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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==

Revision as of 21:52, 25 April 2013

C4G BLIS
Developer(s) Georgia Institute of Technology; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stable release

3.8  (March 22, 2023; 19 months ago (2023-03-22))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multi-lingual
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) Unknown
Website BLIS.CC.GATech.edu

C4G BLIS is a free open-source laboratory information system (LIS) designed to "track patient specimens and laboratory results"[1] and is primarily utilized in Africa.

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[2], with the goal of creating a LIS designed specifically for service-delivery level laboratories with limited resources.[3][4][5] 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[3], culminating in the first implementation of the software at Cameroon's Buea Regional Hospital laboratory in April 2010.[4][6] 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.[3][2]

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[7], with initial open-source commits appearing on GitHub in September 2012.[8]

Features

Features include[2][7]:

  • 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

The installation requirements for BLIS are unknown.

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

A list of hospitals and laboratories utilizing BLIS can be found here.

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ "C4G BLIS". Georgia Tech College of Computing. http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/index.php. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Monu, Ruban (27 May 2010). "Design and implementation of a basic laboratory information system for resource-limited settings". Georgia Institute of Technology. p. 15. https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/34792. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 DeZalia, Mark. "Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS)" (PDF). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.afenet-lab.net/uploads/BLISS_presentation.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Vempala, Santosh; Shintre, Amol; Phalnikar, Akshay (9 September 2011). "Welcome to the C4G BLIS community blog!". Computing For Good. http://bliscommunity.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/welcome-to-the-c4g-blis-community-blog/. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  5. ↑ "BLIS Updates 10/15/09". Computing For Good. 19 October 2009. http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blis-updates-101509/. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  6. ↑ "BLIS Project Now in Pilot Phase in Cameroon". Computing For Good. 10 June 2010. http://computingforgood.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/blis-project-now-in-pilot-phase-in-cameroon/. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "C4G BLIS - Updates". Georgia Tech College of Computing. http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/changelog.php. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
  8. ↑ "C4G/BLIS - Initial commit". GitHub. 14 September 2012. https://github.com/C4G/BLIS/commit/853dc492939d0b31e4eb1d5dedef5df6809c0106. Retrieved 25 April 2013. 
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