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Re: GNU Health

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Post by trenchpilgrim »

einpoklum wrote: post #15

I can't quite understand what is actually part of GNU Health: > Social Medicine and Public Health > Bioinformatics and Medical Genetics Are these that a piece of software? scopes? Intents? > Hospital Management (HMIS) Ok, now this is software for sure, but what exactly does this mean? There are many things to manage within a hospital. Is this software for managing inventories? Scheduling? Personnel assignments and or…

All of these terms are well understood if you work in a hospital. Even a technician could probably guess at the ones they don't work with directly.

Re: GNU Health

#32

Post by sokoloff »

throw-the-towel wrote: post #10
leakycap wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise? > and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship Corpo sponsorship required for success? I gues…

Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?

GNU? Depending on how you want to treat FSF and PSF, gcc, emacs, python (are FSF/PSF/Apache corporations? Does PSF’s donations from corporations make python corporate sponsored?)

Re: GNU Health

#33

Post by omnibrain »

unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK

What does this mean?

Re: GNU Health

#34

Post by roxolotl »

john61 wrote: post #24
cseleborg wrote: post #22

> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth. I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices. If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist. I find thi…

This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.

MyGNU Health looks to be along the lines of Apple Health and is intended to be used by consumers to monitor vitals and track statistics.

Re: GNU Health

#35

Post by unleaded »

omnibrain wrote: post #33
unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?

It's tagged as NSFW for some reason and I can't be bothered verifying my age

Re: GNU Health

#36

Post by jll29 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
leakycap wrote: post #2

Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts. I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth pro…

The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability . Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.

I'd say if you take software that doesn't cost you anything, either

(1) you carry the risk or

(2) find someone that operates the software for you (on premise or SaaS) and they may also carry the risk for the premium you pay them.

Re: GNU Health

#37

Post by eterm »

omnibrain wrote: post #33
unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?

It means you can't view people's reddit profiles in the UK.

( Yes, seriously. )

Many many profiles are tagged NSFW, its' not clear why, I can't imagine the majority of those have done so deliberately, perhaps it's automatic for anyone who's posted any NSFW posts ever. ( Which includes people doing so to be funny such as someone posting a huge loss in a sports sub as NSFW. )

Re: GNU Health

#38

Post by jll29 »

roxolotl wrote: post #34
john61 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.

MyGNU Health looks to be along the lines of Apple Health and is intended to be used by consumers to monitor vitals and track statistics.

It makes sense to own your own medical data rather than handing it over to big tech/FAANG.

Re: GNU Health

#39

Post by Imustaskforhelp »

unleaded wrote: post #30

There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

Hm they had an AMA recently going on, so I asked them some questions if they are still using it or what not (on reddit) mentioning this HN comment.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/1o3hawd/prison_d...

Surprisingly it had 100 comments but no open source questions iirc so that was a bit of surprise from what I could check.

Also Offtopic or not but its sad that you can't use reddit because you are in UK but just for the sake since I want you to see the comment, I perma-linked it and uploaded it to wayback-machine/archive.org and here's the link so that you can view what I wrote

I am going to archive the whole reddit page later for you to read as well

https://web.archive.org/web/20251011181833/https://old.reddi...

Wait why is this not working wtf, Dentistry: page not found for archive wtf?

Edit: I archived the whole page as I said, here it is.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251011182126/https://old.reddi...

Hope this helps OP and maybe I will keep the archive updated for few days or give ya updates if that's something you are interested in I suppose I am not sure, just like many other things in my life.

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