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| Developer(s) | Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute |
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| Initial release | Still in beta |
| Written in | PHP, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English, French, Romanian, Ukrainian |
| Type | Laboratory informatics software |
| License(s) | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| Website | sourceforge.net/projects/openmedis |
OpenMEDIS is free open-source health technology management software, specifically targeted at low- and middle-income countries. The software is still in the beta phase of development, and a stable release for rigorous use has not been released yet.
Product history
In roughly 2009, Claudio Zaugg and Martin Raab of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute had recognized "an urgent need for a simple and flexible IT tool" capable of tracking the "quantity and quality of the present medical device infrastructure" within a region.[1]
Features
Features of OpenMEDIS include
Hardware/software requirements
Videos, screenshots, and other media
- OpenMEDIS video demo from 2009
- Online demo of OpenMEDIS (username: demo; password: demo)
Entities using OpenMEDIS
Further reading
- Claudio Zaugg and Martin Raab (2009) (PDF). Improving Health Technology Management: Development of a Model for the Implementation of an Essential Information System for Medical Devices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. pp. 1–4. http://www.swisstph.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Pdfs/Ressources/Zaugg_Raab_paper_Med-e-Tel_2010_final_.pdf.
External links
References
- ↑ Claudio Zaugg and Martin Raab (2009) (PDF). Improving Health Technology Management: Development of a Model for the Implementation of an Essential Information System for Medical Devices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. pp. 1–4. http://www.swisstph.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Pdfs/Ressources/Zaugg_Raab_paper_Med-e-Tel_2010_final_.pdf.
