Open Hospital
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| Developer(s) | Informatici Senza Frontiere |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 17, 2006 (1.0)[1] |
| Stable release |
1.13.0 (June 21, 2023) [±] |
| Preview release | none [±] |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Hospital information system |
| License(s) | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| Website | openhospital.opendcn.org |
Open Hospital is a free open-source hospital information system (HIS) "used by seventeen heath structures in eight sub-Saharan African countries, in Greece and in Afghanistan."[2]
Product history
The Open Hospital project began following a meeting between the founders of Informatici Senza Frontiere (ISF) — an Italian non-profit using information technology to help those living in poverty and marginalization — and Dr. Mario Marsiaj, a long-time coordinator for St. Luke Hospital in Angal, Uganda. Needing an informatics solution for the hospital, Marsiaj worked with ISF to begin an open-source software development project on the hospital's behalf.[3] A Sourceforge project began on August 17, 2006[4], followed by several beta releases. A stable version 1.0 of the software was released on November 17, 2006.[1] With its success, further development continued, and more hospitals in Kenya, Afghanistan, Benin, and Congo adopted the HIS.[5]
Features
The main features of Open Hospital include[4]:
- patient registration and admission
- outpatient management
- ward and exam management
- pregnancy management
- pharmacy management
- malnutrition control management
- billing management
- vaccine database
- therapy management
- messaging
- reporting and statistics
Hardware/software requirements
The software requires:
- Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher
- MySQL server on the computer that will act as the OH-Server
Consult the administrator's manual for more information on installing Open Hospital.
Videos, screenshots, and other media
- Open Hospital user manual (wiki; 2012)
- Open Hospital user manual (Sourceforge; 2013)
Entities using Open Hospital
Further reading
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "OpenHospital". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhospital/files/OpenHospital/. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ "Open Hospital - The project". Informatici Senza Frontiere. http://openhospital.opendcn.org/content/view/3. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ "Open Hospital". Informatici Senza Frontiere. 18 January 2006. http://www.informaticisenzafrontiere.org/en/2006/01/open-hospital/. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Open Hospital". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhospital. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ National Geographic (25 May 2010). "Africa, internet in corsia". http://www.nationalgeographic.it/popoli-culture/2010/05/25/news/internet_negli_ospedali_africani-29127/. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
