[Gnumed-devel] gnumed-mini

[Horst Herb]

I am now close to "finalize" the 0.1 release of my mini-gnumed - standalone 
version of the software that slowly evolved from writing add-ons for the 
commercial clinical software package we were using.

Question: shall we put it into a branch of the gnumed tree, or shall I rather 
create a entirely new repository? I hope to release this weekend or during 
the next week.

It has a few nice design aspects:
- All user interface elements are created with wxGlade, and no wxGlade code is 
manually modified. Non-programmers can thus largely modify the look and feel 
without any need for writing a single line of code.
- the user interface is a simple framework of multiple splitter windows and 
sizers, filled up by plugin modules providing all functionality. The user 
interface "remembers" it's state / configuration (mostly, still work to do).
- all communication between modules happens through a single simple dispatcher 
based messaging system, independent of any GUI or toolkit
- use of the new namespace features of Postgres >= 7.3, aiming at using the 
native distributed database features coming with 7.5 (saving all the trouble 
with "services" we had to take til now.
- most simple no-nonsense installation

It has a few ugly design aspect:
- much simplified database schema for performance, not properly normalized in 
many cases
- no audit trail yet at all
- no logging yet at all
- almost zero documentation
- most exceptions uncaught (but that mostly on purpose - forces me to fix 
things instead of just continuing to work)
- much specific for the Australian situation. will need work to make it useful 
for other health systems/countries

What it can so far:
- create, edit, display and search demographic data
- select a patient
- create, view and edit simple past history entries and allergy entries
- create, view and edit simple SOAP progress notes
- import, view and annotate PIT formated pathology results
- import and browse the MIMS drug database
- check interactions via the drugref database
- create, view and edit prescriptions using the MIMS database
- import demographic data, allergies, past history, progress notes and 
prescriptions from "medibase" (well, largely untested, work in progress)

What it can soon (work in progress):
- create, view and edit referral letters via AbiWord integration
- scan, administrate and view images via SANE interface (sorry Windows users)
- print most of  the above (scripts, summaries)

It is not what I originally envisioned with gnumed (especially the database 
design is far too simplicistic),  but it is a actually working functional 
replacement for currently available software. If debugged and completed it 
will allow my colleagues in Australia to bide time by using it until the 
proper gnumed is finalized. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to other 
countries.health systems.

Horst