GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 Released
10 months ago
- #Healthcare Technology
- #Hospital Information System
- #Open Source
- GNU Health Hospital Information System (HIS) 5.0 series released, marking a major leap in functionality and technology.
- New features include enhanced Laboratory Information System (Occhiolino) with visual aids for out-of-range results and veterinary testing.
- Focus on Social Diseases with checks for uninsured populations and enhanced socioeconomic data entry.
- Medical Imaging improvements include better integration with Orthanc PACS server and package refactoring.
- Patient Medication now accessible from the main menu with population-level reporting.
- Allergic status validation automatically checks patient allergies at prescription and patient levels.
- Demographics enhancements include insurance validity checks, homeless status recording, and improved socioeconomic assessments.
- Insurances feature warnings on expired policies and links to medical evaluations and surgeries.
- Obstetrics updates include enhanced history and linking newborns with pregnancy results.
- Medical Genetics improvements feature updated datasets and better family history integration.
- Technology updates include migration to Codeberg for development, GNU Health-Control for sysadmin tasks, and Tryton 7.0 LTS framework.
- Gunicorn replaces uWSGI as the default WSGI server for production deployments.
- Increased modularity with reduced package interdependency and lighter installations via PyPI.
- Migration to Poetry for package and dependency management from setuptools.
- Documentation and support updates planned, with community engagement encouraged via mailing lists and Mastodon.