Debian Med: Medical practice

The list below includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in which can sensibly add to a high quality Custom Debian Distribution.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the mailing list.

Official Debian packages

GNUMed
http://www.gnumed.org/ 		License: GPL
Official Debian package
GNUmed is a comprehensive and robust Open Source software package for paper-less medical practice. GNUmed will be a major part of Debian Med.

Unofficial Debian packages

FreeB
http://freeb.org/ 		License: GPL
Unofficial Debian package
FreeB is a Medical Billing System that is capable of printing HCFA 1500 forms and generating HIPAA compliant X12 837p edi files. FreeB is not capable of running a practice, just generating bills. It needs to work with a Practice Management System or EMR system. So far, FreeMed and OpenEMR have implemented FreeB.
FreeMed
http://www.freemedsoftware.org/ 		License: LGPL
Unofficial Debian package
Electronic medical record and practice management system for medical providers that runs in any web browser in multiple languages. FreeMed is similar to FreePM but PHP/MySQL based.

Debian packages not available

Circare
http://www.openhealth.com/circare/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available
Circare is a client and provider index that ties together the information about a single patient and makes it available securely to care providers in a distributed network. The goal of this project is to be the "home page" for finding patient information distributed in numerous locations around a regional network.
ClearHealth
http://www.op-en.org/site/clearhealth/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available
ClearHealth is the First Free and Open Source Practice Management System to address the big five features: Medical Billing, Medical Accounts Receivable, Scheduling, Access Control, and EMR
Elexis
http://www.elexis.ch 		License: EPL
Debian package not available
An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical practice: electronic medical record (EMR), laboratory findings etc., as well as accounting, billing (Swiss TARMED system, other systems to be developed) and other daily work.
OIO - Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
http://www.txoutcome.org/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available

A shared and free infrastructure that supports the pooling of expertise, assessment instruments, data management, training, quality assurance, and reporting tools is a way to reduce the cost of conducting outcome assessments.

It facilitates the creation of flexible and portable patient/research records. It aims to achieve the "Holy Grail" of data portability as elegantly described by John G. Faughnan. It is based on Zope.

OpenEMR
http://www.oemr.org/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available

OpenEMR is a Free, Open Source medical clinic practice management and electronic medical record application. OpenEMR offers:

  1. Practice Management features for patient scheduling, patient demographics
  2. Electronic Medical Records, creating an on-line record of your encounters
  3. Ability to enter CPT and ICD codes at the end of a patient encounter
  4. Advanced reporting capabilities with phpMyAdmin, which is now packaged with OpenEMR
  5. Prescription writing capability with ability to email or print prescriptions
  6. HL7 support to parse HL7 messages
  7. HIPAA compliance
openPMS
http://openpms.sourceforge.net/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available
The openPMS framework is an attempt to provide a core set of modules for most general practice management functions, while allowing for easy and simple module additions to extend functionality within the working framework. Current modules under active development include: patient management, provider management, schedule management, payer management, transaction management, and account management.
Open PM ToolWorks
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpmtoolworks 		License: GPL
Debian package not available
This project is dedicated to developing medical group practice management calculators and tools that would be of interest to medical practice administrators.
Res Medicinae
http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available

Res Medicinae is to become a comprising software solution for use in Medicine which combines intuitive ease of use with the advantages of the CYBOP Framework. It uses latest technology adhering to common standards for medical software and will as such be open to many other medical systems.

Res Medicinae is the attempt to overcome high pricing in the realm of Medical Information Systems and to provide users with a free, stable, secure, platform-independent, extensive system.

Res Medicinae is and will be free in every meaning. Its contributors enjoy working together communicating using mailing lists and are encouraged by the idea of sharing their knowledge with those people living on "the poorer side of" the world.

This project compiled a very useful document which is available as a Debian package.

SQL Clinic
http://www.sqlclinic.net/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available
A web interface to PostgreSQL written in Perl. This is a complete clinical and administrative application for providers of psychiatric housing, although the software is designed to accommodate an entire Community Mental Health Care Center (CMHC) or private practitioners (both clinical social workers and psychiatrists) working in behavioral health. Technical support is free via mailing lists. Support contracts are available from Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York.
Torch
http://sourceforge.net/projects/op-torch/ 		License: GPL
Debian package not available

Torch (formerly known as FreePM) is a template driven system that utilizes flexible open-source software to provide physicians with an easy to use, easy to modify medical record management solution. The system consists of a series of templates that create the component parts of a patient's medical records. These templates can be tailored by the practitioner to best suit their individual operating environment.

Torch is an Open Source physicians office management & electronic medical record application. This is a Zope based project and there are reference implementations. The authors asked for integrating Torch into Debian Med.