Electronic medical/health recording software

Managing patient records is a major task for any medical
practitioner / hospital, not just for financial reasons, but also to
readily access the medical history of patients, or to identify any
trends in diseases among the population, etc.
Most of the applications in
this category are web services,
which means that the code
needs to be installed on some
webserver before it can be used.
The advantage is that, if installed
on a online webhost, this allows
the data to be accessed with a
browser from any net connected
device.
OpenEMR (www.oemr.org)
OpenEMR is an open source electronic medical record
(EMR) web service. This is written in PHP and requires a
web server such as Apache running mySQL in the back end.
The installation is slightly complex and requires some prior
exposure to installing similar applications on a web server.
However, once done, the application shows potential. Every
aspect of a patient’s health status, and details of the interaction
with the medical service provider can be recorded. Accessing the
details of previous patient visits is easily accomplished. Besides
the typical medical aspects, OpenEMR also tracks the billing/
payment history of patients. OpenEMR also has modules to
keep track of medicines issued and the inventory status in real
time. All the data can also be displayed in different reporting
formats for a bird’s eye view of the practice/business.
To experience this application first hand, go to www.oemr.org/
modules/wiwimod/#Demos for a demo.
FreeMed (http://www.freemed.info/freemed/index.php)
A service similar to OpenEMR in most aspects, FreeMed is a bit
simpler and probably more suited to smaller clinics.

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Open Source for Professionals

There are many open source options available for professionals
to help them in their complex tasks. The tools mentioned here
come mainly in two forms – as an offline installation, or as a
web service and accessible over a browser. To strike a balance,
we have covered just a few in brief and offered links to a whole
lot more for the inquisitive professional to look up.
While there surely is a bias towards Linux when it comes
to open source, there are a few Windows-only applications. The
selection of an application to review has also been influenced
by the relative lack of awareness about Linux installation
procedures among the general population. The Windows
user can take comfort in the fact that since these Linux only
applications are open source, the source code will be available
and can be compiled for Windows (compiling instructions
are not provided here). It needs to be noted that in the
case of the very few Windows-only applications, sometimes
their dependence on proprietary libraries such as the .NET
framework make it impossible to run them in Linux. Emulators
do exist that offer middle ground – Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) for
running Linux applications in Windows and Wine (www.winehq.
org) to run Windows applications in Linux.
A more general caseis that of Debian, avenerable Linux distrowith probably the largest package database. Debian
offers different blends
of their popular distro
targeted at different pros.
For example, Debian Med
is a blend containing all
packages related to the
medical field. Blending
merely involves getting
the packages related to
the particular field, so
to create a Debian Medblend the packages that related to the medical industry can be
downloaded from their repositories (these packages are listed
at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/). A blend for scientific
pursuits (in different fields) exists and can be researched at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience. Similar distros exist for almost
every field discussed in this article, and needless to say, we shall
limit ourselves to only mentioning the names of such distro
along with relevant links

Modern open source

The birth of modern open source as we know it was
in 1998, when Netscape Communications Corporation
decided to release the source code of its then popular
Netscape Navigator programme (this code is now found
in Mozilla Firefox, among others) to the public as free
software. This act prompted the free software community
to rethink its philosophy to try and make free software
attractive to commercial software firms.

What is open source

What is Open Source
Open source – the term has been the centre stage of a David
vs Goliath fight in the software community. Be it Windows vs
other operating systems, or Internet Explorer vs Mozilla; and
now more recently, or more recently Microsoft vs Google. open
source has been the rallying point of the so called ‘resistance’
to the proprietary regime. For developers within the software
community, open source has transcended the role of a mere
development methodology into a core life philosophy. Today,
we hear of not just open
source software, but also
open source hardware,
open source biotechnology,
even open source politics!
Open source is a
methodology or approach
towards the design and
development of software
with the intention of giving
the user access to the
source code; i.e. if you use
open source software, not
only will you be able to use
it, you will also be able to see how it works, debug it, modify it
and redistribute it.
To elaborate and make the difference more clear, imagine the
simplest entry level C++ programme, the one that says “hello
world.”
If the program was proprietary (non open source), you
would merely have access to the EXE file that upon execution
would give a window with “hello world” written in it.
However, if the program is open source, you will also be
given access to the code that the EXE file is compiled from,
namely
#include
void main()
{ cout<<”hello worl Hence, not only will you be able to use this programme for the pleasure of hearing a “hello world” from your computer, you will be able to modify this code to allow it to say more than just that. This example of course, was overly simplistic. Even if the programme had been proprietary, anyone could recreate it making it immaterial whether it was open source or not. However, in today’s era of programmes that run up to tens of thousands of lines of code, with complex algorithms and databases forming an integral part of the system, it is impossible to recreate the code from observing how a program functions. Here, open source makes all the difference. The Open Source Initiative, an organisation committed to promoting open source uses the open source definition in order to determine if a software is open source or not. This definition, among other things specifies requirements of the licence such as preventing discrimination against any persons or groups and preventing discrimination against fields of endeavour. One must not forget that there is a core difference between open source and free software. While they both embody the same core idea, the former still allows the commercial utilisation of the code with the motive of profit. Many companies such as Red Hat gain significant revenues from sale, distribution, maintenance and consultancy services provided on open source software.

64studio linux distributon

This os is fully support of multimedia. This is first kind of linux full support of
multimedia
The 64 Studio version 2.1 install image is around 800MB and requires a DVD-R. The 2.0 Live CD is smaller and can be burned to either CD-R or DVD-R. Both versions are available in 64-bit (labelled amd64) and 32-bit (labelled i386) builds, to run on almost all PCs.
In the root directory of the CD you should see a readme file with basic installation instructions, with several translations available. If you would like to contribute a translation in your own language, please get in touch via the contacts page.
To check your download is in good condition, please download the .md5sum file provided, and compare it with the iso image file; for example:

$ md5sum 64studio_2.1_amd64.iso
$ cat 64studio_2.1_amd64.iso.md5sum


SIZE:800mb

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Transfer time 28 hours, 27 mins 12 hours, 27 mins 6 hours, 13 mins 3 hours, 7 mins 1 hours, 33 mins 47 mins 12 mins