An international team of software developers specialising in medical systems is working on a hospital information system.
Earlier this month on the OSOR Forge, the project began soliciting others to join the team. “If you are willing to participate of this great community, there are plenty of things to be done, from translation, quality control, adding new functionality to localization.”
The developers, including specialists from Brazil, Germany, Greece and France, aim to build a system for managing electronic medical records, manage hospital information and health information. Services include prescriptions, billing, patient information, managing epidemiological and statistical data and management of medical stock. The entire project is published using the GNU GPL open source licence.
“Medical started in 2008 with a very small group of people, trying to provide primary care centres a system to improve preventive medicine”, the developers write in their introduction on the OSOR Forge. “Today, thanks to the contribution of many scientists, biochemists, pharmacists, physicians, social workers around the world, Medical has become a solid, award-winning Health and Hospital Information System. Medical has been translated to many different languages including German, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesian, Portuguese and French.”
At the Brazilian government’s public software portal (Portal do Software Público Brasileiro), a team is working on the localization of the system. And a few months ago, Greek medical experts, supported by the Greek government, started working on the same project, resulting in Hospital, also published as an open source project on the OSOR Forge.
Source: OSOR.eu “EU: International team developing open source hospital information system” August 31, 2010
