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Sebastian Hilbert | 19 May 21:50
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conference wrap-up

Hi all,

GNUmed conference took place in Leipzig Germany today. We started roughly 9:30 
am and pretty much continued until 3:30pm with few short breaks.

The group consisted of 10 people. Apart from a representative of a local 
software support company and an network specialist there was one Debian 
packager, two physiotherapists and 5 physicians.

Karsten started off by introducing himself and announcing the schedule. I took 
over and provided an overview of GNUmed from a historical point of view. I 
cited oloh.net which demonstrates how GNUmed's codebase evolved (who 
contributed what and when), demonstrated GNUmed infrastructure (blog, wiki, 
download pages), demoed available installation packages for Windows and Linux 
and talked about LIve-DVD and friends.

This was followed by Karsten introducing GNUmed 1.2 (rc4) for about 60 
minutes. He basically came up with an imaginary patient and a visit in the 
practice and showed how to document health problems, allergies, lab data and 
much more. Finally an invoice was created to show off billing. This was will 
received and the people who were there stated that they were amazed how much 
GNUmed is capable of and how well it supports medical worksflows

I took over once again and demonstrated how GNUmed packages are prepared on 
MS-Windows and what is involved in keeping the up-to-date. I took the liberty 
to actually install the packages, to bootstrap a database and to show that the 
same client that was demonstrated on Linux was running right there in Windows. 
A short discussion came up on how to improve certain ares of the packages. All 
were valid points and will most likely be covered by future releases.
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Busser, Jim | 18 May 23:05
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Patient > Merge not working?

Not sure if this has before been tested.

I realize I have twice now created a second patient because (I think) a search on them had failed.

I just tried the merge function, but in spite of asking me to provide the gm-dbo password (which I believe I
did, correctly) it seemed to make no merge.

Since we are talking a real patient, I will send the log to Karsten offlist (after hopefully removing the
patient name, anyway).

-- Jim
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Vaibhav Banait | 18 May 18:26
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Gnumed live

Hi
I am not sure whether suse studio - can be updated. At least we should be able to update gnumed installation .
Else I would prefer ubuntu LTS as a media for preparation of live distro and off course the one which can be
installed also. 

Regards
Vaibhav Banait, 
Gastroenterologist,
Nagpur.
Ph: +91 98606 43436
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Karsten Hilbert | 17 May 22:15
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placeholder for PHX

I added this placeholder:

	u'PHX'		# Past medical HiXtory, "args" holds: line template//separator//strftime date
format//escape style (latex, currently)

Use it like this:

	u'$<PHX::%(description)s\n  side: %(laterality)s, active: %(is_active)s, relevant:
%(clinically_relevant)s, caused death: %(is_cause_of_death)s//\n//%Y %B %d//latex::250>$'

Karsten
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GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de
E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD  4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
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Busser, Jim | 17 May 00:07
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Clinical narrative line breaks

I am noticing in the Journal and in the bottom left of the Notes plugin (display of most recent note) a number
of line breaks.

This makes me wonder whether free text which has been entered into SOAP rows gets stored as originally
entered (i.e. without line breaks) and whether it is only a function of the Journal and Notes display area
code that line breaks get introduced into the display?

-- Jim
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Vaibhav Banait | 16 May 20:00
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Placeholder for past history

What is the placeholder for past medical history ? 

Regards
Vaibhav Banait, 
Gastroenterologist,
Nagpur.
Ph: +91 98606 43436
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Vaibhav Banait | 16 May 14:58
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Medications difficulty

For those who do not have readymade database for tradenames, dealing with medications is extremely
difficult especially in initial few days to month as they have to keep adding trade names and dosage every
time dealing with the patients in OPD. This not only disturbs thinking process but also increase OPD time.
This can be eased by allowing addition of substance through child gui in trade name gui or allowing a free
text with warnings pop up if you think it is necessary. 

Regards
Vaibhav Banait, 
Gastroenterologist,
Nagpur.
Ph: +91 98606 43436
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Busser, Jim | 16 May 00:11
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Advance directives (DNR, Do not resuscitate)

Where in GNUmed would it be suggested that this be stored?

In a way, it is a kind of individual patient preference, except much more potentially-final than, say, I
prefer my appointments in the mornings, Monday through Wednesday.

However GNUmed does not presently support to hold such preferences.

I suppose an advance directive might get stored under

	Identity > Comment

or

	Social network > Emergency notes

except here the "network" may be as limited (in the case of a patient with no family or friends) as just the
patient and their doctor.

A different way to look at it would be as a "measurement" of the person's willingness to be resuscitated,
which could change over time.

or, is the person instead decided to be allergic (intolerant) to resuscitation?

A similar question came up when I was thinking about a patient who, whether a Jehovah's witness or a
Christian Scientist, may desire to avoid being given blood products. It is possible to put their religion
as a Health Issue but some patients would be upset with this. Maybe such things could be "unattributed
episodes" of label

Advance directive – No blood products
Advance directive – No resuscitation
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Sebastian Hilbert | 15 May 20:22
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GNUmed Live - show GNUmed to anyone without installing

Hi all,

Can you believe it. For years I have build Live versions of GNUmed with 
openSUSE studio. This is a web interface for building openSUSE based Live-DVD, 
vmware images, preload-iso, amazone cloud images and more.

Just today I fired it up again and let it run to build all the above variants. 
Imagine my suprise when I downloaded the built iso images, burned it to a RW-
DVD and popped it into an 2 year old HP/Compaq notebook usually running 
Windows 7. It booted off the CD without a hitch, logged into KDE, started the 
GNUmed client.

I selected databae on this PC from the login Window and it actually ran off a 
GNUmed database having been installed on the DVD during the iso creation 
process.

What does this give you ? A fully working offline GNUmed demonstration including 
billing and friends without any installation of software except popping a DVD 
into the drive.

Removing the DVD and rebooting returns you to an unaltered PC with whatever OS 
you had on there before.

Want to install permanently ? Get the preload iso and let it install openSUSE 
12.1 including a fully configured GNUmed.

Don't feel like wasting a DVD ? Get the Vmware image, open the freely 
available VMPlayer or Oracle's Virtualbox and try it out. GNUmed witihout any 
installation (except for Virtualbox or VMPlayer).
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Sebastian Hilbert | 15 May 14:09
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GNUmed document viewer

Hi all,

Please check something so I know it is specific to my system and not to anyone.

Please create and invoice. Observer that it got added in the document archive. 
Go to document archive and try to open the invoice (pdf).

In my installation is will display but not open the pdf. No pdf viewer is 
invoked, no error appears.

Sebastian
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Sebastian Hilbert | 15 May 12:49
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GNUmed billing

Hi,

Please consider add a billing address for Kirk during bootstrapoing or else 
billing will not work (or at least prompt the user for a billing address)

Sebastian
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