[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 23, Issue 26

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:31 +0000, Timothy Rittman wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a recent convert to Linux (after accidentally wiping 
> my harddrive and not wanting to put windows back on it - 
> long story!).

Never mind, welcome to the light side of the force... :)

> I'm also a doctor, so I'm really glad to see the e-mail 
> below. I've worked a bit in Zambia and one of the 
> challenges in the rural hospital I worked in was 
> collecting data about patients on Anti-retrovirals to a 
> sufficiently high standard to keep funders happy. Do 
> people know of other low-cost similar open source 
> health-related software?

I don't know if the software itself is open-source, but I know that CMED
Technology in Sussex use Ubunut/Gnu/Python for a lot of their stuff -
www.cmedresearch.com - also, try searching Sourceforge.net for medical,
clinical or other related keywords and see what turns up.

I was a student nurse for a year and a half (also a long story!) and I
kept trying to write a patient administration system that would
auto-triage based on keywords entered by reception on booking in.  The
main problem with the system was that I was meant to be writing an essay
on research techniques.  Needless to say I went back into IT - I miss
the sense of humour though! :)

All the best,

Matt
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Group Co-Ordinator
Thanet Linux User Group
http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
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