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The Care2x System was first developed by Elpidio Latorilla in Germany since 2000. The idea was to develop an open source framework for hospital information systems based on open source code. The objective was to make an Hospital Information System, a Practice management module, a Central Data Server and Health Xchange Protocol for sharing information. In the following years about a 100 developers have added to the project (comming for 20 different countries), making some parts of the code, giving new ideas and traslating the software to many languages. The project is still under development and the system was installed in some institutions like some malaysian hospitals in 2004 as a pilot implementation, the italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma Dipartimento Malattie infettive (department of infectious diseases)in 2004, the UNIBE, a university hospital in Costa Rica in 2006 and Maternidade Candida Vargas, Joao Pessoa Hospital in Brazil in 2006. The most important issue in this development is that it is the first open source initiative to develop an HIS. Get more information in the [http://www.care2x.org official web site]
 
The Care2x System was first developed by Elpidio Latorilla in Germany since 2000. The idea was to develop an open source framework for hospital information systems based on open source code. The objective was to make an Hospital Information System, a Practice management module, a Central Data Server and Health Xchange Protocol for sharing information. In the following years about a 100 developers have added to the project (comming for 20 different countries), making some parts of the code, giving new ideas and traslating the software to many languages. The project is still under development and the system was installed in some institutions like some malaysian hospitals in 2004 as a pilot implementation, the italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma Dipartimento Malattie infettive (department of infectious diseases)in 2004, the UNIBE, a university hospital in Costa Rica in 2006 and Maternidade Candida Vargas, Joao Pessoa Hospital in Brazil in 2006. The most important issue in this development is that it is the first open source initiative to develop an HIS. Get more information in the [http://www.care2x.org official web site]

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Introduction


The Care2x System was first developed by Elpidio Latorilla in Germany since 2000. The idea was to develop an open source framework for hospital information systems based on open source code. The objective was to make an Hospital Information System, a Practice management module, a Central Data Server and Health Xchange Protocol for sharing information. In the following years about a 100 developers have added to the project (comming for 20 different countries), making some parts of the code, giving new ideas and traslating the software to many languages. The project is still under development and the system was installed in some institutions like some malaysian hospitals in 2004 as a pilot implementation, the italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma Dipartimento Malattie infettive (department of infectious diseases)in 2004, the UNIBE, a university hospital in Costa Rica in 2006 and Maternidade Candida Vargas, Joao Pessoa Hospital in Brazil in 2006. The most important issue in this development is that it is the first open source initiative to develop an HIS. Get more information in the official web site