See http://www.linuxmednews.com/1116507509/index_html for press release and links.
It ss Web-based, runs on Linux servers, can use any client (Windows, Linux, Mac) with a modern Web browser, integrates scheduling, billing and other government claims. Of note is the fact that the medical record component can be extended by the clinician by the creation of additional forms, without the need for programming. The billing and claims stuff would probably need too much modification to make them useful here in Australia, but the basic demographics, scheduling and medical record components should work here with a bit of tweaking. Support for prescribing is unknown and likely to be the biggest hurdle to any Oz deployment. But hey, the source code is all there, available for download by enterprising persons. I think that now brings to three of four the number of US-originated open source, Web-based family physician systems which are ready for prime time or just about so, and which could form the basis of an open source GP system for Oz. Of course the GNUmed project keeps plugging on, making lots of progress, although to an observer like me it feels like the distance to the point at which GNUmed is functional is being halved every three months... Tim C _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
