Open Hospital

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Open Hospital
OpenHospital Logo.jpg
Developer(s) Informatici Senza Frontiere
Initial release November 17, 2006 (2006-11-17) (1.0)[1]
Stable release

1.14.2  (May 16, 2024; 8 months ago (2024-05-16))

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Preview release none [±]
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multilingual
Type Hospital information system
License(s) GNU General Public License v2.0
Website openhospital.opendcn.org

Open Hospital is a free open-source hospital information system (HIS) "used by seventeen heath structures in eight sub-Saharan African countries, in Greece and in Afghanistan."[2]

Product history

The Open Hospital project began following a meeting between the founders of Informatici Senza Frontiere (ISF) — an Italian non-profit using information technology to help those living in poverty and marginalization — and Dr. Mario Marsiaj, a long-time coordinator for St. Luke Hospital in Angal, Uganda. Needing an informatics solution for the hospital, Marsiaj worked with ISF to begin an open-source software development project on the hospital's behalf.[3] A Sourceforge project began on August 17, 2006[4], followed by several beta releases. A stable version 1.0 of the software was released on November 17, 2006.[1] With its success, further development continued, and more hospitals in Kenya, Afghanistan, Benin, and Congo adopted the HIS.[5]

Features

The main features of Open Hospital include[4]:

  • patient registration and admission
  • outpatient management
  • ward and exam management
  • pregnancy management
  • pharmacy management
  • malnutrition control management
  • billing management
  • vaccine database
  • therapy management
  • messaging
  • reporting and statistics

Hardware/software requirements

The software requires:

  • Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher
  • MySQL server on the computer that will act as the OH-Server

Consult the administrator's manual for more information on installing Open Hospital.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using Open Hospital

Further reading

External links

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