Welcome to GNU Health !

"La medicina sin humanismo médico no merece ser ejercida." Professor Doctor René Favaloro

GNU Health is a free Health and Hospital Information System
with the following functionality :

• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
  
• Hospital Information System (HIS)
  
• Health Information System
  

Our goal is to contribute with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged,
providing a free system that optimizes health promotion and disease prevention.

GNU Health is an official GNU Package, and the Hospital Information System adopted by the United Nations University,
International Institute for Global Health, for the implementations and trainings.

GNU Health at a glance:



















The data model is designed in such a way that centralizes the information, so no duplication occurs.

On the other hand, GNU Health optimizes collaboration and communication between health professionals. For example, a doctor may request an specific lab test for a patient, this is processed by the pathologist which diagnoses it and inputs the result on the system. The doctor now has all the analysis information linked to the patient chart.

GNU Health allows to attach documents (X-rays, Biopsy results, ... ) to the Patient chart.

Standards:
The information generated and gathered in GNU Health should be standard. We use ICD-10 for pathologies / diseases diagnoses. For example, instead of typing an arbitrary name for the condition, the doctor will be able to choose from over 14000 mutually exclusive classified diseases. This is very important for epidemiological and other statistical studies.

GNU Health uses the information on genetics from the National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI and Genecards to link genes disorders to diseases. This information is important to evaluate risks of the patient to contract an specific disease and the probability of transmitting it to next generations. GNU Health also registers all the relevant family history information of the patient.

Similarly, the patient history will be in a format that medical centers all over the world would be able to process. Effective, paperless and fast way of practising medicine.

Security:
It will follow the Tryton access control and security model

Internationalization:
The main language will be English, but it can be easily translated to any other language using Tryton module translation.
We are using Transifex as the translation Portal
Today, GNU Health is being translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesian, Vietnamese, French, Dutch and Portuguese, among others.


Support GNU Solidario


GNU Health is a project of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is an Non-profit Non-goverment-Organization (NGO) that works globally, delivering health and education with free software. Our friends at Amazee have created the space to have our own social network. Please join us at The GNU Solidario Social Network and share your ideas !

Finally, if you use GNU Health or like the idea behind GNU Solidario, please consider donating.

GNU Solidario works globally, delivering health and education to the underprivileged by means of free software. Your financial contribution, no matter how small, is crucial for our non-profit organization. Health and education are the basis for the development and dignity of societies. We already reached health centers, doctors, women, men and children from Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia or Argentina, to name a few. With your donation, we'll be able to reach many others.

GNU Solidario hosts IWEEE - The International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies- a good way to support GNU Solidario and to get the latest on e-Health is to assist to the conferences. IWEEE is a biannual conference that takes place in the Canary Islands (Spain) and in Brazil.


Download:
You can download the latest version at GNU Health project at the European Community OSOR

Where to ask questions and get involved

Health is an official GNU package, part of the GNU System. All the development is at : GNU Health project at Savannah

We strongly suggest you to join the Mailing lists .

The mailing lists are the best place to ask questions, share ideas with the Health community and keep yourself updated with the latest developments and news !


Supporting Governments:
The following is a list of governments that include and host GNU Health in their portals.

Special thanks to the European Community (Open Source Observatory and Repository - OSOR) and to the Brazilian Portal do Software Público Brasileiro (SPB) for supporting Free Software and GNU Health, as a public good.

You can download or work on the localization project by joining their communities.
By clicking on the flag you will be redirected to the specific government free software portal where GNU Health is hosted.


Thanks,
Luis Falcón
Author and Main developer

GNU Solidario