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Reflections from GNU Health At GNU Solidario.org search Classic Cookies & GDPR Privacy Policy SEP MAY ReflectionsGNUHealthCon from GNU Health 2018 at - 10WHO Years - ITU Anniversary session WSIS . 2013 18 26 We are very happy to invite you to the GNUHealthCon 2018 - 10 Years Anniversary ! This month of May we had the immense privilege to be a guest speaker in the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Communication Union (ITU) session "ICT for Improving Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health" at the World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS 2013 Forum. The title of the presentation was "GNU Health : Improving Children and Mothers Lives with Free Software". The presentationRemember to was register on May in order 14th, toand attend it was the transmitted conference. live over the Internet. The event will be held at Hotel EXE Las Canteras - Sala Kraus At WHO headquarters in Geneva I keep thinking about the tremendous levels of maternal and child death, most of them from preventable diseases. This thoughts are the main drive to develop GNU Health, a tool to improve the health of millions of people in Specialdeveloping rates countries for rooms with areFree available Software. at Hotel EXE Las Canteras . Please, make sure to mention GNUHealthCon / IWEEE in order to get the special rates. Reservation at: [email protected] [email protected] More info about things to do in Las Palmas. Looking forward to seeing you in Las Palmas ! Posted 18th September 2018 by Selene Cordara Labels: #FreeSoftware, #GNUHealth, #GNUHealthCon, #GNUHealthCon2018, #gnusolidario, #LasPalmas, #publichealth, #socialmedicine At the WSIS Forum 2013 inauguration session GNU Health has at its heart Primary Care and the Alma Ata Declaration. We only change a letter from that declaration. To the original "Health for all", we added the "e" to become "eHealth for all". DEC GNU Health runs on OpenSUSE Leap 15 29 GNU Health runs on @openSUSE Leap 15 Alpha with PostgreSQL 10 Database Tily Martin and Miguel Falcon from GNU Solidario In this sense, we fight to make health - and eHealth - a public good. Governments should use Free Software as a way to achieve sustainable state policies in the field of public health. Posted 29th December 2017 by Selene Cordara Labels: #FreeSoftware, #GNUHealth, #HIS, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, @coogor, @openSUSE, PostgreSQL Luis Falcon during the session It's heartbreaking to see countries paying millions of dollars to corporations in freedom-denying software licenses. Think about putting that money to improve health promotion and disease prevention campaigns, or to improve the salaries of the health professionals; or to improve the infrastructure of many health centers, just to name some ideas. DEC Keeping alongGNUHealthCon2017 the Alma Ata Declaration presentations and Primary Health and Caremedia, medical are technologynow available should ! be accessible, 29 affordable and feasible. We don't need expensive, science fiction hardware of software, we need affordable and effective tools in health care. Tily Martin, Dr. Alberto Lazzero and Luis Falcon In the talk I presented the GNU Health implementation case of a Public Hospital in Entre Rios, Argentina. GNU Health manages the city demographics, socioeconomics, families, patient evaluations, laboratory, stock and pharmacy, hospitalizations, financial accounting, human resources and medical imaging, to name a few processes within the health center. The health center only had to invest in buying desktops in the health professional offices. Dr. Jordi Serrano, Luis Falcon and Mr. Hani Eskandar Health informatics is just a tool to optimize the health professional, health center and health authorities. It's not science fiction and should never replace Postedthe human 29th Decemberfactor. The 2017 role by of Selene the health Cordara professional, integrated with the patient,Labels: families #freedom and society #healthcare is irreplaceable., #GNUHealth, #GNUHealthCon, #gnusolidario, #publichealth, #socialmedicine I had the honor to share the panel with Dr. Véronique Thouvenot (ITU), Dr. Misha Kay (WHO eHealth Unit), Mr. Hani Eskandar (ITU), Dr Ousmane Ly (National Mali Telemedicine Agency), Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons (UniversalDoctors) and Prof. Peter Bruck ( World Summit Award). DEC Season's Greetings ! 23 eHealth Session Panelists My gratitude goes to WSIS and WHO for inviting me to such an important event, and for putting Free Software (FLOSS) in the agenda. Free Software care keeps alive the Alma Ata Declaration and Primary Health Care, providing equity and universality. Health must remain a non-negotiable human right, and the free software community should be a key component to achieve this goal. Some links : WSIS Agenda Pictures from Day 2 sessions About GNU Health Posted 23rd December 2017 by Selene Cordara GNU Health isLabels: a Free Health #freedom and Hospital #healthcare Information System, #GNUHealth that provides ,the #gnusolidario following functionality:, #seasonsgreetings , #socialmedicine, xmas Health Information System (Demographics, Epidemiology) Hospital Information System Electronic Medical Record GNU Health won the Best Project of Social Benefit from the Free Software Foundation, among other international awards. DEC GNU Health is an official GNU Package , and is partGNU of GNU Health Solidario, anat NGO Swatantra17 that delivers health with free software. GNU Solidario and the United Nations 20 University, International Institute for Global Health have signed an agreement to implement and to train Health professionals GNU Health around the world. GNU Health was presented at the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Communication Union (ITU) session "ICT for Improving Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health" at the World Summit on the Information Society ‐ WSIS 2013 Forum in Geneva. Main site : health.gnu.org Posted 26th May 2013 by Luis Falcon Labels: e-health, free software, gnu, GNU Health, gnu solidario, HIS, ITU, MDG6, NTD, PHC, primary care, WHO, WSIS Tweet Like 0 Thiruvananthapuram Cheaper health care with free software T. Nandakumar Thiruvananthapuram, December 22, 2017 00:44 IST Updated: December 22, 2017 00:44 IST Global meet highlights use of free software in medicine Imagine a medical device costing $100 that can monitor most of a patient’s vital signs. Or a $45 gadget that could prevent stillbirths by detecting the symptoms of fetal distress (full article) Posted 20th December 2017 by Selene Cordara Labels: #freedom #healthcare, #FreeSoftware, #GNUHealth, #gnusolidario, #publichealth, #socialmedicine, kerala DEC GNU Health at 22nd International Conference on Telemedicine & eHealth - 7 Casablanca - .
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