[Fsf-friends] GNU/Linux for hospitals....

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

Please share this among doctor-friends who might be interested. FN

>From LINUX USER & DEVELOPER (www.linuxuser.co.uk): 

	M e d i c a l    S o f t w a r e

	Free Software has been making inroads into many
	markets recently, particularly those where security
	and data integrity are of importance. This is 
	certainly so in medicine, where another problem
	is the mess of different proprietorial software
	used across different departments -- each tied to its
	own OS and its own data format.

Care2002 provides a modular replacement for all
these apps, using a single database and single data
format (currently SQL). Everything runs on the
server, clients access the modules through their
web browser. Care2002 has many built-in
automation, data validation, signalling, and
updating features, which substantially reduces the 
occurence of erroneous data and removes the
burden of counterchecking data manually.

	FreeMED is another web-based app, for physicians
	and healthcare providers in any setting, from small
	practices to large hospitals. It provdes a 
	comprehensive electronic medical record and billing
	system that gives the physician control and immediate
	accessibility to data.

Meditux is a Medical Information System. Its primary
task is to provide timely medical information to
both medical and non-medical staff that operated in
an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) environment. This 
release makes available most of the functionality
of the current operating system that Dr Richard
Piper conducts within his ICU. Some functionality
has been withdrawn due to legal constraints
(e.g. copyright and licensing requirements). However,
Meditux still makes available 90% of its original
functionality to you. Meditux-1.0 is released under
the GNU/GPL. Meditux is a collection of Java
Servlets, running under Apache Jakarta-Tomcat,
Java SDK 1.3 and MySQL.

	Open Infrastructure for Outcomes (OIO) system
	facilitates the creation of flexible and portable
	patient/research records. The major component
	of the OIO system are the web-accessible OIOI
	Server and OIO library. OIO Server is a highly
	flexible web-based data management system that 
	manages users, patients, and information about
	patients. (Of course, the same system can
	just as easily manage information about customers,
	invoices, shipments, and accounts.)

K e y   l i n k s

Care2002
http://care2x.com/

FreeMED
http://www.freemedsoftware.org

LinuxMedNews
http://www.linuxmednews.com

Meditux
http://meditux.sourceforge.net/

Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
http://www.txoutcome.org
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