GNU Health: Interoperability & Interfaces

Tryton

DEMOGRAPHICS

GNUSolidario

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Getting to know the patient is the first step towards quality health
care. The information entered here is key within both personal and
social dimensions, and will help in various aras such as resource
planning, management, epidemiology, clinical trials and
communications campaigns.

REPORTING
As per usual, an efficient reporting stage brings together two or more
institutions, mostly a healthcare center and the local Ministry of Health. This
particular axis helps in building more adequate health policies, following
research leads and refining treatments, both preventive and chronic.

User Options

Plugins Shortcuts

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Patients

Appointments

Prescriptions

Demographics

Laboratory

Imaging

Hospitalizations

Surgeries

Pediatrics

Nursing

Health Services

Reporting

Configuration

GNU Health can process significant amounts of data and still allow
distinct approaches to very different kinds of diseases. For instance, it
can quickly identify a dengue outbreak by showing index cases on a
map, in real time. As well, one could follow up the evolution of a
hipertensive patient through his/her EKGs (diagnostic imaging).

Upon their very first registration, newborns get a QR code

assigned with vital information. Take a look:

Patients

INFECTIOUS AND
NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

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Patients
Health

QR

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Main Info
Female

Betz, Ana

Age: 26y 3m 5d

PAC001

Patiens Allergies and Critical Information

DOMICILIARY UNITS

Allergic to penicilin (anaphylaxis)

Domiciliary Units (DU): a DU is a physical entity that represents a

human dwelling, composed by intra (domiciliary) and extra
(peridomiciliary) spaces. It can be geo-referenced or have an
associated address.
General Info

Medication

Gyneco / Obs

Diseases

(2/2)

Surgeries

Genetics

Lifestyles

Socioeconomics

(2/2)

Diseases

Genetics Risks

Familiy History

Genetics

Disease
DiseaseGene
Gene

Disease

Maternal or Paternal

Imaging

ALRH:Allergic rhinitis

Essential (primary) hypertension

Paternal

Procedures

Health Centers

Laboratory

Health Professionals

Medicaments

Misc

PACS & DICOM

PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication System.
DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
GNU Health can use a FLOSS, DICOM store to save the image,
metadata or DICOMDIR location.

In progress
ANDROID CLIENT

e-Health

Android Client: connects to a Tryton server.

It covers the main features and is compatible with
all Tryton modules.

EMR

1 Registration
A fresh start, this stage allows
the healthcare center to meet
the patient through,
multidimensional eyes,
taking into account
biological, socioeconomic,
educational, geographic,
religious, dietary and cultural
factors, among others.

2 Appointment
If the patient has already
been treated, either at that
health center or at another
one, his/her medical
records would be available
and, through GNU Health,
an appointment could be
easily set for a later
evaluation.

EHEALTH SENSOR SHIELD V2.0

SWIPE CARD

HL7

The e-Health Sensor Shield V2.0 (Cooking Hacks) allows

Arduino and Raspberry Pi users to perform biometric and
medical applications where body monitoring is needed by
using 10 different sensors: Pulse, Oxygen in blood, Airflow
(breathing), Body temperature, EKG, etc.

The healtcare center would not need to register a new patient

from scratch. Using a swipe card or health card, his/her health
records can be pulled even from another center.

HL7 v2 is being used inside multiple healthcare organizations,

e.g. for demographics, ADT, scheduling, orders, financials,
among others.

3 Evaluation
Phisicians may issue direct
Test Requests. They can also
access a patients medical
record and see, for example,
the evolution in chronic
diseases or vaccination
records, in order to build a
proper symptomatology and
signology.

HIS

4 Diagnostic
The more comprehensive and
thoroughgoing the context,
the higher the chances of a
precise diagnosis. Hence, GNU
Health contains key
functionalities for diagnostic
imaging, immunization,
genetics and specialized
disease modules, such as
Dengue and Malaria.

5 Treatment / Hosp.
Outlining the EMR axis is the
dimension of the Hospital
Information System (HIS) in GNU
Health. Stock movements,
medical procedures and health
professionals involved, other
health services, bed and OR
management and prescriptions
are some of the areas covered by
this segment.

EPI

6 Reporting engine
Every time a patient interacts
with the healthcare system,
data is produced. The
epidemiology and reporting
engine aims not only at
identifying vectors in disease
outbreaks, but also at
improving specific
treatments and ultimately
preventing disease
contractions.