GNU Health

This is an interview with Dr Tom Kane and his student Euan Livingstone in Tom’s office at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) on 2016-07-06.

Tom and Euan are investigating ways of running GNU Health for evaluation and demonstration purposes, using multiple Raspberry Pi systems and an Intel NUC. In particular they want to evaluate the conformity of interoperability (FHIR) standards, and are trying to build a reference implementation for decision makers who are procuring a Health and Hospital Information System.

In the interview Tom used some terminology that I have provided links for here and at the end:

LIMS: Laboratory Information Management System

PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication System

FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

I had forgotten where I’d seen Luis Falcón, originator of GNU Health, being interviewed. It was on FLOSS Weekly, as linked below.

The complete notes for this episode, with pictures of the equipment, are here.

Thanks to Tom and Euan for taking the time to talk to me.

Links

GNU Health website: http://health.gnu.org/

GNU Health Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Health

Tryton application platform: http://www.tryton.org/

Luis Falcón, MD:

On Twitter (@meanmicio): https://twitter.com/meanmicio

On the web: http://www.meanmicio.org/

Wikipedia page for SAP SE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_SE

LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System):

Wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_information_management_system

BIKA LIMS: http://www.bikalabs.org/

PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System):

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine):

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM

Orthanc DICOM server: http://www.orthanc-server.com/

Wikipedia page on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperability_Resources

FLOSS WEEKLY episode 288 “GNU Health”: