Features

Welcome to the Hospital Management Information System (HIS) of GNU Health!

The main areas of the HIS are:

  • Demographics and Community: Individuals, domiciliary units, families, socioeconomics, demographic & administrative information

  • Patient Management: Health encounters and evaluations, hospitalizations, clinical history and other information that makes up the electronic medical records (EMR)

  • Health Center: Finances & billing, stock & pharmacy, staff, suppliers, beds, operating rooms and other relevant tasks to manage the health center

  • Laboratory and Medical Imaging: Management of complementary orders such as lab tests, medical and diagnostic imaging requests and workflows

  • Health Information System: Statistics, analytical reporting on collected data from the community and participating health institutions, e.g. demographics and epidemiology

These areas involve multi-disciplinary teams, with different responsibilities. For example, demographics and status of the domiciliary units (DU) can be collected by social workers. The patient management by health professionals, the health center management by administrative personnel and accountants, and the information produced by the health center can be processed and managed by the health authorities.

This is just an example to show the importance of team work in GNU Health to get the best results in your community.

Packages

The GNU Health HIS component provides a comprehensive list of packages (modules) that can be installed in your instance to fit your health instutions needs.

The following table summarizes the current modules:

GNU Health HIS packages

Package name

Description / functionality

health

Core package. Includes demographics, patients,
evaluations, health centers, appointments, vaccinations,
medicaments, health conditions, health professionals and
other core models, reports, wizards and functionality.

health_accounting

Functionality for Financial accounting and book keeping:
Billing, Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, Invoice handling,
journals…

health_archives

Tracks legacy or paper-based patient health records.

health_caldav

CalDAV functionality thar uses the Webdav server package.

health_caldendar

The package integrates with health_caldav and adds
funtionality to:
  • Create work schedules for health professionals

  • View health professionals appointments in calendar view

  • Link health professionals with calendars

  • Create calendar events from patient appointments

health_contact_tracing

Assessment, identification and followup of people who may
have come into contact with an infected individual in the
context of transmissible diseases / epidemics.

health_crypto

Enhances data confidenciality, integrity and non-repudiation in
GNU Health. It provides message serialization and
digital signatures and verification for models such as
medical encounters, prescriptions, birth and death certificates,
among others.
It supports document digest/record integrity check
with hash functions, digital signatures and
GNU Privacy Guard plugin.

health_crypto_lab

Provides cryptographic methods to laboratory package

health_dentistry

Focused on dental health, it provides dentistry procedures,
treatments, reports and generation of odontograms.

health_disability

The package applies the International Classification of
Functionality, Disability and Health (ICF) from the
World Health Organization and other indicators to
assess the integration of the person in the society.

health_ems

Ambulance and Emergency Management System.

health_federation

Functionality to integrate the HIS into distributed health
networks using the GNU Health Federation

health_genetics

Includes a comprehensive list of human genes and gene types,
family history and personal genetic information

health_genetics_uniprot

Includes gene natural variants, proteins, phenotypes and
clinical significance associated to genes and their
health conditions from the UniProt Knowledgebase
(UniProtKB)

health_gyneco

Patient gynecological and obstetric history. Prenatal, perinatal
and puerperium assessment and history. Screening for breast
and cervix cancer.

health_history

Includes enhanced informatiion on medical history in
the patient evaluation report.

health_icd9procs

WHO ICD9 - Volume 3 - procedures package

health_icd10

World Health Organization ICD-10 International Classification
of Diseases - 10th revision

health_icd11

International Classification of Diseases - 11th revision.
Based on WHO ICD-11 Morbidity and Mortality
(ICD-11 MMS).

health_icpm

WHO International Classification of Procedures in Medicine.

health_icu

Information related to critical patients and Intensive Care Unit.
Includes Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and APACHE II.
Information on ICU patient roundings. The information divided
by systems - Neurological, Respiratory, Cardiovascular,
Blood & skin and Digestive.

health_icd10pcs

The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a
system of medical classification used for procedural codes,
used mainly in the United States.

health_imaging

Medical imaging functionality including Dx imaging test types
and results.

health_inpatient

Patient hospitalization management and history, including:
  • Patient Registration

  • Bed management

  • Hospitalization

  • Nursing Plan

  • Discharge Plan

  • Reporting

health_inpatient

Calendar extension to link inpatient registrations

health_inpatient_calendar

Calendar extension for hospitalization events.

health_insurance

Manages insurances, policies, plans and discounts based on
products and/or categories.

health_iss

The Injury Surveillance System package records all sort of
violent events (accidents, self-harm, sexual assaults, domestic
violence…). It also georeferentiates and contextualizes each
event and links them to the evaluation at the emergency ward.

health_lab

Laboratory Management System. Includes lab test types with
analytes and their attributes. Manages lab test orders, labels,
workflows and validation, and lab test reports.

health_lifestyle

Information about the individual lifestyle.
Eating habits and diet, sleeping patterns,
addictions, physical exercise, sexuality and
safety at work, driving and child safety.

health_mdg6

Incorporates the Millennium Development Goal # 6, to combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria and Tuberculosis.

health_ntd

Is a metapackage to cover the
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

health_ntd_chagas

This package provides the functionality for the prevention,
detection and treatment of Chagas disease. It includes:
  • Laboratory tests for detection of the disease in different
    stages (acute, indeterminate and chronic) or congenital
  • Evaluation and record cases of acute of chronic disease.

  • Entomological assesment in Domiciliary Units

  • Reporting and epidemology

health_ntd_dengue:

This module will have the functionality for the prevention,
detection and treatment of dengue fever disease. It includes:
  • Laboratory tests for detection of the disease in
    acute phases
  • Domiciliary Units surveilance

  • Reporting and epidemology

health_nursing

Nursing functionality for both outpatient and inpatient
settings, including roundings, procedures and
ambulatory care sessions.

health_ophthalmology

Basic ophthalmology and optometry functionality

health_orthanc

Extension of the medical imaging package to integrate
GNU Health with the Orthanc PACS server

health_pediatrics

Main package for pediatrics. Neonatal information and
examination, APGAR scores, cogenital conditions,
metabolic screening tests, pediatric psychosocial
assessments, newborn identification.

health_pediatrics_growth_charts

Metapackage to cover growth chart reports

health_pediatrics_growth_charts_who

World Health Organzitaion pediatric growth reports including
percentile and z-score charts.

health_profile

Metapackage that includes socioeconomics, lifestyle,
genetics, ICD10, gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, lab
and hospitalization modules.

health_qrcodes

Include QR-Code in reports related to patient, appointment,
newborn and laboratory

health_reporting

Reports including demographics, population pyramid,
evaluations, top diseases, epidemics reports, aming others.

health_services

Functionality to group orders and services related to a patient
evaluation, prescription or hospitalization.
It also allows invoicing specific items/lines
from the service document.

health_services_imaging

Extension of the health_services package to cover
medical imaging services.

health_services_lab

Extension of the health_services package to cover
laboratory services

health_stock

Stock management and moves in different objects, products
and contexts within the health institution operation.
It includes, among others, medicaments, vaccines,
ambulatory care, hospitalization roundings and
prescriptions moves.

health_stock_surgery

Extension of health_stock package to cover stock moves
related to medicaments and supplies used during surgeries.

health_surgery

Includes the models and procedures for surgery management
and history. Preopreative assessment and evaluations,
Surgery team, RCRI, Surgery protocols, surgery
complications, postoperative directions,
Operating Room Schdeduler.

health_surgery_protocols

The surgery protocols are a set of predefined rules and
guidelines that can be used in different surgical contexts.
Upon entering the surgery protocol in the surgery, many
fields will take a default values. For instance:
  • Type of anesthesia

  • Patient laterality

  • Urgency

  • Underlying health condition

  • Surgery main procedure

  • Patient positioning

  • Post-operative guidelines

  • Discharge instructions

The underlying condition and the main surgical procedure
depends on the standard that has been implemented
(eg, ICD10, ICD11, ICPM..).
In this package, we are using ICD10 for disease coding.

health_webdav3_server

The package is a webdav server so DAV clients can interact
with GNU Health HIS for appointments and other calendars.
The server is started with the command
“gnuhealth-webdav-server”.
Besides the Tryton framework, it also requires the
PyWebDAV3-GNUHealth package.

health_who_essential_medicines

The package includes the medicaments and drugs listed on
the World Health Organization essential medicines.