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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<article>
<artheader>
<articleinfo>
<title>Linux Medicine-HOWTO</title>
<author>
<firstname>Gerardo</firstname>
<surname>Arnaez</surname>
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</affiliation>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Werner</firstname>
<surname>Heuser</surname>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>wehe_((AT))_@mobilix.org</email>
<email>wehe_((AT))_mobilix.org</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.0.1</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-19</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Minor changes, Changed license to GPL. Some more reorganization. Which to say I have deleted out a ton of comments that I put that were useless. More pimping of Debian-med.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Major changes. Conversion from linuxdoc to DocBook format. Have basically edited out nutrition sections and most of the German section for now until I can get help again the German section. Have switched focus of the article to Medical informatics and applications, less to research applications
which should probably be a different article. Will most likely put these things
I will not maintain at the end, so someone else has some where to begin.
Whew. Tired from DocBook Conversion.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.3</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-5</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark> Doing minor checks of links. no big change yet</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.2</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>I have started to make structural changes to the documents. Changes Community to the fore-front. renamed Medical Application to Medical Record Application to make it more usable. I have not decide to change the version number as i have just moved links around and I am trying to structure the document a little bit better.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.1</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>Gerardo Arnaez took over maintaining this document. Some new additions, some info on when last update. Links to sqlclinic.net and eors.org added.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
<date>Unknown</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>XXX, minor changes </revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
<date>2001-03-01</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>added links to gnutrition, Java SmokingMeter and HL7lib - Health Level 7 Library, some other links updated, Japanese translation proposed </revremark>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
<date>2000-11-04</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark> Links to Nut, Free Practice Management, LittleFish,
GNUMed, REALTIQ, VISIdent, weight, OIO, CTSim, myPACS, BlazeLIMS, XNBC and PhysioNet added, new document URL, minor changes</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
<date>2000-04-20</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>links to Res Medicinae, QDS, sixpack and LinuxMedNews added, minor changes </revremark>
</revision>
<revision><revnumber>1.0</revnumber><date>2000-01-27</date><authorinitials>wh</authorinitials><revremark> LinuDent added, preface and disclaimer added,
minor changes, first official release</revremark></revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
<date>2000-01-26</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark> URLs checked, minor changes, second draft</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>Major changes. Conversion from linuxdoc to DocBook format. Have basically edited out nutrition sections and most of the German section for now until I can get help again the German section. Have switched focus of the article to Medical informatics and applications, less to research applications which should probably be a different article. Will most likely put these things I will not maintain at the end, so someone else has some where to begin.
Whew. Tired from DocBook Conversion.
</revremark>
<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
<date>1999-11-17</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>first draft</revremark>
</revision>
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</revhistory>
<abstract>
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</para>
</abstract>
</artheader>
</articleinfo>
<!-- END TITLE STUFF HERE -->
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<para>
Gerardo Arnaez: I am an internal medicine doctor. I am extremely concerned with the state of medical informatics.</para>
<para>
Werner Heuser: Working as a system administrator in the computer departments of two German hospitals I get inspired to search for medical applications created with Linux software. Besides this HOWTO I have written the
<ulink url="http://mobilix.org/howtos.html"> Linux-Mobile-Guide</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://mobilix.org/howtos.html"> Linux-Infrared-HOWTO</ulink>
and the
<ulink url="http://mobilix.org/eco_linux.html"> Linux-Ecology-HOWTO</ulink>.
Werner Heuser: Working as a system administrator in the computer departments of two German hospitals I get inspired to search for medical applications created with Linux software. Besides this HOWTO I have written the <ulink url="http://mobilix.org/howtos.html"> Linux-Mobile-Guide</ulink>, <ulink url="http://mobilix.org/howtos.html"> Linux-Infrared-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://mobilix.org/eco_linux.html"> Linux-Ecology-HOWTO</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="copyright">
<title>Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks</title>
<para>NOTE: This license has changed to <ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html">LDP license</ulink>.</para>
<para>
Copyright &copy; 2002 by Gerardo Arnaez. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth in the <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/COPYRIGHT.html">LDP license</ulink>.</para>
Copyright &copy; 2002 by Gerardo Arnaez. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth in the <ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html">LDP license</ulink>.</para>
<para>
Copyright &copy; 2000 by Werner Heuser. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth in the <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/COPYRIGHT.html">LDP license</ulink>.</para>
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</sect1>
<!-- END PREFACE -->
<sect1 id='debianmed'>
<title>Debian-Med
</title>
<sect2>
<title>DEBIAN-MED HOMEPAGE</title>
<para>A better place to look for medical information is <ulink url=" http://auric.debian.org/~tille/debian-med/">Debian-Med</ulink> which is already better organized than this page. You should look here first, then come here, as I think the focus of this How-To will eventually be a How-to install an actaully application that I think is useful and acutally useful
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="community">
<title>Community</title>
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<sect1 id="record">
<title>Medical Record Applications</title>
<sect2>
<title>Debian Med</title>
<para>The linux distribution by Debian is a well known and highly respected one. The developers are all volunteers and dedicated. Recently, it was announced that Debian would start making a Debian Med Package. This is very very good news, because one of the things Debian is known for is its "APT-GET" interface. This allows applications to be installed with the simple command of "apt-get install [application]". For example, if I wanted to install the OIO record system, I would simply type in 'apt-get install oio' and the apt-get program would not only install the OIO software, but would also install any software that OIO is Dependant on to run, such as the postgres database and zope software and would configure it so that you could immediately start using it.</para>
<para>If you think I sound enthusiastic about this project, I am, because it simply would be perfect for the rest of the projects that are being developed in that would ease installment.</para>
<para>I urge to visit the Debian Med Homepage, by clicking <ulink url="http://auric.debian.org/~tille/debian-med/">HERE</ulink>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>VISTA (DHCP)</title>
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</title>
<para> <ulink url="http://www.TxOutcome.org/"> OIO</ulink> is a Web-based information system for treatment outcome management. It is in production at the Harbor/UCLA Medical Center for clinical outcomes management and research data. Forms created with OIO and hosted on any OIO server can be downloaded as XML files. Once downloaded from the "Forms library" and imported into an OIO server, the necessary database tables are automatically recreated and the imported forms become immediately available to the users of that OIO server.
</para>
<para>Note: This application is already in quite useful, but lacks 'already-made' forms for use. But these can be quickly designed within the application's interface quickly. Another to really try!
</para>
</sect2>
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</blockquote>
</para>
<!--
<p>What Is Medical Informatics - Some Formal Definitions of the Field
Medical Informatics has been emerging as a discipline in its own right over the past quarter century. During that evolution, there have been a number of notable attempts along the way to define the field in scientific and formal yet succinct terms, and in many cases each has built on its predecessors. Following are some of the more often-cited of those definitions. Allan H. Levy, 1977 - identified the scope of medical informatics as "...dealing with the problems associated with information, its acquisition, analysis, and dissemination in health care delivery processes." (1) Morris F. Collen, 1977 - "Medical informatics is the application of computer technology to all fields of medicine - medical care, medical teaching, and medical research." (2) Jan van Bemmel, 1984 - "Medical informatics comprises the theoretical and practical aspects of information processing and communication, based on knowledge and experience derived from processes in medical and health care." (3) Jack D. Myers, 1986 - "...a developing body of knowledge and set of techniques concerning the organization and management of information in support of medical research, education, and patient care." (4) Donald A.B. Lindberg, 1987 - "Medical informatics attempts to provide the theoretical and scientific basis for the application of computer and automated information systems to biomedicine and health affairs . . . medical informatics studies biomedical information, data, and knowledge - their storage, retrieval, and optimal use for problem-solving and decision-making. (5) M.S. Blois and Edward H. Shortliffe, 1990 - "Medical informatics is the rapidly developing scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making." (6) British Medical Informatics Society - "...the understanding, skills, and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health" and "...the name of an academic discipline developed and pursued over the past decades by a world-wide scientific community engaged in advancing and teaching knowledge about the application of information and technologies to healthcare - the place where health, information and computer sciences, psychology, epidemiology, and engineering intersect. (7) (1) Levy, A.H. "Is informatics a basic medical science?" Proceedings of MEDINFO, 1977, p. 979. (2) Preliminary announcement for the Third World Conference on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO 80, 1977. (3) Van Bemmel, J.H. "The structure of medical informatics" Medical Informatics, 9(1984), p. 175. (4) Myers, J.D. "Medical education in the information age." Proceedings of the Symposium on Medical Informatics, 1986, p. 3. (5) Lindberg, D.A.B. NLM Long Range Plan. Report of the Board of Regents, 1987, p. 31. (6) Blois, M.S., and E.H. Shortliffe. "The computer meets medicine: Emergence of a discipline" in Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care, 1990, p. 20. (7) Web site of the British Medical Informatics Society http://www.bmis.org -->
</sect2>
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<title>Good Electronic Health Record - GEHR</title>
<para> The <ulink url="http://www.gehr.org/"> Good Electronic Health Record (GEHR)</ulink> , a major part of the work of the openEHR Foundation, is an evolving electronic health record architecture designed to be comprehensive, portable and medico-legally robust. It has been developed from the <ulink url="http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/HealthI/GEHR/"> Good European Health Record project</ulink> requirements statement and object model- the most comprehensive requirements documents ever developed for the electronic health record. This website is a public resource for documents and resources that have been used to build implementations of this record.
</para>
<!--
<sect2>
<p> Last Update: Jan, 14 2002
<p>The main point of this site is to try to setup standards.
-->
</sect2>
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</sect1>
<!--
<sect>Medline and Bibliography Tools
<p>
<sect1>BioMail
<p>
<url url="http://phm-pf-3.pharm.sunysb.edu/biomail/" name="BioMail"> is a small Web-based application for medical researchers and biologists. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database. Periodically BioMail does a user-customized Medline search and sends all matching articles recently added to Medline to the user's e-mail address.
<sect1>DubMed
<p>
<url url="http://dub.med.yale.edu" name="DubMed"> is a java-based Medline (Pubmed) interface. Its server-side backend gets search results from the Entrez system at the National Library of Medicine. DubMed offers a visual search strategy palette, and uses a journal metadata repository to link found citations to online journal articles when available.
<sect1>Pybliographer
<p>
<url url="http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer/" name="Pybliographer"> is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It supports several bibliography formats and can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc, through its nice graphical interface for GNOME. Due to its nature, it can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). It is provided with sample scripts. Internationalization, support for Medline, support for LyX, speedups, and more.
<sect1>sixpack
<p>
<url url="http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/" name="sixpack"> is a graphic and command-line bibliography database manager written in Perl/Tk. It interacts with the supplied package <it>bp</it>, which can import and export from a big array of formats: bibtex, endnote, medline, procite, and many others. It can download references directly off the Web, and open articles using external viewers.
<sect1>Surfraw
<p>
<url url="http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/" name="Surfraw"> (Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) provides a Unix command-line interface to a variety of popular Web search engines and sites, including Google, Altavista, Raging, DejaNews, Research Index, Yahoo!, WeatherNews, Slashdot, Freshmeat, and many others. New elvi clients for Freshmeat, NewScientist, MedLine, and PubMed databases (PubMed, Nucleotide, Protien, Genome, Structure, Popset), and support for more Google search types (BSD, Linux, Mac and UncleSam).
<sect>Sports and Nutrition
<p>
<sect1> I am no longer maintaining this section
<p>Please contact me to take it over.
<sect1>Nut
<p>
<url url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/misc/" name="Nut"> allows you to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 13, which contains 6,210 foods.
<p>
This database of food composition tables contains values for calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, total fat, saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, and cholesterol; vitamins A, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, B6, folate, B12, C, and E; and minerals calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, and zinc. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the <it>Daily Values</it>, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States. In addition, levels of the omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are shown, along with average grams per day of the important PUFAs.
<p>
You may search this list of foods and view nutrient values for different serving sizes; you may also rank foods in order of level of a particular nutrient. You may change the daily calorie level to correspond to your personal metabolism, and the levels for fat, carbohydrates, and fiber are automatically adjusted. You may add your own recipes to the database, by creating them from the foods in the database.
<sect1>gnutrition
<p>
<url url="http://gnutrition.sourceforge.net/" name="Gnutrition"> is nutritional analysis software for GNOME. It can compute the nutrient value of recipes or individual foods. It uses the USDA Nutrient Database, which contains data on 81 nutrients for over 5,000 foods.
<sect1> Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator
<p>
<url url="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6434/calcalc.html" name="Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator"> by Greg Kondrasuk is a simple program that calculates the number of calories expended on a bicycle ride. It is based on an article in the May 1989 issue of Bicycling Magazine, pp. 100-103. It provides a good estimate of the number of calories burned based on time, distance, rider weight, wind speed and direction, drafting, and climbing.
<sect1>Java SmokingMeter
<p>
<url url="http://smokingmeter.sourceforge.net/" name="SmokingMeter"> is a stand alone Java application that tells ex-smokers for how long they have quit smoking, how much money they have saved, and how many cigarettes they have avoided.
<sect1>weight
<p>
<url url="http://world.std.com/~damned/software.html" name="weight"> is a GPL program, which helps users keep track of their weight. It computes a moving weighted average based upon daily weight (useful because it smoothes the fluctuation of daily weights), can compute caloric debt, and can plot monthly, quarterly, annual, and other graphs of weight.
<sect>Other Resources
<p>
<sect1>Other Pointers
<p>
<itemize>
<item>
<url url="http://idt.net/&tilde;dclunie/medical-image-faq/html/" name="Medical-Image-FAQ">
<item>
<url url="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvosta/pcrmed.htm" name="Peter's Resources on Medicine (PCR MED)">
<item>
<url url="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvosta/pcrbioc.htm" name="Peter's Resources on Biocomputing (PCR BIOC)">
<item>
<url url="http://www.protana.com/&tilde;pm/Perl.html" name="Protana">
<item>
<url url="http://www.rad.bgsm.edu/&tilde;tim/home.html" name="Timothy M. Persons">
<item>
<url url="http://www.omp.de.vu" name="OMP">
<item>
<url url="http://www.josmc.org" name="JOSMC">
<item>
<url url="http://www.oshca.org/" name="Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA)"> is a collaborative forum to promote and facilitate open source software in human and veterinary health care.
<item>
IEEE committee for medical device communications (IEEE 1073 standards).
</itemize>
<p>
Didn't check for Linux related newsgroups and mailing lists yet.
<sect>Veterinarian Medicine
<p>
<sect1>I will not be maintaining this section, please free to take it over.
<p>
<sect1>FreeVet
<p>
<url url="http://www.mecalc.co.za/ross/FreeVet/" name="FreeVet"> is a Y2K ready Animal Clinic System built using the Qt toolkit. It currently uses MySQL as its database. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic, small or large.
-->
<sect1 id="pda">
<title>PDA</title>
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<title>Linux Devices</title>
<para>For more info, on say Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D, look <ulink url="http://www.linuxdevices.com/index.html">Here</ulink>.
</para>
<para>This section will grow as I am gettin touch with a doctor who is actively developing OB-GYNE applications to use on it
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect> Things to Be Done
<p>
<sect1> Notes
<p>I am going to place things here when I don't know where exactly to put them.
<sect1>Conversion of ECGs - ecg2png
<p>
<url url="http://www.cardiothink.com/downloads/ecg2png/" name="ecg2png"> converts scanned 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) into PNG format and a web-friendly image size. The problems this program solves are that an ECG scanned at relatively high resolution puts a large memory load on the Web browser because it contains about 6 million color pixels. Also, typical scanners convert a clean paper ECG into many colors, not just red, black, and white. The resulting file cannot be
compressed efficiently and takes more time to transmit over low-speed network connections. This program shrinks the image while preserving the signal and cleans up the color map, yielding a bitmap that is well-suited for Web-based distribution of ECG images.
<sect2>
<p>Last Update: Oct, 17 1999
<sect1>GTDS - Oncologie Documentation (German)
<p>
The Giessener Tumor Documentation System - GTDS was actually written for the Oracle database system under SCO-Unix, but works also under Linux, when the IBCS module is used.
<sect2>
<p>Last Update: Unknown and I cant find it on the web except under linuxdoc.org
:)
<sect1>Linux in a Doctor's Office (German)
<p>
<url url="http://hilbert.key-space.de/jamie/linux+praxis/Linux+Praxis.html" name="Karsten Hilbert"> &lt;mailto:Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net&gt;
has set up a page in German that describes some aspects of how to set up Linux in a doctor's office. It's been born from an article published in <it>PraxisComputer 6/99</it>.
<sect2>
<p>Last Update: As I don't speak German I am trying to contact the the owner of these documents
<sect1>Andromeda (German)
<p>
<url url="http://www.frey.de" name="Andromeda"> is an Open Source clinic information and management system in German.
<sect1>Quality Documentation Statistic - QDS (German)
<p>
<url url="http://www.havelhoehe.de/Forschung/qds_tbd.html" name="QDS"> is an open source medical catalog and documentation system for the public health care.
<sect1>LinuDent
<p>
<url url="http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/dental/index.html" name="LinuDent"> is a dental practice management software package that will run in console mode or X. The X version uses GTK, and is being developed under Linux. It aims to duplicate all of the functionality of full service dental management programs, while remaining free to the community.
<sect1>VISIdent (German)
<p>
The commercial VISIdent software is a GUI based information and accounting system for German dentists, made by <url url="http://www.bdv.com" name="BDV">.
<sect1>Linux Port of Mallinckrodt CTN Software
<p>
Ported by &lt;m.stoutjesdijk@rdiag.azn.nl&gt; <url url="http://m14-060.azn.nl/ctn" name="Mark Stoutjesdijk"> from the University Hospital Nijmegen - Department of Diagnostic Radiology (Nijmegen MRI Research Group - NMRG).
<sect1>Endoscopy
<p>
<url url="http://www.meditrac.com/" name="ASD/MediTrac"> announced GI-Trac (TM) 2000 version 4.5 with native direct support for Linux. GI-Trac is a database and endoscopy reporting system. License: commercial.
<sect1>PhysioNet
<p>
<url url="http://www.physionet.org/" name="PhysioNet"> offers free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals
and related open-source software. PhysioNet is a public service of the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, funded by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.
<p>Last Update: constant.
<sect1>REALTIQ - ReAligning Tissue Quantifier
<p>
REALTIQ stands for <it>Re-aligning Tissue Quantification</it>, the software is currently in the alpha-stage.
<p>
Software Features:
<itemize>
<item>Re-align any patient-scan to new arbitrary axes by tri-linear interpolation
<item>Segmentation of long-bone tissue
<item>Quantification of long-bone tissue
<item>DICOM compatible
</itemize>
<p>
Description: A pre-version of this software was developed for use in a study on the relations of the medullary-canal dimensions and the cortical-bone area at patients suffering from arthritic bone-disease.
<p>
The problem with CAT data is, that if the model (in this case the hand/finger) is not properly aligned with the CAT axis, the cut-planes will only display a distorted view of the bone and quantitative measurement will yield high error-rates.
<p>
REALTIQ reads in a set of DICOM images and displays it to the viewer as a frontal, sagittal and transversal view. The user can specify, intuitively by using the mouse, an axis through this data, as well as a bounding-box around that axis. The dataset will be mapped to that new
axis, so that the structures of interest are now properly aligned. In a second step, the software calculates:
<itemize>
<item>Medullary-canal diameters (in several directions)
<item>Medullary-canal area / absorption rate
<item>Cortical-bone diameters (in several directions)
<item>Cortical-bone area / absorption rate
</itemize>
<p>
For more information see: <url url="http://www.digitalmedics.de" name="DigitalMedics">.
<sect1>CTSim
<p>
<url url="http://www.ctsim.org/" name="CTSim"> is a Computed Tomography simulator under the GPL license. It simulates the process of obtaining x-ray data around a phantom object. It then uses various reconstruction algorithms for reconstructing the original image. The scanning
and reconstruction processes can be animated as a tutorial to computed tomography. Precompiled versions are
available for Microsoft Windows and Linux.
<sect1>XBNC
<p>
<url url="http://www.b3e.jussieu.fr/xnbc/" name="XNBC"> is a software package for simulating biological neural networks. Four neuron models are available, three phenomenologic models (xnbc, leaky integrator and conditional burster) and an ion-conductance based model. Inputs to
the simulated neurons can be provided by experimental data stored in files, allowing the creation of <it>hybrid</it> networks. Graphic tools are used to describe the modeled neurons as well as the network.
-->
<!--
HOW TO INSTALL ACTUALL MEDICAL RECORDS -->
<sect1>
<title>Installing a Medical record (not ready yet)
</title>
<sect2>
<title>Point of this section
</title>
<para>
This section is acutally going to be the <emphasis>HOW-TO</emphasis> of this HOW-TO document. I intend to include instructions or refer
to insttruction on installing what available systems that
are readily usable at this point.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>OIO
</title>
<sect3>
<title>What is it?</title>
<para>
The OIO system starts a higher level of abstraction
- starting with modeling "forms". The forms are then
used to model/build progress notes etc. The OIO system
makes use of a relational database backend (PostgreSQL) - 1) making the data/metadata/presentation separation more distinct, 2) making integration with other system (e.g. legacy systems, GnuMed, SQL Clinic etc) easier, 3) making query construction/extension easier (via SQL).
</para>
<para>If you search the OpenHealth mailing list archives, you will see extensive discussion regarding this in the context of GEHR and OIO. GEHR uses the same approach but calls this intermediate level of abstraction "archetypes". The advantage of the OIO/GEHR approach is that the metadata components can be plug-and-play - meaning that the system can be easily extended/customized AND portable medical records become easier to implement.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>FreePM</title>
<sect3>
<title>Installing FreePM</title>
<para>
This is the second application that I see that I think is actually useful for the medical office. (One of my main concerns, as I will be using it exactly for that.)
</para>
</Sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -737,15 +646,12 @@ the simulated neurons can be provided by experimental data stored in files, allo
<sect1 id="credits">
<title>Credits</title>
<othercredit role='mentor'>
<firstname>Greg</firstname>
<surname>Ferguson</surname>
<contrib>Put up with my constant questions with starting this and with continuing to put up with me</contrib>
</othercredit>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Gref Fergusion. For putting up with my constant questions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AIRION Asssociates &lt;airion@charter.net&gt;
@ -821,101 +727,29 @@ erschienen. Der bekannte Abschnitt zu Linux und Medizin ist
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="revision">
<title>Revision history</title>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
<date>1999-11-17</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>first draft
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
<date>2000-01-26</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>
URLs checked, minor changes, second draft
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
<date>2000-01-27</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark> LinuDent added, preface and disclaimer added, minor changes, first official release
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
<date>2000-04-20</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>links to Res Medicinae, QDS, sixpack and LinuxMedNews added, minor changes
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
<date>2000-11-04</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Links to Nut, Free Practice Management, LittleFish, GNUMed, REALTIQ, VISIdent, weight, OIO, CTSim, myPACS, BlazeLIMS, XNBC and PhysioNet added, new document URL, minor changes
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
<date>2001-03-01</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>added links to gnutrition, Java SmokingMeter and HL7lib - Health Level 7 Library, some other links updated, Japanese translation proposed
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
<date>Unknown</date>
<authorinitials>wh</authorinitials>
<revremark>XXX, minor changes
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.1</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>Gerardo Arnaez took over maintaining this document. Some new additions, some info on when last update. Links to sqlclinic.net and eors.org added.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.2</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-05</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>I have started to make structural changes to the documents. Changes Community to the fore-front. renamed Medical Application to Medical Record Application to make it more usable. I have not decide to change the version number as i have just moved links around and I am trying to structure the document a little bit better.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.4.3</revnumber>
<date>2002-02-5</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Doing minor checks of links. no big change yet
</revremark>
</revision>
</revhistory>
</sect1>
</article>
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