow other clients on the network to access the GNUmed database the following changes are neccessary.

On the server:
1.) Find the directory C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data.
2.) Open and edit the file pg_hba.conf.
3.) Find the IP-address of the machine that wants to connect to the server.
4.) Add a line containing the IP address of the client

On the client:
1.) Find and the directory C:\Program Files\GNUmed-client
2.) Open and edit the file gnumed.conf
3.) Add a new profile for the server
4.) Add the profile to the list of profiles

Details available in the GNUmed Wiki

Sebastian

Tip of the Day: Clean up a PostgreSQL installation on MS Windows

The task: Uninstall PostgreSQL on MS Windows - completely. It seems obvious. Just go to System Preferences>Software and uninstall PostgreSQL. Not quite. Before you can call PostgreSQL fully uninstalled prior to a new installation attempt you must take care of what is left over while uninstalling.

The uninstallation process does not delete the databases. If you want to completely remove everything be sure to back up and delete C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data. This one was easy but there is one more.

PostgreSQL creates but does not remove the system user named 'postgres'. You can't see it in the user management dialog in System Preferences but you can still get rid of it. Open a command shell (also known as DOS-Box). Type in 'net user postgres'. If it exists it will show you details.
 To get rid of it execute 'net user /del postgres'

Have fun,
Sebastian

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 !

Packages ready for testing

Packages for the 0.6 release candidates are ready for testing. If you want a stable EMR choose GNUmed 0.5.2 instead of 0.6 series. Go to software.opensuse.org or use this link. Please report any issues you encounter.

Sebastian

Packages for GNUmed 0.6 series in the making

Hi all,

I am currently active trying to package GNUmed 0.6 release candidates for Opensuse and other rpm based distributions. If all goes well that should be finished before Karsten releases 0.6 final.

If anyone can help out let me know.

Sebastian

GNUmed 0.5.2 packaged

Hi all,

GNUmed 0.5.2 has been packaged. It can be gotten directly from our download page.

Happy New Year everyone,
Sebastian

Medication list printouts from GNUmed

Printing is one are that GNUmed did not provide. That has changed. Karsten has implemented printing of medication lists for patients from within GNUmed. One can store patient's medication in GNUmed and print it to hand it to the patient.

Technically it involves creating a pdf file via LATEX and handing that pdf to the local print feature like kprinter in Linux. Works nicely.

GNUmed user interface toolkit considerations

Historically wxpython has been the only user interface toolkit that was available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OSX under a sufficiently free license (GPL in our case). GNUmed founders decided to go for wxpython as the primary GUI toolkit. That has worked out so far but brings some challenges as well.
Things have changes since. Many toolkits have appeared, some previously available have seen their source made freely available. QT comes to mind. It is perceived as a viable alternative by the occasional mailing list poster but few understand what a switch would involve.WxPython and PyQT are both mature tookits. They have both been used in large software projects and are actively developed. The basic features are not really different.
There are however some special features that GNUmed could make use of which are not present in both toolkits.

Feature WxPython PyQT comment backing community Nokia wxpython relies on few individuals, if they go away wxpython might die browser widget wxmozilla webkit widget html support in wxpython is very basic GUI designer wxglade, wxDesigner QTDesigner wxglade is very basic and wxDesigner is non-free community active, medium sized active, large developer pool for wxpython is limited, few highly skilled individuals exist, small medium skilled pool, QT is more widely used because of KDE printing support decent mature printing support is a tough issue for wxpython and GNUmed, probably easier with QT device support PC, other : limited PC , other : various mobile devices QT is available for N900 , Nokia mobile phones, maybe not a huge issue for GNUmed Linux support great great no issues Windows support some issues few issues because of smaller team wxpython has issues keeping up with Vista and Windows 7 Mac support few issues few issues QT has probably fewer issues on Mac 3rd party connectivity n/a n/a QT is used for KDE so it could be easier to interact/integrate with KDEPIM, KMAIL issues for new devs some some novice coders would probably get going faster with QT because of the tools provided, maybe less an issue for experienced devs documentation good good QT probably has more demo code/apps to look at and more coders to help out on mailing lists or IRC cost of switch none high all code for wx is there , now, going for QT involves a complete GUI rewrite

All in all the GNUmed project has no resources , neither in terms of staff nor financial resources to switch from WxPython to PyQT even if that was seen a beneficial. As long as there is only 1 main coder for GNUmed no resources will be allocated to this. That would mean GNUmed development would efectively be stoped until the rewrite is complete. This currently is no option.
It is estimated that an experienced python developer would need roughly one year to rewrite and document the GUI code done in QT.
The GNUmed project acknowledges the issue and will provide all support it can to third parties that will evaluate a GUI rewrite using QT.

GNUmed wants your input on medication lists

Hi all,

We need your help. What is your prefered format/design for a medication list/schedule. We are currently building the medication list feature and need feedback.

If you have a favorite design let us know at gnumed-devel@gnu.org or here in this blog. Get your list, have a look and let us know.

Sebastian

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.

GNUmed Live CD 0.5.1 available

GNUmed Live CD 0.5.1 is available from

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/gnumed-live-0.5.1.is

Sebastian

Follow GNUmed on identi.ca

A new experiment.

Follow GNUmed on identi.ca

http://identi.ca/releasedude

Sebastian

GNUmed EMR server 'dead easy ' now available

Hi all,

Not everyone is a computer wiz. Moreover it seems that a lot of people are interested in GNUmed. Many of them do not handle the installation very well. While technically sound the installation up to this day required that you took the time to learn a bit about PCs and Operating systems. Over time we were drawn into a conversation along the lines 'Everyone else has an easier installation'. Engaging the user into a technical discussion is often pointless.

In the end I have decided to give the user what he or she wants. The current client and server installation packages now bring along everything needed. This has been the case for the client for quite some time and it has been largely successful.

Now the same is true for the server. GNUmed relies on the high quality database server PostgreSQL. It has always been the case that the administrator had to install and configure PostgreSQL. Most users are not administrator and failed right there. I therefore decided to take care of the PostgreSQL installation.

The advantage is that boostraping now runs without user interaction. The disadvantage is that I had to set a default password for the postgres account. I repeat I had to set a default password for the postgres account.

If you prefer to configure everything yourself (like you should) you still can.

http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideWin

Sebastian

Thera-Pi Physiotherapieprogramm kommt voran

Habe heute mal wieder auf den Seiten des Open Source Physiotherapieprogramms Thera-Pi.org herumgeschaut. Sieht vielversprechend aus. Im Forum ist ordentlich Aktivität, der Downloadbereich bietet eine aktuelle Version.

Wer es sich anschauen möchte sollte www.thera-pi.org besuchen. Wir wünschen Herrn Steinhilber viel Kraft bei der weiteren Umsetzung.

Sebastian Hilbert

GNUmed server v11.1 is about to make its appearance

Windows is easier then Linux you say ? Think again.

On Linux all it takes is
'apt-get install gnumed-server'
'gm-bootstrap_server'

On Windows it is a pain in the behind. No automatic dependency resolution. 5 to 6 prerequisite packages to track down, download and install.
To make it short. The avarage user interested in GNUmed did not manage to pull it off despite video installation guides.

Times are about to change. After countless hours of testing a first version of all in one GNUmed server package is available internally and will be made available shortly. This packages detects all missing dependecies including PostgreSQL and will do a silent installation of PostgreSQL for you. It will then proceed to copy the GNUmed server files to the disk and will attempt to boostrap. When using the supplied install of PostgreSQL the config files will be patched to provide for a unattended bootstraping.

Stay tuned.

GNUmed client 0.5.1 and server v11.1 now available

Hello all,

there's been precious little bugs in GNUmed 0.5 so far.
Fortunately, Thad recently found two which I fixed. So
there's the 0.5.1 release now:

Client changelog:

0.5.0 -> 0.5.1

FIX: be more careful when deleting measurement types - they could be in use
FIX: faulty access to "pk" column after creating measurement type from phrasewheel
FIX: missing "import os" in measurement widgets code
FIX: improved starting of new encounter from SOAP widget

NEW: install ARRIBA jar into /usr/local/bin
NEW: man page for gm-install_arriba

Database changelog:

11.0 -> 11.1

FIX: SQL: add missing view clin.v_narrative4search

If you wanted to search the EMR for a string you know you
need the database fix ;-)

Here are the tarballs:

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.5/
http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v11/

There is a fixup shell script provided with the server
tarball which when run will apply all the needed fixes.

Karsten

GNUmed EMR 0.5.0 Live CD is available for download

Hi all,

GNUmed EMR Live CD is available for download from

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/gnumed-live-0.5.0.iso

(md5sum 9af2a609b80a92109643c53b904896c1 gnumed-live-0.5.0.iso)

It includes a fully configured and bootstraped local database.

One can use this CD to testdrive the GNUmed EMR without installing anything or the need for an internet connection.

BTW. Thanks Andreas for the quick fixes to the GNUmed packages.

Take care,

Sebastian

Vmware mouse grab problem and losing focus outside 640x480

I have been updating my system (OpenSUSE) and suddenly my Vmware virtual machines stoped working. I search the web but did not find a lot. The problem is that the virtual machine cannot get focus when clicking in it with the mouse. The only thing that help was Ctrl-G to grab the mouse but it would lose focus when moving the mouse outside the area of 640x480 pixels.

This apparently is a problem with Vmware and GTK. There is a fix as I have learned.

Use "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force" in a shell prior to starting vmplayer.

Details are here in the Vmware forums (but hard to find)

GNUmed client 0.5.0 and server v11.0 now available for Ubuntu

Hi all,

Apparently the call for packages did not yield any response. To provide existing users with upated packages I have taken the time to do it. Good part about it. There are now up to date packages. Sad part. Most likely Ubuntu will fall behind as I cannot promise I will have the resources to keep up in the future. That would really be a pity.

Anyway. For now add the GNUmed PPA to your sources list and install the GNUmed Open source electronic medical record.

More info visit the GNUmed website at wiki.gnumed.de

GNUmed Ubuntu packages

The GNUmed team has had Ubuntu packages for some time now. Fortunately version 0.4.7 of the client and v10 of the server will ship with Karmic. Those are pretty stable versions and hopefully this time it is diffent from Jaunty where GNUmed would crash on every user.

None of the core developers use Ubuntu on a day to day basis. Most of them use Debian which make Ubuntu packages a breeze since one can simply convert the Debian packages.

As more OSs and distros are supported the packaging job puts a heavy burden on a few people.

The GNUmed team is looking for a volunteer to spend around 30 minutes per release ( every 3 months or so) to Ubuntunize the Debian packages.

The procedure is laid out in the Wiki in the Ubuntu section. Any help is appreciated.

GNUmed 0.5.0 ready for openSUSE and Debian

Hi all,

GNUmed client 0.5.0 and server v11 are now ready for download for openSUSE at
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort

Client 0.5.0 is ready for Debian at
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort

If you have any questions or problems don't hesitate to see
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/GettingHelp

What's new in GNUmed 0.5.0:
http://gnumed.blogspot.com/2009/08/gnumed-050-and-server-v11-released.html

Take care,
Sebastian