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