<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux Medicine-HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Preface" HREF="preface.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Linux Medicine-HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Walt Pennington</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" >tldp at pennfirm dot net</P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN9" >Gerardo Arnaez</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" ><TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:dude@mung.net" >dude@mung.net</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><SPAN CLASS="ORGNAME" > <A HREF="http://www.raintree.org" TARGET="_top" ><SPAN CLASS="TRADEMARK" >Raintree I.T.</SPAN >™</A > <BR></SPAN ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><SPAN CLASS="ORGDIV" > <EM >Department of Advanced Skunk Works</EM ><BR></SPAN ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN22" >Werner Heuser</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:wehe [a[t]ta] tuxmobil.org" >wehe [a[t]ta] tuxmobil.org</A >></TT ><br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-03-24</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Slight updates</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-07-11</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Slight updates</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-04-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Update Slicer information thanks to Matej Pivoluska. updated Werner Heuser information</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1.1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-02-02</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Corrected typo of 'important' in article description. Thanks to Morgon Kanter.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1.1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-01-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >slight update. spam-proofed emails. Note anyone that wants to help with the vet section should 'come on down'.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-12-22</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Update to re-include vet applications, but again, will mostly serve as pointer to better information.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-8-24</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >There are too many projects. There are much better sites for information. This document will change its focus and be more of a stable document and pointing to active sites with better and more up-to-date information. This document is not intended to be complete, and parts of it will seem out of place in its new function.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0.5</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-07-26</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added in OpenEMR. I also need to add back in the german sections, but will need help on it.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0.4</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-04-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added Kpumpe and OIO library info</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-03-02</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added to install OIO on Debian system. Have started on OIO how to install</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-03-02</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Starting to add more to the How-To section of FreePM. The installation section will need testing by others. Added Slicer info under a new section</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-19</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Minor changes, Changed license to GPL. Some more reorganization. Which to say I have deleted out a ton of comments that I put that were useless. More pimping of Debian-med.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Major changes. Conversion from linux-doc to Doc-Book format. Have basically edited out nutrition sections and most of the German section for now until I can get help again the German section. Have switched focus of the article to Medical informatics and applications, less to research applications which should probably be a different article. Will most likely put these things I will not maintain at the end, so someone else has some where to begin. Whew. Tired from Doc-Book Conversion.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.4.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-5</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Doing minor checks of links. no big change yet</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.4.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >I have started to make structural changes to the documents. Changes Community to the fore-front. renamed Medical Application to Medical Record Application to make it more usable. I have not decide to change the version number as i have just moved links around and I am trying to structure the document a little bit better.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.4.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: gea</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Gerardo Arnaez took over maintaining this document. Some new additions, some info on when last update. Links to sqlclinic.net and eors.org added.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.4</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Unknown</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >XXX, minor changes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-03-01</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >added links to gnutrition, Java SmokingMeter and HL7lib - Health Level 7 Library, some other links updated, Japanese translation proposed</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2000-11-04</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Links to Nut, Free Practice Management, LittleFish, GNUMed, REALTIQ, VISIdent, weight, OIO, CTSim, myPACS, BlazeLIMS, XNBC and PhysioNet added, new document URL, minor changes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2000-04-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >links to Res Medicinae, QDS, sixpack and LinuxMedNews added, minor changes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2000-01-27</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >LinuDent added, preface and disclaimer added, minor changes, first official release</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2000-01-26</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >URLs checked, minor changes, second draft</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >1999-11-17</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wh</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >first draft</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN144" ></A ><P ></P ><P >The Linux Medical How-To will serve as a nice and convenient meta resource directing interested parties to important sites, a few well-established/meta mailing lists. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="preface.html" >Preface</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="preface.html#ABOUT" >About the Document</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="preface.html#AEN161" >Update</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="preface.html#AUTHORS" >About the Author(s)</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="preface.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="preface.html#AEN185" >Request For Comments</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="x188.html" >Debian-Med</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="x188.html#AEN190" >DEBIAN-MED HOMEPAGE</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="community.html" >Community</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="community.html#AEN196" >News</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="community.html#AEN206" >Organizations</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="community.html#AEN212" >Mailing Lists</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="community.html#AEN224" >IRC</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="record.html" >Medical Record Applications</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="record.html#AEN234" >Debian Med</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="record.html#AEN239" >OpenEMR</A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="record.html#AEN248" >VISTA (DHCP)</A ></DT ><DT >4.4. <A HREF="record.html#AEN256" >WorldVista and OpenVista</A ></DT ><DT >4.5. <A HREF="record.html#AEN265" >SQL Clinic</A ></DT ><DT >4.6. <A HREF="record.html#AEN273" >FreeB</A ></DT ><DT >4.7. <A HREF="record.html#AEN280" >FreeMED</A ></DT ><DT >4.8. <A HREF="record.html#AEN288" >Freemed-YiRC</A ></DT ><DT >4.9. <A HREF="record.html#AEN295" >Care2x</A ></DT ><DT >4.10. <A HREF="record.html#AEN302" >Medical DataServer</A ></DT ><DT >4.11. <A HREF="record.html#AEN309" >OpenClinic</A ></DT ><DT >4.12. <A HREF="record.html#AEN316" >GNUMed</A ></DT ><DT >4.13. <A HREF="record.html#AEN323" >GNotary</A ></DT ><DT >4.14. <A HREF="record.html#AEN330" >Res Medicinae</A ></DT ><DT >4.15. <A HREF="record.html#AEN339" >Open Infrastructure for Outcomes</A ></DT ><DT >4.16. <A HREF="record.html#AEN351" >LIMS - Laboratory Information Management Systems</A ></DT ><DT >4.17. <A HREF="record.html#AEN356" >Meditux</A ></DT ><DT >4.18. <A HREF="record.html#AEN360" >MEGA and Mumps Compiler</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="informatics.html" >Medical informatics</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="informatics.html#AEN366" >What is it?</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="informatics.html#AEN375" >Good Electronic Health Record - GEHR</A ></DT ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="informatics.html#AEN380" >HL7lib - Health Level 7 Library</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6. <A HREF="pda.html" >PDA</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="pda.html#AEN386" >Tuxmobil PDA Information Site</A ></DT ><DT >6.2. <A HREF="pda.html#AEN390" >Palm Pilots</A ></DT ><DT >6.3. <A HREF="pda.html#AEN395" >Linux Devices</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >7. <A HREF="x400.html" >Veterinary applications</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="x400.html#AEN403" >FreeVET</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="x409.html" >Installing a Medical Record Application (not ready yet)</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >8.1. <A HREF="x409.html#AEN411" >CLARIFICATION</A ></DT ><DT >8.2. <A HREF="x409.html#AEN414" >Point of this section</A ></DT ><DT >8.3. <A HREF="x409.html#AEN418" >My Assumptions About You</A ></DT ><DT >8.4. <A HREF="x409.html#AEN422" >OIO</A ></DT ><DT >8.5. <A HREF="x409.html#AEN466" >FreePM</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9. <A HREF="imaging.html" >Imaging Applications</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="imaging.html#AEN524" >Slicer</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10. <A HREF="x529.html" >Useful Applications</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.1. <A HREF="x529.html#AEN531" >KPumpe</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >11. <A HREF="thought.html" >My thoughts</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >11.1. <A HREF="thought.html#AEN541" >Too Many Projects</A ></DT ><DT >11.2. <A HREF="thought.html#AEN546" >I am biased</A ></DT ><DT >11.3. <A HREF="thought.html#AEN552" >I work and what is needed.</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >12. <A HREF="credits.html" >Credits</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preface.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Preface</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >