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	==Product history==		==Product history==

	The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated a collaboration with the Computing For Good (C4G) group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in April 2009<ref name="MonuThes">{{cite web \|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/34792 \|title=Design and implementation of a basic laboratory information system for resource-limited settings \|author=Monu, Ruban \|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology \|page=15 \|date=27 May 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.<ref name="BLISPres">{{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="BLISBlogWelcome">{{cite web \|url=http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/ \|title=Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog! \|author=Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=09 September 2011 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="C4GBlogBLISUp">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/ \|title=BLIS Updates 10/15/09 \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=19 October 2009 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> The software — dubbed Basic Laboratory Information System or BLIS — was developed primarily by students at Georgia Tech with the feedback of the CDC and laboratory personnel in various parts of Africa<ref name="BLISPres" />, culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.<ref name="BLISBlogWelcome" /><ref name="C4GBLISBuea">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/ \|title=BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=10 June 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> Additional pilot implementations of the software were then planned for in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, and Cameroon in cooperation with those countries' respective Ministries of Health.<ref name="BLISPres" /><ref name="MonuThes" />		The U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) initiated a collaboration with the Computing For Good (C4G) group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in April 2009<ref name="MonuThes">{{cite web \|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/34792 \|title=Design and implementation of a basic laboratory information system for resource-limited settings \|author=Monu, Ruban \|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology \|page=15 \|date=27 May 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.<ref name="BLISPres">{{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="BLISBlogWelcome">{{cite web \|url=http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/ \|title=Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog! \|author=Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=09 September 2011 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="C4GBlogBLISUp">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/ \|title=BLIS Updates 10/15/09 \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=19 October 2009 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> The software — dubbed Basic Laboratory Information System or BLIS — was developed primarily by students at Georgia Tech with the feedback of the CDC and laboratory personnel in various parts of Africa<ref name="BLISPres" />, culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.<ref name="BLISBlogWelcome" /><ref name="C4GBLISBuea">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/ \|title=BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=10 June 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> Additional pilot implementations of the software were then planned for in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, and Cameroon in cooperation with those countries' respective Ministries of Health.<ref name="BLISPres" /><ref name="MonuThes" />

	Development continued on BLIS after the initial deployments, though it's not clear when exactly it was released to the public in an open-source format. Public change log entries begin with version 1.09 in July 2011<ref name="BLISCLog">{{cite web \|url=http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/changelog.php \|title=C4G BLIS - Updates \|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with initial open-source commits appearing on GitHub in September 2012.<ref name="GHBLISFirst">{{cite web \|url=https://github.com/C4G/BLIS/commit/853dc492939d0b31e4eb1d5dedef5df6809c0106 \|title=C4G/BLIS - Initial commit \|publisher=GitHub \|date=14 September 2012 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>		Development continued on BLIS after the initial deployments, though it's not clear when exactly it was released to the public in an open-source format. Public change log entries begin with version 1.09 in July 2011<ref name="BLISCLog">{{cite web \|url=http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/changelog.php \|title=C4G BLIS - Updates \|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with initial open-source commits appearing on GitHub in September 2012.<ref name="GHBLISFirst">{{cite web \|url=https://github.com/C4G/BLIS/commit/853dc492939d0b31e4eb1d5dedef5df6809c0106 \|title=C4G/BLIS - Initial commit \|publisher=GitHub \|date=14 September 2012 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>

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	\| name = C4G BLIS		\| name = C4G BLIS
	\| title = C4G BLIS		\| title = C4G BLIS
	\| logo = ~~<!-- [[File:OpenELIS_logo.jpg\|230px]] -->~~		\| logo =
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	\| programming language =		\| programming language = PHP
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	\| language =		\| language = Multi-lingual
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	\| genre = [[Laboratory informatics]] software		\| genre = [[Laboratory informatics]] software
	\| license =		\| license = Unknown
	\| website = [http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/ BLIS.CC.GATech.edu]		\| website = [http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/ BLIS.CC.GATech.edu]
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	==Product history==		==Product history==

	The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated a collaboration with the Computing For Good (C4G) group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in ~~the summer~~ of ~~2009~~, with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.<ref name="BLISPres">{{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="BLISBlogWelcome">{{cite web \|url=http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/ \|title=Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog! \|author=Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=09 September 2011 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="C4GBlogBLISUp">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/ \|title=BLIS Updates 10/15/09 \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=19 October 2009 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> The software — dubbed Basic Laboratory Information System or BLIS — was developed primarily by students at Georgia Tech with the feedback of the CDC and laboratory personnel in various parts of Africa<ref name="BLISPres" />, culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.<ref name="BLISBlogWelcome" /><ref name="C4GBLISBuea">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/ \|title=BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=10 June 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>		The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated a collaboration with the Computing For Good (C4G) group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in April 2009<ref name="MonuThes">{{cite web \|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/34792 \|title=Design and implementation of a basic laboratory information system for resource-limited settings \|author=Monu, Ruban \|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology \|page=15 \|date=27 May 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.<ref name="BLISPres">{{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="BLISBlogWelcome">{{cite web \|url=http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/ \|title=Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog! \|author=Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=09 September 2011 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="C4GBlogBLISUp">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/ \|title=BLIS Updates 10/15/09 \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=19 October 2009 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> The software — dubbed Basic Laboratory Information System or BLIS — was developed primarily by students at Georgia Tech with the feedback of the CDC and laboratory personnel in various parts of Africa<ref name="BLISPres" />, culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.<ref name="BLISBlogWelcome" /><ref name="C4GBLISBuea">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/ \|title=BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=10 June 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> Additional pilot implementations of the software were then planned for in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, and Cameroon in cooperation with those countries' respective Ministries of Health.<ref name="BLISPres" /><ref name="MonuThes" />


			Development continued on BLIS after the initial deployments, though it's not clear when exactly it was released to the public in an open-source format. Public change log entries begin with version 1.09 in July 2011<ref name="BLISCLog">{{cite web \|url=http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/changelog.php \|title=C4G BLIS - Updates \|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>, with initial open-source commits appearing on GitHub in September 2012.<ref name="GHBLISFirst">{{cite web \|url=https://github.com/C4G/BLIS/commit/853dc492939d0b31e4eb1d5dedef5df6809c0106 \|title=C4G/BLIS - Initial commit \|publisher=GitHub \|date=14 September 2012 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>

	==Features==		==Features==

			Features include<ref name="MonuThes" /><ref name="BLISCLog" />:

			* patient and specimen registration
			* results entry
			* queries
			* reporting
			* lab configuration tools
			* test catalog
			* multilingual
			* custom fields
			* commenting
			* billing
			* barcode support
			* inventory management

	==Hardware/software requirements==		==Hardware/software requirements==

			The installation requirements for BLIS are unknown.

	==Videos, screenshots, and other media==		==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

			A few screenshots of older versions of BLIS can be found in the items linked under "External links."

			==Entities using BLIS==

	~~==Entities using OpenELIS==~~		A list of hospitals and laboratories utilizing BLIS can be [http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/inuse.php found here].



	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

	* {{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}		* {{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}
			* {{cite web \|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/34792 \|title=Design and implementation of a basic laboratory information system for resource-limited settings \|author=Monu, Ruban \|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology \|date=27 May 2010}}

	==External links==		==External links==

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	==Product history==		==Product history==

			The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated a collaboration with the Computing For Good (C4G) group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the summer of 2009, with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.<ref name="BLISPres">{{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="BLISBlogWelcome">{{cite web \|url=http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/ \|title=Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog! \|author=Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=09 September 2011 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="C4GBlogBLISUp">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/ \|title=BLIS Updates 10/15/09 \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=19 October 2009 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> The software — dubbed Basic Laboratory Information System or BLIS — was developed primarily by students at Georgia Tech with the feedback of the CDC and laboratory personnel in various parts of Africa<ref name="BLISPres" />, culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.<ref name="BLISBlogWelcome" /><ref name="C4GBLISBuea">{{cite web \|url=http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/ \|title=BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon \|publisher=Computing For Good \|date=10 June 2010 \|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>


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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

			* {{cite web \|url=http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf \|format=PDF \|title=Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) \|author=DeZalia, Mark \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}}

	==External links==		==External links==

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| name = C4G BLIS
| title = C4G BLIS
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| author =
| developer = Georgia Institute of Technology
| released = 
| discontinued =
| frequently updated = yes
| programming language =
| operating system =
| platform =
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| genre = [[Laboratory informatics]] software
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| website = [http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/ BLIS.CC.GATech.edu]
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'''C4G BLIS''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed to "track patient specimens and laboratory results"<ref name="C4GHome">{{cite web |url=http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/index.php |title=C4G BLIS |publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing |accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> and is primarily utilized in Africa.

==Product history==

==Features==

==Hardware/software requirements==

==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

==Entities using OpenELIS==

==Further reading==

==External links==

* [https://github.com/C4G/BLIS C4G BLIS at GitHub]
* [http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/ C4G blog]
* [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ College of Computing at Georgia Tech]

==References==
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[[Category:Laboratory informatics software (open source)]]
[[Category:Laboratory information systems (open source)]]
[[Category:Public health software (open source)]]