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 Some functionality has been withdrawn due to legal constraints (e.g. copyright and licensing requirements).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