GNU Health Hospital Management 4.2: A great update
For many decades, it has been shown in theory and practice, that is, with news and information about real facts and events, that the free software, open source and GNU/Linux, it is not only something merely technological; which is restricted to the creation of free and open software. Either this, something free or paid, for the work, education and healthy entertainment.
If not, it is also the realization of community among many people, for important human purposes such as science, care of the environment and human health. And in this last field, that is, human health and medicine, the Community passionate about free and open technologies, have long created the GNU Health project, which now brings us the 4.2 update of the Hospital Management Information System (SIGH) of GNU Health, that is, of "GNU Health Hospital Management (HMIS)".
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But, before starting this interesting post about the new 4.2 update of the GNU Health Hospital Management Information System (MIS), that is, of "GNU Health Hospital Management (HMIS)", we recommend one previous related post with said software, for later reading:
GNU Health Hospital Management (HMIS) 4.2
A bit about the GNU Health Project
On previous occasions, we have directly addressed the GNU Health Project, and several of his developments in health and medicine. However, for those who may never have heard or read about it or are not clear what it is about free project that is driven by the community of GNU Solidario (non-profit humanitarian organization focused on social medicine), it is worth noting that it can be briefly described as follows:
The GNU Health project provides the tools for individuals, healthcare professionals, institutions, and governments to proactively assess and improve the underlying determinants of health, from socioeconomic drivers to the molecular basis of disease. From primary health care to precision medicine. About GNU Health
And between his current projects are the following:
- Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)
- Personal Health Record (PHR)
- Thalamus – GNU Health Federation Message and Authentication Server
- GNU Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
- GNU Health Federation
- GNU Health Embedded – Single-board Computers (SBC)
- social medicine
For General information about him GNU Health Project and all of its software development and community activities, we recommend directly exploring its Official website in English, or the following link in Spanish.
What's new in the new version 4.2 of GNU Health Hospital Management
According to official announcement made in the GNU organization Savannah website, among the many novelties of this release we can mention the following 10:
- It now offers support available for 35 languages.
- Adds a new section called “Focus on” within the main patient form.
- The Vital Registration System (VRS) can now issue reports on birth and death certificates.
- It adds improved functionality and ergonomics in handling medical images, and the surgery package has been extensively revised and improved.
- It includes the instance and connection information visible in the GTK client title, and improved functionality regarding insurance handling and billing.
- Demographics can now agree to enter estimated age / date of birth.
- Health services now have the functionality to "bundle" all the tests of a single order (laboratory and medical images).
- The availability of a new report called “Best Patient Encounter/Assessment” that summarizes key information from the assessment.
- On the technical side, unit tests on each package have been improved, speeding up load times on large data files and using python-sql for most queries.
- GNU Health now supports REUSE (Free Software Foundation Europe). Which is important because REUSE makes it easy to document and exchange licenses for free projects like GNU Health.
Summary
In summary, this new update 4.2 from the GNU Health Hospital Management Information System (MIHS) "(GNU Health Hospital Management / HMIS)" Without a doubt, this software has greatly improved, thanks to the great work done by its development team together with its user community. Therefore, if you know or have ever used or interacted with said software, be sure to share your experience and impressions with it, via comments.
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