Care2x Integrated Healthcare Open Source Environment

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Introduction


The Care2x System was first developed by Elpidio Latorilla in Germany since 2002. 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.

History

The public project started with the first release of the beta version 1.0.0. in the internet on May 2002. After 3 months there was a several number of people involved in the project. 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. In recent years there are more than 300 developers working on the system. Fisrt release was developed by PHP and MySQL database engine. In followin years, Elpidio and the developers team, have made the API of the software and the support for Postgress SQL database engine too. The system architecture was developed upon stable and proven applications. More information of history here

System Overview

The system is modular and the most important modules developed are:

  • Appointments
  • Person registration module
  • ADT
  • Patient chart
  • Medocs
  • DRG and ICD module
  • Prescriptions
  • Nursing management
  • Laboratories
  • Pathology
  • Doctors Schedule and dutties
  • Ward management

The development is under open source standards by PHP, AJAX, runing for MySQL or Postgress databases engines. Get more information about technical and non technical documentation here.


Implementations

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 (more information here).

Private installations of individuals and institutions

Brazil Med Sistem http://www.medsistem.com.br/medsistem/ http://www.unida.agr.br/care2x/

Bolivia Universidad de Aquino Bolivia http://caredes.udabol.edu.bo/

Chile http://www.masalud.rvhost.net/htdocs/index.php Boganet http://www.boganet.cl/care/

Egypt Cairo: Kasr Alainy Hospital http://www.kasralainy.edu.eg/hospitals/

Germany Rollinetzwek eV http://www.rollinetzwerk.net/care2/

Ghana Korle Bu Teaching Hospital http://ghana.health.objis.fr/

Guatemala IGSS http://www.igssgt.org:82/smh/

Herzegovina Klinik Bolnicki Centar Zagreb http://161.53.219.140/

Hungary IntervCARDIO http://intervcardio.aok.pte.hu/~care2x/ Plaztika 2000 http://www.plasztika2000.hu/care/

India Hyperbrain http://pushkar.eavelar.com/care/index.php

Italy http://195.110.135.53/care2x/index.php

Mexico Centro Mexico Florence http://www.cmflorence.com/bin/care2x/ http://he-care.hevolution.com.mx/

Pakistan Global IT Vision http://207.44.195.231/~care2x/foundry/

Peru Cercado Arequipa http://www.e-supportt.net/care/index.php

Romania Universitatea Eftimie Murgu Resita http://care2x.uem.ro/

Senegal Centre Hospitalier r�gional de Saint-Louis du Senegal http://www.senegal.sante.objis.fr/

Spain McTux http://www.mctux.com/care2x/

Spanish http://www.masalud.rvhost.net/fichas/index.php

South Africa Acme Computer Solutions http://www.codeguru.biz/his/

Tanzania http://health.elct.org/care2x/

Turkey Sistem http://www.sistems.org/kts/care2x/htdocs/index.php Idecon http://85.99.234.169/care2x/

USA Bruce Garlock https://bruceg.dyndns.org/care2x (needs authorization)

Venezuela Yekuana http://www.ngisolution.com/yekuana/htdocs/index.php

Vietnam R&D http://rd.ioit-hcm.ac.vn/products/hisp/


The most important issue in this development is that it is the second open source initiative to develop an HIS after the OpenVista project. Get more information in the official web site

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